The Grand Marais Art Colony is hosting Liminal Space: Lynn Speaker Solo Exhibition from January 9 to February 1 at the Art Colony’s studio in Grand Marais. This acrylic monoprint on Sekishu paper entitled Floating is an example of Speaker’s mixed media works.
The Grand Marais Art Colony will present Liminal Space: Lynn Speaker Solo Exhibition from Jan. 9 through Feb. 1 at the Art Colony’s studio at 127 W. Third Ave.
Speaker is a 2014 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This exhibition features work created during the course of the grant period.
Liminal space refers to a transitional state, standing on the threshold of moving from one place to another. It is an ambiguous position that may not have a defined end point. It is an in-between space, an initial stage of a process that is neither one thing nor another.
The main goal of the 2014 grant was to create exploratory, process based work that would lead in new directions. The exhibited paintings, drawings, and sculptures are not necessarily fully formed articulations. They are a record of investigations that embrace uncertainty and transition. The work is informed by the North Shore landscape and what Speaker found around her— stones, bones, plants, trees, animals. What Speaker finds and what she looks for are ultimately remnants of place, time, memory, and experience.
The exhibition begins with an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Art Colony.
Lynn Speaker is a mixed media artist based in Minneapolis. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and is a recipient of a 2007 and 2014 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.
For more information contact the Art Colony at (218) 387-2737.
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