Minneapolis artist co-op gallery Rosalux is running an exhibit of new solo work and collaborations from two semi-oddly paired artists, Cheryl Wilgren Clyne and Kimberly Tschida Petters, through the month of July. The exhibition features an array of media, consisting of mostly oil pastel work from Petters, and projections and video from Clyne.
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, with fifty-five films under her belt, has been working with experimental recorded media as a way to document what she experiences and sees from day to day, a practice she says comes from having moved almost forty times in her life. The work presented in Not the Running Type, the latest Rosalux exhibit, focuses on the recorded voice of a child, which Clyne used to inspire her drawings and photographs.
“Play, error, and experimentation are essential to me,” says Clyne of her inspiration. “I am interested in learning, communication, rules and signs, and what happens when you place things out of order.
The title emphasizes the fact that she admittedly trips and falls often — and how crucial this is to her work.
Kimberly Tschida Petters, on the other hand, utilizes the slow, arduous process of hand rubbing oil pastels onto large pieces of paper and canvas to create stark, breathtaking landscapes, often with slivers of horizons tilting out of the bottom of the frame.
For the body of work featured in this exhibit, Petters sat in the passenger seat of a car snapping photographs of what was outside her window. Later, she turned these drive-by scenes into romanticized works of her recollection of the land in those photos, at the same time moving past the limitations of photography to bring the viewer into her vision through emotion.
Not the Running Type will be shown alongside the first-ever No Mittens Film Festival, a one-night event taking place on July 27 that will be playing films whose themes are winter and sleep. |
