Rebecca Heidenberg

Rebecca Heidenberg is a curator, filmmaker and co-founder of the Minneapolis gallery Dreamsong, which, beyond a full exhibition program, has also begun participating in art fairs including Frieze Los Angeles, Expo Chicago, and The Armory Show. In 2021, Heidenberg launched Twin Cities Art Week through Dreamsong, an annual celebration of contemporary art in Minneapolis and St. Paul which features events at over twenty venues, from small artist-run spaces to leading galleries and major institutions, including the Walker Art Center. Heidenberg’s feature-length film, Queens of the Revolution, is a portrait of Mejunje, a cultural center in Santa Clara that paved the road for LGBTQ+ rights in Cuba.

Lee Noble

b. 1983, Nashville, TN. Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. 2020 MFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.

"Appropriating phrases from sources that include graffiti by the UK anarchist collective King Mob and a poster from the Paris student protests of May 1968, Lee Noble’s paintings juxtapose mantras of twentieth century counterculture with degraded images lifted from fanzines of forgotten genre films. Built up from striking depths of color and abstract grounds, Noble layers and processes vestigial remnants of familiar images and texts, rendering our own memories uncanny and unsettling utopian ideals. The work underscores the ways in which histories haunt our psyches and has been bringing to mind Walter Benjamin… ‘a storm is blowing in from Paradise.’”

Artwork Image: Witching Hour Video, 2022. Flashe, acrylic, gouache, oil, ink, spraypaint, collage on canvas. 60 x 40 x 2 in.

Ta-coumba Aiken

b. 1952, Evanston, IL. Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.

"Ta-coumba Aiken has spent decades channeling the spirit of his ancestors through form and color in paintings and works on paper rooted in abstraction. A vessel for the collective memory of his community, his imagery is deeply engaged with Black history and culture. Aiken begins each painting with intuitive freeform underpaintings that the artist terms Spirit Writing. Upon these serpentine gestures, eyes, brows, mouths and hands rise and recede, dancing in and out of the viewer’s field of vision, rhyming and twisting in chromatic choreographies that seem to contain the past, present, and future."

Artwork Image: Now Let Me See, 2023. Acrylic on canvas. 48 x 48 in.

Alexa Horochowski

b. 1965, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. 1996 MFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

"Though Alexa Horochowski resides in Minneapolis, her practice is deeply tied to the landscape of her childhood in the Patagonia of Argentina. Using diverse materials including natural kelp, adobe clay, bronze and lead, Horochowski’s sculpture emphasizes human impermanence within ecologically deep time and contemplates how political upheaval and climate change reshape personal and collective memory. Working through ideas rigorously and slowly building layers of meaning, Horochowski’s recent work summons memory, family, violence, art history, and landscape into a convergence of meanings and narratives that echo across time and space."

Artwork Image: El País de Nomeacuerdo (I don't remember land), 2022. Steel, weathervane directionals, sandbags, fabric. 84 x 168 x 120 in.