Tag Archive: Reggie LeFlore

  1. Gamut’s 9th Anniversary Party

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    Celebrate Gamut Gallery’s 9th Anniversary surrounded by the art, music & great people!! Join us on Saturday, June 12th for our Pop-Up Maker’s Market featuring Twin Cities makers, live art by Reggie LeFlore and music by 88Project & DI/ASPORA.

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    It is unbelievable that we’ve been at this for Nine years already! We opened our doors in 2012 with the mission to bring people together to experience art and stimulate dialogue, and we are happy to announce our mission is going strong in Elliot Park.  After all this time, we are still here doing what we love the most, celebrating the Twin Cities community through the power of engaging with the arts. As the world begins to open back up, we want to take the chance to create a day of fun, focusing on shining the spotlight on several makers whom we have showcased over the years – plus we are excited to welcome a couple new faces this Saturday as well!

    The Makers Market will be set amongst our current exhibition, Setting the Groundwork by Reggie LeFlore. LeFlore’s visual autobiography featured in the gallery, will spark the dialogue amongst the attendess connecting the story from our walls into our back courtyard where LeFlore will be live painting. No good party is set without the perfect soundtrack and we will have 88Project and DI/ASPOR playing house music all day long.

    The principle that art fosters community, that art is for everyone, and everyone should have access to becoming a collector drives our inclusive philosophy, an idea we work to spread throughout our community and beyond. We are so blessed to have exhibited 95 exhibitions these past nine years, showing the full spectrum of media, content and styles, with a focus on showcasing innovative artists. Along with those exhibitions we have hosted 245 creative social events, and shown the work of more than 825 artists.

    As always without you, there would be no us! Thank you for your years of support & we hope to see you on Saturday to celebrate! [/bscolumns][bscolumns class=”one_half_last_clear”]

    Gamut’s 9th Anniversary Party
    Saturday, June 12th // Noon-4pm • FREE
    Live painting by Reggie LeFlore in Gamut’s Courtyard
    The ArtVee Mobile Art Gallery
    DJ’s 88Project & DI/ASPORA
    Twin Cities Makers: Thraxis Threads, VaVa Voom Studio, Hello Cross Stitches, Pompa Goods, Phaedra Odelle, Sara Paul Kahn, Nikita Siewert, Scott Seekins & the Patrick Boys.

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  2. Setting The Groundwork

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    May 29 – June 26, 2021
    Setting the Groundwork– a solo exhibition by Reggie LeFlore exploring his take on the multidimensional elements of creating, storytelling, and relationships with space and time.

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    A city is constructed for utilitarian purposes but for many artists, it is an eternal canvas or stage that, when used correctly, has the ability to stimulate dialogue within communities and abroad. Reggie LeFlore’s solo exhibition, Setting the Groundwork, incorporates his awareness of and appreciation for the multifaceted perspectives and practices of art in the public sphere to interrogate the power of space in the built environment and its connections to the natural world. 

    Informed by his everyday interactions and collaborations with folks in the community, organizers, graffiti writers, curators, and fellow artists, LeFlore’s work embraces the nuances and complexities of street art, guiding him throughout his creative projects. While Reggie primarily uses spray paint and hand-cut stencils to create vivid, large-scale portraits and imagery, intentionality and subjectivity, unconditional to medium, provide him the space to examine the various layers of identity and legacy of cultural abundance. Boundless to the constraints and aesthetic expectations, Setting the Groundwork showcases LeFlore’s exploration of storytelling and the strength and healing that comes from sharing our ancestry and honoring it. 

    Setting the Groundwork is Reggie LeFlore’s visual autobiography. Through the use of six portraits, each representing a different chapter of creativity in his life, viewers will have the opportunity to get a look into his inspirations as a child and to his collaborations across his life, highlighting his connections to community and the environments that surround it. Each foundational portrait represents a piece of LeFlore’s methodology, supported with elements containing his past, future and his current bookmark resounding on identity, afrocentricity and purpose. These experiences and influences create a larger than life, bold, vibrant story; a mural per se of his life, from his roots in Omaha to his life in Minneapolis.[/bscolumns]

