gallery location
The gallery is located at 173 Western Avenue North in Saint Paul on the corner of Western and Selby avenues. Google map
Wednesday and Friday
12 – 6 p.m.
Thursday
12 – 8 p.m.
Saturday
12 – 4 p.m.
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Call 651.757.4080 or email for more information about gallery events.

Artist Kristina Estell condenses the notion of nature in the domestic life and creates a motley display of organized disproportion in Natural Selections by piecing together nature imagery found on commercially printed fabrics. Eagles, giraffes, stingrays and porcupines form odd relationships and imaginary scenarios within endlessly repetitive environments of sky, stone and forest. The fabric life forms come together to create a world of colorful but fragmented environments. The once idyllic imagery is reconstructed to draw attention to the peculiarly designed reality that emerges from these patterns of life and decorously inhabits the Portals on Western.
January 21 - June 28, 2013
Portals on Western is a public art exhibition space within the windows and storefront of the CVA Gallery Building. This exhibition series presents annual installations by Minnesota artists and began in the fall of 2009.
Kristina Estell