STICKY SWEET
Opening Reception: August 13th, 2010 6:00-10:00 pm
On View: August 13th – September 3rd, 2010
The Gallery @ FOX TAX and guest curator Emma Berg of mplsart.com are pleased to present STICKY SWEET. The exhibition will put on display works by local artists Rudy Fig and Jeff Warner. Both painters can be called pop surrealist, creating pieces that dense with characters draped in color and imagination.
Rudy Fig is an oil painter currently living and hailing from Minnesota. Her paintings drip with color, imagination and escapism. Each painting reveals layer upon layer of detail from character to buttons to pearls to background. Each painting is worked on for months, with more elaborate pieces taking sometimes over a year to complete. With each sitting the paintings become more enriched, creating a world that is dense with imagined worlds, characters and elaborations.
Jeff Warner is originally from New York and now lives in South Minneapolis. His paintings depict an innocence that is strongly influenced by his youth and the “excessive sugar and the most wonderfully senseless commodities seen on television.” His desire to create positive imagery that influences the mood of the viewer is a pure approach to art making that leaves you with a child like sense of wonderment and satisfaction.
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We hope that you can join us for the opening! Miyagi salon is having an event the same night just around the corner, so why not spend an artsy Friday night in Nordeast?
