A selection of works in various media for our annual winter group show.

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

Veronique Wantz Gallery celebrates local artist MICHAEL HERMANSEN’s second solo show with the gallery, everyday extraordinary, and features a stunning new body of work. On view September 9 - October 7, 2023

click here: https://www.veroniquewantz.com/michael-hermansen-everyday-extraordinary

Veronique Wantz Gallery celebrates Wendy Westlake's second solo show, UNDERCURRENT, and features a stunning new body of work.

Click here for more info: https://www.veroniquewantz.com/wendy-westlake-undercurrent

Join us for the opening of wendy westlake: UNDERCURRENT on April 29th from 4-7pm. Free and open to the public.

Veronique Wantz Gallery presents our annual ARTFUL PRESENT Holiday Market

RUNNING EVERY FRIDAY 11-3 and SATURDAY 11-4 THROUGH DEC. 17th

We love getting into the holiday vibe (and a little party) so this season we are teaming up again with our dear neighbors UMEI and J. Atelier for a building-wide event.

The gallery will be bursting with stunning, affordable art and unique, one-of-a-kind gift ideas to treat someone special, or even yourself!

We are excited to host two fabulous popups:

modern jewelry by YEN CHEE DESIGN and

curated home goods & lifestyle products by north house AGENDA

Artwork in various price points available by:

Laurie Borggreve

Owen Brown

Cait Courneya

Sandra Felemovicius

Nathanael Flink

Kei Gratton

Valerie Grondin

Michael Hermansen

Jim Hillegass

Cynthia Holien

C. Anthony Huber

Jenny Keyser

Emma Le Konrad

Samuel Johnson

Eleanor McGough

Mike Murray

Andrew Nordin

Aviva Quant

Merick Reed

Liu Siyu

Katherine Story-Sutter

Dom Venzant

Susan Wagner

Wendy Westlake

Kathy Wismar

10 for 10: Ten Artists for Ten Years of Veronique Wantz Gallery

Opening

Saturday, October 8, 2022

5-8pm

Exhibition

Oct. 8 – Nov. 12, 2022

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Veronique Wantz Gallery presents a special exhibition featuring work by ten artists who have longstanding ties to the gallery and who represent a cross-section of various abstract styles and media, including oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, woodfired stoneware, collage, and sculpture.  The ten artists to be featured are Laurie Borggreve; Kei Gratton; Valerie Grondin; Jim Hillegass (gallery owner); C. Anthony Huber; Samuel Johnson; Eleanor McGough; Andrew Nordin; Wendy Westlake; and Kathy Wismar. 

The anniversary show also celebrates the legacy of founder and gallery namesake, Veronique Wantz. In 2012, French-born Veronique Wantz opened a public art gallery in the historic Foundry Building in the burgeoning Minneapolis North Loop neighborhood. From the outset, Veronique Wantz Gallery featured the work of local, national, and international emerging and established artists working in painting, works on paper, canvas, wood-fired ceramic, sculpture, textile, and glass. The gallery quickly established itself as a leading influence in the Twin Cities art world and beyond. 

Sadly, in 2018, at age 56, Veronique passed away from a battle with cancer. Her wisdom, warmth, down-to-earth personality, passion for all-things beautiful, chic French style, and silly, dry sense of humor are still missed by many. She created not only a welcoming and important gallery, but also a special community of adoring friends, beloved artists, and loyal clients. Her scope of influence on the local art world was immeasurable. 

Veronique’s longtime partner and confidante, Jim Hillegass, honored and built on the foundation of her invaluable vision and appreciation and love of art by helping to carry on her work. Veronique’s mission of offering the public a special and welcoming space to experience the creativity of talented emerging and established artists continues today. 

In 2017, the gallery remained in the North Loop of Minneapolis and moved a few blocks west to its current location, 901 N. 5th Street. The historic light-filled space, a former 1926 produce building, with a speakeasy that once occupied the basement, was renovated with original architectural elements left intact to provide a juxtaposition of old and new, and to accommodate and showcase the installation of larger works of art. The gallery hosts solo, joint and group exhibitions, free openings, and artist talks. 

The 10 for 10: Ten Artists for Ten Years of Veronique Wantz Gallery anniversary show commemorates Veronique Wantz’s original mission of discovering, exhibiting, and contributing to the connoisseurship of art to bring cultural awareness to the community. The anniversary exhibition, comprised of ten artists and their stellar abstract creations, highlights the gallery’s decade-long history and involvement in championing the local Minneapolis art scene. Looking back—but also to its future—Veronique Wantz Gallery continues to enrich the community with art for all, now and beyond. 

