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Street Glyphs Series

…we see an intensity in the collages. The artist applies multiple and intricate layers of strong gestures, intense marks, black and white with strong color. Materiality becomes a priori in these works, made with layers of acrylic paint, pen, tape, marker, graphite and ink.The two-dimensional works are visually punctured with powerful colors and graphics, strong gestures and sliced with tape, which serves as a metaphor for skin. For the artist, who often walks at night, these artworks represent the tactileness and intensity of his lived experience in a highly visual urban landscape. To me, the artworks feel responsively urgent in the context of Minneapolis as a place and 2023 as a time; and there is a palpable energy to them with layers of memory–both visual and emotional–to the place and detritus of the city."

–from

BEAUTIFUL DISRUPTIONS:

PORTALS AND HEALING IN THEWORK BY GREGORY J ROSE

Dr. Megan Arney Johnston, Curator