Your Custom Text Here
March 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
Read MoreSeptember 7 – October 12, 2013
Craig Blietz returns to the East Gallery with a new series of work inspired by stories of an old creamery. His adroitly painted animals indirectly refer to the recently demolished creamery and, in a larger sense, the diminishing number of small dairy operations. Romantic, realistic, and oblique, Blietz’s paintings invite the viewer to reflect on our changing world.
Read MoreSeptember 13 – October 12, 2013
T.L Solien continues his exploration of the theme of westward expansion in this new body of work that includes paintings, works on paper, and sculptures. Solien delves into deep themes of American culture and the history of pioneer settlement, as he merges Ahab’s quest for the white whale with Americans’ quest for the West. Employing a myriad of personal, graphic symbols and eccentric characters, Solien is surreal and entirely original. By examining the lot of the common citizens such as mothers, mechanics, and firemen and portraying them in his singular style, Solien invites us to take a closer look at America’s history.
Read MoreSeptember 12 – October 11, 2014
Opening & Artist’ Reception: September 12th, 5:00pm – 7:30pm
This comprehensive group of new work by Mark Mulhern reflects his ongoing interest in the figure and still life. Introspective but unselfconscious, the work is filled with subtle gestures and freely painted locations that invite contemplation on the part of the viewer.
Read MoreSeptember 12 – October 11, 2014
Opening & Artist’ Reception: September 12th, 5:00pm – 7:30pm
East Gallery
Gallery favorite Cathy Martin returns to the East Gallery for her fourth solo show. A long time farmer in Southwest Wisconsin, Cathy Martin is a self-taught painter who is a master of observation with a command of realism.
Read MoreJuly 12 – September 6 , 2014
Exuding the energy of our favorite time of year, this comprehensive, triennial exhibition features new work by our many talented Wisconsin artists in a diverse collection of contemporary styles that range from abstract to realist.
Read MoreMay 30 – July 3, 2014
Continuing his investigation of form and color, Trent Miller returns to the East Gallery with a new body of work inspired by the “healing machines” of Emory Blagdon. Neither completely representational or abstract, these paintings occupy the mysterious space between real and ephemeral.
Read MoreJuly 12 – August 31, 2013
Curated by Fred Stonehouse
The heraldic nature of tattoos has historically tied its imagery to the symbolism of animals. If one could argue that tattoos constitute a sort of “psychic armor” then this imagery and symbolism seems to make complete sense and the pervasiveness of it in tattoo design is understandable. Of course, artists are drawn to animal imagery for a host of reasons, but for this exhibition we decided to focus on animal imagery in the art of tattooists and other artists as a way to think about the possible correlations and overlaps between related practices.
This exhibition will bring together the work of a diverse group of artists, linked primarily by the fact (other than the common subject matter) that I know them all. Large scale pieces from the renowned tattooer Don Ed Hardy, the exquisite hand-colored etchings of Briony Morrow Cribbs, the boldly graphic paintings of New York tattooist Bert Krak and the Japanese inflected works of Milwaukee’s own Jon Reiter will all be part of the mix. – Fred Stonehouse
Read More