New Photography: McKnight Fellows

Orin Rutchick, Kristine Heykants, Angela Strassheim, and Mickey Smith now show the fruits of the past year’s labors as winners of the McKnight Foundation’s annual photography fellowships. These are fairly approachable artists, standing in relation to average folks’ uses of the medium: Orin Rutchick’s project is all about tourist snapshots; Kristine Heykants’s theatrical studio work rides atop her commercial work shooting models and brides. Angela Strassheim worked in forensic photography before moving on to document life in the suburbs (arguably more of the same), but her work has always borne some resemblance to both family snaps and famous paintings. Recent fame has encouraged Strassheim to push her candy-colored malign line further; these photos are interesting but you probably shouldn’t have dessert before you go see them. The one photographer here who shows nothing really new is Mickey Smith—someone get that girl out of the library! 165 13th Ave. N.E., Minneapolis; 612-824-5500; www.mncp.org