Opening Reception: Re-Purpose | Remnants and Regrowth | Somewhere between Four by Four

Join us for the opening reception of three exciting new exhibitions:
- Fireside Gallery: Re-Purpose | Holly Dodge, Todd M. Huber, Nicholas Smith (I Cut People)
Holly Dodge is a poet and visual artist. She received her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and works in a variety of mediums, most recently collage. She resides in Mankato with her partner, their five children, many plants, and a menagerie of pets.
Todd M. Huber is an multimedia artist whose career spans music, gallery curation, sound and visual art, and innovative text-based projects. From building community spaces in Evansville, Indiana to forging experimental sonic and visual works, Todd’s work reflects a resilient and visionary creative spirit. His legacy includes galvanizing local arts culture and pushing the boundaries of medium and message. He currently resides in Minneapolis.
toddmhuber.com/
Nicholas Smith creates work that interrogates institutional narratives through sound and image. Working across multiple mediums, he produces both audio and visual collage under the pseudonym I Cut People, a project he founded in 2005 while living in San Francisco, CA.
I Cut People is a sample-based audio and visual personality rooted in the art of the cut-up. Smith’s audio works are built from countless hours of television samples, which he meticulously splices, reorders, and reconstructs into biting critiques and polemical soundscapes. As Noise Not Music notes in their review of The End (2023), "This is dense, mile-a-minute, often truly disturbing stuff, but it’s usually funny, in a ruthless and absurd and desperate kind of way." Similarly, the Brooklyn Rail's Matthew Ackerman wrote, "absurd, nihilistic, and thought provoking, I Cut People creates audio cut-ups that seem to capture our complicated, anxiety ridden digital reality."
Smith's visual collage process entails cutting out small, sometimes minute pieces from magazines and filling up an entire canvas creating a kaleidoscope of textures and colors. These collages often take months to complete and in some cases, years. Every small piece of magazine is cut by hand. Color combinations are spontaneous and when glue is applied the pieces disperse, dismantling any attempt at structure. Beyond collage, his body of work extends to dioramas with integrated sound, multimedia sketchbooks, videos, and gif animations.
icutpeople.com/