This week, two new exhibits will be on display at the Tweed Museum of Art on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus.
After a youth spent following his shoe store manager father around to different malls, Minnesota artist Chris Rackley began recreating miniature scenes harkening back to those days. "He brings together sculptural forms with, like, shoebox dioramas," says Annie Dugan. "These shoebox dioramas showcase these spaces in the mall that were sort of his." The exhibit titled No Place Like This, is on display now through October 10th.
Opening on Tuesday, All Kinds of People is a portraiture exhibit that will feature work from the Tweed's permanent collection. The work comes from a 1968 exhibition by Walter Hocks. The exhibit originally addressed the role of humans and the representation of humans in abstract art, and that same consideration might have application to today's world too. "Every other topic surrounds AI," says Dugan. "How do we capture physical characteristics of personality or psychological states, but also essences of what it is to be people."
More information about the exhibits and the museum can be found at the Tweed Museum of Art website.
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