Michon Weeks | Route
October 11 – November 22, 2025
Opening Reception: October 11, 4–6pm
Contemplation is an act at the forefront of Michon Weeks’ practice. With the ability to find the form as she works, her paintings hold a sense of wonder as the color-blocked planes are fitted together to assemble the scene. Inspired by the walks she takes in Northfield, Minnesota, Weeks depicts the natural and built landscape as a space of constant transformation and fluctuation, a dynamic scene. Shapes forming trees, gates, bridges, buildings, and other objects are situated within abstracted dreamscapes of ambiguous structures. With her thoughtful and painterly approach to mark-making, Weeks’ walks through her hometowns are mirrored on the linen canvases as her paintbrush wanders across the surface. Holding space for the seemingly ordinary, the works on view in Route venerate the beauty of the every day. Working in egg tempera and oil on linen, her materials guide her process. Instead of having complete control over the medium, there is instead a dialogue between artist, paint, and surface, allowing for the materials to breathe on their own.
Michon Weeks is a painter and professor based in Northfield, Minnesota. She earned a BA in Art from Iowa State University and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Minnesota. Weeks is currently the associate Professor of Practice in the Art and Art History department of St. Olaf College, where she has been teaching since 2012. Her work has been included in multiple solo and group exhibitions including shows at the Rochester Art Center and the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato, MN. Weeks was also included in the survey exhibition North of the 45th at the DeVos Art Museum, Abstract Painting in Minnesota: From 1930 to the Present at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and Art on the Plains at the Plains Art Museum.