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(salt: for anyone who ever lost someone) by Hawona Sullivan Janzen

April 24 – May 31, 2025

Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present: (salt: for anyone who ever lost someone), new work by Hawona Sullivan Janzen.

She needs to talk to you about salt. When her pandemic fever dreams compelled her to investigate the hidden properties of salt, Hawona Sullivan Janzen discovered the uncanny: connections between her ancestor’s enslavement, global spiritual practices, and the veil between this life and the great beyond.

Through material explorations, ancestral portraits, and live and recorded performances (salt: for anyone who has ever lost someone) comes into itself as one part installation, one part interrogation, and one part a story of coming home.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 25, 4-7pm

PERFORMANCE & ARTIST TALK: Sunday, May 18, 2pm

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To the River: New Drawings by Joyce Lyon

March 13 – April 19, 2025

Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present To the River, an exhibition of new oil stick drawings by Joyce Lyon. The river is the Tiber / il Tevere, which passes below the Umbrian town in Italy where the artist spends time each year. In these large-scale oil stick works, Lyon responds to an unusual aqua color of the water – is it an effect of light, or sediment or something shifting in the environment? The road leading to the river is Roman, more than 2,000 years old. Ivy grows up many of the trees, altering their profile when seen against a bright sky. She meditates on the ancient history of this place and its present life and on the ability of drawn and verbal languages to communicate experience.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 15, 4–6pm

ARTIST’S TALK: Sunday, March 30, 2–3pm

MEET THE ARTIST: Saturday, April 19, 3-6pm

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Sund (Notes From the Sea)

MOIRA BATEMAN: JANUARY 30 THROUGH MARCH 8, 2025

Form+Content Gallery is proud to present Sund (Notes From the Sea), new mixed media and textile works by Moira Bateman.

The exhibition explores environmental impacts of human activity from an ecocentric perspective that draws from Bateman’s summer 2024 residency in Ålvik, Norway. The work features the sea’s currents and tides, whales and underwater noise pollution, and a “big bag”.

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 4 to 6 pm

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Ode to My Umi

Form + Content Gallery is proud to present Ode to My Umi, curated by 2023-24 Emerging Curators Institute Fellow Eshay Brantley and featuring the work of Precious Wallace, Donte Collins, Bayou, and Namir Fearce.

Ode to My Umi is additionally funded with support through Emerging Curators Institute, made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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In Tension

Form+Content Gallery presents In Tension. New work by Rachel Breen, KehayrBrown-Ransaw, Laura Wennstrom, and Michelle Westmark Wingard.

Working with textiles from each of their own distinct perspectives, the intersections of each of artist’s work explores aspects of material meaning, belonging and obligation, solidarity and collective power, and the reordering of systems.

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Sight Between

Form+Content Gallrery will participate in Twin Cities Art Week, October 16 -20

Form+Content Gallery presents Sight Between. New works by Michal Sagar.

Michal Sagar invites you to explore the space between dreams and states of consciousness in an intimate environment — with large multimedia drawings, a “Mud God” made of clay, and hundreds of suspended floating elements. Each piece begins with a gestural expression of the hand, from the initial searching graphite lines on paper to the wet dark clay of a life-size ceramic creature. Moving from two-dimensional drawings to three-dimensional sculpture, from the young eyes of a boy to the ancient eyes of a “Mud God”, from mammals to avians — all the work in this show speaks of a yearning for transformation.