Kate Casavova & Cameron Gainer at the Nemeth Art Center

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Nemeth Art Center, an oasis for contemporary art located in Park Rapids, Minnesota is hosting exhibits by Kate Casanova & Cameron Gainer from May 5th to July 16th, 2016.  SAVE THE DATE: the opening reception and artist talks will be held on Saturday, June 25th from 5:30 to 7 pm.  Members to the NAC are offered special access to the artists from 4:30 to 5:30 pm that day.  

Kate Casanova describes her new work; "In the exhibition, Entropic Fuzz, digital and physical worlds intersect in a never-ending stream of images and objects. Everything is in a continual process of becoming and erasure; the virtual, the material, the living, the inanimate. The work reflects a fractured and materially excessive landscape that mines the utopian virtual and the nostalgic material. The videos and sculptures both critique and perform the way kitsch functions as an anthropocentric lens for viewing and fetishizing the non-human world".

Casanova is a Minneapolis based artist who explores ideas about nature, the body and the non-human through such mediums as sculpture, video and performance.  Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Le Poisson Rouge in New York, The Beijing Film Academy in China, and the Barbican Museum, London.  Kate is a 2014 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant.  In 2012, she was named visual Artist of the Year by City Pages and featured on MN Original, a Twin Cities Public Television series.  Casanova is currently represented by the Kolman & Pryor Gallery in Minneapolis.  She received an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2013 and BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2008.

Along with the Kate Casanova exhibit, the Nemeth Art Center is privileged to host Minneapolis artist Cameron Gainer. Gainer is a visual artist making work in a diverse range of media.  The work in Cameron's exhibition includes an image of two trees illuminated by a lightning strike photographed at 2am on the North shore of Lake Superior; a photograph of bioluminescence; an image slowly revealed by the disappearing sands of an hourglass placed directly in front of a projector and its projected image; and a video titled “Luna del Mar”.

Luna del Mar is a cinematic work realized by choreographing and capturing the light created by millions of bioluminescent single-cell organisms activated by the movement of an Olympic synchronized swimmer named Luna del Mar.
The organism that thrives in these waters emit an evanescent soft blue halo of light when triggered by movement or surrounding turbulence. This is the only light source in the film.

Cameron is also the Publisher of The Third Rail a nonprofit quarterly publication devoted to a discussion of modern and contemporary art, politics, philosophy and culture.  Gainer has had solo museum exhibitions at the New Temporary Contemporary at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  Recent awards and fellowships include a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner grant, James L. McKnight Fellowship, and a Jerome Foundation grant for research.