If you think of the University of Minnesota’s Nash Gallery as a teaching space, then this ambitious exhibit is designed to show students—and the rest of us—the range of forms that political art can assume. An intriguing mix of locally-based and national artists are represented: There are paintings from Shana Kaplow and selections from photographer Paul Shambroom’s Security series, while Martha Rosler, who made collages in the ’70s that conflated the Vietnam war and American women’s domestic lives, updates that idea with our current war and consumer trends. Also on view are Maus selections from Art Spiegelman; Sue Coe’s savage prints and drawings; a profoundly disturbing “re-creation” of The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City by Portland-based Harrell Fletcher; and works from more than a dozen others. Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-624-6518;
www.nash.umn.edu
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