Future Tense is pleased to present:
Captured Moments: A Beautiful Liberia
Come join us for Captured Moments: A Beautiful Liberia, where we celebrate the beauty and culture of Liberia through photography
Opening reception
Thursday, April 25 · 2 - 5pm CDT
The California Building @ Future Tense Gallery, Suite 310
2250 California Street Northeast Minneapolis, MN 55418
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Captured Moments: A Beautiful Liberia
Come join us at the Future Tense Gallery to celebrate the beauty and culture of war-torn Liberia through the eyes of photo journalist Nete. Immerse yourself in the rich culture, stunning landscapes, and vibrant people of this beautiful country. This exhibition will transport you to the heart of Liberia. Don't miss this opportunity to experience Captured Moments: A Beautiful Liberia in person!
Photo by Nete
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to partner with Madison Rubenstein and invite you to Too Much, Rubenstein’s first solo exhibition. The work Rubenstein (she/zey) has curated includes new paintings never before shown to the public and recent works created from 2021-2022. This body of work explores disability, trauma, epigenetics and Rubenstein’s personal ancestral lineage. Rubenstein says, “Most people who are neurocomplex or disabled have experienced being called ‘too much’. We worry we are ‘too much’ for our loved ones, or experience life believing that we feel and want ‘too much’”.
Rubenstein explores how these experiences also intersect with their Jewish lineage and being socialized female, and how this makes their experience of the world feel more complex. In their new paintings, Rubenstein depicts a chaotic emotional and psychological landscape by referencing contorted, distorted, abstracted and repeated renderings of their own physical body. Many of the figures are intentionally rendered as fragmented, fractured, ghost-like and unfinished, or are reduced to lumpy, flesh-like blobs. Rubenstein brings in intensely saturated and serotonin-promoting colors to shift the narrative of these lived experiences and to view them from a spiritual lens.
“The act of incorporating joy and pleasure into the paintings
through the playful use of texture and vibrant color
feels like a necessary act in the process of rejecting the concept of being ‘too much’
and instead allows for the embracing of the complexities, unknowns, and spiritual experiences
that take place within and beyond our physical bodies”.
Madison Rubenstein
Too Much
PAINTINGS BY
MADISON RUBENSTEIN
ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 9TH - SEPTEMBER 23RD
OPENING RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 9TH - 12-4PM
FUTURE TENSE GALLERY | GALLERY 310
CALIFORNIA BUILDING
2205 CALIFORNIA STREET NE
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55418
Contact Madison Rubenstein for viewing appointments and sales
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
Art in the Healing Environment Exhibition Program
Opening Reception and Celebration
On Thursday, October 13th from 4-7pm, Future Tense Gallery is pleased to invite one and all to a reception in the lovely California Building to view an awesome show and to acknowledge and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a beautiful exhibition program in our city!
Mill City Clinic Gallery ~ a film by Ryan Stopera
The Art in the Healing Environment Exhibition Program was started by curator and artist Donna Bruni ten years ago in partnership with UM Physicians and it is thriving today due to her continued commitment to excellence and the spirited collaboration with the Mill City Clinic’s visionary director Dr. Jon Hallberg.
Please join me as we celebrate the careers of these fine artists whose works have been showcased in the Art in the Healing Environment Exhibition Program:
Doug Johnson (Photography)
Annie Hejny (Mixed-media painting)
Bonnie Cutts (Mixed media painting)
Jon Neuse (Mixed media, painting)
Loretta Bebeau (Mixed media, painting)
Jodi Reeb (Wall sculpture)
Brenda Litman (Mixed media, painting)
Steve Hemingway (Pottery, ceramics)
Judith Yourman (Sculpture)
Eyenga Bokamba (Mixed media, painting)
Donna Bruni Donna Bruni (Painting)
Art in the Healing Environment
Celebration Showcase
Future Tense Gallery
California Building| Suite 310
On view October 13 - 21, 2022
Currently on view through the Art in the Healing Environment Exhibition Program at Mill City Clinic: Holding Space for Possibility featuring Eyenga Bokamba|Paintings and Judith Yourman|Sculptures. Show extended until November 18th. Meanwhile, please join us next Thursday to celebrate this amazing milestone with a commemorative group show and a film by Ryan Stopera.
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
Artisti dalla Future Tense Gallery
Museo Camus, Chiesa di Sant’Antonio
Breno, Brescia, Italy
Group show of works created at the Rural Residency for Contemporary Art
July 22 - 24, 2022
Eyenga Bokamba in Breno, Brescia, Italy (2022)
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
Omphalos
Solo exhibition of new work by
Elizabeth Garvey
Opening Reception on Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Future Tense Gallery
California Building
2205 California Street NE Suite 310
Minneapolis, MN 55418
Omphalos is a word from the Ancient Greek meaning navel or, in more common usage, belly button. It also refers to a sacred stone in Delphi, Greece marking the mythical center of the world. This new body of work examines the center as a physical and symbolic place of origin, connection, and loss through sculptures that incorporate everything from casts of belly buttons to raw potatoes.
Public hours:
Saturday, October 12, 11-4
Friday, November 1, 5-10
Saturday, November 2, 12-8
Sunday, November 3, 12-5
Saturday, November 9, 11-4
All public hours are in conjunction with California Building open studio events.
Other hours by appointment. Contact Elizabeth Garvey at elizgarvey@gmail.com.
Eyenga Bokamba, Bascio Tower Installation
September 2018, Pennabilli, Italy
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
“Blues for Bascio”
a solo show of paintings created by Eyenga Bokamba in Pennabilli, Italy
On view November 2-December 4, 2018
Opening preview:
Friday, November 2, 6-10pm
Artist presentation:
Saturday, November 3, 6:30pm
Future Tense Gallery, Suite 310
2205 California Street NE, Minneapolis
For more information:
bokamba2024@gmail.com or 612-219-4558
California Dreamin’ @ the Historic California Building
2205 California Street NE
Friday, November 2, 5-10pm
Saturday, November 3, 12-8pm
Sunday, November 4, 12-5pm
http://californiabuilding.com/
Future Tense Gallery is pleased to present
“Close”
a solo show of extraordinary work by Chloe Briggs.
August 6 - September 10, 2018
Opening preview:
Friday, August 10, 6-9pm
Future Tense Gallery, Suite 310
For more information, contact:
Chloe Briggs
763.202.1363