Join us for our next film screening with Guest Resident Artist Ioana Țurcan on November 4, 7 pm!

The screening will begin at 7 pm, followed by discussion. Soup and beverages will be provided. The film screening will consist of the following works:

• the self illusion: The child's self portrait as an artist

• por ahora soy invierno: Winter's self creation

• III: Tackles the problematics of rape culture and sexual assault through three different cases in three different countries: China, Vietnam and Romania; and how the cases where similarly “dismissed” by the authorities. Collaboration with Kieu Anh Truong and Yue-Ying Feng.

• states uprooted: Shot during my travels in between 2012-2017, using personal archive and combining 8mm film with digital files, states uprooted tries to challenge the idea of rituals in transition, identity and its perception on different lands: Romania and USA.

• Empiric: Short fiction film set in Romania’s 1986. A young woman working in a textile factory has to find a way to deal with the anti-abortion decree without putting her life in danger. Produced by Adenium Film.

• Anemone: A found photograph from the 30s Bulgaria, activates an AI statement on same-sex relations. From analogies on perfect flowers, to invented languages and archive wedding footage, Anemone looks at the tools we create to adapt and survive while interrogating the "normalcy". Collaboration with Gergana Ivanova, part of ECHO III Bucharest Residency.

• Followed by a screening of her most recent short fiction film, a work-in-progress piece.

Join us for FRAGMENTS OF WORLDS UNKNOWN on Thursday, October 24, 7–9 pm!

FRAGMENTS OF WORLDS UNKNOWN evokes a collection of incomplete or partial insights into realms that are unfamiliar or beyond our current understanding. The selection of works implies pieces of a larger narrative or existence, hinting at untold stories, hidden truths, or diverse perspectives about what lies beyond the familiar, encouraging an imaginative journey into an unknown that we created to some extent by our actions, numbness, beliefs or fears. 

Artists included:

Andreea Lăcătuș

Luiza Pârvu

Laura Iancu 

Ornela Alia 

Letiția Popa

Ana Gurdiș

Grace Wang

Just Wondering

Curated by Ioana Țurcan and supported by CEC ArtsLink 

Join us as we welcome our international Guest Resident Artist Ioana Țurcan with an installation and film screening on Friday, October 18! The event will begin at 7 pm, followed by an artist talk at 8 pm. After the artist talk, there will be a film screening of the following works:

• the self illusion: The child's self portrait as an artist

• por ahora soy invierno: Winter's self creation

• III: Tackles the problematics of rape culture and sexual assault through three different cases in three different countries: China, Vietnam and Romania; and how the cases where similarly “dismissed” by the authorities. Collaboration with Kieu Anh Truong and Yue-Ying Feng.

• states uprooted: Shot during my travels in between 2012-2017, using personal archive and combining 8mm film with digital files, states uprooted tries to challenge the idea of rituals in transition, identity and its perception on different lands: Romania and USA.

• Empiric: Short fiction film set in Romania’s 1986. A young woman working in a textile factory has to find a way to deal with the anti-abortion decree without putting her life in danger. Produced by Adenium Film.

• Anemone: A found photograph from the 30s Bulgaria, activates an AI statement on same-sex relations. From analogies on perfect flowers, to invented languages and archive wedding footage, Anemone looks at the tools we create to adapt and survive while interrogating the "normalcy". Collaboration with Gergana Ivanova, part of ECHO III Bucharest Residency..

About the Installation

 LIFELIKE: INVOKING GHOSTS is a collaboration between Ioana Țurcan and Pablo Ramirez Gonzalez, a multi-chaptered work which aims to rethink the dynamics of modernity through the process of slowdown and delay but also its effect on a possible afterlife for animals in the context of displacement. Hunting, taxidermy and taxonomy are seen as practices that deny the life of some species in order to display, study, and appropriate their bodies, claiming the superiority of human kind over nature. Owning and using animals for labour and production especially under improper conditions is no exception.

LIFELIKE INVOKING GHOSTS brings together works created in Morawa, Poland (2021) under the name of LIFELIKE: DEMO (photography and video) and its next-year chapter LIFELIKE: AS WE WAIT (audio soundscape), made in residence at Acasă la Hundorf, Romania (2022).

This event is part of Twin Cities Art Week.

Learn more about Ioana Țurcan and her work here.

Did you know the best time of the year to make kimchi is winter? Learn how to prepare ingredients, experiment with flavor variations, and gain insights into the fermentation process with Second Shift Resident Artist Dahn Gim. 

Location: Second Shift Studio, 1128 Payne Ave.

