Gallery Opening: Thursday March 31st from 6-9 PM
RUNNER RUNNER GALLERY presents:
El Circo: Portraits by Xavier Tavera & On the Plains: Landscapes by Peter Latner
Runner Runner Gallery is pleased to celebrate this exhibition with an art opening on the evening of Thursday, March 31st from 6-9 PM. Stop by and enjoy a cocktail, some food and great music provided by DJ Walker.
Minneapolis-based photographer Xavier Tavera was born in Mexico City. Tavera is a distinguished photographer whose lens has captured compelling portraits of people from all walks of life, however, he is best known for his nuanced portraits of members of the Latino community. Tavera is a primarily self-taught artist but attended art school for two years in the United States.
Tavera has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Chile and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Weisman Art Museum.
Peter Latner is a photographer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His pictures are about the cultural and geographic face of the American Midwest. His most recent photographs, made on the Great Plains, stem from long-standing interests in American history, geography, landscape and sense of place. Previous projects include small-town life; the changing look of Main Street; the upper Mississippi River valley; suburban landscapes; and Civil War battlefields and re-enactors.
Latner has exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Weisman Museum of Art. He has been awarded a McKnight Photography Fellowship, a Jerome and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Latner’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
This exhibition was curated by Luke Erickson, an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Minneapolis. Curators from The Metropolitan Museum, The Corcoran Gallery, the Rose Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts have selected his photographs for exhibition. Erickson has exhibited at the Duluth Art Institute, Brattleboro Museum of Art, VT, Florence Griswold Museum, CT, T.W. Wood Gallery, VT, and Studio 2 Gallery, Austin, TX. He was awarded an MA in Art History from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a BA in Art History from the University of Redlands.
