New Art For Inspiration Rooms

Our Art for Inspiration Room at the Galleria was redesigned last week. Art Resources Consultant Evonne Sunram and Gabberts designer Diane Matkati created a beautiful, restful room with southwest influences, color and texture. A large impressive painting by John Horjs of a cactus and mountainous terrain was the focal point that inspired the vision for the room. Several small ceramic pots with legs of faux birch provide fun accessories. Indian faces by Kirby Sattler, and feather etchings by Ball provide further interest. Besides the Horjs, Ali Luedtke’s large, dynamic fused glass and metal Tribal piece is a very impactful addition to the room. Leather chairs and an armoir filled with glass vases is the finishing touch. Stop by and sit in the room to gaze at the artwork and be inspired by its calm!

More pictures from the Art opening with Edie Abnet

Here are some beautiful new images showing the artwork by Edie Abnet at our Galleria location.

Edie Abnet Show Opens At Galleria

On Friday May 8th, Art Resources Gallery, Edina hosted a reception for
local artist Edie Abnet. It was a grand turnout, with lots of oohs and ahs
for Edie's magnificent watercolor/pastel paintings. Birds, tulips, horses
and daffodils graced the gallery and we had fun toasting Edie's work with
our beautiful, new stemware! Reaction was very positive and glowing for
Edie's new work. Her peonies and swans were especially well received as
these subjects were totally new additions. Edie circulated all evening among
the guests as many were collectors and very anxious to talk with her.

Edie's art is reminiscent of Marc Chagall with her images floating in space,
and the whimsical nature of them. Her mixture of watercolor outlined in
pastel is distinctive and instantly recognizable. Edie was recently honored
by winning the national award for Outstanding Poster of 2008 for her image
of the State Fair.

Art Resources Gallery, Edina hosts artist events and receptions throughout
the year so check our website www.ArtResourcesGallery.com for dates and
times. We would love to see you here!

Edie Abnet, show runs through May 29th

The Complete Art For Inspiration Images

Here are the final images of the complete room vignette! I love how it turned out and can't thank Julie and Greg enough for all of their hard work and creativity. I have to say it's a show stopper! People that are walking by stop and come in to see the new space. Just look at all of the fun details...there's even a candy table!

Enjoy the final images of the room and stop in to see for yourself.

Janella

The Art For Inspiration Station is almost done!

Spring has sprung in the gallery today! We have been setting up our Art For Inspiration Station and it's looking fantastic. I'm posting a few images of how the space looked in the beginning and today as we are setting up.
Julie has some of the most unique ideas, I just love it! I should also mention that Julie has enlisted the creative input of Greg Yaghsezian from Hirshfield's Design Studio. They are located right across the street from the IMS building. I think he and Julie are definitely on the same page with their inspiration for the station. It is bright, cheerful, fun, full of energy and actually makes me laugh out loud because it is so whimsical!
We are happy to have the the partnership from some of the showrooms at IMS to help with donating the accessories and furniture for the room. We will list everyone who has been a part of the Art For Inspiration Station on the next blog.
Enjoy!
Janella

Art for Inspiration

Welcome to the new Art Resources Gallery art blog! We have just started a new and exciting project called Art for inspiration. You may be wondering what this means and I’m here to tell you all about it. My name is Janella Fesenmaier and I am the art director for our gallery in the international market square building, Minneapolis.

Here is how it all got started…we were brainstorming about how we could create a little excitement in the gallery during the dregs of our waning Minnesota winter months. Anyone who lives here can tell you that it gets to be a long winter come mid March! We came up with the idea that it would be fun to partner with a designer to create an Art for inspiration station in the gallery to hi-light some art and design ideas for spring.

We decided to ask Julie Stark from J. Stark Interiors to see what she had in mind and she was quick to come up with something fresh, fun and full of energy for us! If you have ever met Julie you know that she is full of energy and is always bursting with ideas.

When she showed me the sketch she came up with I scanned it right away for the blog because I wanted to show Julie’s first ideas and design scheme. It’s fun to see the raw, unedited design idea! From this first sketch she will make a design to scale using all of the furniture and artwork pieces she has. I will post a copy of that when I get it too! I will also be posting images of the before and after pictures of the space.

There are several other people that were instrumental in making the Art for inspiration station happen. I will list them on my next installment…come back soon because on April 1st it will be complete!

Janella Fesenmaier