September 13 - October 12, 2019
Madison-based artist TL Solien became a fixture in the realms of Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Surrealism, and New Image Histories. Since the late ’70s, Solien’s practices have been linked to the continuing evolution of figural painting through his compositions of impeccable, doleful narratives charged with signs, symbols, and tropes mimicking socio-political culture.
Solien's new body of work, "Forest Fighters/Black Eye Joke," continues this tradition by pulling viewers into his disquieting orbit of sardonic still lifes, landscapes, and portraiture.
Read MoreSeptember 19 - September 22, 2019
Contemporary artists actively explore the possibilities of animal and naturalist imagery to fabulist ends. Whether these works serve as allegory, political commentary, imaginative world-building, or psychological metaphor, the results demonstrate a magical or fabulist resonance. Exhibiting Artists include Christina Bothwell, Mark Chatterley, El Gato Chimney, Laurie Hogin, Flora Langlois, Michael Noland, Anne Siems, Aniela Sobieski, Fred Stonehouse, Tom Uttech, and Robin Whiteman.
Read MoreJuly 12 - September 7, 2019
Artists’ Reception: Gallery Night, July 19, 6-9 pm
The inanimate is reimagined in Nature Morte, Tory Folliard Gallery's contemporary take on the centuries-old genre of still life. This show includes up to 100 works in painting, sculpture, and photography. Featured in this exhibition are Mary Bero, Chris Berti, Craig Blietz, TD Brenner, Derrick Buisch, Robert Cocke, Marion Coffey, Laura Dronzek, Beth Edwards, Andy Fletcher, Ron Isaacs, Beth Lipman, Dylan Martinez, Lon Michels, Mark Mulhern, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, Michael Noland, Todd Olson, Melanie Parke, Guzzo Pinc, Jeremy Popelka, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Jim Rose, Jan Serr, George Shipperley, T.L. Solien, Fred Stonehouse, Paula Swaydan Grebel, Stephanie Trenchard, John Wilde, Mary Alice Wimmer, and Janica Yoder.
Read MoreJune 7 - July 6, 2019
The strange and beautiful combine in Mary Alice Wimmer's masterful watercolor paintings and silverpoint drawings. Tentacles of vines, abandoned nests, and small animals are neatly arranged with transparent and reflective objects to create captivating still life compositions.
Read MoreJune 7 - July 6, 2019
Midwestern artist, Jessica Calderwood, uses a combination of traditional and industrial processes to create compelling sculptures about contemporary life. Each piece contains strategically placed drapery over a figure that negates, censors, and reveals aspects of the human condition.
Read MoreApril 19 - June 1, 2019
Opening Reception: Gallery Night, Friday, April 26 from 5-9pm
Charles Munch's striking paintings of Wisconsin's Driftless Area and Northwoods explore the relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world. By removing superfluous detail, Munch allows luminous color and simplified drawing to convey emotion, showing humans and animals as both friend and foe in rich combinations.
Read MoreMarch 8 - April 13, 2019
Mary Jones's intricate, collaged paintings chart the journey of the mind. Both familiar and strange, Jone's work resemble maps populated with personas and places, both real and imagined. With the apropos title Coddiwompling Mary Jones invites the viewers "to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination."
Read MoreMarch 8 - April 13, 2019
Lively colors punctuate interiors filled with flowers, birds, and decorative objects in Melanie Parke's delightful paintings. Parke received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States.
Read MoreJanuary 19 - March 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Gallery Night, January 18, 2019
Feb. 9th 1:30pm Gallery Talk – Graeme Reid and Craig Blietz
Craig Blietz's impressive new work, Herd, combines beautifully rendered cows with abstract images of agricultural icons of barns, corn stalks, and tractors, resulting in boldly patterned compositions of shapes and colors. The artist's monumental paintings display recognizable Wisconsin scenes, giving each work a distinct sense of place.
Read MoreDecember 1 – 29, 2018
Primarily working with steel found in scrap yards across the Midwest, Jim Rose employs furniture-making techniques to create beautiful Shaker design and Gee's Bend quilt influenced work. The Gee's Bend quilts, known for their pattern and narrative qualities, were made by women in Gee's Bend, Alabama, beginning in the early 20th century. Unique to Rose is his sensitivities to boundaries between fine art and craft, resulting in striking structures and furniture that is both utilitarian and artistic.
Read MoreDecember 1 – 29, 2018
Delving into a realm of stillness and shadow, Mark Forth's paintings portray antique furnishings, austere architecture and eerie lighting. These objects become interpreters for mute figures that stand, crouch, or recline impassively in softly lit, cinematic scenes of private reflection and the surreal.
Read MoreOctober 19 – November 24, 2018
Expressive, figurative paintings of carefully positioned characters exchanging subtle gazes and implicit abstractions of shape, color and light fill the canvases of Mark Mulhern's paintings.
Read MoreSeptember 14 – October 13, 2018
Artist reception: Friday, Sept. 21 from 5:30 to 8pm
Artist Talk: Friday, Sept. 21 at 7pm
Fred Stonehouse's witty, surreal paintings continue to entertain us with his newest body of work. His masterful brushstrokes bring both sentimental and rebellious figures to life.
Read MoreJuly 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.
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