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May 29 – July 4, 2015
Artist’s Reception on Friday, May 29 from 5 to 7pm
Mark Forth’s quiet figures occupy serene interiors filled with beautiful light. A minimum of curious objects hint at mysterious questions but provide no answers. Subtle coloration and striking detail are exquisitely rendered in these poetic paintings.
Read MoreMay 29 – July 4, 2015
Artist’s Reception on Friday, May 29 from 5 to 7pm
Known as “America’s Heartland Painter,” Harold Gregor captures the vast beauty of the Midwest in a diverse range of styles. Included in the exhibition are “Flatscapes”, vibrant farmland scenes painted from a bird’s eye view and his latest series of “Vibrascapes,” and “Tanglescapes”, colorful abstract paintings which fuse intense color theory with spontaneous brushstrokes.
Read MoreMarch 19 – April 19, 2014
Sculptor Chris Berti is fascinated with the colors and textures of 19th century brick paving stones. The amazing warmth and variety will be evident in his small scale sculptures incorporating the brick’s shape, earth colors, and at times, text of the brick manufacturer with carved imagery. Berti, an active NCECA exhibitor, has been the recipient of numerous awards and has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; and the Frederick Meijer Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI.
Read MoreApril 25 – May 24, 2014
Gallery Night and Day: April 25 & 26
The New Still Life celebrates one of art’s greatest themes with a range of techniques from photorealistic to abstract by the Midwest’s best sculptors and painters. The exhibition includes glass sculpture by Beth Lipman and Stephanie Trenchard and new paintings by Melanie Parke, Clare Malloy, Lon Michels, Jeffrey Ripple, Dennis Nechvatal, and John A. Sayers and vintage works by John Wilde.
Read MoreApril 17 – May 23
Artists’ Reception on Gallery Night, Friday, April 17 from 6 to 9 pm
Doug Hatch is best known for his realistic paintings of urban scenes. Working in his studio from photographs, Hatch employs traditional methods of photorealism using strong diagonals, reflected surfaces, and transparent components to elucidate vibrant street scenes. Influenced by Edward Hopper and Richard Estes, Hatch is particularly interested in interpreting daily life. Vibrant, detail oriented and filled with movement, the paintings of Doug Hatch capture a place and time of day, perfectly.
Read MoreApril 17 – May 23, 2015
Artists’ Reception on Gallery Night, Friday, April 17 from 6 to 9 pm
In his second solo exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery, Ron Isaacs continues his 30+ year career of constructing and painting wood to resemble architectural clothing and other antique objects. Purposely devoid of figures, Isaacs invites the viewer to question what they are actually seeing. In this master’s hands, wood appears to be fabric, and leaves and branches are actually carefully constructed details. Combining trompe l’oeil painting with master wood assembling, Isaacs presents new sculptures that quietly demand a careful look to determine their true nature.
Read MoreFebruary 8 – March 8, 2014
The painted steel sculptures that inhabit the world of Bill Reid are headliners from a fantastic mythology, imparting “Bee’s” stories of heroics, tragedy, comedy and drama. From Lilliputian to gigantic, his unforgettable characters may also double as mechanical toys, light fixtures, or pedal cars. Always a favorite in the Racine parades, Reid continues to delight and inspire with humor and whimsy. Reid has been awarded numerous public commissions and has work in the permanent collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD.
Read MoreMarch 7 – April 11, 2015
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 7 from 1 to 4 pm
Long known for his far and wide horizons imbued with beautiful light, the Midwest master James Winn returns with a new body of work filled with the magic of nature’s beauty in a photo realistic style. His new body of work includes large scale panoramic landscapes from the Midwest and upstate New York.
Read MoreFebruary 8 – March 8, 2014
Employing the visual language of scientific objectivity, Briony Morrow-Cribbs explores connections between humans and animals. By placing creatures in psychologically complex situations, she invites the viewer to explore emotional nuances and relationships. A virtuoso of copperplate etching, Morrow-Cribbs uses an intricate system of dots, dashes, concentric lines and hand tinting to create highly detailed prints in the naturalist tradition.
