Second Shift Curatorial Projects presents LOOK, an 8 artist exhibition of work engaged with non-representational, non-objective, and experimental forms. Curated by Chris Larson.
Opening reception: Friday, December 20, 6-9 pm
Ella Leidy
Day Marvel
Hannah Lee Hall
Kelsey Bosch
Mara Duvra
Melanie Pankau
Rachel Collier
Sophia Chai
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.
Closing reception: September 28, 5–7 pm.
Gallery hours:
October 4, 3–7 pm
October 5, 11 am–5 pm
October 6, 1 pm–5 pm
Pictured: "NDN Time" by Tamara Aupaumut
Join us as we welcome our new Resident Artists at this year’s Open House! The exhibition will feature the work of Alondra M. Garza, Tamara Aupaumut, Vernon Vandermood, and Yasmin Yassin. Visitors will have a chance to meet the artists and tour the studio spaces.
Join us for Embodied Material 2, an exhibition hosted by a collective of queer textile artists in the Twin Cities.
Opening reception: July 27, 6–8 pm (Masks required)
Gallery hours: August 3, 10, & 17, 1-4 pm
Exhibition Statement
Embodied Material is a collective of queer textile artists in the Twin Cities that meet regularly to discuss the intersection of queer & textile theory. Together, they dissect complicated ideas, examining what inspires, confuses, and stirs them. This exhibition is shaped by their year discussing a variety of texts and how they make them feel in relation to identities as queer artists. By reading in community together, they cultivate shared knowledge and understanding of embodying queerness through craft.
Lizz Caicedo
Jessica Kitzman
Riley Kleve
Heather Mackenzie
Arnée Martin
Drew Maude-Griffen
Sophia Munic
Merit Thursday
Kelly Wilson
This year, the group read the following texts:
Theory as Liberatory Practice - bell hooks
Queer Use from “What’s the use?” - Sara Ahmed
Sick Woman Theory - Johanna Hedva,
Connected by Threads: How generations of disabled women artists have found a voice through textiles - Gil Crawshaw
The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice, pub. in Depression, a Public Feeling - Ann Cvetkovich,
Glorifying my rest interview with Naiomi Glasses & Seventh Generation Weaver from This Long Thread - Cheyenne Harper
Touching The Art - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Join us for the opening of the 2023-24 Resident Artist Closing Exhibition, on July 17, 6–8 pm!
Come celebrate the closing of the 2023-24 Residency at Second Shift Studio! On display will be works by 2023-24 Resident Artists Anna Lehner, Ivonne Yáñez, Jaida Grey Eagle, and Dahn Gim.
Join us for the opening of ¡Algarabía! on June 15, 6–8 pm!
¡Algarabía! is an exhibition that showcases the works of Resident Artist Ivonne Yáñez, a multidisciplinary artist influenced by the game and symbolism of the Mexican Lottery. Ivonne has dedicated her studio practice to examining the symbolism of the lottery and its relationship with the Tarot. "Algarabía" is a colloquial term in Spanish used to describe a confusing clamor of multiple people speaking at once. In this way, Ivonne describes the variety of textures and saturation of color that she explores in her practice.
Join us for neither this / nor that, a two-person exhibition featuring works by current Resident Artists Dahn Gim and Anna Lehner. An opening reception will be held on May 11, 6–8 pm.
Opening reception: Saturday, May 11, 6–8 pm
Art Soup: Wednesday, May 15, 6–8 pm
neither this / nor that is a two-person exhibition featuring works by Dahn Gim and Anna Lehner. Akin to a sketchbook page woven with dialogues of shared experience and exploring phase change through various materials as a metaphor for transient states of being. Gim’s artistic journey is deeply personal, influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a 'forever foreigner.' While her work navigates the complexities of hybrid identity, assimilation, and dislocation, Lehner’s work delves into the intersection of geological phenomena and human experiences, creating a dialogue between human temporality and the vast timescales of the Earth's geological processes.
Together, their work underscores the common interest in locating the fluid nature of things in between grappling with issues of displacement and idiopathic pain summarizing their shared dialogue, space, and time during their residency at Second Shift. It's about place and placelessness, not one thing nor another, neither here nor there, but occurring simultaneously.
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.
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
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 the opening of the Second Shift Studio Resident Artist Group Exhibition!
June 24–September 16
Opening reception August 4, 6–8 pm
Second Shift Studio’s Resident Group Exhibition is part of the Wakpa Triennial Arts Festival and features the work of the studio’s 2022-23 Resident Artists, Cameron Patricia Downey, Stephanie Lindquist, and Zoe Cinel. Demonstrating a network of mutuality, this exhibition explores the work created during the artists’ residency at Second Shift Studio, where they have spent the past year working, making, and thinking alongside each other.
