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Join us for the 801 Gallery Opening
Saturday, September 27th, 2025 5pm-8pm
Featuring Artists Mary Johnson, Mark Hirte, Ellen Thomson
Opening Reception is a part of the Fall North Loop Gallery Walk
(see map below)
801 Gallery location: 801 Washington Avenue North
in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN
Come to enjoy art, live music, complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.
Opening night is an opportunity for people to meet the artists, to view this wonderful show and listen to live music.
Music opening night Spirit House Quartet featuring
Gary Waryan on tablas, Dalyce Elliot Young on violin, Jeff Waryan on guitar and Michelle Kinney on cello.
Exhibition Dates: September 27th, 2025 - December 14th, 2025
Artists
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is a Minnesota sculptor, whose work transforms and reassembles found materials, considering their material histories and narrative potentials. Following a recent injury, she has adapted her sculptural aesthetics to painting, utilizing repurposed industrial foam as both surface and form. By investing time, labor, and personal reflection into the handling of this seemingly disposable material, she re-animates our intimate relationship with the aesthetics, natural and industrial processes, and objecthood of our culture’s cast-offs, honoring the complexities which go hand-in-hand with our consumption.
MaryJohnsonart.com
Mark Hirte
Mark makes compositions to be visually arresting. They are painted to be graphic and dynamic as they are traversed as they need to compete in our flooded visual environment. The subject matter, color, and texture can be the reflection of the floor of a well used paint booth, or the glossy flash of a fluorescent fishing lure, or an ocean pacific tshirt from his childhood, or a direct homage to a western mesa landscape. Or all of it at once.
@hirtemark
Ellen Thomson
Ellen Thomson’s paintings draw on memory, intuition, and emotion, unfolding through layered patterns, shifting forms, and recurring imagery. Moving fluidly between the figurative and the landscape, her work resists fixed meaning and instead embraces openness and transformation. This ambiguity invites viewers to bring their own interpretations, creating a dialogue between artist and audience.
ellenart.com
Make a night of it and enjoy dinner and art!
Restaurants on Washington Avenue North near 801 Gallery is
Bar LaGrasse https://www.barlagrassa.com/
Parlor https://www.parlourbar.com/
Borough https://www.boroughmpls.com/
Freehouse Restaurant https://www.freehousempls.com/
Black Sheep Pizza https://www.blacksheeppizza.com/
801 Gallery is located in the North Loop Neighborhood in Downtown Minneapolis in the 801 Washington Lofts. We have been curating three art shows a year featuring local artists since 2005.
Website: http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artat801Gallery
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artat801gallery/
Gallery showings by appointment:
Contact Jan Elftmann 612-747-2313
801lofts@gmail.com
Parking:
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Be sure to pay for parking on Washington Avenue North and on side streets.
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North 3rd Street Parking Ramp
728 North 3rd Street Parking (behind Freehouse)
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North Loop Parking
300 North 10th Avenue
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