Zoran Mojsilov
The Power to Wake Up the Stones
June 30 – August 30, 2009.

It seems Zoran Mojsilov, a Serbian born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was born an artist. At a young age, Mojsilov found himself drawn to making things. He became a toymaker for the neighborhood children at the age of two. By the time he entered his teens, he already understood that he wanted to be an artist, focusing his craft on carved wood. He studied art in Yugoslavia at the University of Belgrade from 1975 to 1979. He moved to Minneapolis in the mid-1980s where he worked as a carpenter. In 1990, Mojsilov opened his first solo museum exhibition of drawings and wood sculpture at the North Dakota Museum of Art. By 1995, granite fieldstone became Mojsilov’s next best material to combine with wood or to enclose with steel.

The exhibit features stone, steel, and wood sculptures as well as charcoal studies of the sculptures. Museum curator, Laurel Reuter states, “Mojsilov’s art is neither for the timid nor those who prize craftsmanship, sleek design, and fine finishes. Rather, this artist traffics in awkwardness, in precarious balances, in authority born of strength, and in power born of wisdom.”




Chuck Kimmerle
Unapologetic Landscape
June 30 – August 30, 2009.

Kimmerle was born and raised in Minnesota, and has been a photographer for more than 20 years. He moved to Grand Forks in 1996 while working as a photojournalist. His subsequent travels throughout the rural areas of the plains gave him an appreciation for the intricacy of the landscape, and the motivation for this ongoing project.

The exhibit explores the unique features, both agricultural and natural, which adorn the northern plains of North Dakota and western Minnesota, giving the place an aesthetic value and unique personality, so easily overlooked. Kimmerle states, “This area, devoid of the natural grandiosity preferred by the majority of destination seekers, is more often traveled through than intentionally visited. At first glance, it looks dull, mundane. However, I have gained an intense appreciation of, and affection for, the unique environmental elements – shelterbelts, crop rows, flat horizons, farmsteads, gravel roadways, and silence – that give this landscape its identity.