The exhibition at Municipal Bonds Openness, on view at Minnesota Street Project in Gallery 200, presents four important female artists including the Dutch artist Yvette Taminiau. Openness features complimentary bodies of work, wherein each artist investigates a singular direction, inspired by materials and their consequences: Austin Thomas with ghost marking monoprints; Bara Jichova Tyson with analog collages; Danielle Dimston with chiaroscuro watercolors; and Yvette Taminiau with associative newsprint paintings. Yvette Taminiau’s newsprint paintings comprise a dialogue between the artist and the page. She transforms newspaper pages in an associative manner, responding to the images, headlines, articles, and the layout of the page. Her approach is intuitive and suggestive—while her academic background, with its strong reliance on analytical frameworks, is reflected in her selection of topics and articles from the newspapers. Dutch, French, and English news act as her referential canvas, from economic issues to political coverage to cultural icons.

Yvette Taminiau. Mythical London, 2007, Watercolor on newspaper, NRC Next. Courtesy of the artist and Municipal Bonds.