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July 13 – September 8, 2018
For thirty years, Tory Folliard Gallery has brought exceptional artwork to Milwaukee. In celebration the Gallery is mounting the 30th Anniversary Exhibition, highlighting the outstanding artwork from its stable of artists. This blockbuster exhibition includes up to 150 works in painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography.
Read MoreJune 1 - June 30, 2018
Best known for his fluid, dynamic, and colorful abstractions, Terrence Coffman's paintings reaffirm his interest and roots in abstract expressionism. The exhibition includes a survey of Coffman’s paintings over the last ten years.
Read MoreApril 20 - May 26, 2018
Contemporary tromp l'oeil techniques continue to surprise viewers in Ron Isaac's beautifully painted wood sculptures. The artist’s convincing representations of vintage clothing, plant materials, and time-patinated found objects come together in visually rich, and often surprising combinations to suggest metaphors for the relationships of human life and nature, memory, and the passage of time.
Read MoreApril 20 - May 26, 2018
Chris Berti's inviting sculptures of animals and everyday sculptural objects teem with whimsy and wonder. His new sculptures are each methodically made from found ceramic drainage tiles, turn of the century antique bricks, cut logs, marble, and granite.
Read MoreMarch 24 – April 14, 2018
Artist's Reception: Saturday, March 24, 1:30-4pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday, March 24, 2-2:30pm
Influenced by traditional American scenes and Chicago Imagism, Michael Noland's gouache paintings mold a vision that is uniquely his own. His paintings of unique animals and plants seem both darkly surreal and amusing as they pulsate with reverberating colors, exaggeration of form, and repetition of line.
Read MoreMarch 24 – April 14, 2018
Artist's Reception: Saturday, March 24, 1:30-4pm
A Wisconsin farmer by trade, Martin's photo-realistic paintings recount a long history of early mornings on the family farm. Her work tells the story of a subtle longing for life little changed from generation to generation.
Read MoreFebruary 17 - March 17, 2018
Married artists Katie Musolff and Andy Fletcher are life-long Wisconsin residents. Both execute a type of rural portraiture of the world they inhabit - one on the micro and the other on the macro scale.
January 5-February 10, 2018
Wisconsin artist, Richard Taylor, creates aluminum sculptures that reflect the artist’s appreciation for the geometry and poetry of the agricultural landscape. Silos, sheds, barns, and homes form unique villages in each farmyard.
Read MoreJanuary 5-February 10, 2018
Exuberant color and painterly brushstrokes fill the canvases of Midwest landscape painter, Rodger Bechtold. Based on direct observation, recollection, and invention, Bechtold's paintings blend representation and abstraction with straightforward beauty.
Read MoreDecember 2-30, 2017
Derrick Buisch uses vibrant color combinations as a conduit for jolts of optical electricity designed to warm a room. His iconic abstract symbols begin as scribbles and sketches of monsters, buildings or abstract patterns that he enlarges on canvas and paints with brilliant color.
Read MoreDecember 2-30, 2017
Bill Reid’s brightly painted metal sculptures tell the story of the artist’s own folklore through imaginary creatures riding on whimsical mechanical creations. Reid’s toy-like creations are made entirely of welded pieces of thin sheet metal and metal rods and range in size from miniature to life sized vehicles.
Read MoreOctober 20 - November 25, 2017
Artist Jeremy Popelka telegraphs feelings from his stay in Thailand through color and texture in his diverse body of cast-glass pieces. Popelka's work in Gravity embraces the serendipitous nature of glass to allow the work to take shape. He is a master of several, widely different techniques used in art glass--including blowing, sand casting and Murrini--and has consistently delivered stunning glasswork for the past thirty years.
Read MoreOctober 20 - November 25, 2017
Jason Rohlf's immersive paintings in Kismet are a visual depiction of how we lose and reassert our sense of control in our lives. Through merging the fore and backgrounds of his paintings, the work invites viewers to stand close, and be enveloped by their nuance and hues. Intuitively developed, Rohlf's paintings oscillate between traditions of geometry against intuition in an asymmetric composition. The artist has exhibited his work across the country, created a public installation for the MTA, lectured for the Pratt Institute, Bowling Green University, Lawrence University, and more.
