October 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 MoreFred Stonehouse
September 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 More30th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
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 MoreTerrence Coffman
June 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 MoreRon Isaacs
April 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 MoreChris Berti
April 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 MoreMichael Noland
March 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 MoreCathy Martin
March 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 MoreKatie Musolff and Andy Fletcher
February 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.
Richard Taylor - My Farm
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 MoreRodger Bechtold - As I See It
January 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 MoreMary Alice Wimmer
December 1 - 29, 2017
Mary Alice Wimmer’s new watercolor paintings display the artist’s intrigue into all things natural, and interest in 18th Century Cabinets of Curiosity.
Read MoreAniela Sobieski
December 1 – 29, 2017
Aniela Sobieski's new paintings of surreal, dream-like characters lend emotionally, and narratively charged qualities in every brushstroke.
Read MoreMelanie Parke
March 9 – April 20, 2017
Flowers, birds, decorative objects, gardens and domestic settings fill the canvases of Melanie Parke’s bucolic still life settings. Each painting reconstructs familiar interiors and filters them through the ideology of memory.
Read MoreMary Jones
March 9 – April 20, 2017
Mary Jones's intricately detailed, collaged works map the journey of the mind. Ideas flood the artist during her urban wanderings while her feet are in motion on city sidewalks.
Read MoreDerrick Buisch - New Paintings
December 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 MoreBill Reid - New Sculptures
December 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 MoreGravity - New Works by Jeremy Popelka
October 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 MoreJason Rohlf - Kismet
October 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 MoreBreehan James - A Hunter's Heart, A Fisherman's View
September 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.
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