Geoff McFetridge, an artist who has done fantastic projects recently with Heath Ceramics and Bushmills, just completed a new mural piece at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. As the Walker notes, "In conjunction with his talk for the 2013 Insights Design Lecture Series, the Walker commissioned McFetridge to create artwork to cover construction fencing during the Walker’s rebricking project."

On view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis until October 27th is a group painting show featuring artists mostly born in the 1970s whose humble approach to abstraction is one of generative process as opposed to the grand gestures that dominate many fields of abstract painting.

In an effort to understad where Purge originates from, we bring you Wikipedia’s definition, “In history, religion, and political science, a purge is the removal of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, from another organization, or from society as a whole.

'Erica Williams is an artist and illustrator from Colorado who currently resides in Minneapolis, MN. She enjoys collecting beautiful images, books, music, and cats (mostly the cats). Her illustrations combine fine art, design, and a love of nature into a subtle and sometimes dark fantasy realm inhabited by creatures and persons from various myth or lore.'

'Erica Williams is an artist and illustrator from Colorado who currently resides in Minneapolis, MN. She enjoys collecting beautiful images, books, music, and cats (mostly the cats). Her illustrations combine fine art, design, and a love of nature into a subtle and sometimes dark fantasy realm inhabited by creatures and persons from various myth or lore. She takes much of her inspiration from gig and movie posters, album art, photography, dystopian movies, and books.'

Greg Gossel, a former featured artist and someone we have been lucky to see show in our homebase of San Francisco quite a few times, is opening a new exhibition, Weathering the Storm, at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis this Saturday, July 28. The show will feature 13 new large-scale works on paper and canvas, built upon a collection of scraps torn off old billboards and street advertisements in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York.

This is a must-see if you are in the Minnesot area. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is currently showing Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints. The exhibition features works, collectively known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” produced during Japan’s Edo period (1600–1868). The exhibition also features contemporary works from artists inspired by the period, including Juxtapoz alumnist, Gajin Fujita.

We wouldn’t ordinarily associate a Celt name like Mike Carney with Dia de los Muertos, but on November 4th his show officially reopens the Minnesota gallery Tarnish and Gold, another seemingly diametrical concept. And that’s the point of Carney’s show Come Together.