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Foot In The Door Update | Video
Meet some of the artists who submitted work for Foot in the Door 4, the once-a-decade wide-open exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The number of artists was unprecedented, as the registration line wound around the rotunda and out the door February 4 through 7. Minneapolis Artists Exhibition Program staff and volunteers took in nearly 5,000 works of art by an amazing array of Minnesotans, whose one requirement was that their art fit within a 12-inch cube. Listen to them talk about their experience. Then come to the museum for the exhibition, February 19 through June 13, 2010!
Posted on February 15, 2010
ARTIST | MARTIN NELSON
I am a mixed media and sculptural artist working with a variety of materials between my two mediums. I use acrylic, graphite, printing ink and techniques, and found materials, including a mixture of different images in a collage type of manor on both paper and canvas. My sculptural work uses mainly clay and found materials, which consist of both natural and man made objects. My artwork has an abstract quality, with distinguishable layers of reality, emotion, and obscurity mixed throughout. I am interested in topics relating to history and current events, science, culture, and the environment. My artwork tries to analyze these topics both within their own states as well as through the relationship that human nature plays while interacting with each one. I enjoy the process of collecting, discovering, and creating through the ideas and various imagery that surrounds me, and I hope that my artwork comes across as interesting, challenging, and thought provoking in the end.
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