Minnesota Peregrinations

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Voyage features the mixed media sculptural work of Chilean-born artist Alonso Sierralta, Minneapolis.  Regarding the exhibition, guest curator William G. Franklin, Saint Paul, has said, “Few sculptors succeed in making their craftsmanship and aesthetic philosophies effective enigmatic personal and universal narratives. 

Location

The Gordon Parks Gallery is located in the Library and Learning Center on the St. Paul Campus at 645 East Seventh Street.

Gallery Hours

Monday - Thursday 11 AM - 7 PM
Friday - closed during summer
Saturday 11 AM - 4 PM

Sierralta’s constructions are assembled as if organic forms serve to voice deep existential ideas about man’s physical and spiritual condition.  Sierralta’s implementation of varied media and scale in his work can been seen as a poetic struggle from which three-dimensional revelations are born.  He is an artist distinctly capable of converting sensations into forms, of achieving transmutation.  The selected eleven pieces in this show are some of Sierralta’s finest artistic deliberations, a great opportunity for The Gordon Parks Gallery visitors to experience some of his sculptures in conversation with each other.”

In addition to the exhibition, the artist will deliver a slide lecture in the Ecolab Community Room (adjacent to the gallery) on Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 7–8 p.m.  In this presentation, Sierralta will discuss the conceptual underpinnings and methodology of his sculptural practice.  A short film by Franklin regarding Sierralta’s work will be screened as well.