by Josh Blanc
Getting your work into an art museum is many artists dream. Making it while you are alive is even more exciting. Alyssa Baguss has stepped into that realm with her show at the MIA’s Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program.
Alyssa Baguss: You Were Never Here
November 21, 2019 – March 1, 2020
U.S. Bank Gallery
Free Exhibition
U.S. Bank Gallery
Free Exhibition
(excerpt from MIA) Alyssa Baguss has constructed three distinct artworks that explore how we experience the outdoors as mediated technology. This exhibition will consider nature as scenery, our persistent longing to be elsewhere, and our perception of place through secondary experiences.
Baguss’s practice explores mediated natural environments through the drawing processes. She is a 2015 and 2017 recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and the recipient of the 2017/18 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists. Her work has been exhibited at the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, and Minnesota Museum of American Art.
Alyssa is not a typical artist in the Arts District. She does not show her work in her studio for community events. She is not trying to sell her work to make a living. She is the Arts Program Directory of the Silverwood Park. She says in her Minnesota Original documentary that she makes work that she is passionate about and if it sells that is a bonus for her. Her art and her job inform each other.