Opening Reception: October 10th, 2009 6:00-11:00 pm
On View: October 10th – November 6th, 2009

The Gallery @ Fox Tax is proud to present a show by guest curator Emma Berg of mplsart.com, entitled:

PROWL: Works by Andrea Carlson and Joe Sinness

Andrea Carlson and Joe Sinness are Minneapolis-based artists.  Both artists received their M.F.A., Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005 and have been steadily exhibiting since.

Joe Sinness’ work often cites esoteric symbolism, drawing in contemporary icons amidst animal and plant imagery.  Moths, bird wings, bunnies and other fauna emerge out of creamy paper as if they are apparitions of saints or the memory of segmented dreams.  As kitsch objects have historically tried to preserve fleeting moments, cultural adages and mythical narratives in the static forms of objects, Sinness’ works on paper encapsulates a more personal iconography within the frame.

Sinness will be exhibiting in both the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) Gallery located in the Minnesota Institute of Arts (MIA) and at the Rochester Art Center in 2010.

Andrea Carlson is interested in the stories of objects.  This exhibition includes a series of sculptures entitled ‘Long Pig’ that have the appearance of black and white lava hunks that are tethered to the wall.  Constructed of plaster cloth, rope, paint and hardware, the work is formally dry and static, but is patterned to suggest movement. Carlson’s “charms” are ultimately her own tokens of incorporation as the title, ‘Long Pig’, suggests an anthropological term for the consumption and assimilation of outsiders.

Carolson is currently represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis.  In 2007 she received the McKnight/MCAD Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists.