Join us for an evening conversation with curator of POP! Goes the Easel Desirée Forgét alongside three artists represented in the show: Genie Castro, Sean Ferris, and Joseph Gallup.
Artists will discuss their inspiration, process, and connection to the Pop genre. There will be a Q&A portion following the panel to allow audience members to ask questions.
Following the event, light refreshments will be provided.
All are welcome to attend.
About the Artists
Desirée Forgét is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Minnesota. In her work, Forgét often pulls from her wide skillset to explore whimsical and irreverent themes, with vibrant colors and playful subjects, often reflecting on current issues that hint at the serious while maintaining a carnivalesque sense of the absurd. Her work has been featured in various music videos, movies, and television shows throughout the last ten years and resides in multiple celebrity collections. Forgét is a silversmith with her own jewelry line, opening her first brick and mortar store (OWL+LARK) in Rogers in 2021. She also works as a commercial makeup artist and has been involved in print, film, and television for the last 15 years. In 2020, she started to delve more deeply into painting and visual arts.
Genie Castro is a community leader in the arts. She creates unity with projects she is involved in by connecting with people. She encourages students and clients to get into the creation process and learn through that exploration. Castro took the lead as director and owner of a printmaking studio in the Casket Arts Building in North East Minneapolis at the beginning of 2022 and called it SuperCharged Printmakers. It is there she and other printmakers create an inviting space for artists to create freely in the medium of printmaking and have showing opportunities.
Sean Ferris lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. He paints with inks to explore his personal struggles with mental health, upbringing, sexuality, and identity. Playing on themes of everyday experiences, memories, and fantasies, mixed with overheard, embellished, and closed-door conversations, he creates unfinished sketches. These sketches, sometimes paired with dialogue and cryptic notes, attempt to push a sense of haste, spontaneity, and motion through still images.
Joseph Gallup was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He studied painting and drawing at Mankato State University, Bethany Lutheran College and the University of Minnesota. For thirty years, Joseph has worked professionally in film and television production as a lighting technician. Joseph's paintings have been commissioned in New York City, the Stillwater Courthouse and the Mayor's Office in Minneapolis. His work has been on display at Art-a-Whirl, Barbette and Twin Ignition in northeast Minneapolis. One of his greatest accomplishments was getting Lou Reed's autograph and living to tell.