The quirky kid at your favorite coffee shop, the cute server that your friends always hit on, the crabby bartender at your nearby dive, the nurse at the clinic with the cold hands… What are these people really like, and what do they do when they aren’t at work? A remarkable number of them are artists, making their living not with art but with their service. How do their jobs affect them as artists? What do they think of their jobs, their employers, and what do they think of YOU?

In Altered Esthetics’ February exhibit The Art of Service, 20 artists examine their work, themselves, and those they serve. An eclectic display of photography, poetry and painting, The Art of Service provides a penetrating look into the service industry.

Please join us for the opening reception on

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 from 7:00 pm – 9:00pm.

 

The Art of Service show features work by the following artists:

   
Matthew Dahl_
_Steven M. Edmundson
   
Robert Klein Engler_
_Margaret M. Gamache
       
Travis Halverson_
_Kara Hendershot
   
Adam Knott_
_Tracey Levine
   
Michael Mason_
_Ron Merchant
   
Kerri Mulcare_
_Corinne Nelson
   
Dorothy Joan Riley_
_Justin James Sehorn
   
David Alan Sisk_
_Tonja Torgerson
   
Michael Harlan Turkell_
_(images from the show)
   
   
Lucas Schulze – Assistant Curator
Jamie Schumacher- Curator

 

Press:

City Pages - A-List Pick

The Pulse of the Twin Cities - Hot Pick

The MN Daily - The True Beauty of Taco Tuesday

 the Art of Service Press Release: (pdf) - (doc)