Michael Kareken
Magnet, 2009
Oil on canvas

"Scrap" by Michael Kareken and "Commuter" by Tetsuya Yamada

Friday, November 20, 2009—Sunday, January 24, 2010
Minnesota Artists Exhibition Gallery
Free Exhibition

Michael Kareken's latest body of work tackles the urban landscape, specifically the industrial recycling plants outside his studio window. The Rock-Tenn paper recycling plant and the American Iron metal scrap yard inspire metaphoric associations with life and death, growth and decay, order and entropy, structure and chaos. For the MAEP show, Kareken is creating these paintings on a grand scale, as wall-size vistas.

Tetsuya Yamada works with the industrial landscape of production. His work explores the intersection of art, craft, machine, and industry. He delves into the repetitious and mundane activities of city life, specifically commuting by train in his native Tokyo. His installation will explore the way the human mind reacts to passive and repetitive acts, with their continuous rhythms of sights and sounds.

The Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program (MAEP) is made possible by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation.

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Foot in the Door 4

Friday, February 19, 2010—Sunday, June 13, 2010
Minnesota Artists Exhibition Gallery
Free Exhibition

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MAEP artist-led tours for Scrap: Paintings by Michael Kareken and Commuter: Installation by Tetsuya Yamada

Minnesota Artists Exhibition Gallery

MAEP Critics' Trialogue for Scrap: Paintings by Michael Kareken and Commuter: Installation by Tetsuya Yamada

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With Brenda Kayzar and David Lefkowitz

The MAEP is an artist-managed curatorial department of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts devoted to the exhibition of works by artists who live in Minnesota. The Program was conceived in 1975 by regional artists in response to their desire for professional exhibition space, recognition, and critical dialogue. Since that time, the program has been fundamentally committed to the perceptions and evaluations of artists; and has produced and presented over 150 exhibitions of contemporary art. The MAEP's objectives are to exhibit Minnesota artists' work on a regular basis; to foster the exchange of ideas among artists; to stimulate interaction of ideas among artists, the museums, and the public; and to facilitate the creation and presentation of work in a context that is not inhibited by aesthetic fashion or commercial demand. The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program is supported in part by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation.

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