Arts & Entertainment

There's Garage Rock, So Why Not Garage Art?

A Southwest Minneapolis bungalow's tuck-under garage becomes an art gallery, as told by local online weekly The Line.

The Fulton neighborhood house with a garage displaying art "isn't an entertainment complex. ... I need to maintain good relationships with my neighbors.” So its owner told the Twin Cities online weekly The Line

When Minneapolis artist Pete Driessen started house-hunting, he looked at 250 properties before he founded what he wanted: a mid-century bungalow with a garage big enough for an art studio. But he never moved his studio from the Casket Arts building in Northeast Minneapolis to his new home in the Fulton neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis. Instead, he turned his tuck-under garage and various spots in his yard into exhibition space he collectively calls TuckUnder Projects. ...
On a recent Saturday evening, Jeremy Szopinski’s painting show “The Thousandfold Principle” was on view in the garage; Noah Harmon had posted his provocative prints in the bathroom, aka the Leaky Sink Gallery; and Marlaine Cox and Karen Kasel were launching a “Sunflower Revolution” by handing out hand-sewn packets of sunflower seeds. The place was abuzz.

Read the full article at thelinemedia.com


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here