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The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, along with the Jerome Foundation, is proud to present an exhibition featuring new work by the 2010/11 51±¬ÁϹÙÍø-Jerome Fellowship recipients: , , , , and Jonathan Bruce Williams. A catalog with essays by , Twin Cities-based art critic and curator, accompany the exhibition.

’s most recent photography series, slideshows, and videos playfully explore the tenuous distinctions between the real and the artificial. By constructing quixotic relationships between objects and their beholder—there are no fixed perspectives and content itself seems to be absent—the artist makes the act of perception into a game that has larger implications for understanding how we come to know the world around us.

puts basic human desires—a longing for intimacy and a sense of place—at the center of her photographic and video work. Her re-presentations of the images and texts generated by her personal online matchmaking experiences expose a vulnerability that is juxtaposed with a simultaneous engagement with her family, close friends, and childhood home in the Pacific Northwest.

’s performative work negotiates the boundaries of the self in relation to other objects, both animate and inanimate. The artist’s newest videos continue to push the limits of what is comfortable for herself and for the viewer. By relinquishing her physical control of a situation, Kouneski asks us to consider the somatic affects of outside forces (bodies or environments) acting upon us.

Brett Smith engages with theatrical modes of science fictio