801 Gallery
801 Lofts, located in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis, presents art openings three times a year. The three-story atrium and public space is an art gallery to local Minnesota artists who display their work on an ongoing basis.
The art shows change every four months to display new talent and media. Gallery openings offer residents a chance to open their doors to friends, family and others who want to support our local art community.
All art is for sale and the artists keep 100% of the profits.
You are invited to the Fall 801 Gallery Opening on Thursday, October 22nd, 2026 5pm-8pm
Featuring artists Camille Hempel, Pete Driessen and Pocket Toscani. Come to meet the artists and see their new art. Enjoy complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.
Opening night music by Rumba Eterna
Our location: 801 Lofts, 801 Washington Avenue North in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN
Artist Talk Sunday, January 10th, 2027 from 2-4pm
Show runs through January 10th, 2027
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Camille Hempel is a multi-disciplinary artist with a passion for exploring the form of couches and their role in living rooms and the American psyche. Her early work was painting their portraits to honor them ironically in the living room scheme of decor. Then moving to NYC in the early 90’s, she was drawn to the ever-surfacing plethora of cast-offs, at the curb for trash collection. With a bleeding heart and an eye toward preserving their unique (albeit untouchable) charm, she pursued their documentation in that fleeting and liminal space — beyond people and before the landfill.
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Pete Driessen is a Minneapolis based multipractice visual artist, sculptor and cultural producer who creates site-specific conceptual paintings, found object installations, interdisciplinary sculpture projects, and public art initiatives that explore the visceral connections of social, spatial and material dynamics. His past and current artwork blend painting, mixed media, sculpture, installation, and public art into an interdisciplinary confluence of ideas: site and space, location and identity, and capitalism and the commons. Created with large float trowels on unstretched canvas, these works continue his long-term exploration in acrylic gel mediums, color theory and nontraditional painting processes reflective of minimalism, gestural abstraction, and color field painting.
Website: www.petedriessen.com
Instagram: @PeteDriessen
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Pocket Toscani’s paintings explore the language of bygone decorative arts. Each piece has its own particular response to its own predicament.
“My gut senses the energy of the painting, and if I am listening, I pick it up.”
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801 Gallery is located in the North Loop Neighborhood in Downtown Minneapolis in the 801 Washington Lofts.
We have been curating three art shows a year featuring local Minnesota artists since 2005.
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www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/
instagram.com/artat801gallery/
www.facebook.com/Artat801GalleryInstagram
Art at 801 Gallery is a part of the North Loop Art Gallery Walk on Thursday, October 22nd, 2026 from 5-8pm.
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Parking:
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Be sure to pay for parking on Washington Avenue North and on side streets.
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North 3rd Street Parking Ramp
728 North 3rd Street Parking (behind Freehouse) -
North Loop Parking
300 North 10th Avenue
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Website: http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artat801Gallery
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artat801gallery/
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Gallery showings by appointment:
Contact Jan Elftmann 612-747-2313
801lofts@gmail.com
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