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Like most people, Minneapolis artist Jantje Visscher usually has no trouble telling the difference between up and down, top and bottom. In fact, she never gave the subject a thought until she glanced at a photo of a wave a couple of years ago and realized it was upside down but looked right.
And that it looked just as right, but different, when reversed.
Despite a long career making paintings about distance, shapes and motion, Visscher was startled to realize that she couldn't readily determine the photo's correct orientation. Odd as it seemed, this momentary confusion became inspiration for a new project - the results of which are sampled in an intriguing show of deceptively simple, amazingly complex images at Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at the College of St. Catherine through Aug. 26.
Visscher's work is half of a two-part 25th anniversary celebration for WARM, the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota. The other half of the show is a miscellany of paintings, prints, photos and sculpture by 36 women from Minnesota and its border states. Chosen from more than 400 entries, the second exhibition is WARM's 21st annual juried show for female artists.
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