SAD: Illuminating a Northern View of Darkness

The work in SAD, says curator Diane Mullin, “probes conditions of light, atmosphere, and isolation, addressing how our northern surroundings affect and define us.” Mounting this show in summer is a counterintuitively interesting idea: When the weather gets too good, go and soak up a little soggy gray despair (maybe we’ll discover we’re even SADder than we thought?). The artists involved are all Twin Cities-based: Ana Lois-Borzi sews and crafts bulbous glandular things and makes other body-centric conceptual objets; Jan Estep uses video and embroidery to address the relationship of a lone self to the rest of everything; and Katherine Turczan photographs often isolated human beings here and also in Ukraine. The work of the other artists (Theresa Handy, Chris Larson, Charles Matson Lume, Andrea Stanislav, and Piotr Szyhalski) is equally disparate, and represents a sort of honor roll of the Cities’ most kick-ass conceptualists. 333 E. River Rd., Minneapolis; 612-625-9494, www.weisman.umn.edu