Margot Rosenstein, Gallery Director 

For further details and sales inquiries, please email: gallery@veroniquewantz.com

SAMUEL JOHNSON + ANDREW NORDIN

OPENING: MAY 21st from 5-8pm | Artists will be present | Free and open to the public

CLICK for more information about the exhibition

Hoorah! Our annual Holiday Art & Gifting Event begins Saturday, Nov. 20th and RUNS EVERY THURS + FRI (11-2:30pm) and SATURDAY from 12pm to 4pm through Dec. 18th!

(Or by appointment —contact us at: gallery@veroniquewantz.com to set up a time that works for you).

Preparations are being readied, and the gallery is feeling all festive! We will have one-of-a-kind giftable arts that are specially curated to delight and be loved by you and yours.

F E A T U R I N G

This year we will have an artful selection of smaller pieces, including giftable paintings by JIM HILLEGASS--his delightful acrylic minis and maxis on paper...and special wood fired stoneware serving dishes by SAMUEL JOHNSON and DOM VENZANT ready to grace the table, along with hand-painted ceramics by KATHY WISMAR...plus special works on paper by OWEN BROWN, SANDRA FELEMOVICIUS and beautiful collage work and oils from SUSAN WAGNER and much much more!

P O P - U P 
We're honored to be hosting three fabulous pop-ups this year: YEN CHEE DESIGN for incredible modern jewelry; AMBER JENSEN for amazing textiles; and ROSELINE’S CANDLES for 100% soy candles in various wonderful scents!


N E I G H B O R S
Be sure to also visit our wonderful neighbors on N.5th St:
UMEI for beautiful Japanese home goods
and J. ATELIER, interior design retailer.

Hoorah! Our annual Holiday Art & Gifting Event begins Saturday, Nov. 21st and RUNS EVERY SATURDAY from 11am to 3pm through Dec. 19th!

(Or by appointment Mondays through Fridays—contact us at: gallery@veroniquewantz.com to set up a time that works for you).

Preparations are being readied, and the gallery is feeling all festive! We will have one-of-a-kind giftable arts that are specially curated to delight and be loved by you and yours.

F E A T U R I N G

This year we will have an artful selection of smaller pieces, including giftable paintings by JIM HILLEGASS--his delightful acrylic minis and maxis on paper...and special wood fired stoneware serving dishes by SAMUEL JOHNSON ready to grace the table...plus much more!

P O P - U P 
We're honored to be hosting two fabulous pop-ups this year: GOLDFINCH MODERN TEXTILE CRAFT and YEN CHEE DESIGN, who will be offering textiles and jewelry alongside our art!


N E I G H B O R S
Be sure to also visit our wonderful neighbors on N.5th St:
UMEI for beautiful Japanese home goods;
and, introducing J. ATELIER, our newest next door neighbor
and interior design retailer

In these extraordinary times, we hope you are able to find some space for art in your lives. More than ever, we need an abundance of color and visual poetry to quiet our minds and focus our attention.

At the gallery, our plan this weekend was to celebrate the opening of Wendy Westlake's first solo show!

For any artist, a solo show is a huge accomplishment, and this was to be Wendy's first with Veronique Wantz Gallery. So, it is with sadness that this live show is currently postponed. However, until we can eventually exhibit as planned, we are delighted to be able to share these stunning new works in an online viewing room on our website!

While this can be viewed on your phones, for the best visual experience we recommend viewing it on a web browser on your laptop or computer.

For those of you who have followed this Rochester artist's rise over that past few years, you will know that Wendy's works are now available in galleries across the country and have also found homes with collectors from the midwest and beyond. Westlake attracts attention for her modern mid-century style paintings as much as their accomplished palettes, intuitive forms and mark making throughout her balanced compositions.

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Please join us in toasting Wendy's striking show by viewing:

A BALANCE REMAINS

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EXPLORATIONS INTO THE EQUILIBRIUM OF LIFE AND ART
by
WENDY WESTLAKE

HOW TO CONTACT US

While the gallery remains physically closed, we are still available virtually and can be contacted at gallery@veroniquewantz.com. If you would like further information, more images of a particular piece, pricing  or would like to reserve a piece - please let us know and we would be glad to help. For clients that are local, once the MN stay-at-home order has been lifted, we can offer private viewings and curbside white glove pick up service. Thank you for your continuing to support our local art community!