Peter Beard

American, born January 22, 1938

Peter Beard’s career has brought him into contact with popular, artistic, and literary celebrities of the second half of the 20th century. His jet set milieu, however, has not muted Beard’s passion for the survival of the natural world in the face of ill-considered human interventions. A legendary correspondent, diarist, and raconteur, Beard’s path has intersected with the likes of Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Baroness Karen Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa), fashion models Cheryl Tiegs and Iman, Francis Bacon (see illustration above), Brigitte Bardot, avant garde filmmakers including Jonas Mekas and Jerome HIll, and many others. His work reflects the ethics of an ardent yet skeptical humanist with a wise, gimlet-eyed take on the ambitions and vanity of homo sapiens. Crocodiles, lions, elephants, giraffes, and other members of the wild kingdom are Beard’s true celebrities.

Marilyn Bridges

American, born December 26, 1948

Bridges’ work compares favorably to: Terry Evans; Will Garnett; Emmett Gowin; David Maisel; Edward Steichen’s aerial reconnaissance photographs

Featured Publications

Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes (Aperture, 1986)

The Sacred & Secular: A Decade of Aerial Photography (ICP, 1990)

Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through a Timeless Land (Aperture, 1991)

Egypt: Antiquities from Above (Little, Brown & Co., 1996)

This Land is Your Land: Across America by Air (Aperture, 1997)

Flights Through Time (Lodima Press, 2007)

I love to tell stories with my photos; to suggest a journey, dark, magical and full of possibilities. I love the contrast between life and death, dark and light and strive to show the beauty and tension between the two. I have always been inspired by dreams; the fantastical feeling of being in another world, how the impossible becomes possible, how forms morph and change and how universal laws such as gravity do not exist. With my photographs I hope to capture the surreal feeling of a dream and transport the viewer to another world full of imagination.

—Amy Ballinger

The artist’s web site

Gallery 427 is located in the Northrup King building in NE Minneapolis. It will be open on two Saturdays, September 22 and September 29, from noon to 4pm. There will be a closing reception on Thursday, October 4, from 6 to 9pm

This exhibition, carried out to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Minnesota, includes sixty portraits by Xavier Tavera reflecting the sixty departments within CLA. As Tavera notes (in this video made the afternoon of the opening reception on September 13), the portraits highlight the “importance of the collective” in scores of collaborations undertaken over a two-year period.

CLA Press Release about the project and exhibition

(It's a busy month for Melissa Borman.)

Borman created the work in this exhibit after a serious injury significantly limited her mobility for a long period of time. Each piece in the exhibit is inspired by a Forest Service text instructing hikers on what to do if they become lost. (from gallery press release)

RECEPTION: Sept 19, 4-6 p.m.

See the artist's website for more information about the work on exhibition.

Schaefer Art Gallery is located in the Schaefer Fine Arts Building on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota FFI

A Piece of Dust in the Great Sea of Matter

Exhibition of photographs by Melissa Borman runs at Rosalux from September 7 through 30.

These concurrent exhibitions [Borman and painter Shannon Estlund] bring together the artists’ shared interest in investigating our physical relationship to the natural world. In contrast to traditional landscapes in painting and photography that typically feature commanding views and vast overlooks, the images in this exhibition reflect a desire to engage intimately with natural spaces. These photographs and paintings feature obstructed views, unexpected vantage points, and a close investigation of the relationships between environments and the figures that occupy them. (from gallery press release)

Reception Friday, September 7, 7 to 10 p.m.

Press release from Rosalux

melissaborman.com

This photographic series focuses on Marchetti's maternal grandfather, a man he never knew, a man named Paul who met his grandmother during her refugee flight from Hungary at the end of WWII. The work starts from exploration of facts and moves to contemplation of a narrative that remains incomplete.

https://anthonymarchetti.com/section/404883-Paul.html

Johnson Gallery, Bethel University

Clauson Center (CC building)
2nd Floor
3900 Bethel Drive
St. Paul, MN 55112

Maps and directions

Harrison Photography Gallery and Perlman Gallery
Free Exhibition

From its inception in the 1820s, photography has become the most popular medium for artistic expression. Today, photographs are everywhere, whether made with a smartphone or encountered online, at home, in magazines—or here, in an art museum. Photography’s power is undeniable: photographs communicate what words cannot.

This thematically organized exhibition draws from Mia’s vast and varied collection of approximately 12,500 photographs. Together, they form a constellation of photographic visions and practices that extend across numerous places and points in time, revealing a multiplicity of histories, techniques, and perspectives. One of the first art museums in the United States to collect photography—since 1965—Mia continues to expand its collection. This exhibition also showcases many recent acquisitions and promised gifts that provide new connections and insights.

Exhibition organized by Yasufumi Nakamori.