essays

 

Bio

Margaret Pezalla-Granlund received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. She has exhibited locally and nationally, and her work has been included in exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Pezalla-Granlund was recently awarded a McKnight Artist Fellowship for 2008-2009 and a Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grant for 2009. She is interested in modeling the complex spaces of the natural and built landscape on scales both macro and micro.

Texts

Lisa Melandri's essay
on SMMOA Exhibition (pdf download)

Dr. Jane Blocker's essay for the catalog for the 2008-09 McKnight Fellowship exhibition. (pdf download)

"Disposable Miracles," review of Journey to the Surface of the Earth: Margaret Pezalla-Granlund & Max Schollett, by Mary Abbe in the Minneapolis Star Tribune (pdf)


Review of Fallen Over the Horizon; or Crash at the Putney Velodrome at Franklin Art Works, by Christina Schmid