Jesse Dermody
The Deep Dreams of Roots
May 1 - May 31, 2025
Artist Reception: Friday, May 23, 2025
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Jesse Dermody is a multi-disciplinary artist based in rural northern Minnesota. A sculptor, poet, and musician, Dermody sees his three creative pursuits as the roots of a single tree–with sonic, lyric, and sculptural branches. His large, dynamic sculptures are composed of driftwood, roots, barn boards, stones, animal bones, and other found objects that he collects on his daily hikes near his home north of Duluth. Inspired by these collected treasures from the woods, he assembles them into mystical, emotional creature-forms that straddle internal and external worlds. Dermody had a solo exhibition at Macrostie Art Center in Grand Rapids in 2021 and tours extensively with his brother, Ryan, and their band The Brothers Burn Mountain.
Jesse Dermody, Vera, 2025, Wood, driftwood, screws, 59 x 39 inches
Daniel Kerkhoff
The Least Among Us
May 1 - May 31, 2025
Artist Reception: Friday, May 23, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Daniel Kerkhoff is a Minneapolis and Mankato-based artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, sculpture, photography, and social practice. He studied at the Art Students League of New York, as well as with instructors in San Francisco, Japan, Italy, and Ghana. Since 2009, he has been creating his own residencies, as artist-in-community, in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam, where he exhibits and curates, provides materials for libraries, makes art with children, and documents their shared experiences in creating, witnessing, and connecting.
Cross Country
In the spirit and legacy of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Cross Country is a partnership with the Nemeth Art Center in Minnesota. Cross Country is a developing artist-in-residence program between CGBF and NAC, in which we exchange an artist-in-residence once a year. In that vein, the Cross Country exhibition presents a collection of artists who have shown at the Nemeth Art Center, or will be showing in the 2025 season. The exhibition offers a preview of the upcoming season, and brings the spirit of promoting artists cross country.
A new exhibition curated by Mark Weiler, Executive Director of the Nemeth Art Center. Works are available for purchase.
All sales support the NAC, CGBF, and the artists. Email director@nemethartcenter.org with inquiries.
Madeleine Bialke
Amber Fletschock
Nate Young
Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez
Aaron Spangler
Nathanael Flink
Charley Friedman
Daniel Kerkhoff
Christopher Harrison
Brad Kahlhamer
Rachel Collier
Yunior Rebollar
Emma Beatrez
John Salhus
Image above left: Daniel Kerkhoff, Ghosted, 2023, Latex, gesso, acrylic, oil, soil, nails on mat board, 23 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches
This activity is made possible by the generous support of our members, sponsors, and Minnesota voters through grants from the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to legislative appropriation from the Arts and Culture Heritage Fund.