WENDELL ARNESON IMAGININGS
March 25 - April 29, 2023
WENDELL ARNESON
Arneson was appointed to the faculty of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1978 where he holds the position as a Professor Emeritus of Art. He maintains an active exhibition schedule, with work represented by Groveland Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Idea Gallery (Egg Harbor, WI) and Moberg Gallery (Des Moines, IA). His work is included in an extensive number of private, corporate, and public collections.
Wendell Arneson is a Wisconsin native. He earned a BA in studio art from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa and a MFA from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Post-graduate studies include classes with Nathan Oliveira and Gregory Amenoff at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I am interested in work that resides in both objective and non-objective worlds. I am equally attracted to gestures and non-descriptive marks as well as the power and ambiguity of symbols and images. Painting inhabits a place between the known and the unknown. My work draws from an inventory of images that make multiple, yet varied references allowing for content to shuffle, reinvent, and remake itself. Art, for me, does not provide answers but rather provokes questions and seeks possibilities. As an image-maker, I am interested in the intersection of figuration and abstraction.
“Land imagery honors a specific location while also seeking, through abstraction, multiple layers of entrance and ambiguity for the viewer. What matters most is to create a painterly dialogue between image, shape, color, tactile surface, and space. The end result, the painting, evokes a journey of discovery and imagining.”
- Wendell Arneson
Gatekeeper #29
2022 | oil on paper | $900.00
image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”
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Spring Creek Illumination
2022 | oil on paper | $900.00
image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”
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Spring Creek Pond
2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 14 x 11" |
frame: 27 x 24”
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Spring Creek Sunset 2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" |
frame: 26 x 24”
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Spring Creek Sunset #2
2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”
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Seasonal Flow
2022 | oil on paper| $1,500.00
image: 26 x 12" | frame: 36 x 21” INQUIRE
Spring Creek Structures
2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" |
frame: 26 x 24”
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Insert 2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”
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Insert #2
2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”
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Gatekeeper #34
2022 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”
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Rise and Fall
2023 | oil on canvas| $3,400.00
image: 43 x 46" | frame: 44 x 47”
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Meadow Markings
2023 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24” INQUIRE
January Map
2023 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 26 x 11" |
frame: 36 x 21”
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Overlooking Dawn 2023 | oil on canvas| $2,800.00 image: 36 x 36" | frame: 37 x 37”
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Gatekeeper #36
2023 | oil on paper| $900.00
image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”
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To purchase artwork please contact: info@grovelandgallery.com or 612-377-7800 25 Groveland Terrace, Minneapolis, MN 55403 | www.grovelandgallery.com