Julie Buffalohead
Bockley Gallery is pleased to begin its 25th season with an exhibition of new work by Julie Buffalohead. In these fantastic tableaux animal and human reality are the same, and in these drawings, she introduces new players in this hermetic world, cartoon characters like Sponge Bob and Snoopy (perhaps a nod to motherhood).
Some drawings are disconcerting and make us smile, others are quite dark, but dark with a purpose like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Her strange world has an incredible internal consistency, though we may not understand its logic, we also don’t doubt it.
September 11 through October 9, 2010
Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch2010, 22.25 x 30 inches
color pencil on paper
Pot Luck
Pot Luck: our annual Summer group exhibit. Artists this year will include: Tom Attridge, Frank Big Bear, Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Glen Hanson, Pat and Gage Kruse, Zoran Mojsilov, Stuart Nielsen, Jim Proctor, John Ratzloff, Dietrich Sieling, Star Wallowing Bull, among many others.
July 17 through August 7, 2010
Please Stand By (Four Points), 2010
22.25 x 30 inches
color pencil on paper
Wendy Red Star
Four Seasons
“I moved to Los Angeles in 2004 from Montana right after I graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman. I was struck by the lack of natural environment in the city of Los Angeles and I was also lonely for home. I decided to go searching for something familiar so I took a trip to the Los Angeles Natural History Museum to look at the Native American section. I saw one of my Crow ancestor’s moccasins on display in a glass case. Seeing my ancestor’s moccasin in the glass case felt very odd and misplaced. I wanted to analyze this feeling further but couldn’t quite piece it together. I walked by the native dioramas and found the same cold quality as the display of my ancestor’s moccasin. I decided to construct my own version of a diorama and convey the way they made me feel. I fabricated four elaborate sets one for each season complete with plastic inflatable woodland creatures and 70’s photo mural mountain ranges. I was photographed wearing my traditional elk tooth dress in the middle of these constructed natural history like dioramas.”
Wendy Red Star
June 9 through June 26, 2010
Spring (Four Seasons), 2006
C-print
Bruce Anderson
Drawings: 1983 - 94
In 1985 the Bockley Gallery opened in the Minneapolis warehouse district with a show by Bruce Anderson, and now 25 years later, once again we feel compelled to show this inventive and powerful work.
Now nearing 65, his body of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, represents some of the finest work done by a Minnesota artist. His commitment to his work is total, burning with a Van Gogh like intensity and like Van Gogh, never quite "fitting in" with his time, though he has been championed by galleries and museum people over the years.
As Doug Hanson wrote in his excellent 2005 essay on Bruce: “But time has a way of making real artists gain in visibility no matter their style or era, as mediocre trend followers fade away, Bruce Anderson will gain in visibility".
May 1 through May 29, 2010
Cat and the Fiddle, 1991
60 x 40 inches
color pencil on paper
David Sollie
America's Sweetheart: A Brief History of the Shackway Corporation
Shackway Corporation is proud to announce a long overdue exhibition focusing on its innovative and trend-setting packaging designs. The show, assembled by Shackway Historical Research Institute director David Sollie, provides an exciting look at some of the peculiar niche marketing strategies employed by the now nearly forgotten company.
From humble beginnings in the shadows of WWII the company grew into a marketing behemoth, dabbling in businesses as diverse as gourmet bomb shelter foods, TV shows for the Australian market, toys made specifically for mean kids and the once popular "Floating Cake Tray," for those of our forbears who wished to enjoy cake in the swimming pool.
March 20 through April 24, 2010
