Only Human: Exploring Contemporary Portraits

The 30 or so locally created images and pieces among the Minnesota Museum of American Art's "Only Human" exhibit aren't all framed or painted, or even human images. Here, unconventional art forms, like a geometric trash diary, converge with conventional portrait imagery to convey stories of gender, obsession, depression, and humanity. From Anthony Marchetti's photographs of recently vacated apartments to Xavier Tavera's images of Edina extreme fighters, the pieces reveal more about their subjects than classic portraits can, even when the only clues about a subject are four years' worth of medical receipts. At Friday night's "Audio Portrait" event, "Only Human" visual artists, along with actor T. Mychael Rambo, slam poet Lisa Arnold, musician Mike Gunther, writer/performer Colleen Kruse, and others, will use the concept of portraits as inspiration for audio shorts. Free. --Molly PriesmeyerJAN 21-MAR 26, 2006

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