Emma Beatrez TECHNOLUST 3000 open hours every Thursday-Sunday 1-5pm through July 24th.
DATES: Friday, June 17 – Sunday, July 24, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 17, 2022, 7:00-10:00pm
OPEN GALLERY HOURS: walk-ins welcome: Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays 1:00-5:00
June 18 – July 24. Also, appointments can be scheduled 7 days/week via hairandnailsart@gmail.com.
See below for Covid-19 safety plan.
HAIR + NAILS is thrilled to announce TECHNOLUST 3000, a solo exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and installation art by Minneapolis-based artist Emma Beatrez. Beatrez brings a wild array of materials — rhinestones, Mountain Dew, neon, paint on canvas — and an acute sensitivity to how objects in space talk to each other.
An undiluted list of the artist’s inclusions/influences:
Cyborgs • Portals • Weeping Madonna • Catholic iconography and framing • Escapism • Indefinitely wet surfaces • Reflective screens • Midwest iconography • Hardware • Proximity • Wishing wells. • Material interventions • Cyclops double mirror • Studded surfaces • Turning the space in on itself • Surface tension • Club aesthetic • Angels and demons • Sparkling cheap surfaces • Uncanny • Bodybuilding • Pain, Pleasure, and Desire • Labels turned poetry • Body • Glistening pixels • Rhinestone bitmap • Mudflap girls • Neon • Tears like crystals • Semiotics • Tattooed surfaces • Glistening dewy webs • Duality • Absence of the body • Data fog • Memory • Uncertainty avoidance
Artist bio:
Emma Beatrez is a transdisciplinary artist from Minnesota. They graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020 with a MFA in Interdisciplinary studio art. Beatrez received their
BFA with an emphasis in oil painting at North Dakota State University in 2018. Beatrez is the co-founder/curator at Nightclub Gallery in Minneapolis alongside artist Lee Noble. Their recent work deals with ritual, body, proxemics, desire, and simulation through material, light, sound, and scent interventions.
Beatrez has previously exhibited with HAIR+NAILS in group shows “RIGHT NOW” (2020-1), “The Human Scale” (at Rochester Art Center, 2021) and contributed an episode to HAIR+NAILS TV
(2020).
www.emmabeatrez.com
TECHNOLUST 3000 is Beatrez’s first solo show at HAIR+NAILS and runs June 17 – July 24,
Also, appointments can be scheduled 7 days/week via hairandnailsart@gmail.com.
HAIR+NAILS’ COVID-19 SAFETY PLAN:
–Masks required in the gallery.
–In addition to open hours, individual appointments available 7 days/week via hairandnailsart@gmail.com. –air circulated by central air, open doors, and HEPA air filters.
–Continuing consultation of CDC and MDH. Adjusting plans accordingly as advised.
–Opening reception will be outside in the HAIR+NAILS backyard sculpture garden to maintain a limited capacity in the gallery.
