Exhibitions

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

If you are interested in making a purchase or sponsoring an exhibition, please contact Jim Clark at JClark@hopkinsmn.com or 952-548-6489 for further information.

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Blair Treuer "Identity Portrait Series"

  • May 18 - June 17, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, May 18, 6 - 8 pm

Blair Treuer's work is an exploration into the role Native American traditional cultural and spiritual practices and beliefs play in shaping the way her family sees itself collectively and the influences or effect it's had on her own personal identity.

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Chuck + Peg Hoffman "At the Edges of Wilderness"

  • May 18 - June 17, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, May 18, 6 - 8 pm

While Chuck + Peg Hoffman paintings are a study of edges, boundaries, and contrasts coming together, their continuing narrative inspiration is about bearing tension. Tension is a place where they sense the breath of Spirit moving and creating within and through each of us.

Keith Buswell "That Which Connects Us..."

  • May 18 - June 17, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, May 18, 6 - 8 pm

Keith's exhibition presents arboreal imagery as a symbolic language expressing community connection: not only community as the interrelation of heritage or proximity, but also community through idea exchange and a desire to help on another.

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Nikki Besser "Quillin' It: Life in Paper"

  • June 22 - July 29, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 6 - 8 pm

Based in northern Minnesota, self-taught artist Nikki Besser uses hundreds, often times thousands, of strips of rolled paper, glued and shaped together in various forms to create original, one of a kind artworks. Her paper quilled artworks capture positive life moments of joy, happiness, love, and beauty.

MaryAnn & Gary Carlson "A Confluence of Objects"

  • June 22 - July 29, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 6 - 8 pm

Assemblage sculptors, MaryAnn and Gary Carlson, use found objects to create sculptures that spark stories of the past and present. Their goal is to awaken the viewer to the extraordinary beauty of ordinary objects, and the potential of these objects to communicate beyond their former utility.

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Polly Norman "Tooled in Space"

  • June 22 - July 29, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 6 - 8 pm

Polly Norman's work is rooted in movement and rhythm. Working in New Media, she blends and reshapes intersections of image, color, and form in active, sometimes frenetic picture planes. Sometimes languorous, sometimes ecstatic, again, the motion is always there, asking the eye, and maybe the heart, to follow.

Ger Xiong "The Stories We Carry"

  • August 3 - September 9, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, August 3, 6 - 8 pm

Ger Xiong's work reflects his Hmong American experience, identity, and stories through materiality, object, and adornment. While living in-between cultures, he looks at the navigation, negotiation, and reclaiming of his cultural identity within a dominant nation state.

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Toni Gallo "Continuous Thread/ Unraveling Insight"

  • August 3 - September 9, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, August 3, 6 - 8 pm

In Continuous Thread/ Unraveling Insight, Gallo intends to mimic a meditative state, which promotes an overwhelming experience of sincerity. She aims to inspire viewers towards infinite potential by sharing her exploration, practices, and expression of this concept.

William Z. Linmark "Portraits of Paris"

  • August 3 - September 9, 2023
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, August 3, 6 - 8 pm

Inspired by frequent trips to Paris, this exhibition of Linmark's photography, sketches, collages, assemblages and paintings is a collection of artists, writers, and ideas that resonate from the City of Light.

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