Read MoreSeptember 15 - October 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, September 15 from 5-7:30pm
Breehan James shares her connection with nature and experiences in the wilderness through paintings depicting scenes from Northern Wisconsin and the wild Boundry Waters of Minnesota. Her use of saturated color and beautiful brushwork lend a magical quality to her canvases.
Read MoreSeptember 15 – October 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, September 15 from 5-7:30pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday, September 23 from 1-2pm
Best known for his elaborate low-relief paper sculptures, Michael Velliquette returns to this medium in his upcoming solo exhibition. Velliquette hand-cuts small, simple paper shapes and assembles them into complex forms akin to three-dimensional mandalas. The formal symmetry, balance, and order of these works are meant to evoke the rhythm and repetition of breath. Velliquette forgoes his prior use of vibrant color, instead employing an emotionally restrained palette of tans, grays and whites. Beginner’s Mind refers to an approach to living without preconception—a sensibility that characterizes the skillfully simple posture Velliquette brings to this new series.
Read MoreJuly 7 - September 9, 2017
Artists' Reception: Gallery Night, Friday, July 21 from 5 to 9pm
The Salon Show is the biggest exhibition of the year at the Tory Folliard Gallery. Showcasing painting, sculpture, and photography from an impressive list of exhibiting artists including: Rodger Bechtold, Mary Bero, Craig Blietz, Mark Brautigam, Derrick Buisch, Jessica Calderwood, Mark Chatterley, Robert Cocke, Marion Coffey, Terrence Coffman, Laura Dronzek, Andy Fletcher, Mark Forth, Ben Grant, Harold Gregor, Gerit Grimm, Doug Hatch, Kathy Hofmann, Ron Isaacs, Keith Jacobshagen, Mary Jones, Clare Malloy, Nancy Mladenoff, Mark Mulhern, Charles Munch, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Michael Noland, Melanie Parke, Bill Reid, Jason Rohlf, Jan Serr, Elizabeth Shreve, Brook Slane, Trina May Smith, Claire Stigliani, Fred Stonehouse, Paula Swaydan Grebel, Richard Taylor, Stephanie Trenchard, Tom Uttech, Mary Alice Wimmer and James Winn.
Read MoreJune 2 - July 1, 2017
Artist's Reception on Friday, June 2 from 5:30 - 8pm with an Artist Talk at 6pm
Claire Stigliani creatively expresses ideas of femininity, sexuality, beauty, desire, and female empowerment in paintings and drawings, puppet theaters and videos. In a timeless space filled with historical portraits, literature, and pop-culture references, Stigliani places fairy tale like characters often based on her own personal identity.
Read MoreJune 2 - June 30, 2017
Artists' Reception Friday, June 9 from 5:30 - 8pm with Artists' Talks at 6pm
The Tory Folliard Gallery is pleased to present Winnowers, a group exhibition of emerging, young artists. The "Winnowers" are recent graduates of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Fine Arts Program. We wish to thank Fred Stonehouse for introducing the Gallery to these talented artists.
Read MoreMarch 18 - April 15, 2017
Artist's Reception: March 18, from 2 - 5pm with an artist talk at 4pm
Jim Rose combines timeless American traditions in beautifully hand crafted contemporary steel furniture and sculpture. Inspired by the colorful quilt work of the Gee’s Bend Quilters, Rose employs fine woodworking techniques to create furniture made from sheets of steel and scrap metal. Like remnants of cloth that preserve family memories in quilts, the discarded scraps of metal add rich color, texture and history to Rose’s highly functional designs.
Read MoreApril 21 – May 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Gallery Night, April 21, 5-9pm
T.L. Solien entertains the paradox of “The Foreseeable Past” by imparting a contemporary perspective on classic narrative images from the annals of art history. A self-described artist of the “absurdist cultural critique,” Solien invites you in with brightly colored compositions filled with farcical figures and fanciful objects. Once engaged you realize all is not as it seems, you have entered a world where belief turns to disbelief, the annunciation becomes the renunciation and the course of history is altered. Paintings, collaged works on paper and mixed media cut-outs will be on view.
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