Time: 1 pm

Duration of Workshop: 2 - 2.5 hrs 

What to bring: All the materials required for preparing the kimchi will be provided. We recommend participants bring an apron and their container to take their kimchi home with them. Additionally, bringing a cutting board and/or knife is helpful as we have limited quantity. 

This workshop is an extension of the ongoing exhibition, Sonmat (손맛), curated by Dahn Gim. As the term 손맛 suggests, the Second Shift community will be introduced to works by participating artists in the show, and each piece prompts reflection on care—specifically, in the role of caregiver and care receiver. This resonates with the idea that fermentation is an intentional act of care, connecting the art of kimchi-making to a broader exploration of nurturing and preserving traditions. 

At the end of the workshop, you will get to share and taste your kimchi with Korean pancakes and a hot bowl of rice. Bring your own container/jar to take home your own kimchi, continuing the fermentation process to achieve your preferred taste! 

Join us for Native Heart Art Market! Organized by current Resident Artist Jaida Grey Eagle, this art market brings together ten Indigenous artists to sell handmade art.

Join us for our next Art Soup on December 21, 6–8 pm. We’ll eat soup and engage in a casual conversation about our current exhibition that features the work of our current Resident Artists.

Come celebrate our new residents at the 2023 Open House!

This group exhibition will feature the work of Resident Artists Dahn Gim, Anna Lehner, Jaida Grey Eagle, and Ivonne Yanez. This event is part of Twin Cities Art Week.

Reception: September 30, 6–8 pm

Twin Cities Art Week Coffee & Meet: October 1, 10 am–12 pm

Join us for a special event and fundraiser to support Second Shift with the artist, Brooklyn Rail's artistic director, and Second Shift board member Phong Bui!

Location:

425 Wabasha St N, Saint Paul, MN, 551012

Schedule:

August 19, 2023

3:00 pm, Tour of The Residue of Labor with Chris Larson

3:30 pm, Conversation with Phong Bui, co-founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Rail and Second Shift board member

4:00 pm, Second Shift dialogue, and fundraising event

This event will be held at Second Shift co-director Chris Larson’s exhibition, The Residue of Labor. Following a brief tour, there will be a conversation with artist, Brooklyn Rail's artistic director, and Second Shift board member Phong Bui. Then, we will engage in conversation with previous Resident Artists of Second Shift.

Second Shift is working to raise $30,000 dollars by the end of this year and you can help by attending this event, inviting a friend, or making a donation yourself. Additionally, we will be auctioning one of Chris Larson’s works.

PLEASE NOTE * This event is NOT being held at Second Shift.

Join us for an artist talk with Selva Aparicio on April 30, at 6 pm!

Selva Aparicio is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ideas of memory, intimacy, and the temporality of life through installations that celebrate the cyclicity of the natural world. Working with nature’s ephemera, including cicada wings, oyster shells, and human cadavers, her praxis is an extended death ritual which foregrounds a unique reverence for the discarded. Capturing the meanings imbued in these materials and the rituals informing their significance and sentimentality enables both the facilitation of environmental, social, and political activism through art and the creation of outlets for the public navigation of grief and mourning in a world so defined by loss. 

She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 and her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2017. Aparicio’s work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Yale Center for British Art; Can Mario Museum, Spain; CRUSH Curatorial, New York; The Kyoto International Craft Center, Japan; Instituto Cervantes, New York; and the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona. She was awarded the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights in 2016, the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize in 2017, and received a MAKER Grant from the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. She was also named one of the 2020 breakout artists in Chicago by NewCity Art. In 2022 she was awarded the Chicago Artadia Award.

Join us for the opening of Second Shift’s Juried Exhibition on March 25, 6–8 pm!

The Second Shift Spring Juried Exhibition features artworks by eight queer or women-identifying artists based in Minnesota: Sophia Munic, Madeeha Lamoreaux, Kieu My Truong, Kadi Vail, Ryn Stafford, Lyn Corelle, and HML. The artworks have been selected through an open call among a pool of 65 applicants by 2022-2023 Second Shift residents Jocelyn Figueroa, Cameron Downey, and Zoe Cinel. The eight featured artworks express, through a variety of media, techniques, and aesthetics, a longing for or a celebration of intimate moments and spaces. 

