— PROJECT NAME
Ipso Gallery
— ROLE
Writer
Collaborator
— DATE
2012-2021
One of the fringe benefits of working at Fresh Produce was getting to help produce (and contribute to) shows in the Ipso Gallery.
It’s just fun to write about art. Here are a few of my favorites.
There will be no wilting in this gallery.
At Ipso, nothing decays. We only bloom.
Michelle St. Vrain and Stephanie Vonderahe come to Ipso with complementary collections of organic specimens in contrasting moments of transformation. Half-Life reminds us that even when they look cold and still, everything is growing in one direction or the other, and that sometimes even the act of breaking down is an act of creation.
Ipso is going on the radio and you’re coming with us.
This spring, Ipso Gallery at Fresh Produce is celebrating the sounds of art-making.
Streamed live on KRGT Rock Garden Tour Radio from 4:00 – 10:00 pm for the week of May 24-28, Ipso’s Art Sounds reexamines and remixes the idea of what radio sounds like with the help of artists of all kinds. From unique takes on familiar radio tropes to reimagining the medium, Art Sounds will broadcast stories, sounds, and music highlighting creativity and the process of art-making.
Art Sounds is a collaboration with KRGT Radio, and will be broadcast worldwide.
Get ready for a truly majestic and amazing blockbuster Ipso show.
For years, Thomas “News” McGill has been a fan favorite on the Rock Garden Tour radio show. Now, dozens of his most colorful stories have been collected and bound in the limited edition book, The Owl is Great At Being Silent.
Ipso Gallery is celebrating the release of News’ book with our latest show, NEWS! Ten different artists, inspired by ten different News stories, will display pieces as unique as News himself.
A delightfully surreal vending adventure
They say that good things come in small packages dispensed from strange contraptions, and this has never been more true than at Ipso Gallery’s latest show, Ka-Chunk.
Thirty-two local artists have created very limited runs of small works designed to be sold from five one-of-a-kind, custom-made vending machines built specifically for Ka-Chunk. During the show, patrons may purchase works from the machines with special $5 Ipso tokens.
It takes a lot of moving parts to bring together something this special.
Ipso is suddenly going in a new direction.
A couple of new directions, actually. Andres Torres and Chris Bostwick are bringing two distinct explorations of shape and color to the next big thing at Ipso Gallery.
Join us on May 11 for Zig Zag, a celebration of abstraction.
This show is going to take you places you never expected.
It’s time to narrow your field of view.
On May 10, Ipso invites you to take a peek into Tubes, works from Erin Smith (Minneapolis) and Dan Crane (Omaha).
Tubes is a celebration of and challenge to the idea of high and low art with two artists who play with what it means to be functional, what it means to be marketable, and the delight that can emerge from expanding those cramped channels.
Sometimes the shortest distance between hand-made and mass-produced, between fartsy and artsy, is a tube. Crawl on in with us.
Odds are everybody wins!
Art collecting will turn into a game of chance at Ipso Gallery’s fourth installment of Lucky Number on Friday, April 12. Over the course of three randomly-drawn rounds, original works of art from 20 local artists will come down off our gallery walls, one-by-one as show sponsors add to their collections.
Sponsorship dollars will benefit our participating artists and Ipso’s 2019 beneficiary, the Arc of Dreams™, a massive stainless steel sculpture that will span across the Big Sioux River downtown and represent the leap of faith dreamers take to see their dreams come true.
We request patrons to join us for the gallery viewing at 5:30 PM, before the works come off the wall at 6:30 PM.
