Javier Piñón

Franklin Art Works 1021 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA (city map) Send E-mail tel +1 612 - 872 7494 www.franklinartworks.org

Franklin Art Works is pleased to announce solo exhibitions by Carolyn Swiszcz and Javier Piñón. The exhibitions will open to the public with a reception on Friday, January 9, 2009 from 6 to 8pm. Both artists will be in attendance. Admission is free.

In the Project Space
Javier Piñón: Medusa

In his first exhibition in the state, Piñón will premier several photographic collages depicting unnervingly coquettish Medusa figures.

Piñón's collages are composed of found images of decades-old fashion model's preening for the camera, with the added feature of snakes instead of hair, writhing or calmly coiled in swirling coifs. The works appear, "so seamlessly made that they seem to arrive fully formed" (Art in America, April 2008) Piñón accentuates this appearance by mounting his works on yellowed handmade paper.

Javier Piñón was born in 1970 in Miami. He received an MAT from the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited at Taché-Lévy Gallery (Brussels), ZieherSmith Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Caren Golden Fine Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Feigen Contemporary and Atelier Cardenas Bellanger (Paris), among other venues.

The exhibitions remain on view through February 21, 2009.

Both exhibitions are curated by Franklin Art Works' Director Tim Peterson.

Please contact Franklin Art Works' staff at 612-872-7494 x 3 or tim@franklinartworks.org for further information.
The exhibitions remain on view through February 21, 2009.

The exhibitions remain on view through February 21, 2009.

Both exhibitions are curated by Franklin Art Works' Director Tim Peterson.

Please contact Franklin Art Works' staff at 612-872-7494 x 3 or tim@franklinartworks.org for further information.