Erik Farseth, founder of Motorik Arts, receives Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board

  • “Farseth will create a new body of work that incorporates multiple printmaking techniques in combination with collage, culminating in a solo exhibition and the distribution of art zines through Twin Cities’ art and commercial venues.” – Minnesota State Arts Board
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Photos from the art opening for “Insolvent” at Big Table Studio

Photos from the opening night reception for “Insolvent” (March 2012)

 

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INSOLVENT featured in this week’s City Pages

City Pages “A-List” preview by Jessica Armbruster:

Insolvent: Printmaking Exhibition

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INSOLVENT: Opening Night reception March 10 at Big Table Studio

INSOLVENT: A Printmaking Exhibition 

March 10 – March 31, 2012

FEATURING ARTWORK BY:
Abigail Slawik | Anna Tsantir | Curt Lund | Edie Overturf | Faye Passow | Karl W. Nelson | Jesikah Orman | Joshua Norton | Jonathan McFadden | Jonathan Stewart | Laura Brown | and Snezana Petrovic

Opening Night Reception:  Saturday, March 10, 7-10 pm

Free live music:
Jim and The French Vanilla
(Jim Blaha of the Blind Shake)

WHERE:  Big Table Studio
375 Wabasha St N
St Paul, MN 55102

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PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION: “Insolvent” at Big Table Studio (March 10 – March 31, 2012)

INSOLVENT: A Printmaking Exhibition 

March 10 – March 31, 2012

FEATURING ARTWORK BY:
Abigail Slawik | Anna Tsantir | Curt Lund | Edie Overturf | Faye Passow | Karl W. Nelson | Jesikah Orman | Joshua Norton | Jonathan McFadden | Jonathan Stewart | Laura Brown | and Snezana Petrovic

Opening Night Reception:  Saturday, March 10, 7-10 pm

Free live music:
Jim and The French Vanilla
(Jim Blaha of the Blind Shake)

WHERE:  Big Table Studio
375 Wabasha St N
St Paul, MN 55102

 

 

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Rogue Citizen Presents: Art opening and live music (October 7-8, 2011)

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ROGUE CITIZEN PRESENTS

CAUSE ART OPENING NUMBER 12 and LIVE MUSIC SERIES Cause Spirits and Soundbar  3001 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis FEATURING NEW ARTWORK BY THE ROGUE CITIZEN COLLECTIVE: Shawn Dalsen | Eric Mattheis | Matt McGorry | Matt Wells

Join us for two nights of live music and visual art at Cause Spirits and Sound Bar
October 7-8, 2011


THE STORY

A long time ago, four artists were born. It was the height of the Reagan era, and science fiction films were predicting an apocalyptic future for America. One such film, Robocop, satirically takes on the specter of cash-strapped American cities that have outsourced essential services to private companies, their local police departments managed by multinational conglomerates.

Today, Blackwater security contractors patrol the streets of New Orleans; city school districts are being turned over to so-called “educational management companies”; while for-profit companies such as Veolia Water compete for control over access to safe drinking water and sewage treatment facilities. Yesterday’s nightmare scenario has become our reality.

A quarter century after the New Right declared war on the public sector, the sudden collapse of the Mayan civilization is being replayed amidst the abandoned ruins of urban Detroit.

Mixing pop art and religious iconography, Rogue Citizen has appropriated the visual language of dystopian sci-fi, wartime propaganda films, and video games in a cybernetic send-up of the American obsession with excess and ultra-violence.

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