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    Members Only & Press Preview Night:
    Friday, May 28th  // 6-9pm
    A VIP Preview Night for Gamut Gallery Members:
    become a member today!!
    – Existing Members RSVP for FREE
    – 45 minute reserved tour sessions
    – 20 visitors per tour
    – Masks required
    – Please stay home if you are feeling unwell

    Public Opening Night:
    Saturday, May 29th  // 6-10pm • $7
    – 45 minute reserved tour sessions
    – Pre-sale tickets required
    – 20 visitors per tour
    – Masks required
    – Please stay home if you are feeling unwell

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    ABOUT REGGIE LEFLORE
    Reggie LeFlore is a visual artist who creates to praise individual and collective stories through human portraiture.  His inspirations are drawn from the concepts and philosophies of Street Art culture and Illustration – using aerosol, acrylic paint and various graphic design techniques to construct pieces in varying styles, scales and surfaces. Reggie uses visual arts to amplify both his surrounding environments and the narratives contained within them.

  3. MPLSART Sketchbook Project Exhibition

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    April 10 – May 8, 2021
    MPLSART and Gamut Gallery present the MPLSART Sketchbook Project Exhibition.

    FEATURING: AK Garski, allison anne, Annie Hejny, Ben DiNino, Betsy Alwin, Black Daze, Christopher E. Harrison, Christopher Carr, Christopher Aaron Deanes, Colee Recke, Derek Meier, Destiny A. Davison, Hend Al-Mansour, Jamie Owens, Jennifer Davis, Jesse Quam, Jon Reischl, Kar-Keat Chong, Kelsi Sharp, KJ, Krista Anderson-Larson, Kristine Fretheim, Leeya Jackson, Lizardman, Lora Hlavsa, Nicholas Alan Straight, Niky Motekallem, Philipo Dyauli, Reid Olson, Reggie LeFlore, Russ White, Sean Ferris, Stacey Combs, Tony Cheng, Tyler Faketrap

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    The 2020 MPLSART Sketchbook Project is a unique survey of the Twin Cities visual arts community during one of the most challenging years. 68 local artists contributed 120 pages of original work to a series of five traveling sketchbooks. The sketchbooks have been compiled into a beautiful 88 page hardcover book available for presale via Kickstarter March 2nd with all net-proceeds split among the featured artist.

    When the sketchbooks were near the end of their travels, MPLSART connected with Gamut Gallery to host a pop-up exhibit to showcase the five original sketchbooks. Collaboratively, the concept evolved into a full length exhibition, featuring new works from a wide selection of the artists contributing to the project. 

    Given the magnitude of artists and limited wallspace, an open call was sent to all 68 artists and the first 35 to respond would have the opportunity to showcase an original work in the exhibition. In less than 24 hours, the roster filled up with established and emerging artists, creating an eclectic exhibition featuring muralists, studio artists, street artists, graphic novelists, collage artists, and more. Gamut attendees may recognize familiar names that have been on exhibit at Gamut in the past, and can look forward to 13 new artists who will be exhibiting their work in the gallery for the first time. 

    The exhibition has no defined theme, only a set of guidelines – works had to be new originals and available for under $500. Many artists drew inspiration from their sketchbook pages. In addition to featuring 35 original works, the exhibition will also be an opportunity to see the five original sketchbooks first-hand before going to auction at St. Paul based Revere Auctions.

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    Members Only & Press Preview Night:
    Friday, April 9th  // 6-9pm
    A VIP Preview Night for Gamut Gallery Members:
    become a member today!!
    – Existing Members RSVP for FREE
    – 45 minute reserved tour sessions
    – 10 visitors per tour
    – Masks required
    – Temperature taken upon entry
    – Please stay home if you are feeling unwell

    Public Opening Night:
    Saturday, April 10th  // 5-9pm • $7
    – 45 minute reserved tour sessions
    – Pre-sale tickets required
    – 10 visitors per tour
    – Masks required
    – Temperature taken upon entry
    – Please stay home if you are feeling unwell

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    ABOUT MPLSART
    MPLSART is a guiding voice in the Twin Cities visual arts community. Founded in 2005, MPLSART has been covering the best local exhibitions, artists, galleries, and more for over a decade. The Minneapolis and St. Paul arts community has long been hailed as one of the best in the nation and we work tirelessly to showcase the hard work of this amazing community as well as strive to create a more sustainable arts scene for all.