EMMETT RAMSTAD - Blog

Congrats mcba on your new bathroom signage

7/6/2017

Thank you Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) and Open Book for adding an all-gender, accessible restroom to your main floor!

If you haven't visited Open Book or MCBA, there are two great bookstores, a cafe, a gallery and lots of classes!

I feel fortunate to be working there this year as a part of the Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Program.

2018 hair and nails show!

7/6/2017

I'm thrilled to announce that I will have a solo show at Hair and Nails Gallery in South Minneapolis in 2018. Works in progress already!

letterpress at mcba

6/11/2017

Had a great week learning letterpress techniques from Bill Myer at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Looking forward to making a book this summer!

brainstorming

5/1/2017

Park Mcarthur visiting artist april 19 and 20th!

4/16/2017

making room

3/21/2017

Making Room
Quarter Gallery Regis Center for Arts, UMN
March 28 - April 22, 2017
Opening Saturday, April 8th, 7:00 to 10:00 pm

The exhibition features work by 9 contemporary artists living and working in the Midwest who explore the relationships between objects, the body, queerness and the domestic space. The included artists work across a range of contemporary art practices including ceramics, performance, quilting, and sculpture and are united by their common interest in permeating established boundaries that divide the personal and political, the private and public, and the functional and artistic object. Challenging the way we inhabit and move through space both physically and conceptually, the works raise questions of access, mobility, and the way our identities shape our experience of place. Artist in the exhibition include Anna Campbell, Paige Carlson, Michael David Franklin, Marc LaPointe, Daniel Luedtke, Rosemary McBride, Emmett Ramstad, Alaura Seidl, and Dustin Yager.

Curated by Elise Armani

watching you watching me watching you

3/21/2017

art and the social body feb 25th 2-4pm

2/13/2017

Join me, Shana Kaplow, Sarah Petersen and Risa Puleo for a dialogue about art and the social body at Rosalux on Saturday Feb 25th from 2-4pm.

Shana kaplow and Emmett ramstad opens feb 4th

1/17/2017

Left: Shana Kaplow, Collapsible Podium (detail), ink on paper, 2017 Right: Emmett Ramstad, Untitled (detail), bathroom stall components, toilet paper rolls, bottles, elevated platform, 2017

Shana Kaplow and Emmett Ramstad at rosalux gallery

Opening Reception: February 4, 2017, 6-10pm
Exhibit runs through February 26th.
Public Dialogue with guest contributors:
“Art and the Social Body”, Saturday, February 25th, 2-4pm.

Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce Shana Kaplow and Emmett Ramstad, a new exhibition to open February 4th, 2017. The exhibition will feature ink drawings and wall installations by Shana Kaplow and sculptural installations by Emmett Ramstad. The exhibition brings together the artists’ shared interest in the socio-political body.
In Shana Kaplow’s new ink drawings and wall installations, images of architectural structures and found language function as stand-ins for the body’s psychological and political presence. Collapsible podiums and poetic phrases found within writings on social justice are the subjects of her new work. Through Kaplow’s articulated and improvisational gestures, structures are disrupted, rendering them volatile, metaphoric, and ripe for reconstruction. www.shanakaplow.com
In Emmett Ramstad’s new sculptural installation, public bathrooms are source material from which to examine larger personal and political issues. By combining bathroom stall components, toilet paper rolls and a viewing platform, his installation articulates the centrality of bathrooms as sites of surveillance, profiling, and potential for resistance. The installation’s multiple sightlines invite viewers to reflect on social forms of surveillance: who watches whom and how? www.emmettramstad.com

ROSALUX GALLERY
1400 Van Buren Street NE, #195, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Rosalux is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays + Sundays: 12 - 4pm (or by appointment)
www.rosaluxgallery.com rosalux@rosaluxgallery.com

New Studio, new heat

12/7/2016

I was awarded a Metropolitan Regional Arts Commission Next Step grant to move and properly outfit a new studio. So far I have moved out of my old, small studio and relocated to my new big studio. I am working on insulating and heating the space and getting proper ventilation before I start making new big works. Hooray! Soon I will have heat in my new studio (as you can see from the trench with piping for gas and electric). A must in Minnesota.

My next show will be at Rosalux Gallery with Shana Kaplow. Opening February 4th, 2017. I am making a large installation with bathroom stall components and a hunting stand. More pictures of art soon.