Only two weeks left to see White Cubes! Open hours are Saturdays 12-5pm, and by appointment. Exhibition closes May 16th.
Books are also still available to purchase through the link in our bio! Essay contributions by Jaysen Hohlen, Taylor Jasper, Matthew Villar Miranda, and Laurel Rand-Lewis
White Cube features works by artists Aaron Van Dyke, Bade Turgut, Briar Marsh Pine, Candice Davis, Casey Deming, Chase Barney, Emma Beatrez, Erika Terwilliger, Jay Heikes, Jaysen Hohlen, Jonathon Rosemond, Kathryn Kerr, Kristina Johnson, Lee Noble, Leslie Grant, Lucas Page, Maddie Butler, Michael Caudo, Patrick Keville, R Yun Matea, Sarah Sampedro, Wyatt Lasky, and Xavier Tavera.
This project is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
OPENING THIS FRIDAY 4/17, 6-9PM
Coinciding with the gallery’s fifth anniversary, come celebrate the opening of White Cubes and the launch of the book PAPA. White Cubes is an editioned box collection of small artworks contributed by artists who exhibited and PAPA and others involved in artist-run initiatives across the Twin Cities.
Stretching across 17 exhibitions and the works and contributions of nearly 40 artists, PAPA records the artistic labor that has been poured into the gallery over the last five years. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the reception, and preorder is still available (link in bio). I hope to see you there!
PAPA Essay Contributions by
Taylor Jasper @jasper_taylor_jasper
Matthew Villar Miranda @genericmatt
Laurel Rand-Lewis @laurel.jpeg
This book and exhibition is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
There’s just 2 weeks until the book launch of PAPA! Essay contributions by the lovely and talented @jasper_taylor_jasper@genericmatt and @laurel.jpeg
Preorder the book through the link in my bio!
PAPA documents the first four years of PAPA Projects, an artist-run exhibition space founded by artists Jaysen Hohlen and Wyatt Lasky in St. Paul, Minnesota. Established during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the space began as a simple intervention: transforming a room on their communal studio floor into a gallery. What began as a short-term response quickly developed into an ongoing exhibition program well beyond the pandemic.
This richly illustrated volume brings together essays and visual documentation tracing the development of the space between 2021 and 2024. Essays by Jaysen Hohlen, Taylor Jasper, Matthew Villar Miranda, and Laurel Rand-Lewis consider artist-run initiatives, the role of independent exhibition spaces, and the challenges of documenting the ephemeral nature of exhibitions.
The book includes artworks, installation views, and materials from seventeen exhibitions presented at PAPA Projects. These exhibitions feature artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and time-based media. The publication also reproduces exhibition statements and short written texts that accompanied select exhibitions, preserving the context that originally framed the works when they were exhibited.
Produced alongside the book is a companion artist project, White Cube, an editioned box collection of small artworks contributed by artists who exhibited at PAPA and others involved in artist-run initiatives in the Twin Cities. Together, the book and box extend and preserve the ethos and artistic labor of PAPA Projects while gesturing toward the futures artists can create for themselves.
Part record and part reflection, PAPA documents the work, ideas, and collaborations that emerged from PAPA’s fourth-floor gallery. The publication traces how small, artist-built exhibition spaces can become platforms for artists to organize, exhibit, and shape their own conditions for making and exhibiting work.
The exhibition White Cubes, a project of newly produced artist boxes, opens on Friday, April 17th from 6-9pm. The exhibition coincides with the launch of PAPA, a publication documenting the first four years of PAPA Projects. Preorder for the book is available through a link in our bio.
White Cube is an editioned box collection of small artworks contributed by artists who exhibited at PAPA and others involved in artist-run initiatives across the Twin Cities. Designed for portability and tactility, White Cube invites viewers to engage the works directly. Developed alongside the publication PAPA, the project reflects the networks of artists, ideas, and labor that shaped the space.
