Waiting Room

07/18/2022

New show opening this weekend!

Join us in the backyard of 1900 Columbus Avenue on Saturday, July 23rd from 5-8pm in celebration of “Muckout,” a group show guest curated by Mike Curran.

If you can’t make it to the opening stop by on any Saturday or Sunday from 12-5pm or schedule a weekday appointment. The show will run until August 21st.

Opening reception info:
Saturday, July 23rd 2022
5-8pm
1900 Columbus Avenue
Directions upon arrival: follow driveway into backyard.

Head to Midway Contemporary Art after 8pm for the final screening of films made by Wyatt Lasky and Jonathon Rosemond!

Graphic designed by Tom Gaasedelen.

03/09/2022

Waiting Room's current location at 1900 Columbus. I am getting excited for our upcoming season of programming! Our first show will be entirely site specific as the artists will take residence within the space. Waiting Room is in continual support of artists seeking to create new work. Consider it a homeroom residency! Next up will be announcing dates for shows. It will be summer before we know it!

01/25/2022

Kristina M Johnson Winter Carnival Art Exhibition will be on view starting this Saturday and up until next Saturday, at the George Latimer Central Public Library. The exhibition takes place in the Otto Bremer Room located opposite of the Library entrance. Stop by anytime from 10:30-5pm! Click link for more info.

Winter Carnival family heirlooms and work by artist Kristina Johnson will be on display in the Otto Bremer Room and Welcome Center. This is an official event of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. Celebrated for over 130 years, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival is one of our nation’s oldest and greatest ...

01/25/2021

Today we are celebrating the opening of Sarah Nicole Knutson's solo show, Hold You, a series of abstract minimalist paintings made over the last year.

Check it out on our website!

Sarah Nicole Hold You January 25th, 2021-Feb 11th, 2021 Waiting Room presents a digital exhibition of Sarah Nicole’s paintings, a...

06/06/2020

A strange time to experience remnants of the artworld we once knew but WR was lucky to have Sheila Regan stop by, who in turn wrote a lovely article chosen as a Critic’s Pick on Art Forum’s website.

Sam Dirck’s small painting Untitled (all works cited, 2020) evokes a glam pop portrait, a visage of Ziggy Stardust sheen dappled with crude globs of red, yellow, and blue paint. A warped checker pattern defines the area where the forehead and eyes might be, and glorious thin pink lips sit below. T...

05/07/2020

Apply to be in our sister gallery's virtual Open Call today through June 1st, 2020 (deadline 11:59 pm)! Backroom is seeking artists, makers, collaborative teams, and curators to pave the future of our community! Backroom looks to empower and uphold creative agency with their participants, so what are you waiting for?! No experience is necessary to apply. Check out backroom's website for more details on how you can enter. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

04/30/2020

Waiting Room's location is temporarily closed to the public to preserve safety but we are still virtually showing Boredom Fantasy Mimesis. Check out our website for high quality images of the artworks in the show.

https://waitingroomart.com/

A short overview:

Positioning himself with a set of conditions and moments in an abstract narrative, Sam Dirck tempers chance and intention to generate varying expressions of surface texture on which the body or land is inferred, and the unconscious made perceptible.

The possibilities of layered paint and plaster casting in his first solo show, Boredom Fantasy Mimesis, oozes with Dirck's distinctive vocabulary of expression. A nod to a his dedicated exploration of the dimensional grid, his marks take on sweeping, continuous linearities in compositions, while other works emphasize traditional hard-edge and dimensional painting.

Boredom Fantasy Mimesis is a collection of work that pushes to occupy the space between the pictoriality of painting and the spatiality of sculpture; merging the two with elements of abstract design. This show exudes with playful interjections found imbedded in the inherent rhythms of mark, gesture, color and symbol. Each piece is rooted in the familiar but infiltrated by a carnal use of “play,” an utterly interpreted—nonprescriptive—element to the work.

03/16/2020

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03/07/2020

Katie Garrett’s enthusiasm for art in the Twin Cities is inspiring and contagious! Truly, we see that in everyone working over at mplsart 💕 thank you Katie for your continual support in promoting our community!

Katie Garrett is passionate about the local arts scene and promoting all things Minneapolis. She’s co-owner of MPLSART.COM, a website devoted to spotlighting the best in the local visual arts scene. Read about her at minneapolismn.gov/WeAreMpls

02/14/2020

Waiting Room is now living in Lowertown, Saint Paul! Our new location has allowed us to open up an intimate showcase vault called backroom, where we display three pieces from an artist, curator, or collaborative team!

Currently backroom is showcasing the artist August Schultz (they/them). August is a Minneapolis photographer turned printmaker. They reference historically q***r methods of cruising, coding oneself, and disseminating information through printing on lightweight paper, clothing items, and handkerchiefs.

We would appreciate it if you head on over to backroom and gave it a like! We want to promote artwork from artists you wouldn't normally find at the galleries or institution here in the cities. This platform runs on uplifting the voices of the community that are often left unheard. With your support we can help empower these artists!

Thank you everyone. We look forward to introducing you to a calvary of the latest personalities.

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