Current Exhibition

Making Climate Change Visible by Carolyn Halliday

A Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space Exhibition

March 30 – May 11, 2024

Music and Dance Performance: Thursday, May 2, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, May 2, 7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.

Embracing the sometimes denigrated term, “fiber artist,” Carolyn Halliday’s art is grounded in the use of textiles. Knitting wire is a favorite material and technique. Deeply connected to nature and influenced by two biologists/ecologists in her family, Carolyn’s work references the natural world and our environment.

For her Project Space Grant exhibition, Carolyn plans to present an immersive environment of installation art in the Kolman & Reeb Gallery related to climate change. Drawn from her experiences during the global pandemic lockdown of COVID-19, Carolyn hopes to summon gallery patrons' awareness of the increased clarity of the sky because of reduced commuter traffic. Secondly, her work will remind us of the smokey grey horizon we endured during the summer of 2023 caused by rampant forest fires. Finally, Carolyn asks us to consider the startling and colorful orange, red, and pink sunsets, made intensely more beautiful by the presence of heavy particulates that cause air pollution.

 

 

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Upcoming Exhibition

Blue Skies Ahead

May 17, 2024 - June 8, 2024

Kolman & Reeb Gallery is  celebrating spring with a group show, Blue Skies Ahead,  featuring our gallery artists, Betsy Ruth Byers, Jil Evans, Abby Mouw, Kelly Jean Ohl, Jodi Reeb, Julie Snidle, and Cameron Zebrun, and guest artists, Carolyn Halliday, Cheryl LeClair-Sommer and Lynne Sarnoff-Christensen.  We are exhibiting many new artworks inspired by the theme of spring and blue skies. It begins during Art-A-Whirl® weekend and kicks off our spring and summer exhibition schedule.

Blue Skies Ahead, showcases works inspired by the shift in mood we all experience as the seasons change. This show displays visual cues of spring's arrival, with a gentle prompt of optimism and joy.

One of the most significant contributors to this shift in mood is the presence of clear, blue skies. Psychologically, the color blue is associated with tranquility, serenity, and expansiveness. When the sky is a brilliant shade of azure, it creates a backdrop against which our worries and troubles seem to diminish. The vastness of the horizon reminds us of the infinite possibilities that lie ahead, filling us with a sense of eagerness.

 

 

 

 

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Current & Upcoming Events

Art-A-Whirl® 2024

Please join us during Art-A-Whirl®, the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association's (NEMAA) open studio weekend, May 17, 18, and 19. You will see our spring show, Blue Skies Ahead.

Here is our schedule for the weekend:

Friday, May 17, 5 - 10 p.m.
Anita will be in the gallery.

Saturday, May 18, 12- 8 p.m.
Jodi will be in the gallery

Sunday, May 19, 12 - 5 p.m.
Anita will be in the gallery

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Thanks Art Hounds!

Thanks to Emily Bright and her colleagues at Minnesota Public Radio’s Art Hounds for featuring Carolyn Halliday’s show, Making Climate Change Visible! And thanks to Amy Usdin for enthusiastically giving the show a wonderful review. Here is what Amy said about the show (Amy is the second Art Hound in the broadcast).