White Cube features works by artists Aaron Van Dyke, Bade Turgut, Briar Marsh Pine, Candice Davis, Casey Deming, Chase Barney, Emma Beatrez, Erika Terwilliger, Jay Heikes, Jaysen Hohlen, Jonathon Rosemond, Kathryn Kerr, Kristina Johnson, Lee Noble, Leslie Grant, Lucas Page, Maddie Butler, Michael Caudo, Patrick Keville, R Yun Matea, Sarah Sampedro, Wyatt Lasky, and Xavier Tavera.
Contributing Authors for PAPA include Jaysen Hohlen, Taylor Jasper, Matthew Villar Miranda, and Laurel Rand-Lewis.
This project is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
PAPA Projects will now be closed on Sundays, and open hours will be moved to Fridays. Appointments are encouraged.
UPDATED OPEN HOURS
Friday, November 8th 1-6pm
Friday, November 15th 1-6pm
Friday, November 22nd 1-6pm
In this new project, cross-disciplinary artist Briar Marsh Pine examines the history of mineral extraction on Minnesota’s Iron Range. Black Beach, a fine-rock beach formed through mining runoff from the Northshore Mining Co., becomes both backdrop and material source for their latest works. By layering histories, artistic disciplines, and natural materials Marsh Pine unearths new contexts for the growing demand for iron in Minnesota and beyond.
OPENING RECEPTION TONIGHT
Come through tonight from 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of @meaganmarshpine newest project, Tailings. Also make sure to check out the other events happening today as part of @tcartweek
In this new project, cross-disciplinary artist Briar Marsh Pine examines the history of mineral extraction on Minnesota’s Iron Range. Black Beach, a fine-rock beach formed through mining runoff from the Northshore Mining Co., becomes both backdrop and material source for their latest works. By layering histories, artistic disciplines, and natural materials Marsh Pine unearths new contexts for the growing demand for iron in Minnesota and beyond.
We would like to invite you to the reception of Tailings, an exhibition by Meagan “Briar” Marsh Pine, on Friday, October 18th from 6-8pm. This event is among many others for the third edition of Twin Cities Art Week, a celebration of the vibrant local contemporary art scene in multiple venues across Minneapolis and St. Paul. Please refer to their schedule for other events happening across the Twin Cities next week.
In this new project, cross-disciplinary artist Briar Marsh Pine examines the history of mineral extraction on Minnesota’s Iron Range. Black Beach, a fine-rock beach formed through mining runoff from the Northshore Mining Co., becomes both backdrop and material source for their latest works. By layering histories, artistic disciplines, and natural materials Marsh Pine unearths new contexts for the growing demand for iron in Minnesota and beyond.
Open Hours
Sundays, 12-5pm
and by appointment
This event is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Only one week left to catch @prernaunknown solo exhibition, Coming Up for Water! The last open hours are December 17th, 12-6pm. Appointments encouraged.
The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by @claire_laine_ under the same title.
I would like to warmly invite you to the reception of Coming Up for Water, an exhibition by Prerna, on Friday, November 17th from 7-9pm.
Reckoning with the relationship between evidence and truth, Coming Up for Water blends materials from state and familial archives. Deploying reflection, transparency, and opacity, surveillance and legibility are at the center of Prerna’s works– of what can be seen, recorded, or traced and the meanings they construct. This exhibition is accompanied by an essay by her wife, Claire Laine.
Prerna is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Mumbai, India. Prerna is interested in evaluating her relationship to being the subject and being subjected. She has been awarded global opportunities and residencies, has exhibited nationally, and she recently got an MFA.
Claire Laine is the Director of Publicity at Graywolf Press, a nonprofit independent book publisher based in Minneapolis. She earned her BA from Macalester College and her Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She lives in St. Paul, MN and writes in her free time.
We would like to warmly invite you to the reception of Nudes descending into Lake Michigan on July 14th from 7-9pm! Exhibition is up through August 13th.
Deploying methods of (re)surfacing, artists Lexi Herman, Miranda Ribeiro-Vecino and Siobhan Wood are confronted with revelations brought forth by planet Neptune. Nudes descending into Lake Michigan wades through and lays bare constellations of intuitive structures and the signs of ecstatic downloads from the Great Lake. Here, bodies of water become a modality of what moves through and between; the waterways, personal mythologies and one another.
