Quarter Gallery

Two hands carve wood inside a dark dollhouse
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Nik Nerburn, Going Out for Cigarettes, 2024. Digital Video, 3:00
A half-melted metal bullet on white background
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Xavier Tavera, Bullet #4, 2023. Pigment ink prints, 44 x 33 in.
Digital collage of Black woman in four different outfits and costumes
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Bianca Janine Pettis, I Saw Your Video, 2024. Video, 3:44. Instruments: Acrylic on cardboard
White and brown dog stands on rocky cliff overlooking misty bay
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Andrew Fladeboe, Gurine of Skulsfjord (Lundehund, Norway), 2013. Pigment ink prints,, 45 x 30 in.
Six columns of small gridded photographs
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Andy Mattern, The Surface Collector, 2014–2024. Pigment ink prints, 156 x 144 in.
Hand holding lemon against bright green backdrop with fruit and soap bottle
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Lorena Guadalupe Molina, Making lemons out of Oranges, 2020. Chromogenic print, 40 x 27 in.
Two framed artworks of green gridded squares on a white wall
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Sarah Sampedro, PLSS; Dugout on the banks of Plum Creek, 2024. Archival pigment print, latex paint squares, foam board.

 

On view January 21 – March 8, 2025 
The Magnificent Seven: MFA Alumni

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

This group exhibition of artists who studied with Associate Professor Paul Shambroom while earning their MFA degrees in the Department of Art features work by Andrew Fladeboe, Andy Mattern, Lorena Guadalupe Molina, Nik Nerburn, Bianca Janine Pettis, Sarah Sampedro, and Xavier Tavera.

Artist Statements and Biographies
Andrew Fladeboe
“In The Shepherd’s Realm, I documented working dogs in New Zealand and Norway, honoring their essential role in human history. These portraits showcase their loyalty and resilience, presenting them as dignified and individual creatures who connect us to nature’s untamed beauty.”

Andrew, a 2014 Fulbright recipient, conducted a photographic study of working dogs in New Zealand. He earned his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2018. In 2023, he released Isle of Pan, a photography video game. Andrew now serves as a VR developer for human spaceflight at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Andy Mattern
“The Surface Collector (@thesurfacecollector) began as a quiet form of resistance to Instagram in 2014. Suspicious of the still-new platform, I decided to post only decontextualized patterns of wear, residue, or absence — incidental traces left behind. This became a 10-year obsession, always posting images day-of, tagged with the location, and accompanied by esoteric hashtags such as #connectinguselessdots or #somethingisnotthereanymore or #temporarytapefix or #typefadingaway”

Andy Mattern is a visual artist working in the expanded field of photography. His photographs and installations dissect the medium itself, reconfiguring expectations of photography's basic ingredients and conventions. His work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Currently, he serves as Associate Professor of Photography at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. 

Lorena Guadalupe Molina
“My still life arrangements represent my home in the margins as a reconciliation, acceptance and celebration of the immigrant experience; a place that allows for joy, play, beauty, pleasure, slowness and decadence. I am seeking to create a catalog of images that go beyond the burden of representation, that allow for nuance, play, and exploration.”

Lorena Guadalupe Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University. She’s also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists. Her work is driven by a deep sense of displacement experienced after a 12-year-old civil war forced her and her family to migrate to the United States. 

Nik Nerburn
“Going Out for Cigarettes is a small film about a dad who refuses to talk about anything important.”

Born in Bemidji in 1989, Nik Nerburn is an artist living and working in Minneapolis. His cross-disciplinary photos, films, and sculptures address urgent subjects like toxic masculinity and the rural-urban divide, while also centering craft, generosity, and humor. Paul Shambroom was his thesis advisor from 2020-2023.

Bianca Janine Pettis
"I Saw Your Video explores the serendipity of falling in love with my partner Jacob—with the quiet reality of navigating his health and the complexity of grief, ambiguous loss, caregiving, and creative collaboration. Performing alone in my studio using an iPhone, iPad, laptop, and green screen—this solo video work is a metaphor for creating art in isolation and the challenge of making something meaningful alone.

Bianca Janine Pettis is a Minneapolis-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans theater, sound art, video, performance art, sculpture, and music. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Minnesota and is pursuing an MA in Interdisciplinary Music Studies at Berklee College of Music.

Sarah Sampedro 
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is an organizational structure developed by settler-colonists to arrange land for sale in the United States. The grid-like geometric design can be seen imposed over rolling hills, forests, and rivers and was used to extract wealth from the land.”  

Sarah Sampedro is an artist whose work explores the relationship between interpersonal space and social contracts. With a focus on social documentary photography, her creative practice studies the histories (both personal and collective) that shape our perceptions of Self/Other and the way these perceptions manifest in the social landscape.

Xavier Tavera
“In my photography I explore representation and identity. My focus is on the human experience. I am interested in the production and distribution of the photographic image. My photographs reflect the habitual, cultural ideals, and lived experiences of the Latin American diaspora in the United States and elsewhere.”

Xavier Tavera has had a passion for portraiture for most of his life as a way to engage with people. His work oscillates between documentary and the imagined with the sole purpose of telling a story. Tavera has devoted himself to telling the stories of the Latin American diaspora.

The Quarter Gallery spans 2,000 square feet for the presentation of student exhibitions and community partnerships.

Location
Regis Center for Art (East)
405 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00am – 5:00pm

The Regis Center for Art is accessible by U-Card only. Please call 612-624-7530 upon arrival to gain entrance to the galleries through the building's main entrance located on 21st Avenue South directly across from the parking garage.

Contact Us
[email protected]
612-624-7530

Parking & Public Transit
Learn more about the parking options below:
21st Avenue South ramp
5th Street South lot
19th Avenue South ramp

Hourly metered parking is available nearby on 22nd Avenue South and Locust Street
The gallery is accessible via Metro Transit buses and light rail lines. For your best route, visit Metro Transit Trip Planner.

Accessibility 
Regis Center for Art is accessible to visitors who use mobility devices or prefer to avoid stairs. Service animals are welcome in the gallery. A fully accessible, gender neutral restroom is available on the 2nd floor of the Regis Center for Art (West). To access this restroom, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and proceed across the skyway towards Regis West. As you exit the skyway the restroom will be directly across from you. Fully accessible gendered restrooms are located directly to the left hand side when exiting the gallery on the first floor of Regis Center for Art (East).

Fresh Works
 April 1 - 19, 2025

The three year MFA Program in Studio Art at the University of Minnesota is interdisciplinary and rigorous, balancing studio practice with critical theory and inquiry. Every year 1st and 2nd year MFA graduate students transform the Quarter Gallery into a dynamic exhibition that showcases their studio practices across a variety of media. Fresh Works offers a view into the wide ranging research interests of our MFA candidates and their interdisciplinary approaches to making. Learn more about the MFA program here.

Jonathan Thunder: The Artist As Storyteller
April 29 - May 17, 2025

November 19 – December 14, 2024
Layers of Joy 

October 15 – November 9, 2024
Undergraduate Scholarship Exhibition

September 10 – October 5, 2024
Viewfinders/ Miradores

April 13 – May 11, 2024
Temporal Exchange

March 26 – April 13, 2024
Bill Gaskins: Black Mystery Month

January 16 – March 16, 2024
Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective

November 21 – December 9, 2023
Undergraduate Scholarship Exhibition

October 16 – November 11, 2023
Stay Human

September 12 - October 7, 2023
Regis Center for Art 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Works by Faculty Emeriti

March 23 – April 22, 2023
Queer Ecology Hanky Project

February 21 - March 18, 2023
Sites of Exhaust: MALFLOR & Nancy Julia Hicks

January 17 – February 11, 2023
Fred Joel Larson: A Celebration of Life and Art