Collis and Waterkotte are MFA graduates from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Collis is a former teacher from the Sam Fox School of Visual Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and Waterkotte is an assistant professor of printmaking at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Together, these two artists use a combination of printmaking, photography, and digital technology to create more complex and unique artwork. Each artist brings their own style to the artwork—Collis uses “confetti-like explosions or atmospheric layering of abstract forms” to represent fragmented memories while Waterkotte adds layers of media screen to represent the contemporary world.

Conbere teaches drawing and printmaking at St. Olaf College in Northfield. He has an MFA in illustration and in printmaking. This past year, he was an artist-in-residence in Roswell, New Mexico. His work has also been featured in the Rochester Art Center and will be in the MAEP Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2009. Conbere brings a real world vision into his artwork through drawing, printing, and animated panoramas. He creates multiple points of view in each piece, overlapping small pieces of the world, and then leaves it up to the viewer to find the intertwining stories. For Conbere, “The works represent how our world is structured personally and experientially rather than literally or geographically.”

Exhibits are free and open to the public. The gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Go to for more information.

Image caption: Waterkotte, Not to Save Phenomena but to Mislay Them, 2008, unique print, mixed media and collage

Article by Amanda Symes

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This past weekend, Augsburg College’s art galleries have been refreshed with new exhibitions that are open to the campus community and general public. In the Gage Family Art Gallery is Gregory Euclide’s “This is how I’ve been moving through it,” and the Christensen Center Art Gallery hosts Doug McGoldrick’s “Interior2.” Both exhibitions will run from May 16 – July 11.

Gregory Euclide’s mixed-media landscapes are as visually stunning as they are physically and intellectually complex. These painted, drawn, and often sculpted objects are not works on paper, as much as works of paper that gradually — sometimes quietly, sometimes explosively — unfold as you look at them. The artist wants people to move through his work, to explore, in his words, “the contradictions between the projections of idealized, picturesque views of landscape and our desire to have an authentic experience in nature.”

Euclide, a 2008 MFA graduate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, has exhibited his work nationally in solo, group, and juried exhibitions and has received numerous awards, including a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Since 2001, he has worked as an art instructor at Prior Lake High School in Prior Lake, MN.

Chicago-based photographer Doug McGoldrick expects his images to be beautiful, but troubling. On the image side he features things that you could stare at without really “seeing,” and the text side consists of blurry words you do not comprehend. Within this desperation of looking without knowing is an exploration of the frustration McGoldrick has experienced his entire life — growing up with learning disabilities. The artist hopes that the viewer will “bounce back and forth between text and image trying to make a connection, which may or may not be there.”

McGoldrick holds a MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently teaches at Columbia College in Chicago. He has had solo and two-person shows throughout the Midwest and has been included group shows nationally and internationally. Some of his recent projects include a book about the work, people, and performances of Chicago’s stage life, a look at reconciliation efforts in Rwanda, and an interfaith project that explores the lives of individuals devoted to following religious practice.

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These seven Minnesota artists, though at different stages in their individual careers and representing a variety of artistic styles, all use the pen, pencil, or brush to delve into issues of cultural identity. Without a title to their show they refuse to be labeled; each asks to be considered on the merits of his or her talent, message, and medium.

Todd Bockley, owner of Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, has graciously served as curator for this exhibition.

Artist Reception: Friday, January 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Jim Denomie Artist Presentation: Tuesday, January 29, 1:30 p.m.

Adeline Johnson Conference Center, Oren Gateway Center

“By Water and exhibition by Barbara Harman, runs Jan. 11 until Feb. 15.

The artist’s unique combinations of materials, which can include acrylic painting, stenciling, embroidery, trapunto, printmaking, and paper, draws attention to the physicality of her work. But Harman understands her work to be as much about the metaphorical as the physical. Her series is not only about water, but also “is about journeys. It is about regular journeys — moving from one place to another — and metaphorical journeys — moving from one kind of life to another, one way of looking at things to another, one age to another, one role to another.

Artist Reception: Friday, January 25, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Artist Gallery Talk: Thursday, February 7, 12:00 p.m.

The Gage Family Art Gallery hours:

Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The Christensen Center Art Gallery Hours:

Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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