Edith Carlson Gallery
Seeking for the Lost Sat, Aug 3 2024 - Sun, Feb 16 2025 Seeking for the Lost views the details of often overlooked histories with an artistic lens. Featuring portraiture by contemporary artist Christopher E. Harrison, this exhibition explores the unbreakable familial bonds expressed through ads in the St. Paul newspaper The Appeal; presents the post-Reconstruction goals of Minnesota’s Black press; and shows how literacy informed the lives of Black Americans after the Civil War. |
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Why Look at Animals? Sat, Jul 29 2023 - Sun, Feb 18 2024 This summer, Meghan Considine–the 2020-2021 O’Brien Curatorial Fellow–returns to WAM via the exhibition Why Look at Animals? Through a selection of varied images from the Weisman’s collection, Considine challenges the conventionally romanticized and infantilized perspective of animal life in order to reveal a millennia-old intimacy between “us” (humans) and “them” (animals). |
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Locally Grown: Documentary Photography of Minnesota Communities Sat, Nov 19 2022 - Sun, Jul 16 2023 This winter, the Weisman is pleased to present Locally Grown: Documentary Photography of Minnesota Communities, an exhibition of documentary photographs by Minnesota artists, drawn from museum's permanent collection, curated by 2019-20 O'Brien Curatorial Fellow Ashley Cope. Documentary photography published in magazines and books has seen a decline in recent years, with the advent of television, digital media, and infinite online content. |
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Capturing Change: The Urban Images of Berenice Abbott and Giovanni Battista Piranesi Fri, Jun 3 - Sun, Nov 6 2022 This summer, Weisman Art Museum is pleased to present Capturing Change: The Urban Images of Berenice Abbott and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, works by two artists who created art to document their cities at key moments of change, offering visual chronicles of urban transformation, recombinations, decay, and renewal. |
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Foundling: 100 Days Wed, Jan 19 - Sun, May 22 2022 The Weisman Art Museum is pleased to present Megan Rye’s multi-part public art project of painting, installation, research, publishing and live events, Foundling: 100 Days. The exhibition will be on view in the Carlson Gallery from January 19 – May 2022. |
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Paper Mountains: Marsden Hartley's Lofty Landscapes Thu, Mar 4 - Sun, May 16 2021 I am utterly in the world of nature here and it has saved my life—and my love for mountains never diminishes. —Marsden Hartley to Gertrude Stein, Partenkirchen, Bavaria, October 30, 1933 |
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Dear Darwin Tue, Feb 21 - Sun, Jul 23 2017 Featuring the work of local artists Vesna Kittelson and Carolyn Halliday, and New York based artist Julia Randall, Dear Darwin presents their individual explorations on the themes of natural science, evolution, and the figure of Darwin himself. Kittelson’s books present imaginary “evolved” flowers from Mrs. Darwin’s Garden while Halliday presents passages on evolution written on forms knitted from sausage casings. Randall’s large drawings present creatures and plants that have advanced beyond imagination. |
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Black & White Sat, Aug 29 2015 - Sun, Feb 14 2016 Black and White refers to both the striking graphic qualities of the printed image and to the divisiveness at the heart of apartheid—the segregation of black and white. The remarkable story behind the prints within the exhibition and their presence in the museum’s collection links Minnesota’s Swedish-Lutheran heritage, the University’s art faculty, and the history of apartheid in South Africa. This story will be retold from August 2015 to February 2016 in the museum’s Carlson Gallery. |
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Trains that Passed in the Night: The Photographs of O. Winston Link Sat, Jul 26 2014 - Sun, Feb 8 2015 Mid-twentieth century Brooklyn-native, O. Winston Link was a commercial photographer and engineer who became well known for his complex images of factory and industrial plant interiors. For Link, the steam railroad was a vital ingredient to “the good life” in America, an essential part of the fabric of our lives. |
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WAM@20: PAPER Sat, Mar 1 - Sun, Jul 6 2014 WAM@20: PAPER is the second gallery exhibition of the year-long WAM@20 program celebrating the twentieth birthday of our iconic building. The overall program features a suite of gallery exhibitions, including this one, and on-line projects that use twenty separate selection techniques to highlight twenty years of the collection. For each individual project, a single selection criteria is used to select one work from each year since the opening of the WAM building in 1993. |