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Event description
Shana Kaplow's multimedia work in painting, video, and sculpture, connects personal narrative with larger global questions. Stemming from her father's early work with solar energy, she reflects images of power lines, oil derricks, and the sun in a curved, circular mirror, using the reflections as points of departure. The resulting artworks challenge direct perception, suggesting celestial mechanics, electromagnetic fields, or astral watchers. Kaplow works improvisationally resulting in materially visceral artworks that embody qualities such as dissolution and luminosity. In mining these mercurial distortions, Kaplow's work reveals an instability in these entrenched structures, signaling either the brink of collapse or the potential for transformation.
Artist Talk: Thursday, October 8th at 1:20pm in The Studio, Brushaber Commons, 2nd Level - Reception following in the Johnson Gallery.
Location
Johnson Gallery3900 Bethel Dr.
St. Paul, MN 55112
Featuring
Shana Kaplow
Artist
Shana Kaplow (b. 1962) is a visual artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her paintings, sculptures, and videos are inspired by connections between personal narrative and larger global questions. Kaplow's work implicates a world that is intimate but also environmentally, economically, and collectively bound together. Her current projects are considerations of energy production, collapse, and potential. Referencing power lines, crude oil, and sunlight, Kaplow blurs boundaries between representation and abstraction, unfixing these structures. These works forge a poetic location between the grief of missed opportunities and the possibility of a sustainable future.
Guest instructions
Park in West Lot.
Questions
Contact the Art and Design Department at 651.638.6263 or cas-art@bethel.edu.