 On Saturday artist Molly Roth Scranton and curator Diane Mullin will be joining me at Hair and Nails Gallery to have a conversation about waiting in conjunction with my show Laying in Wait. I couldn't be more excited about this conversation combination. Please join us! If it is warm outside, the conversation will be hosted outside, if it is chilly, we will converse in the gallery space.
HAIR AND NAILS GALLERY: 2222 1/2 East 35th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Open hours: Thu-Fri 3 – 6; Sat-Sun 1 – 6pm or by appointment: [email protected] Opens: Friday April 6th, 6-10pm Runs: April 6th - May 11th, 2018 Conversation: Saturday April 28th, 7pm with Chicago artist Molly Roth Scranton and Minneapolis curator Diane Mullin. Please note: The exhibition is on two floors. The main floor is wheelchair accessible. The basement exhibition space is reached by 12 wooden stairs. Images and descriptions of the basement portion of the exhibition are provided. A single-stall ungendered bathroom is located in the basement. A wheel chair accessible, ungendered single stall bathroom is located across the street at The Future during all gallery hours. There is no wheelchair accessible bathroom during the conversation event. The nearest "accessible" bathrooms during the time of the talk is across the street at the Chatterbox pub, but the doorways are 28" wide and the bathrooms are gender segregated into men's and women's. Please plan accordingly. Card design by Kristin VanLoon
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Laying in Wait was listed in the Star Tribune's Twin Cities' 5 must-see art shows this weekend. "In this smartphone and media-saturated environment we live in, it seems like there's no time or space for non-productivity. What does it mean to wait anymore? That's what Emmett Ramstad explores in this full-on installation/gallery takeover, where he examines times of waiting: Your mouth open at the dentist, waiting; sitting on the toilet while also checking email, waiting; stopped at a light and texting, but also waiting. he upstairs space is transformed into a waiting room, which includes a ceiling, sunrise calendar and a room of tissue boxes. But wait: Why aren't you waiting for nothing to happen?" -Alicia Eler  HAIR AND NAILS GALLERY:
2222 1/2 East 35th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Open hours: Thu-Fri 3 – 6; Sat-Sun 1 – 6pm or by appointment: [email protected] Opens: Friday April 6th, 6-10pm Runs: April 6th - May 11th, 2018 Conversation: Saturday April 28th, 7pm with Chicago artist Molly Roth Scranton and Minneapolis curator Diane Mullin. Please note: The exhibition is on two floors. The main floor is wheelchair accessible. The basement exhibition space is reached by 12 wooden stairs. Images and descriptions of the basement portion of the exhibition are provided. A single-stall ungendered bathroom is located in the basement. A wheel chair accessible, ungendered single stall bathroom is located across the street at The Future during all gallery hours, and from 6-8pm opening night. There is no wheelchair accessible bathroom during the conversation event. Please plan accordingly. I am so excited to share my new work at Hair and Nails Gallery! There will be music, there will be compliments, there will be lots of tissues. Come check it out if you are in the Midwest! City Pages A Listing for Laying in Wait by Camille LeFevre: There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 6, from 6 to 10 p.m., and an artist’s conversation Saturday, April 28, at 7 p.m. Participatory artwork—whether immersive dance/theater productions that invite (aka require!) people to move from room to room while interacting with performers, or mixed-media installations in which viewers are challenged to calibrate their own experiences—haven’t been this popular since the ’60s and ’70s. But today’s practitioners are certainly engaging in some provocative explorations. One of them is Emmett Ramstad. His new piece asks participants to investigate periods of stasis, those moments in which we wait—whether with anticipation, dread, or boredom. In the waiting rooms he’s created, we get to fish for items through a hole in the floor, experience a sense of distortion, and think about what really is happening in the bathroom. Think of it as the re-contextualization of the ordinary—meaning the results could be extraordinary. by Camille LeFevre  |
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