WENDELL ARNESON INTERSECTIONS
January 25 - March 8, 2025
WENDELL ARNESON
Wendell Arneson is a Wisconsin native, earning a BA in studio art from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa and an 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.
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 held by an extensive number of private, corporate, and public collections.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am interested in work that inhabits both objective and non-objective worlds. I am attracted to both gestures and non-descriptive marks as well as the power and ambiguity of symbols and images. Painting and mixed media drawing inhabits a place between the known and the unknown.
The work of this exhibit draws from an inventory of images that make multiple yet varied references that allow for content to shuffle, reinvent, and remake itself. As an image maker, I seek the intersection between figuration and abstraction. Art, for me, does not provide answers but rather provokes questions and seeks possibilities.
This exhibition of abstract paintings and mixed media drawings honor mapping as a conceptual base as well as references to time, place, and memory. The images may honor specific locations while also seeking, through abstraction, multiple layers of entrance and ambiguity for the viewer. The images in both the paintings and the mixed-media drawings are imaginatively less certain and provide a visual journey of transformation. What matters most is a painterly dialogue between image, structure, color, tactile surface, and space. The result evokes a journey of discovery and imagination.
- Wendell Arneson, 2025
Intersection #86 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Autumnal Walk About 2024 | oil on twenty-five panels | $5,600. image: 60 x 60" | frame: 62 x 62"
Intersection: Ginkgo 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,800. image: 20 x 35" | frame: 25 x 40"
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Intersection #75 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #64 2018 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #79 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #77
2023 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #73 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #89 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #84 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #85 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Ginkgo #2
2024 | oil on panel | $600. image: 12 x 12" | frame: 14 x 14"
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Pond Patterns Blue
2024 | oil on canvas | $2,600. image: 40 x 40" | frame: 42 x 42"
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Reflecting the Red Path 2024 | oil on canvas | $3,400. image: 43 x 46" | frame: 45 x 48"
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Intersection #78 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #72 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Intersection #83 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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Ginkgo 2024 | oil on panel | $600. image: 12 x 12" | frame: 14 x 14"
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Maple Markings
2024 | oil on panel | $600. image: 12 x 12" | frame: 14 x 14"
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Intersection #74 2024 | mixed media on paper | $1,200. image: 22 x 22" | frame: 27 x 27"
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