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
Read MoreOctober 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.
Read MoreOctober 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.
Read MoreSeptember 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.
Read MoreGallery Night at the Tory Folliard Gallery was a great success! Below are pictures of just some of the wonderful people that attended to celebrate Patrick Farrell’s exhibition New Oil Paintings: Looking Back. If you weren’t able to make it, the show is open until September 1, so be sure to stop by!
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