Sexual desire, and especially queer desire, is yet to be widely accepted and celebrated in society and mass media but there is an urgency and a demand for representation of a wider range of expressions of sexuality, embodiment of desire but also softness and trauma within female and queer bodies. This exhibition brings together some of these perspectives. In the soft sculpture Prized Possession (2022), Sophia Munic describes moments of desire within queer culture by presenting a dildo as a hunter’s conquest by using quilt piecing and patternmaking. To speak about one’s sexuality can be empowering but can also reveal personal and generational trauma within this racist and ableist society. On one hand, the poem by Ryn Stafford draws connections between abuse, colonialism, and the medical system, on the other, the soft sculpture Bohemian Rhapsody (2023) by artist HML (created during her residency at Interact Gallery in winter 2023) explores disability, gender identity, and sexuality in an attempt to fight isolation and under-representation of disabled and androgynous bodies. 

Sexuality, desire, and trauma belong to a larger sphere of intimacy within one’s female/queer body, the physical spaces we inhabit, and our family or community. These spaces can be grounding or anxiety-producing, they make us feel connected or deepen our sense of isolation. Deep, a black and white photograph by Kadi Vail (2021) gives a direct insight into the individual experience of young parenthood by portraying a pregnant body in the vulnerable and soothing space of a bath. By physically prompting and forcing the viewer to assume an intimate and voyeuristic look into people’s homes, Lyn Corelle’s Single Family Homes in the Year 3030? (2020-2023) reflects upon the myriad ways that ‘home’ both comforts and constricts. While the digital chapbook of poems, Poems from ~artifact lattice~ (2023) by Madeeha Lamoreaux evokes both images of individual longing and communal sorrow, the collage series Creation in Chaos, 2021, was created by artist Kieu My Truong during peak pandemic times, as an attempt “to escape cabin fever while the world was burning” and cope with these deeps feelings of isolation.

The show has been made possible by Emily Dzieweczynski, Chris Larson, Second Shift Studio, Jocelyn Figueroa, Cameron Downey, and Zoe Cinel. Exhibition statement by Zoe Cinel.

Join us for Conversations about Care with current Resident Artist Zoe Cinel on December 9, 6:30–9 pm!

Come as you are for a community chat/tea time and share what CARE means to you, what forms of care you see happening in your community and how to extend these practices to our society. The liberating, empowering words of queer, BIPOC disability activists, chronically ill artists, and revolutionary healthcare practitioners, will be our conversation starters to discuss intersectionality, forms of resistance to capitalism and ableism, and radical interdependence. 

There will be tea and snacks, heating pads, and comfy seating for tired bodies. Masking is encouraged as a form of allyship to immunocompromised folks. No pre-reading is expected to attend this event, just an interest in sharing and listening. The conversation will be led by Zoe Cinel.

Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from a Mediterranean country whose work builds community around human experiences that are isolating and complex to navigate, such as immigration and chronic pain. Starting from her journey as a patient and a migrant and collaborating with artists or with specialists in fields such as medicine and urban design, with the ultimate goal to produce social change. Cinel received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artistic and curatorial work has been at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, and the Rochester Art Center. Cinel is a 2022-23 resident artist at Second Shift Studio Space and a member of the artistic collective CarryOn Homes. 

Join us for Conversations about Care with current Resident Artist Zoe Cinel on November 10, 6:30–8 pm!

Come as you are for a community chat/tea time and share what CARE means to you, what forms of care you see happening in your community and how to extend these practices to our society. The liberating, empowering words of queer, BIPOC disability activists, chronically ill artists, and revolutionary healthcare practitioners, will be our conversation starters to discuss intersectionality, forms of resistance to capitalism and ableism, and radical interdependence. 

There will be tea and snacks, heating pads, and comfy seating for tired bodies. Masking is encouraged as a form of allyship to immunocompromised folks. No pre-reading is expected to attend this event, just an interest in sharing and listening. The conversation will be led by Zoe Cinel.

Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from a Mediterranean country whose work builds community around human experiences that are isolating and complex to navigate, such as immigration and chronic pain. Starting from her journey as a patient and a migrant and collaborating with artists or with specialists in fields such as medicine and urban design, with the ultimate goal to produce social change. Cinel received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artistic and curatorial work has been at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, and the Rochester Art Center. Cinel is a 2022-23 resident artist at Second Shift Studio Space and a member of the artistic collective CarryOn Homes. 

Join us for our next Art Soup on Friday, October 14, 7–9 pm! This event is part of Twin Cities Art Week, a celebration of the vibrant local contemporary art scene in 23 venues across Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Art Soup is a public opportunity to hear from Second Shift’s current resident or exhibiting artists—and eat soup! All are welcome and the event is free, though donations are encouraged. 

This month’s Art Soup is part of Twin Cities Art Week and will feature Second Shift’s current Resident Artists. The event will involve a casual conversation with dinner and snacks.

