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  • Reviewed | Voice Places | May 20, 2012

    Gallery 13

    Matt Mcgorry has created an alluring exhibition of mixed media works which utilizes Asian Floral Motif, created with stencil and spray paint, as a 'visual attraction' which leads , anyone viewing this work , to the underlying collage that recounts the culture, historical players, and the horror brought to bear on the Japanese by nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Matt is a founding member of Rogue Citizen which is a collective of 4 members, Matt Mcgorry, Shawn Dalson, Eric Mattheis. Matt Wells all immensely talented artists individually but who also paint together on large single works, as a collective. It is important to note that Roguecitizen is socially and politically progressive group Of artists whose work,collectively and individually, tends to deal with social issues facing us all today,that do so with out ignoring histories that have brought to us to where we are.

    Most importantly Roguecitizen brings there social activism to light by making action louder than words through painting,performance, and political action. Through events Rogue citizen is integrating their artistic practice into existing activist movements like Occupy, and the growing labor Union Movements helping to promote the rights of labor and collective bargaining. Trends aside, Urban arts, Graffiti, in all its forms,is a street level exercise of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom to create and express our ideas as we see fit. -Use it or Lose It -

    Stephen Sugarman :Gallery13Matt Mcgorry has created an alluring exhibition of mixed media works which utilizes Asian Floral Motif, created with stencil and spray paint, as a 'visual attraction' which leads , anyone viewing this work , to the underlying collage that recounts the culture, historical players, and the horror brought to bear on the Japanese by nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Matt is a founding member of Rogue Citizen which is a collective of 4 members, Matt Mcgorry, Shawn Dalson, Eric Mattheis. Matt Wells all immensely talented artists individually but who also paint together on large single works, as a collective. It is important to note that Roguecitizen is socially and politically progressive group Of artists whose work,collectively and individually, tends to deal with social issues facing us all today,that do so with out ignoring histories that have brought to us to where we are.

    Most importantly Roguecitizen brings there social activism to light by making action louder than words through painting,performance, and political action. Through events Rogue citizen is integrating their artistic practice into existing activist movements like Occupy, and the growing labor Union Movements helping to promote the rights of labor and collective bargaining. Trends aside, Urban arts, Graffiti, in all its forms,is a street level exercise of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom to create and express our ideas as we see fit. -Use it or Lose It -

    Stephen Sugarman :Gallery13

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  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    Grumpy's Bar & Grill

    Pool, karaoke, drinks -- sure, Grumpy's has the kind of necessities you might find at most bars, but they're all wrapped in a spectacular... More

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    The Local

    How much wood would a wood-carver carve if a wood-carver would have free rein to fill up an enormous space with bars and sculptures and... More

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    Pizza Lucé Downtown

    What makes a city cosmopolitan? Ever-ready midnight-or late-breakfast-pizza slices with artichokes next to a good beer is as good a... More

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    Tum Rup Thai

    At first glance Tum Rup seems different from the million local Thai joints mainly because of its Uptown style: Dark woods, scarlet and gold... More

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    Walker Art Center

    Modern art museum also hosts dance, theater, film, and other special performances and events

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    Nye's Polonaise Room

    If Captain Kirk had come to Earth in Nordeast Minneapolis circa 1968 and had wanted to seduce a Polish princess, this is where he... More

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

  • Liked | Voice Places | May 8, 2011

    112 Eatery

    When Minneapolis chef Isaac Becker (formerly of D'Amico Cucina and Café Lurcat) and his wife Nancy St. Pierre (a decade in the front of the... More

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