Preview Wing Young Huie’s University Avenue project
Obama Street Vendor, University Avenue, 2008
Seward-based photographer Wing Young Huie will preview works from his upcoming project — an installation along University Avenue in St. Paul — beginning Friday, July 11 at Thomas Barry Fine Arts, 530 N. Third St., suite B-10, in the Downtown Warehouse District.
A public reception, 6–9 p.m., will feature photos from Huie’s The Language of Urbanism: A Six-Mile Photographic Inquiry which is expected to be completed in 2010. The installation will include photographs displayed in windows (similar to Huie’s previous Lake Street USA project — as well as LCD projections, Huie told The Bridge last November (read the interview here)
The current Thomas Barry exhibit, titled Summer Invitational II, will feature nine other artists, as well: Ute Bertog, Gregory Euclide, Ulrike Heydenreich, Alexa Horochowski, Suzanne Kosmalski, Constance Lowe, Medina, Clarence Morgan and Jennifer Onofrio. The exhibit runs through Aug. 29.
A video interview with Huie, as well as many of his photos from the project so far, can be seen on the Minnesota Public Radio website
For more information about the Thomas Barry Gallery, click here or call 612.338.3656. Summer hours are Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m., or by appointment.
last revised: July 10, 2008