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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Images Contact PRESS RELEASE New Exhibition Ever More April 18- The Minnesota Museum of American Art is pleased to present Ever More, an exhibition examining heightened artistic impulse and repetition featuring art by local artists and from the museum’s collection. Ever More consists of over 20 works of art including painting, sculpture, installation, mixed-media collage, ceramics, and charcoal and ink drawings. What motivates artists to spend endless hours connecting thousands of the same small objects together to create a free-form sculpture? What kind of concentration does it take to cover a large piece of paper with tiny inked lines or a large canvas with individually painted dots to create subtly modulated surfaces? At what point does meditative repetition in art making turn mundane? How many found objects does it take to transform the individual pieces into a whole that truly is greater than the sum of its parts? Ever More is filled with artwork that stimulates the viewer to ask questions such as these. Ever More includes Plastic Atmosphere, a cloud-like installation formed of literally thousands of interconnected blue plastic cables ties; Plug Rug made up of hundreds of bright green spongy earplugs; and an 8 by 8 foot “drawing” consisting of innumerable holes, all created by The exhibition features large-scale found-object sculpture by Al Wadzinski; a 6 foot tall rotating mixed-media homage to the tea pot called Serve It Up by Ever More also includes two oil paintings Blue Bindis and Red Bindis by Barbara Kreft with thousands of individual dots painted in undulating patterns over the canvases, and -MORE- Dusk a 7 x 6 foot canvas covered in minute 3/8” squares of smoky browns and greens, and rich blues; Marie Bilderl a 1972 charcoal drawing by Simon Dinnerstein that records every last possible detail of an elderly woman in her bedroom, from the many wrinkles in her skin, to the delicate embroidery in the bedspread, to the grain in every piece of wood in the wooden floorboards; and three mixed-media pieces by Ann Wood, one titled Touched with its surface covered in crushed and dyed eggshells applied with a tweezers. Other pieces in the exhibition include Artists in the Exhibition Doug Argue Simon Dinnerstein Barbara Kreft Becky & Steve Lloyd George Morrison Simon Sparrow Al Wadzinski Ann Wood Opening Party Live music by Murzik Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar with wine specials sponsored by Trinchero Family Estate Wines $10/$5 MMAA Members Become a new museum member the night of the opening and receive 2 complimentary tickets to the party! ABOUT MMAA Experience and explore the energy and depth of American visual culture at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in downtown -MORE- Hours: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Closed Monday and Major Holidays Admission: FREE
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