This year, eight of my pieces were exhibited in conjunction with the seventh annual Minneapolis Horror Fest. If you live in the Twin Cities and haven’t yet checked out the Horror Fest, you totally should (assuming you enjoy theater and things that are spooky). It’s eleven days offering a variety of shorter plays as well as interactive experiences. The festival is held every year at The Southern Theater, which is a perfect venue. It’s just very fun and good-creepy event. So, seriously, mark your calendar to go check that out next year.
Anyway, I generally wouldn’t categorize my work as particularly creepy or disturbing. However, I still had several pieces from my Ancient Gods & Contemporary Circumstances exhibition that had an ominous atmosphere, as well as some darker intuitive acrylic paintings that worked well.
Coincidentally, I met one of the hard-working humans who organizes the event at a workshop. She mentioned they were looking for visual art to exhibit during the festival, we chatted a bit, and we hung my work a few days later. It’s delightful when things fall easily into place like that. I sold four of the eight pieces displayed–so that’s also delightful.
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Carly Swenson is an intuitive painter originally from northern Montana. She spent more than a decade working primarily as a mixed media artist before shifting to acrylics. Swenson received a BFA in Visual Arts with an Art History Minor from Bemidji State University. During and after university, she traveled and lived abroad, this included studying in China, traveling throughout Europe and living both in England and the Azores.Swenson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. Her freelance writing and mixed media journals have been published in nationally distributed art magazines. She has facilitated art workshops for various age groups. Swenson’s work is also included in the permanent art collections of Angra do Heroismo Museum and Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN). Currently, she lives in St. Paul, MN with a smart little dog and a weird little cat. They’re nice.
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