A group exhibition in two parts featuring thirteen artists from China, United States, Argentina, Australia and the United Kingdom exploring visual art’s heterotopia of emotivity.
An international art fair held on the campus of Taoxichuan —the world origin of porcelain. Hundreds of exhibitors showing and selling work over several days along with dozens of activities including artist presentations, performances, cultural tours and even Chinese street food.
Wildfire Sunrise, Colorado, will be included in the exhibit at Jingdezhen, China. I’ll be participating in the Taoxichuan Spring International Art Fair that week where l will also present an artist talk. This event will be updated as information comes together.
A solo exhibition of Meuschke’s new photographs at Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Opening Reception is on Saturday, November 2, from 6:30pm - 9:30pm.
My landscape photographs depict places of personal or cultural significance, all potent sites of melancholy, and are evocative of my artistic influences from American Luminist painters to Gerhard Richter, photographers Edward Steichen to Richard Misrach. With this work I intend to create an experience of melancholy linked to the experience of nature; to synthesize the pleasure of living on this planet with the grief of change.
Melancholy is not sorrow nor depression, but is an aesthetic-emotive response to internal or external stimuli. Landscape, a memory, an image, a quality of light, a thought, or even a scent -these things, and others, can trigger or sustain it. Melancholy has a counterpart in the sublime, and both have roots in nature experience and human emotion. Where sublimity is the transmutation of terror into awe, melancholy is the intentional contemplation of transience, things lost, longing or the faint promise of hope; it connects the past with the present, links the painful to the pleasurable, and harmonizes imagination and emotion. Melancholy, like the sublime, is a reflective, higher order experience capable of lifting us above raw emotions; one that processes and synthesizes feeling, memory, imagination, experience, place, and time.
Opening Reception for “Double Deuce” on Saturday, Jan. 13th from 7-10pm at Rosalux Gallery, 315 W48th Street, Minneapolis, MN.
This FREE, online event is sponsored by Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis. All you need to do is register by clicking this event to see the registration link or by clicking through to the Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis site.
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A mini-symposium on creating climate change resilient landscapes
Free Bird & Bat House Raffle
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New Photographs
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis
You want your photographs to have great compositions, but maybe you're not sure where to start. Does the "Rule of Thirds" sound more like mathematics than photography? In this class I will explain the very foundation of artistic composition using easy to understand graphics and several photographic examples. With famous and not-so-famous photographs, I will reveal what works and what doesn't and explain why. This unique, in depth survey of composition provides creative understanding that no photographer should be without! In this class you will learn:
The basics of 2D design
What excites our eyes and brains
How to direct the eye
How to use color for composition
The Rule of Thirds and how to apply it
How to use emotive subjects to activate composition
How to see and talk about photographic composition
Editing photographs for composition
Instructor: Frank Meuschke, artist and educator
Level: Beginner
$48 member/$53 non-member
Limit 30, Online via Zoom
This workshop is part of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Adult Education programming. All proceeds go toward supporting horticultural and nature education at the Arboretum! To see this and other photography classes offered at Arboretum, click this link. Classes are listed in calendar order. To go right to the registration page, click REGISTER HERE, below.
Nearly forty years ago photographer Deborah Bright challenged landscape photographers with the statement that “photographers must begin to take responsibility for their part in producing and invoking cultural meanings… to discover how photographs reinforce, oppose, or reconstruct our notions and assumptions about ourselves”? How has landscape and nature photography changed? What cultural meanings are valuable today? Is there a role for conventional landscape imagery in today’s world?
The aim of this course is to explore contemporary landscape photography contextualized by critical awareness of traditional landscape imagery. A portion of each session will be dedicated to the work of one or more photographer-artists and the remaining time will be available for open discussion about themes and concepts found in the work and provided reading materials. There are no assignments or projects to complete other than reading insightful essays outside of seminar hours. This seminar is intended for those interested in an extra-curricular dialogue on visual culture, the concept of nature, photography, the environment and inspiration for making new work.
This is a synchronous, online seminar with a total of 5 meeting dates. Participants must attend the first session to remain enrolled in this educational opportunity.
Instructor: Frank Meuschke, artist and educator
Dates: Sunday, June 5th, 2022 and Mondays, June 6th through June 27th, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Central Time
Meet: Online, via Zoom
Prerequisite Skills: Interest in and open to new ideas, comfortable engaging in discussion
Required Equipment: Due to its visual nature, this seminar is best viewed on a computer, laptop or pad
$20 Student/$69 Non-Student
Available Seats: 16
Frank Meuschke is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Frank James Meuschke’s first solo exhibition at Minneapolis Rosalux Gallery. Opening reception is from 7-10pm on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019.
This new work is an exploration of the anthropogenic environment of ecological science. The photographs in this exhibit were created while the 2018 artist in residence within Cedar Creek ESR, one of the most significant sites dedicated to ecology science in the world. It was here, in central Minnesota, at the intersection of North America’s three major biomes (Eastern Deciduous Forest, Northern Boreal Forest, and Prairie), where the foundation of modern ecology was conceived in the 1940s. Since then, decades of ongoing research has deepened our understanding of complex ecosystems and their response to anthropogenic stressors such as rising CO2, heat, nitrogen and drought. To learn more, please visit www.cedarcreek.umn.edu.
