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July 17 - September 5, 2020
An exhibition of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture celebrating the representations of dogs in contemporary art. Invited guest curator, Fred Stonehouse, is interested in the variety of ways that artists push beyond the pedestrian conceptions of a “pet portrait” into a terrain where images of dogs become thoroughly enmeshed with a creative vision or studio practice.
Read MoreThis exhibition includes ten of America's most celebrated landscape artists working today. Each offers a unique and personal vision when capturing a large and vast landscape. The approaches in style are as varied as each artist’s intent; from documentary photography to plein air painting, each luminous and inventive landscape becomes an embodiment of the artist’s interpretation of the world. Exhibiting artists include Rodger Bechtold, the Estate of Harold Gregor, Kathy Hofmann, Keith Jacobshagen, Cathy Martin, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Todd Olson, Tom Uttech, and James Winn.
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Flushed with color and finished with confident brushwork, Wisconsin artist Paula Swaydan-Grebel's work presents moments of beauty. Light drenched rooms and thoughtful still life arrangements make up her new series of small oil paintings on canvas and panel. Each piece captures intimate scenes of stillness and sincerity.
Read MoreFebruary 15 - March 14
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. "Going Home," an exhibition of new paintings by the artists, captures the landscape, flora, and fauna of their new agrarian surroundings.
Read MoreJanuary 4 - February 8, 2020
CHROMA, an exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture, focuses on intense hue and abstraction. The exhibition includes new paintings by Derrick Buisch, Terrence Coffman, Ben Grant, Michael Hedges, Shane McAdams, Clarence Morgan, Jason Rohlf, and T.L. Solien, and metal and glass sculpture by Jeremy Popelka and Richard Taylor.
Read MoreNovember 29-December 28, 2019
Tory Folliard Gallery celebrates the career of well-known Wisconsin artist John Wilde (1919-2006) with an exhibition titled John Wilde – 100. This important exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth and includes drawings and paintings from 1940-2005.
Read MoreOctober 18 - November 23, 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 MoreSeptember 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.
June 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.
April 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.
March 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."
March 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.
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