Plant Worship

Cynde Randall has been in touch with just about every artist in the five-state area, thanks to her work as a longtime associate with the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and as the founder of the annual Bird x Bird exhibition, a benefit for avian well-being. Now, fittingly, she has her own eco-gallery on the shores of Lake Pepin, in the heart of the Mississippi flyway. It opened in June and its new show, Plant Worship, includes new works by Pat Callahan, Dennis Conrad, Andrew Neher, and Luke and Valerie Snobeck. Randall says the satiric but heartfelt work from this crew illustrates “the problematical relationship between human behavior (and industry) and nature.” As Neher notes regarding the issues his work explores: “What we are facing today isn’t the end of life but the end of a lifestyle.” 3557 W. Main St., Maiden Rock, Wisconsin; 612-250-9222