Jeanette Pasin Sloan - New Paintings
June 4 - July 9, 2022
Jeanette Pasin Sloan's paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. Pasin Sloan works primarily in still lifes, which she describes as, “between realism and abstraction, knowing and unknowing, and order and disorder.” Her work’s main focus is not the objects that she paints, but the reflections in the objects. These reflections take on their own life, subverting both genre and style, infusing the traditional genre of still life painting with highly abstract tendencies. Closely-cropped, and set in carefully manipulated compositions, the subject matter of Pasin Sloan's work takes second stage to its formal intensity. Pasin Sloan’s work seeks to depict a world of harmony and order, despite the knowledge of chaos.
Read MoreBen Grant - Re-Signed
June 3 - July 9, 2022
Galvanized by iconic Hindu and Western religious paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries, Wisconsin artist Ben Grant's work combines an interest in commercial painting techniques with the visual reinvestigation of ubiquitous cultural signifiers. Just as the painters of the original masterworks who attempted to instill their sense of style and feeling into worn representations, Grant brings his own preoccupations to bear in new, hybrid icons.
Grant combines a multi-layered process of applying a variety of media such as paint, pencil, and ink with a multitude of techniques including brushing, scraping, rolling, spraying, and drawing. Grant leaves his work "Untitled" as he does not want to impose any personal meaning on the work of art, instead, he invites you to enter the painting on your own terms and make connections based on your life experiences, beliefs, and outlook.
Read MoreFred Stonehouse - Falling Waters
April 22 - May 28. 2022
A major figure in Wisconsin art, Fred Stonehouse is nationally recognized for his beautifully executed artwork and witty sense of rebellion. His style has a sophistication that reflects his diverse, cross-cultural interests, and outsider and folk art influences. Often encompassing religious or surreal contexts, his paintings are a materialization of his nostalgia for familiar cartoon figures of the past, blended with the artist's own delicate balance of humor, beauty and derangement. Fred Stonehouse, a Milwaukee native, has enjoyed over fifteen museum exhibitions across the country including a retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and has been featured in Blab and Juxtapose magazines.
Read MorePaula Swaydan Grebel - Interiors
March 19 - April 16, 2022
Flushed with color and finished with confident brushwork, Wisconsin artist Paula Swaydan Grebel's work presents moments of beauty. Light-drenched rooms filled with thoughtful still life arrangements make up her new series of small oil paintings on canvas and panel. Each piece captures intimate scenes of serenity and sincerity.
Read MoreFebruary 11 - March 12, 2022
Wisconsin artist, Claire Kellesvig, establishes a singular visual vocabulary with her hybrid paintings. While rooted in the traditions of paper cut-outs, Kellesvig's inventive interpretation of figure-ground relationships and the use of dreamy color sets her apart from others. The artist constructs emotionally charged compositions of individuals, places, and points in time with cut paper adhered to panel, sanded, and then painted. The resulting images seem indebted to the structure of the cut-outs, suspended slightly above the panel and finely set in bold, chimeric color.
Kellesvig's exhibition title, "Horses," is fondly named after the Patti Smith album. The titles and compositions of each painting take inspiration from the album tracks -- Gloria, Redondo Beach, Free Money-- which act as guides that Kellesvig transforms into two-dimensional creative dramas.
Read MoreJanuary 7 - February 26, 2022
CHROMA, an exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture focusing on color and abstraction. Emphatically linked by intense color, each artist employs individual modes of personal expression and media for wonderfully varied results. CHROMA features paintings by Mary Bero, Caitlin Bradford, TD Brenner, Derrick Buisch, Marion Coffey, Ben Grant, Michael Hedges, Anna Kunz, Shane McAdams, Dennis Nechvatal, Guzzo Pinc, Jason Rohlf, George Shipperley, and TL Solien. Also included in this dynamic collection of new work are Richard Taylor's aluminum sculpture, Jeremy Popelka’s hand-blown Murrini glass vessels, and Stephanie Trenchard's narrative-driven cast glass sculptures.
Read MoreNovember 20 - December 31, 2021
Aniela Sobieski creates small-scale oil paintings of surreal, dream-like situations. These paintings operate as visual poetry, weaving together personal and archetypal symbols through a language inspired by classical painting.
Read MoreOctober 15 - November 20, 2021
Inspired by traditional mid-western scenes and the Chicago Imagists, Michael Noland's gouache paintings mold a vision that is uniquely his own. Noland's depictions of unique animals and plants seem both darkly surreal and engaging as they pulsate with reverberating colors, exaggeration of form, and repetition of line.
Read MoreSeptember 10 - October 9, 2021
Inspired by traditional mid-western scenes and the Chicago Imagists, Michael Noland's gouache paintings mold a vision that is uniquely his own. Noland's depictions of unique animals and plants seem both darkly surreal and engaging as they pulsate with reverberating colors, exaggeration of form, and repetition of line.
Read MoreSummer In Wisconsin
JULY 16 - SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
One of the Gallery's top shows of 2021, Summer in Wisconsin highlights our great Wisconsin Art, featuring paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography by the state’s best-known contemporary artists.
We hope you will visit!
