A still life is the study of life stilled, the preservation of a moment of time composed of objects arranged on a staged surface. For the installation Still Life the gallery became the stage for an immersive still life composed of personal forms and everyday objects altered and recontextualized as a meditation on the universal humanitarian and environmental concerns we all share. Museums are places of refuge, preserving and protecting moments of human and natural fragility and containing works illustrating our deepest potential for compassion.
Dark Dreams, Still Life - Essay by Christina Schmid
This project was funded by the Miinneapolis Musuem of Art - Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program. Additional funding and support was received from the Belwin Conservancy, the Imagine Fund Annual Faculty Award/ University of Minnesota, the Dean's Freshman Research and Creative Scholar's Fund/ University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, US Steel's Minntac Mine and the MCAD/ McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists.
With Special Thanks: Stephen Edstrom, Louise Erickson, Erin Generaux, Susan Haugh, Marc La Pointe, Carly Odegard, Anna Orbovich, Anita, Lauris and Maris Strautmanis, Pedram Baldari, Louie Darang, Josh Erickson, Jim Gubernick, Nooshin Hakim-Javadi, Chris Heen, Justine Johnson, Jeffrey Kalstrom and Susan Gonzalez, Ruthie Kim, Rick Kivela, Paul Linden, Kelly Ludeking, Grant McFarland, Deetle Nelson, Prerna, Dick and Karin Ringler, Nicole Soukup, Emily Swanberg, Rose von Muchow, Ben Weil, Lily Wujek, Madison Beck, Adri Cerrato, Kate Drakulic, Alex Hei, Tate Johnson, Anna Level, Colin Pillai, Molly Radenbaugh, Julia Reising, Kellen Renstrom, Emma Rochlin, Yueyuan Qiu, Lillian Willett, Moyan Zhou, Andrew Bialon, Megan Fox, Lydia Gutowksy, Alden Jaakola, Charlie Mooney, Pete Gierzynski, Max Rawling, Rae Young. (Images courtesy of Rik Sferra and Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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