Monument: Group Exhibition

Visit Minnesota Street Project's newest group exhibition Monument. Located in the Project's atirum. No appointment required. 

Monument features 25 artists from the galleries at the Project with additional works from the Catharine Clark Gallery, Creativity Explored, and the Guerrero Gallery. Spanning two floors in the Minnesota Street Project atrium, the exhibition draws inspiration from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Monument.” In it, the narrator passionately advocates for a seemingly shabby, temporal structure as a living work of art and edifice.

“The monument’s an object, yet these decorations,

carelessly nailed, looking like nothing at all,

give it away as having life, and wishing;

Wanting to be a monument, to cherish something.”

Monument’s artists consider the notion in the abstract, examining the ways in which art and monuments are formally and metaphorically connected. Their works draw on ingenious and at times irreverent references to traditional — and often problematic — concepts of commemoration. Through drawing, painting, sculpture and more, the monument and all it conventionally represents is undone.

Participating artists include Zarouhie Abdalian, Wesaam Al-Badry, Jud Bergeron, Dawoud Bey, Sandow Birk, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacob Hashimoto, Mildred Howard, Bovey Lee, Daniel Li, Nick Makanna, Alicia McCarthy, John Patrick McKenzie, James Miles, Aida Muluneh, Vik Muniz, Pamela Pianchachi, Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, Solange Roberdeau, Gay Outlaw, Roland Record, Evelyn Reyes, Hung Kei Shiu, James Shefik, Lava Thomas, Joan Wulf, and Zio Ziegler.