Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Tettgouche Pillar
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37"h x 49"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Knot
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37"h x 49"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Francene Christianson
Title: The Summer Wind
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 44"h x 60"w

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Description: Francene Christianson is a long-time member and supporter of MCFTA. Her lush paint handling, combined with her talent for capturing the universality in everyday moments has placed her work in exhibitions and private collections across the country. In her own words: "This painting is inspired by a family photo, so it comes by its time-stamped vibe honestly. Sinatra was a favorite in my house growing up, especially for my Dad. The title refers to a favorite song, The Summer Wind; it's a reason I used it for the title. The intense yellow frames the figures and recalls lazy, hot summer days. As I got into the painting, the almost life-size figures allowed me to really describe the fabric and the way the figures were in the frame; it worked almost like a puzzle. The family on the beach is enjoying time together and having fun. This is the thing that makes the painting one of my favorites, especially now, when being together has been taken from us."

Artist: Ellen Richman
Title: Big Sunshine
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56"h x 56" w

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Description: Ellen Richman's popular Contemporary Abstract Painting classes provided a compelling counterpoint to MCFTA's more traditional curriculum offerings, pulling in students from other departments eager to experience her approach to creating abstract imagery. As she puts it, "I am driven by the exploration of the visual elements: color, form, and space. I develop and reinvent visual language and am inspired to explore new forms and the relationships between them. I give my attention to the opposites of the organic versus the geometric and seek to develop a minimal image. It interests me how color and form are a universally understood language that affects mood, emotion and the subconscious mind."

Artist: Kimble Bromley
Title: The Ideal
Medium: Collage
Size: 48"h x 73"w framed

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Description: A professor in the Department of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University, Kim has presented workshops and served as a visiting artist at venues throughout the upper Midwest, Ecuador, and Mexico. His oeuvre includes large-scale collages such as these, as well as more traditional paintings including several landscape series of the North Dakota Plains, and a series of abstracted views of his Minnesota pond, "My own Giverny," as he describes it. The collages here combine the boldness and power of abstract paintings with the subtlety and gesture of figure drawings, simultaneously suggesting stepping back and pulling in closer for a better look?

Artist: Kimble Bromley
Title: Scott
Medium: Collage
Size: 59"h x 49"w framed

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Description: A professor in the Department of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University, Kim has presented workshops and served as a visiting artist at venues throughout the upper Midwest, Ecuador, and Mexico. His oeuvre includes large-scale collages such as these, as well as more traditional paintings including several landscape series of the North Dakota Plains, and a series of abstracted views of his Minnesota pond, "My own Giverny," as he describes it. The collages here combine the boldness and power of abstract paintings with the subtlety and gesture of figure drawings, simultaneously suggesting stepping back and pulling in closer for a better look?