SOLO EXHIBITION: SOUND SIGNALS

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 29, 7-9pm
EXHIBITION RUNS: January 29 - March 20, 2010

Franklin Art Works
1021 Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN

Franklin Art Works is proud to present three one-person exhibitions by the Minneapolis artist Megan Vossler and the New York artists Saul Chernick and Kwabena Slaughter. Each artist’s work addresses the dynamic relationships between figure(s) and landscape.

In the Main Gallery
Megan Vossler: Sound Signals

Megan Vossler will present a suite of drawings in the Main Gallery, depicting a continuous landscape and narrative carried over multiple sheets of paper.

Vossler’s installation presents an epically scaled northern landscape dotted with human figures, caribou, trees and the shadow of a hovering helicopter – all reassessing their positions within an environment that has been indelibly changed. The landscape through which these figures move is marked by signs of ruin, including collapsed buildings, piles of rubble, scorched trees, and a flooded canyon. The exhibition’s title, Sound Signals, is a phrase from nautical navigation, in which sound indicates to sailors the position and proximity of ships in the distance.

In the Project Space
Saul Chernick: Devotionals

Saul Chernick’s elaborate drawings display an exquisite use of line, executed in ink that appears like old master wood engravings. Each drawing traverses this tie to the past to remain solidly contemporary, through subject, composition or format.

In the Video Gallery
Kwabena Slaughter: The Poetry of Facts

Kwabena Slaughter’s video, The Poetry of Facts, depicts the artist assuming a series of fixed poses within a white, painted sphere, resulting in scenes that seem to defy gravity and make the viewer suspend belief again and again.

“Slaughter executes snapshot poses based on familiar movements from sources such as martial arts, capoeira, yoga, action films, and comic books. […] dressed in a vibrant blue caftan, he slowly enters this brightly lit, over exposed setting where all sense of orientation and gravity is lost. In a single unedited take, he carefully positions his body and the cloth of the caftan to form one predetermined, frozen pose after another: Run, Fall from a Building, Hurdle Across, Sky Dive Behind, Chill, Skedaddle."
– The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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EXHIBITION: WAR WORKS: ARTISTS ENGAGE IRAQ AND OTHER WARS
Sandow Birk, Combat Paper, Daniel Heyman, John Risseeuw, Ehren Tool, Megan Vossler

January 12 - February 28, 2010

Wooster Art Museum
1189 Beall Avenue, Wooster, OH

One artist collective and four artists—Combat Paper Project, Daniel Heyman, John Risseeuw, Ehren Tool, Megan Vossler—address war and its effects through drawing, printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and ceramics. Working across the United States, these artists are observers, critics and commentators, advocates and therapeutic healers. They join a distinguished historical pantheon of artists who, through provocative and beautiful work, force audiences to confront the realities of war, reflect on man’s inhumanity to man, and help to heal the wounds of war.


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