Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a new exhibition of work by one of Minnesota's fastest-rising art stars,Andréa Stanislav, at the Burnet Gallery in Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis.

"Holiday in the Sun" is on view for the next couple of weeks.

Stanislav’s sculpture, film/video, and 2-D work are known for clever juxtaposition of beautiful form and disturbing revelation, and for their play on perception. Her body of work is equally laden with mystical and pop allusions, gleefully mixing high-minded angst with mass culture tropes.

Truth be told, her pieces are incredibly sexy. They’re loaded with glitter and glitz, mirrors and myth, and, well, decapitated beasties at times.

You may have seen her ballyhooed MAEP exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (River to Infinity — The Vanishing Points) last year.

I have mixed feelings about Stanislav's work. I find the glam appeal and ambitious philosophical mélange of the 2008 MAEP show to be dazzling; but beyond the eye-fooling tricks, the cleverly placed mirrors and self-consciously portentous symbolism, the concept at its heart feels thin, more like fortune-cookie philosophy than the real deal.

I went into the Burnet Gallery exhibition this past Friday hoping her new work would put my ambivalence to rest. Unsurprisingly, the 14 "pop-minimalist" pieces on view at Burnet (at least 12 of which are brand new) are all slickly executed, painstakingly produced for maximum sensory impact. The work positively oozes cool. The new pieces in the exhibition are replete with smart pop cultural references — from Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris" to HBO's popular drama, "The Wire," to "A Clockwork Orange"and the Sex Pistols.

But somewhere between the bling-encrusted, headless dog on a rotating platform, the haloed homage to punk guitar legend Johnny Thunders and to "Omar" from "The Wire," and the Zen-lite quotes borrowed from Sex Pistols lyrics and "Clockwork Orange," I began to suspect this was all an extravagant con — a witty, alluring come-on with no there there.

Regardless of my quibbles, it's undeniable that Andréa Stanislav is an artist to watch, setting the art world atwitter both at home and abroad. For that reason — and because her pretty, shiny things are remarkably clever and appealing — you should see this exhibition and make up your own mind about what it all means. But hurry: "Holiday in the Sun"is only on view for a few weeks.

"Holiday in the Sun," new work by Andréa Stanislav. Through Feb. 2, Burnet Gallery at Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis.