Rumriver Art Center in Anoka will open a pair of new gallery shows on Saturday, July 13, both running through Aug. 3.
Visions of the World
The Jan Johansen Gallery of Rumriver Art Center is presenting “Visions of the World,” a new gallery show by artist Larry Weinberg, with the show’s opening on July 13 from 2-4 p.m. This exhibition focuses on Weinberg’s artistic immersion into locations he has traveled to throughout his lifetime. The series of paintings in “Visions of the World” draw from landscapes of Andalusia, Spain, underwater paintings from Isla Mujeres, and harbor life from Margot, St. Martin. Weinberg’s artwork focuses on how process creates the vision of the environment. His work captures the world through the influence of light, sounds, smells and textures of the environment.
Weinberg has been a working artist for his entire life, working in the corporate world for over 30 years, throughout which he still created art, but it left him unfulfilled. In 2009, Susan Yee and Weinberg started the Rumriver Art Center, growing the art center from 500 square feet to over 10,000 square feet, serving over 12,000 participants a year. He enjoyed sharing his passion for art and the art-making process with kids to older adults. He recently stepped down as the executive director to focus on his art-making process.
Weinberg studied under George Morrison, David Feinberg, Raymond Hendler, Tom Busa and others at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970s. These artists helped shape his art-making process. Weinberg has been in solo and group shows and was included in MIA 2020 “Foot in the Door;” and the 2022 “Undersea World of Larry Weinberg.”
On Saturday, July 27, at 11 a.m., Weinberg will hold an artist talk, along with a demo and workshop. One of his artistic goals is to share his art-making process with local artists through workshops. He discusses how to immerse yourself into an environment using sketches and reference materials as a starting point and creating a schedule of painting/sketching every day.
The public is invited to visit the gallery to meet Weinberg on Wednesdays, July 17, 24 and 31, as well as Saturday, Aug. 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Spiritus
Rumriver Art Center will present the opening of the new gallery show titled “Spiritus” in the 21 Step Gallery (2665 Fourth Ave., Suite 201) on Saturday, July 13, from 2-4 p.m. The gallery show will feature watercolor paintings by Jerry Jorgenrud. Jorgenrud will be hosting an artist talk on Saturday, July 27, from 10-11 a.m., where he will discuss his life as an artist and his creative process. These events are free and open to the public.
Jorgenrud lives in Oak Grove with his wife, Angie Renee, and Frankie the dog.
Jorgenrud has been drawing and painting for all his life.
“My grandfather had me ‘paint’ his house with water and a brush,” he said. “I usually work on watercolor paper with watercolor pigment. My artwork is about point: an individual detail or purpose. Line: an action or long natural mark. Movement: an organized objective and the division of the composition. With these three things I can create many different compositions.”
The title of the show is “Spiritus”: a breath of fresh air, a breath of life, spirit, soul, mind, inspiration, courage and pride. It holds the principals of conscious life. It is the vital principal in humans. It is a calling, not a career.
When Jorgenrud starts a piece of artwork, he said: “I notice the parts that seem to assemble themselves in a coherent way. I think that these ‘parts’ are messages from the collective unconscious.”
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