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Published February 05, 2012, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Alley Exhibitionists

Artists recall gallery era


Artists would transform the downtown gallery into a haunted house each Halloween.

  • Artists would transform the downtown gallery into a haunted house each Halloween.
  • Artists who collaborated to ‘do’ the downtown gallery painted murals on the alley side of the building, changing it each non-winter month.
  • Artists who collaborated to ‘do’ the downtown gallery painted murals on the alley side of the building, changing it each non-winter month.
  • River Fallsites may remember the series of large-scale outdoor murals the Alley Exhibitionists painted on the side of their shop’s Elm Street building. The themes varied each month and included things like a River Falls-style Mona Lisa and Earth Day tribute.
  • River Fallsites may remember the series of large-scale outdoor murals the Alley Exhibitionists painted on the side of their shop’s Elm Street building. The themes varied each month and included things like a River Falls-style Mona Lisa and Earth Day tribute.
  • The Alley Exhibitionists occupied the space at 114 E. Elm Street from 1989 to 1993.
  • The Alley Exhibitionists created many pieces of memorable art in, for and around the former gallery on Elm Street. A few of the “Alley Exes” (adults) pictured near a snow sculpture they created: Left to right, David Markson, Anna Markson, Kim (Orth) Knutson, Dawn Slater and Ritch Ellingson. Submitted photos.