In this week’s City Pages, local artist Karl Raschke tests the mettle of reporter Peter Ritter: “Raschke reaches out and grabs my forehead with his sizable hand. ‘If you squeeze hard enough, you can really hurt someone.’” Then they get in an argument over whether or not psychiatry is a pseudo-science. But seriously — Raschke is a congenial giant, and he only uses that particular move to keep his Augsburg College photography students in line. His own creations belie his affection for the delicate and diminutive, from his collections of tiny buttons to his ticket stub movie reviews. Currently featured in the Interact/React exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Raschke can also be found handing out beers and hanging up pictures as part of the collective that runs Creative Electric Studios.
Son of The Claw
Jul 6 2005 — 2:00am
5 Reader Comments
2:15 am
I smile fondly on any mention of Karl… by anyone, anywhere.
2:04 pm
Yes, Karl rules!
2:41 pm
Mettle, not metal.
3:04 pm
The internet spawned a million copy editors. Fixed.
5:48 pm
Karl probably inherited the ability to bend steel rods from his dad, so maybe it really should be “tests the metal.”