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Griep's art featured on TPT

By Mara Kumagai Fink '11
April 30, 2010

Associate Professor of Art and Art History Mary Griep was featured recently on MN Original, the new weekly arts series produced by Twin Cities Public Television. The show featured Griep's work on sacred spaces that depicts a number of places from Cambodia to Mexico.

Griep says her drawings — which embody both the outside and the inside of the spaces in the same work — sometimes have taken a year to perfect, which mirrors the time and care that was put into the building of the actual temples, shrines, and churches. She calls upon the viewers of her work to remember all of the people involved in creating or maintaining the famous buildings and the kind of detail and attention they've given.

"I think about the fact that in many of these buildings the people who started working on them never saw the end product," she says. "It wasn't really as much about the end product as it was about this process."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.