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MCAD/McKnight Artists 2007/08 features new work by Stacey Davidson, Andrea Carlson, Megan Vossler and Amy DiGennaro, recipients of the 2007-08 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Visual Artists. This prestigious award is bestowed annually upon Minnesota artists who have an established record of artistic success. View a gallery of some of the works featured in the exhibition.

Excerpts from the McKnight catalog essays by Lauren O'Neill Butler:

"[Stacey] Davidson judiciously arranges [her] dolls in various scenarios and positions in her studio and then paints them, as if to enliven the inanimate. The upshot is an expressively wide-ranging--if slippery--topography of emotions and narratives ..."

"Many of Andrea Carlson's paintings parse the symbolic meaning of stories and cultural objects with a sharp post-colonial critique. Accordingly, her work underscores issues of acculturation, assimilation, and most intriguingly, cannibalism. ... "

"Although she often uses such disparate sources as The New York Times and the United States Army Web site for source material, [Megan] Vossler depicts fear, migration, and terrorism as isolated, distant, and numbing. ..."

"[Amy] DiGennaro's intricate drawings weave a surplus of celebrated and unfamiliar narratives: from ancient Greek cults to French 17th-century fairytales to Christian hagiography. Her drawings blend fact and fiction, scientific and social diagrams ..."

This exhibition is free and open to the public. Click for gallery hours and directions to campus.