UPDATED DATE

On July 29 at 7 pm, we invite you to a conversation with Rania Ho and Wang Wei, founders of the alternative contemporary arts space Arrow Factory. They will discuss their work with Arrow Factory and beyond.

Located in a small hutong alley in Beijing’s city center, Arrow Factory reclaimed an existing storefront and transformed it into a space for site-specific installations designed to be viewed from the street twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Arrow Factory was contingent upon its immediate environment, presenting works that formed meaningful responses to the diverse conditions of its given locality. In 2019, after more than a decade of mounting fifty-nine site oriented artistic displays, collaborations, and experimentations by local and international artists, Arrow Factory was compelled to close. 
Learn more about Arrow Factory here.

Join us as we celebrate the end of our 2021-22 Resident Artists’ time with Second Shift!

Not Going Anywhere is a closing exhibition featuring the work of 2021-22 Resident Artists Constanza Carballo, Peaches Galilee, Mary Jane Mansfield, and Roshan Ganu. The exhibition will feature installations, work for sale, open studios, and block printing. The reception will be held on Saturday, June 25, 4–7 pm at Second Shift Studio Space in St. Paul.

Join us for Art Soup with Resident Artist Roshan Ganu on June 7, at 7 pm!

Art Soup is a public opportunity to hear from Second Shift’s current exhibiting artists—and eat soup! All are welcome and the event is free, though donations are encouraged. 

This month’s Art Soup will be with current Resident Artist Roshan Ganu. Ganu will discuss her new exhibition, चांदोबा : A Trip Into The Moon, on view at Second Shift Studio beginning May 21.

About चांदोबा : A Trip Into The Moon:

Resident Artist Roshan Ganu’s exhibition ‘चांदोबा : A Trip Into The Moon’ opens May 21, 2022. The exhibition will include new video work and installations by Ganu, created during the past year at the residency.

चांदोबा’, pronounced Chandoba, is an affectionate way of addressing the Moon in Marathi, mainly present in a popular nursery rhyme ‘चांदोबा चांदोबा भागलास का?’ (Dear Moon, have you run away?)

“The Moon reflects light, is a symbol of routine, of being grounded and somebody I can depend on. Chandoba is hope and it has been a mesmerizing presence and a grounding force during times of isolation as a foreigner during the Minnesotan Winter, in times before and during the pandemic.”

–Roshan Ganu

Join us for Art Soup with Resident Artist Galilee Peaches!

Art Soup is a public opportunity to hear from Second Shift’s current exhibiting artists—and eat soup! All are welcome and the event is free, though donations are encouraged. 

This month’s Art Soup will be with current Resident Artist Galilee Peaches. Peaches will discuss her new exhibition, Mountain Theatre, now on view at Second Shift Studio.

About Mountain Theatre

In this new exhibition, Galilee Peaches considers the subtle and abstract theatrics of our daily life. The works reflect and mimic each other as themes and gestures are repeated and developed across media. Each image and sculpture lingers on the implication and sensation of touch. Mountain Theatre is not a destination. It is a suggestion, an imagined place, a distant stage.

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 5, 1–10 pm at Second Shift Studio!

This event will be organized by current Resident Artist Constanza Carballo and will integrate visual art, storytelling, and music that centers on the theme, Our Shared Breath; Moves Us Forward. 

During this event, we will celebrate, uplift, and support women and anyone who identifies as such through a variety of workshops, performances, and artist talks. Some highlights of the event include a musical performance by local musician Lady Midnight and a storytelling workshop hosted by Resident Artist Roshan Ganu. Additionally, the Second Shift gallery space will be curated with art from other local women visual artists to help promote their work.  

All are welcome to join as we commemorate, connect, and take action in our community.

1 PM Artist talk with Casandra Williams-Sims, Visual Mixed-Media Artist

2 PM Performance by Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue

3 PM Curatividad with Zamara Cuyun, Claudia Valentino, and Constanza Carballo

4 PM Storytelling with Roshan Ganu

8 PM Musical performance with Lady Midnight

9 PM Salsa dancing

Update: This event will now be hosted virtually via Facebook Live. Visit Second Shift Studio’s Facebook to learn more and attend the live stream.

Join us for Art Soup with Mary Jane Mansfield!

Art Soup is a public opportunity to hear from Second Shift’s current exhibiting artists—and eat soup! All are welcome and the event is free, though donations are encouraged. 

This month’s Art Soup will be with current resident artist Mary Jane Mansfield. Mansfield will discuss her new exhibition, Parallel Universe, now on view at Second Shift Studio.