Charles Munch – New Paintings

February 8 – March 8, 2014

For more than forty years, Charles Munch has depicted the complex relationship between man and nature with carefully composed deconstructed imagery. Graphically painted with precise marks, Munch’s landscapes continue to question our place in the world. The paintings of Charles Munch were included in Wisconsin’s 2013 Triennial. Over the years, he has participated in 20 museum exhibitions, received numerous awards, and has work in the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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The Figure in Clay

March 19 – April 19, 2014

“The Figure in Clay” examines a range of techniques and expression by an international group of contemporary artists using clay as a medium to interpret the figure as both subject and content.

“The Figure in Clay” is curated by Chris Berti and is held in conjunction with NCECA – the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.  The conference is held March 20-23.

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Celebrations in Art

November 30 – December 31, 2012

Celebrations in Art is an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and jewelry featuring gallery artists: Rodger Bechtold, painting; Chris Berti, sculpture; Craig Blietz, painting; James Benjamin Franklin, painting; Bill Reid, sculpture; Stephanie Trenchard, sculpture; and Betsy Youngquist, sculpture & jewelry. Amusing, curious, and contemplative, each artist will present modestly scaled work appropriate for celebrating the gift of art.

*Opening and Artist Reception, Saturday, December 1st from 1 to 4 pm

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Eric Aho – New Paintings

October 13 – November 24, 2012

Eric Aho returns to Milwaukee with a new body of paintings that transcend nature. The Vermont artist’s bold new work shifts to abstraction: away from focused observation and toward remembered experience. Using dynamic brushwork, Aho’s painted surfaces capture the essence of light, air, land and space colliding.

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Laura Dronzek – Flowers & Animals

October 18 – November 24, 2012

Laura Dronzek’s new collection of landscape and still-life paintings are intimate in size, but offer views of grand themes suggested with richly layered surfaces. As Laura Dronzek puts it, “It is the mystery found in the commonplace, the extraordinary in the ordinary that is worth examining.” Her fictitious landscapes are composed of the most basic features: a horizon line, a sky, and a subject, but so carefully rendered, that each one is precious.

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Michael Noland – After the Garden

September 7 through October 5, 2012

Art historian Jim Yood describes Michael Noland‘s work as: “Intense. Obsessive. Determined. Dramatic. Processing reality through his patient translation of the real through design.” New gouache and oil paintings of frenetic creatures and chimerical landscapes express Noland’s healthy respect for nature. Having grown up in Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley and spending much of his adult life in the Midwest, Noland’s paintings embody a spirit of place pulsating with glowing plants and animals.

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