About the Artists
David Wright
David Wright’s bold depictions of pop culture artifacts, cityscapes, destination spots are inspired by personal travel experiences and reference images from books and the internet. Wright usually starts with a sketch then works at a large scale, using saturated color and bold black lines. The exuberant joy of his piece “70s Art,” depicting a boombox and flowers as music, captured the hearts of our team.
Michael Engebretson
Michael Engebretson’s body of work maps a future existence beyond Earth, where inhabitants travel through galaxies by spaceship and live on distant moons in a utopian civilization he calls Class Five. The space vessels that Engebretson draws and the ideology they represent are the vehicles of a more equitable time and place. An avid autism advocate, Engebretson would like viewers of his work to understand how, as he says, “the autistic mind operates.” He hopes that his work will help people understand the vitality of neurodiversity.
Andrew Seymour
Almost every piece that Andrew Seymour has created in the last two decades is titled “Summer,” a reference to summers at his mother’s lake cabin in northern Minnesota. Seymour describes the circular forms throughout his work as people, and they appear in every piece. In some cases, they represent family at the lake or artists in the studio. Seymour’s abundant archive traces decades of persistence and a truly singular vision.