Sonja Peterson
I Want To Know No More
Solo Exhibition
Opens Friday, October 28th 5-8pm
On view October 28 through December 3, 2022
Wayzata Sonja Peterson I Want To Know No More features new works continuing her exploration of the role humans have in migration and evolution using her signature paper cuts.
My work addresses the role humans have in accelerating the reweaving of nature and disrupting a long continuum of migrations and evolution. With my use of cut paper in these drawings, paintings and collages, the works’ structural integrity is, at times, reliant on its interconnectivity; if elements disconnect, the entire system is in threat of collapse. The slow process of cutting intricate stories into larger narrative networks is an action that fulfills my need to reexamine and unravel histories of the endless matrix of power structures and systems in today’s world Sonja Peterson, 2022
About the Artist
Sonja Peterson received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Peterson currently works for the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota.
Peterson has exhibited regionally and beyond including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, Walker Art Center, MN, Weisman Art Museum, MN, Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, MN, The American Swedish Institute, MN, Purdue University, IN, Rhinelander Art Center, WI, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, MI, Arena 1 Gallery, CA, GRAFIIKANPAJA AAVA, Raahe, Finland and Gallery Myotatuuli, Raahe, Oulu, Finland.
Peterson has been awarded the 2021 McKnight Fellowship, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant as well as Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants. Peterson has been the Artist in Residence fellow at the Bell Museum of Natural History and the American Swedish Institute and will be a 2023 fellow at the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Her works can be found in the collections of Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN, Le Meridien Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN, Buhl Investors, Edina, MN, and Starbucks Corporation, Seattle, WA
For inquiries: 952.473.8333 info@burnetart.com
Navigator, 2022 cut paper and acrylic on wall Paper: 95 x 50 inches Paint: 105 x 59 inches $10,000
Distant Wave, 2022 cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper
Paper: 16 x 22 inches
Frame: 18.25 x 25.75 inches
$1,400
Tern, 2022 cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper
Paper: 22.5 x 14.5 inches
Frame: 25.75 x 18.25 inches
SOLD
Missing Mauritius (Mauritius Blue Pigeon silhouette), 2022 cut paper, graphite, watercolor, and gel medium on paper
Paper: 16 x 13 inches
Frame: 19.5 x 17.5 inches
$1,400
Trees, Snakes and Nests, 2022 cut paper 25.25 x 25.25 inches framed $2,400
Future Islands Await, 2022 Block print, cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper 16 x 23.5 inches framed SOLD
Floating Islands 2, 2022 ink on laser cut wood 8 x 8 inches $500
Floating Islands 1, 2022 ink on laser cut wood 11 x 11 inches $500
Floating Islands 3, 2022 ink on laser cut wood 8 x 11.75 $500
Possible Returns (Tasmanian Tiger), 2022 gold leaf on paper Paper: 19 x 30 inches Frame: 22 x 33.5 inches $1,400
Sunken Vessel with Whale Oil Lamps, 2022 acrylic and cut paper on canvas triptych
Three canvases: Two at 24 x 20 inches and One at 48 x 60 inches
$7,000
White Swamphen, 2022 cut paper, graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and gel medium on paper 23.5 x 16 inches framed $1,400
Mauritius Blue Pigeon, 2022 cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper 23.5 x 16 inches framed SOLD
Tibble’s Watch, 2022 cut paper 25.25 x 25.25 inches framed $2,400
Auk, 2022 cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper 23.5 x 16 inches framed SOLD
Paper: 15 x 22.5
Frame: 18.25 x 25.75
Cast Aspersions, 2022 cut paper, graphite, and watercolor on paper
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Empire Builder, 2022 cut paper and acrylic on wall Paper: 50 x 110 inches; Paint: 80 x 136 inches SOLD
Red Rail, 2022 gold leaf on paper 18.5 x 14 inches framed $950 framed
Rodrigues Solitaire, 2022 gold leaf on paper 18.5 x 14 inches framed $950
Dodo Bird, 2022 gold leaf on paper 18.5 x 14 inches framed $950
Greak Auk, 2022 gold leaf on paper 18.5 x 14 inches framed $950
Pygmy Cassowary, 2022 gold leaf on paper 18.5 x 14 inches framed $950
The Capture, 2022 cut paper 45.25 x 45.25 inches framed $3,800