CAMERON PATRICIA DOWNEY (SHE/THEY)
Cameron Downey (b. 1998) is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, Minnesota whose work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation and otherwise. Seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious and the misremembered, their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Downey’s art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Engage Projects, Chicago; as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (forthcoming).
STEPHANIE A. LINDQUIST (SHE/HER)
Stephanie Lindquist is a visual artist and cultural producer from Los Angeles. Her work is rooted in experimentation and research particularly in relationship with plants, history, and materiality. Lindquist received her BA in Visual and Urban Studies from Columbia University in 2009 and MFA in Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice from the University of Minnesota in 2022. Her work has been exhibited throughout New York City and more recently in the Midwest. She looks forward to participating in a forthcoming ecological exhibition at the Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College in summer/fall 2023. Stephanie is presently an Artist-in-Residence at Second Shift Studios and Macalester College where she is thinking and feeling through her relationship with the Mississippi River among activists, artists, humanities scholars, and scientists.
ZOE CINEL (SHE/THEY)
Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Italy 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 an immigrant and collaborating with other artists and community members, Zoe’s work’s ultimate goal is to connect and 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 shown in institutions such as the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, St Paul, and the Rochester Art Center. Since 2017, she has been a member of the CarryOn Homes, an artistic collective dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in MN.
Join us for Less Is Enough, a solo exhibition by current resident artist Zoe Cinel!
Opening reception: May 17, 6-9 pm
Art soup + artist talk: May 26, 5:30-7:30 pm
Conversations about care: June 10, 10.30 am-12 pm. This is a small size-event, therefore registration is required. To register, email zoe.cinel@gmail.com by June 5.
Show runs from May 17 to June 12. The gallery is closed to the public. If you wish to visit the show, email zoe.cinel@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.
Less is Enough is a solo exhibition of new artworks created by Zoe Cinel during the year-long residency at Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul. Through a multidisciplinary approach to artmaking, Cinel explores chronic illness, care, and softness both from an individual and communal point of view.
Hysteria, 2020
Our Garden Remains, 2022
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.
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.
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.
You’re on mute. You froze. You’re cutting out. My connection is unstable. This feels secure. There’s a lot of space between us. I want to understand the space between us. I want to know what it means to be with you. I want to know what you think it means to be alive. What it means to live with each other, now.
I want to know—who do you hope to be to each other?
The pandemic changed the ways in which we interact with and perceive one another. It reduced visceral sensory stimuli to pixels, altered experiences of space and time, and abstracted us in data. Some of us found solace in the screen, others found digitized dissonance.
i sat in the zoom room and wondered what you smell like is a multimedia installation. Using sound and vibrations as input, code visualizes you in space. As you interact, your presence is mapped across time—creating a web of reduced, pixelated interactions.
Emily Dzieweczynski is a new media artist, science communicator, writer, and studio manager at Second Shift. Their work questions the intersection of science, art, and technology—with a particular interest in how those veins cross at the concept of empathy. Their work takes the form of drawing, printmaking, writing, and new media; including code, virtual reality, 3D modeling, web-based media, sound, and video.
Shawty Ensemble is a jazz noise group that was only supposed to last for a day. Yet this is their third incarnation as a four piece including Niko Hasapopoulos, Meekialle McGee, Amber DeBellis, and Cara Hagstrom-Skalnek.
Emily Dzieweczynski is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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
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?)
We invite you to the opening reception of Resident Artist Roshan Ganu’s exhibition ‘चांदोबा : A Trip Into The Moon’ on May 21, 2022, between 6–8 pm. New video work by the artist created during the past year at the residency, will be on display.
“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 for Mountain Theatre, a new solo exhibition by current Resident Artist Galilee Peaches!
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.
The opening reception will be at Second Shift Studio on April 16th from 5-8pm. There will be a short performance of improvised music at 6:30 by Michelle Kinney, Ivan Cunningham and Charlie Lincoln.
Gallery hours are by appointment only.
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
Schedule of events
Opening Reception: Friday, January 28, 6–8 pm
Screenings will take place at 6 pm, 6:30 pm, 7 pm, and 7:30 pm.
Weekend gallery hours: 12–5 pm
Weekday gallery hours: 3–7 pm*
*Appointment only Monday
Please note: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test taken within the prior 72 hours is required to attend this event. Masks are required.
Photo by Shervin Lainez
One of the "most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome" (The Washington Post), Molly Joyce's Perspective is an ongoing multimedia project featuring words and stories of disabled interviewees set within a complementary soundscape. Joyce engaged with the Twin Cities' multifaceted disability community, and produced a winter iteration of the project—exploring concepts of darkness, resilience, isolation, restraint, and more. Interviewees included legendary disability activists local to the area: musician Gaelynn Lea; storyteller Kevin Kling; yoga teacher Matthew Sanford; and connections with local disability groups the Self-Advocacy Advisory Committee of The Arc, Dreamland Arts, and Interact Center.
This event is part of The Great Northern Festival
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.
Work, make, give more than you take