Pocket of Memories
June 8 - July 10, 2021
Michael Hedges effortlessly combines color, line, and form, producing a dialogue of reverberating hues and mark-making in every painting. He has thoroughly absorbed the push-and-pull lessons of paint and dimensionality on a flat surface as if the work emerged alongside the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. His love of painting is matched only by his tremendous skill and dedication.
Hedges grew up in the Chicago area and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before receiving his B.A. in Studio Art from Loras College in Dubuque. His work can be found in private and public collections throughout the United States.
Read MoreCharles Munch - Parallel Worlds
April 16 - May 14. 2021
Wisconsin artist, Charles Munch, creates vividly imagined paintings that explore the complex relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world. Eliminating extraneous details, Munch expresses emotion through color, line, and shape. His paintings of simplified forms, pulsing with life and color, create dramatic scenes of man and animal, friend and foe.
Read MoreLaura Dronzek - New Paintings
March 26 - April 24, 2021
Wisconsin artist, Laura Dronzek, is a painter and an award-winning children's book illustrator. In her new body of work, Dronzek continues to explore still life and landscape painting while adding elements of statuary and images from the garden. The muted colors and painterly strokes of Dronzek's paintings invoke the charm and comfort of familiar scenes cloaked in a dreamy haze
Read MoreMarch 26 - April 10, 2021
Mixing bold colors with graphic elements and representational figures, Wisconsin painter Guzzo Pinc, creates dynamic abstract compositions that toe the line between abstraction and figuration. The artist manipulates the surface by sanding painted areas creating translucent effects that invite further study. Large swaths of flat, colorful shapes provide an exciting movement and tension, resulting in a visually striking body of work.
Born in Chicago, Guzzo Pinc earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read MoreFebruary 6 - March 20, 2021
Throughout the history of art, certain subjects have resonated strongly with artists and audiences alike. Ranging from mythological deities to the food we eat, these revisited trends reveal art's most popular muses, with flowers at the forefront. Rooted in ancient art and still prevalent today, depictions of blossoms, blooms, and other botanical elements can be found in many of the most significant art movements, whether carved into clay or starring in a still-life.
Wallflowers, a contemporary spin on this timeless theme, explores how the region's top artists interpret this subject, as each artist’s styles are as unique and personal as their intent. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, photography, and sculpture.
Exhibiting Artists:
Read MoreJanuary 8 - February 15, 2021
El Gato Chimney, a Milan-based artist, forms a surreal history of imagined animal kingdoms, a deceptive world full of symbols awaiting deciphering. Inspired by folklore, magic, alchemy, occultism, ancient and modern art, as well as primitive art and spiritualism, Chimney develops a unique sense of storytelling where the very borders of his paintings resemble the antiquated pages of a codex illuminated with pictorial spells.
Read MoreDecember 5, 2020 - January 2, 2021
Kathy Hofmann's small intimate paintings recall the masterful works of the Barbizon painters and the luminist style of the Hudson River School. Hofmann's work glorifies the Wisconsin landscape while subtly evoking a eulogy to such a seemingly idyllic landscape under threat of modernization. With an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, local artist Kathy Hofmann's exquisite works of art have earned her many awards and high praise.
When I am looking at landscapes, I am always looking for this melding of light and atmosphere and gradations of light, color, tone, value and shape. These are the things that really inspire me as a painter and bring me to that level of wanting to take it into the studio to be able to play with those gradations of light that are melting into the distance.
-Kathy Hofmann
Read MoreDecember 5, 2020 - January 2. 2021
Andy Fletcher’s new body of work is a special exhibition of smaller paintings. These paintings feature scenes from the Wisconsin landscape, dotted with farms, rendered in plein air. Fletcher’s atmospheric skies, broad horizons, and depictions of quaint homesteads serve as a nostalgic reminder of an older and more sustainable way of living,
Fletcher earned a B.F.A. from Carroll College and an M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He's taught at Winona State University, the University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Carroll College. Now, he is a full-time artist and exhibits his paintings from coast to coast.
Sometimes I paint just because I think something is beautiful. Some are simply about the weather. Some celebrate old hand built buildings or the family farm. Most are a rejection of where our food comes from and our culture in general. Most are as much looking back as projecting forward. All of them are sincerely me.
– Andy Fletcher
Read MoreNovember 27, 2020 - January 2, 2021
In his latest series, Broken Books, Wisconsin artist Fred Stonehouse revives and re-contextualizes fragments of antique books to create rich paintings. Complex and full of dark humor, these re-imagined paintings pricked with anecdotal bits and Stonehouse's classic characters present eerily improbable, yet somehow familiar scenarios that strike a balance of wit, absurdity, mystery, and suspense.
Read MoreOctober 16 - November 28, 2020
Mark Mulhern’s figurative paintings, monotypes, and drawings are immersive displays of the human experience. Each work encourages the viewer to enter into a realm of the real and imagined, where Mulhern’s gestural characters engage in mundane acts of walking in parks and talking among friends, to more sumptuous moments of attending lavish parties and strolling through Parisian flea markets.
One of the top figurative artists working today, Mark Mulhern portrays people and everyday objects in their surroundings. Carefully positioned figures appear natural as they exchange subtle gazes and implicit gestures. Liberated from detail, these paintings expose moments of everyday life that tap into the viewer’s mind. Complementing the expressiveness of the figurative works are the artist's simplified abstractions of shape, color and the containment of light.
Selected Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; Marshall Erdman & Associates, Madison, WI; McDonald’s Corporation, Oakbrook, IL; Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, Milwaukee, WI; Quarles & Brady, LLP, Milwaukee, WI; Quad Graphics, Milwaukee, WI; UW Hospital & Clinics, Madison, WI
Read MoreSeptember 11 - October 10, 2020
Richard Taylor unites painting and sculpture using three dimensional metal forms as canvases for his painted finishes. Fleeting images of people, architecture, and signage, along with fragments of words and numbers are fused into souvenirs of the experiences and characters Taylor has encountered throughout his life.
Read MoreSeptember 11 - October 10, 2020
Michael Hedges’ expressionist paintings are as much about energy as they are about color and texture. Hyper-pigmented hues and thick, gestural brushstrokes effortlessly enliven his canvases. Striking, meditative, and modern, Hedges’ paintings reveal a keen understanding of sophistication through color, line, and form.
Read MoreSeptember 11 - October 10, 2020
Wisconsin artist, Doug Hatch is best known for his realistic paintings of urban and rural scenes. Working in his studio from photographs, Hatch employs traditional methods of photorealism using strong diagonals, reflected surfaces, and transparent components to elucidate vibrant street scenes. Influenced by Edward Hopper and Richard Estes, Hatch is particularly interested in interpreting daily life. Vibrant, detail-oriented and filled with movement, the paintings of Doug Hatch deftly capture a specific place and time of day. In addition to these urban scenes, Hatch paints plein air landscapes of rural Wisconsin with deep vistas and spatial infinities.
The Tory Folliard Gallery has represented the artist since 2012.
Read MoreSeptember 11-October 10, 2020
"As You Are," an exhibition of painting, drawing, and photography, focuses on the work of three female artists: Melanie Parke, Janica Yoder, and Anne Siems. Each offers her contemporary interpretation of the female form.
Read MoreJuly 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 MoreJune 11 - July 12, 2020
This 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.
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