Minnesota Museum of American Art opens Painting the Place Between, an exhibition on view December 1, 2012–February 17, 2013.
Co-curated by artist and filmmaker Kristen Lowe and MMAA Curator of Engagement Christina Chang, Painting the Place Between is an exhibition and documentary film that profiles four Minnesota painters—Betsy Byers, Jil Evans, Holly Swift, and Andrew Wykes—as they engage the Minnesota landscape in and around Cannon Falls, Northfield, the Temperance River, and the Boundary Waters.
Through the physicality of the painted surface—the “place between” the artist, us, and the landscape—these artists shape a vision of our natural space as mediated by the artist’s subjective experience and the legacy and aura of painting on canvas. Their semi-abstract and often emotional works offer up evidence of the role the painter plays in how we view and interpret our landscapes as common ground and shared legacy.
Painting the Place Between features paintings from Minnesota artists Betsy Byers, Jil Evans, Holly Swift, Song Yer Thao, and Andrew Wykes, augmented by paintings from the Minnesota Museum of American Art collection by Dewey Albinson, Charles Beck, Bette Carlon, George Morrison, David Rich, and Phyllis Wiener. – www.mmaa.org