Read MoreFebruary 14 – March 14, 2015
Focusing on the details of daily life and childhood memories, Mary Jones’ cartoon like figures have an insightful character with a serious edge influenced by the Chicago Imagists. Fanciful at first glance, further study reveals the more serious side of life through bold strokes of paint and subtle touches of collage.
Read MoreJanuary 4 – February 1, 2014
Master glass artist Jeremy Popelka returns with new sand cast glass sculpture inspired by an arcane view of objects and their surroundings. Gestural ornamental surface textures allude to other materials such as stone and fabric while translucent vibrant, glowing color infuses these sculptural forms with vitality.
Read MoreJanuary 4 – February 1, 2014
Over time Rodger Bechtold has built a solid reputation for being a major contributor to contemporary landscape painting in the Midwest and beyond. His work is expressed with energy, painted with seemingly effortless brushwork and charged with color.
Read MoreJanuary 9 – February 28
Artists’ Reception on Gallery Night, Friday, January 16 from 5 to 9 pm
Artists’ Talk on Gallery Day, Saturday, January 17 at 1 pm
Seven contemporary artists use color and abstraction to define space and structure. Artists include Tom Berenz, Derrick Buisch, Ben Grant, Mark Ottens, Jeremy Popelka, Jason Rohlf and Richard Taylor.
Read MoreDecember 6, 2014 – January 3, 2015
Artist’s Reception: December 6, 2014, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm; Artist Talk at 2:00 pm
Wisconsin native Tom Uttech returns for his ninth solo exhibition at the Tory Folliard Gallery.
During his trips to the Boundary Waters between northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Quetico Provincial Park in Canada, Uttech gathers experiences and memories to fuel his new paintings. Mythic, atmospheric, and astoundingly detailed, this new body of work epitomizes his passionate interest in th wilderness.
In the artist’s own words: “These paintings are all recollections of the magic I have found in the North Woods. They never depict any actual place [...]"
Read MoreNovember 30 – December 28, 2013
Friday, December 6th: Artist’s Reception: 5 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 7th: Artist Talk at 2 p.m.
“Making navigational decisions is subjective to the individual and the inputs are sometimes contradictory. Through a combination of deliberate action and intuition the works hope to reflect back the myriad choices we all are confronted with on a daily basis.” ~ Jason Rohlf
Read MoreOctober 18 – November 16, 2013
“The Modern Landscape” includes artists whose methods vary widely but who share a fascination with the natural world. A marvelous collection of landscapes from intimately scaled and highly detailed to grand, expressive studies in color. Peaceful pastoral scenes, vibrantly abstracted works and scenes of the west and Midwest are included in the exhibition.
Read MoreOctober 17 – November 15, 2014
Opening & Artist Reception: Gallery Night, Friday, October 17th, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Artist Talk: Gallery Day, Saturday, October 18th, 1:00pm
In his unique and now well-known printmaking process, Nathaniel Stern straps a desktop scanner, laptop and custom-made battery pack to his body, and performs images into existence. He might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around his neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond. The dynamism between his body, technology, and the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are then produced as archival
Read MoreOctober 17 – November 15, 2014
Opening & Artist Reception: Gallery Night, October 17th, 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Mary Alice Wimmer continues to enchant the viewer with her Vanitas compositions of specimens from earth, sky, and sea. Long captivated by the natural world, Wimmer an avid traveler and collector, paints vibrant, highly detailed watercolors that convey the transient nature of life. Also a skilled silverpoint artist, new drawings using this early Renaissance technique will be included in this exhibition.
Read MoreOctober 17 – November 15, 2014
Opening & Artist Reception: Gallery Night, October 17th, 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Through her colorful series The Ladies, Nancy Mladenoff explores the lives of American women who have found significant roles beyond that of wife and mother. Often unknowingly acting as mentors for other women, the heroes depicted in The Ladies are from all walks of life: science, the arts, sports and more. Mladenoff earned her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches painting at the University of Wisconsin. She has exhibited her work internationally, and The Ladies were included in the 2014 Wisconsin Triennial. The Ladies 2 is her
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