SHOW DATES >> June 12th-30th, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION>> Saturday, June 16th, 2007 | 7-10pm
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES >> Deadline is over. Artists will be notified by May 18th, 2007.
JUROR >> Diane Mullin

Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce its Third Annual OPEN DOOR Exhibition.  This is the only chance for non- member artists to showcase their work in the gallery.  Here are some photos from previous shows. This year the show will be juried by Diane Mullin, Associate curator at the Weisman Art Museum. Typically, the OPEN DOOR exhibition is reviewed and receives extensive press coverage.  This is an excellent opportunity to exhibit artwork in one of Minneapolis’s premier commercial gallery spaces.  All media is accepted: there are no guidelines set for subject matter, medium or style, and the show is open to anyone throughout the world.*

Artists are responsible for transporting art to the gallery as well as picking up unsold work when the show is over. Anyone outside the Twin Cities area is responsible for all shipping fees by providing a return label with shipment (Fed Ex or UPS). Rosalux Gallery takes a 35% commission on any work sold during the show.Now that you've finished your taxes, the next postmark date you should have on your calendar is April 25. That's the date by which you should submit your entries to Rosalux Gallery's third annual "Open Door" exhibition.

The following blog entry appeared on Pinch!

"In these solipsistic times, everyone considers himself or herself an artist. After all, any Joe can snap a photo with his celly, or shoot video with her Macbook and upload it to the world.

That means the world needs more editors and curators and recommendation agents--the gatekeepers who do the heavy, thankless work of eliminating all the "user-generated" art that threatens to overwhelm you.

We're pleased to report that Rosalux has contracted one of the more gifted and catholic-thinking curators in the region. You can be assured that Diane Mullin, a curator at the Weisman, will turn an eye to your work that is both expert and sympathetic. We've been delighted over the years at her aesthetic sense and her willingness to take risks on unknown ("emerging" is the old, false cliche) artists.

If you've got that artistic spark in the dark and the skills to pay the bills, Mullin will certainly find you out. And for only the $25 entry fee, that's cheaper than going to a fortune-teller, a tarot-card reader, or a Soho gallery full of snotty New Yorkers."

About the Juror:
Diane Mullin is Associate Curator at the Weisman Art Museum. Her curatorial work focuses on modern American art and culture with a particular emphasis on the post World War II era.  She is currently working on an exhibition of the documentary photography of Paul Shambroom that will for the first time bring together his major series and provide, through an accompanying catalogue, new scholarship on his work.  Mullin is also currently curating, SAD, a group exhibition of Minnesota-based artists whose work addresses light, isolation, and/or melancholy—key elements of the depressive disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder The multi-media exhibition will consider anew our relationship to our environments—both physical and psychic..

From 2002 to 2004 she was Director of Gallery and Exhibitions at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she was on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical Studies since 1999. She has also worked as an independent curator, producing exhibitions for the Weisman Art Museum and No-Name Gallery at the Soap Factory (both in Minneapolis).  From 1998-2001 she was Artistic Director and Curator at Soo Visual Arts Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space in Minneapolis. From January 2002-January 2003, she was an Assistant Curator at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.  She has also served as a lecturer for docent training at the Walker Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.  

Mullin received a BA from Boston University in 1987, with a major in English Literature and a minor in Art History.  She completed an MA in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis in 1989.  Her MA thesis focused on the 1970s body and performance work of Vito Acconci.  In 1999, she was awarded a PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis.  Her dissertation examined Robert Rauschenberg’s early work in the contexts of photography and abstract expressionism.