The exhibiting artists include:
Rodger Bechtold, Mary Bero, Craig Blietz, TD Brenner, Derrick Buisch, Marion Coffey, Laura Dronzek, Andy Fletcher, Ben Grant, Doug Hatch, Kathy Hofmann, Claire Kellesvig, Flora Langlois, Clare Malloy, Cathy Martin, Mark Mulhern, Charles Munch, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Russell Panczenko, Guzzo Pinc, Jeremy Popelka, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Jason Rohlf, Jim Rose, Jan Serr, Aniela Sobieski, T.L. Solien, Fred Stonehouse, Paula Swaydan Grebel, Richard Taylor, Stephanie Trenchard, Tom Uttech, John Wilde, Mary Alice Wimmer, James Winn, and Janica Yoder.
Read MorePocket of Memories
June 8 - July 10, 2021
Michael Hedges effortlessly combines color, line, and form, producing a dialogue of reverberating hues and mark-making in every painting. He has thoroughly absorbed the push-and-pull lessons of paint and dimensionality on a flat surface as if the work emerged alongside the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. His love of painting is matched only by his tremendous skill and dedication.
Hedges grew up in the Chicago area and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before receiving his B.A. in Studio Art from Loras College in Dubuque. His work can be found in private and public collections throughout the United States.
Read MoreCharles Munch - Parallel Worlds
April 16 - May 14. 2021
Wisconsin artist, Charles Munch, creates vividly imagined paintings that explore the complex relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world. Eliminating extraneous details, Munch expresses emotion through color, line, and shape. His paintings of simplified forms, pulsing with life and color, create dramatic scenes of man and animal, friend and foe.
Read MoreLaura Dronzek - New Paintings
March 26 - April 24, 2021
Wisconsin artist, Laura Dronzek, is a painter and an award-winning children's book illustrator. In her new body of work, Dronzek continues to explore still life and landscape painting while adding elements of statuary and images from the garden. The muted colors and painterly strokes of Dronzek's paintings invoke the charm and comfort of familiar scenes cloaked in a dreamy haze
Read MoreMarch 26 - April 10, 2021
Mixing bold colors with graphic elements and representational figures, Wisconsin painter Guzzo Pinc, creates dynamic abstract compositions that toe the line between abstraction and figuration. The artist manipulates the surface by sanding painted areas creating translucent effects that invite further study. Large swaths of flat, colorful shapes provide an exciting movement and tension, resulting in a visually striking body of work.
Born in Chicago, Guzzo Pinc earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read MoreFebruary 6 - March 20, 2021
Throughout the history of art, certain subjects have resonated strongly with artists and audiences alike. Ranging from mythological deities to the food we eat, these revisited trends reveal art's most popular muses, with flowers at the forefront. Rooted in ancient art and still prevalent today, depictions of blossoms, blooms, and other botanical elements can be found in many of the most significant art movements, whether carved into clay or starring in a still-life.
Wallflowers, a contemporary spin on this timeless theme, explores how the region's top artists interpret this subject, as each artist’s styles are as unique and personal as their intent. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, photography, and sculpture.
Exhibiting Artists:
Read MoreJanuary 8 - February 15, 2021
El Gato Chimney, a Milan-based artist, forms a surreal history of imagined animal kingdoms, a deceptive world full of symbols awaiting deciphering. Inspired by folklore, magic, alchemy, occultism, ancient and modern art, as well as primitive art and spiritualism, Chimney develops a unique sense of storytelling where the very borders of his paintings resemble the antiquated pages of a codex illuminated with pictorial spells.
Read MoreDecember 5, 2020 - January 2, 2021
Kathy Hofmann's small intimate paintings recall the masterful works of the Barbizon painters and the luminist style of the Hudson River School. Hofmann's work glorifies the Wisconsin landscape while subtly evoking a eulogy to such a seemingly idyllic landscape under threat of modernization. With an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, local artist Kathy Hofmann's exquisite works of art have earned her many awards and high praise.
When I am looking at landscapes, I am always looking for this melding of light and atmosphere and gradations of light, color, tone, value and shape. These are the things that really inspire me as a painter and bring me to that level of wanting to take it into the studio to be able to play with those gradations of light that are melting into the distance.
-Kathy Hofmann
Read MoreDecember 5, 2020 - January 2. 2021
Andy Fletcher’s new body of work is a special exhibition of smaller paintings. These paintings feature scenes from the Wisconsin landscape, dotted with farms, rendered in plein air. Fletcher’s atmospheric skies, broad horizons, and depictions of quaint homesteads serve as a nostalgic reminder of an older and more sustainable way of living,
Fletcher earned a B.F.A. from Carroll College and an M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He's taught at Winona State University, the University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Carroll College. Now, he is a full-time artist and exhibits his paintings from coast to coast.
Sometimes I paint just because I think something is beautiful. Some are simply about the weather. Some celebrate old hand built buildings or the family farm. Most are a rejection of where our food comes from and our culture in general. Most are as much looking back as projecting forward. All of them are sincerely me.
– Andy Fletcher
Read MoreNovember 27, 2020 - January 2, 2021
In his latest series, Broken Books, Wisconsin artist Fred Stonehouse revives and re-contextualizes fragments of antique books to create rich paintings. Complex and full of dark humor, these re-imagined paintings pricked with anecdotal bits and Stonehouse's classic characters present eerily improbable, yet somehow familiar scenarios that strike a balance of wit, absurdity, mystery, and suspense.
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