Becky Olstad and Colleen Mullins – Mano A Mano

WHAT: Mano A Mano
WHERE: Runner Runner Gallery, 219 North 2nd Street, Suite 200, Mpls, MN
WHEN: Feb 16, 2012, 6PM – 9PM

Appetizers and drinks will be provided, and free off-street parking is available.

THE RUNNER RUNNER GALLERY will exhibit the works of two talented Minnesota photographers: Becky Olstad and Colleen Mullins. Olstad studiously captures boxers in her “The Sweet Science” portfolio while Mullins unobtrusively observes holiday travelers in her “Pictures of the Floating World”.

At first glance, Olstad and Mullins’ subject matter could not appear to be more different. However, through close observation, both have learned the rules and rituals of their respective subjects’ games. And through the work of these fine photographers, we are invited into these different worlds without having to pay the price of admission.

Becky Olstad is a fiscal year 2011 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

THE GALLERY will also be featuring Partnership Resources, a nonprofit day program serving adults with developmental disabilities in Minneapolis and St. Louis Park. PRI received an Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) grant to work with 20 clients  focusing on Impressionism. Two PRI staff members have been collaborating with the artists to show them a variety of ways to portray light, movement, mixing, and how to apply texture into their painting. For more information, visit Partnership Resources at http://www.partnershipresources.org/.

This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Thomas Rose – The Chinese Pictures

WHAT: The Chinese Pictures Exhibit
WHERE: Runner Runner Gallery, 219 North 2nd Street, Suite 200, Mpls, MN
WHEN: Dec 1, 2011, 6PM – 9PM

Appetizers and drinks will be provided, and free off-street parking is available.

THE RUNNER RUNNER GALLERY will exhibit a series of fabrications created by local artist, Tom Rose. The fabrications feature photographs taken of the Pace Gallery (under construction in Beijing’s art district 798).

Tom began capturing the reconstruction of Beijing in 2006, and he continued to photograph its ever changing urban landscape when he visited again in 2009. As he discovered during his time there, Beijing is composed of a series of layers–layers in time, as well as space. Each layer is part of a complex narrative which details the evolution of modern China.

THE GALLERY will also be featuring table sculptures by local artist, Alex Walton.

Stuart Klipper – Open Waters

Stuart Klipper’s breathtaking photography from the Arctic and Antarctic will be on display, as well as Tom Wik’s square-format photographs of house facades. For any Lord of the Rings fans out there, there will also be a special, hand-crafted piece that’s going to amaze you.

WHAT: Open Waters, Photography by Stuart Klipper
WHERE: Runner Runner Gallery, 219 North 2nd Street, Suite 200, Mpls, MN
WHEN: Sept 29, 2011, 6PM – 9PM

As always, appetizers and drinks will be provided. Hope to see you there!

Xavier Tavera – El Circo

Runner Runner Gallery is pleased to celebrate this exhibition with an art opening on the evening of Thursday, March 31st from 6-9 PM. Stop by and enjoy a cocktail, some food and great music provided by DJ Walker.

Minneapolis-based photographer Xavier Tavera was born in Mexico City. Tavera is a distinguished photographer whose lens has captured compelling portraits of people from all walks of life, however, he is best known for his nuanced portraits of members of the Latino community. Tavera is a primarily self-taught artist but attended art school for two years in the United States.  Tavera has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Chile and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Weisman Art Museum.

Peter Latner is a photographer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His pictures are about the cultural and geographic face of the American Midwest. His most recent photographs, made on the Great Plains, stem from long-standing interests in American history, geography, landscape and sense of place. Previous projects include small-town life; the changing look of Main Street; the upper Mississippi River valley; suburban landscapes; and Civil War battlefields and re-enactors.

Latner has exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Weisman Museum of Art. He has been awarded a McKnight Photography Fellowship, a Jerome and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Latner’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

This exhibition was curated by Luke Erickson, an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Minneapolis. Curators from The Metropolitan Museum, The Corcoran Gallery, the Rose Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts have selected his photographs for exhibition. Erickson has exhibited at the Duluth Art Institute, Brattleboro Museum of Art, VT, Florence Griswold Museum, CT, T.W. Wood Gallery, VT, and Studio 2 Gallery, Austin, TX. He was awarded an MA in Art History from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a BA in Art History from the University of Redlands.

Brian Lesterbug – Raised to Hunt

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are approaching the date of the second RUNNER RUNNER Gallery
Opening. Please join us this THURSDAY NIGHT from 6-9pm to celebrate
the art of photographer Brian Lesterberg and painter James Holmberg.
Stop in for a glass of beer or wine, DJ music and a game of pool!

Free parking will be available in the lot off 2nd Street

RUNNER RUNNER GALLERY presents Brian Lesterburg: “Raised to Hunt”

Thursday, November 18th
219 North 2nd Street, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
DJ Slater-Walker will provide music.  Wine, beer and light apps will be available.
6-9pm.

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RUNNER RUNNER is bad ass content production by day, fun house by night.  Brian Lesterberg is a talented photographer with large prints hanging in our space.  Additional paintings will be on display by James Holmberg, a Mpls-based abstract painter.  Luke Erickson is the curator, and YOU are a fun-lovin’, enlightening person who supports the arts and artists in the world.  Please join us.