Featured In Group Exhibition: NUDE GEOGRAPHIES Curated By Praxis Directors

Some Kind Of Love

by Norm Halm

Saturday, October 21, 6–8PM

Opening Reception for:

LETTERS, NUMBERS & SYMBOLS

JURIED BY DALLAS CROW

NUDE GEOGRAPHIES

CURATED BY PRAXIS DIRECTORS

Exhibition dates: October 21–November 11, 2023

Exhibit books are available to order now. Photos and a virtual tour of the exhibits will be posted on our blog in the coming weeks.

Praxis Gallery & Photo Arts Center

2637 27th Ave. S. | Minneapolis, MN 55406

~ Free, secure, off-street parking ~

Praxis Gallery is located in The Ivy Arts Building Annex. Enter the parking lot from 27th Ave., our main entrance is to the left. 

Pelican Rapids, Minnesota

 

Silo, Viking Trail, Northern Minnesota

I’ve been bouncing around this country for 7-8 years. We’ve lived in 4 states from 2015-2022, moving to follow work opportunities, better life quality, maybe a pipe dream too… etc. Every time we move, it’s like the rug is pulled out from under my feet as far as my personal photography goes. I’m getting more and more project focused, and also with age, my work has become more and more about a sense of place. Getting to know a new place, at least on a level that I can photograph it satisfactorily, takes time, like getting to know a new person. Unpeeling an onion. Finding the native plants and talking to the locals. I hadn’t picked up my camera to make new pictures in almost a year since moving to Minneapolis from Dallas- and that was, honestly quite painful, despite life being really really good here so far overall. I haven’t found my new project/s here yet but I’m inspired, optimistic and grateful. Minnesota, upper Midwest, especially The Driftless Area… All new friends.

This Is July 4, 2023!

 

District 54 Schoolhouse, Viking Trail

Fergus Falls Minnesota, July 2023

There’s a lot about this country that unequivocally needs to be relegated to the past; such as discrimination against racial minorities and LGBT+ people, the oppression of women, etc. Yet there are institutions, individuals, interest groups, political parties and lobbies working hard to make America's past come back again while trying equally hard to keep an honest and actual working knowledge of that history in the dark. But I won’t concede to deliberately repeating the mistakes of our past. Will you? I vehemently reject the term “woke” as a pejorative because I understand it in its original context -- awake to the inequalities, abuses and overall exploitation of a system supposedly meant to uphold the virtues of freedom and equality. I will keep pursuing the untold and omitted histories (and acknowledge their through lines to the present) of those who participate/d so monumentally in breathing life into the complex tapestry of this nation despite having the odds deliberately stacked against them.

This is July 4th, 2023!