Anne Siems - Muse

Anne Siems - Muse

October 21 - November 26, 2022

Anne Siems' watercolor paintings take on a distinct and powerful posture in her new body of work - Muse. The exhibition presents an intimate look at exposed female figures whose bodies are marked with tattoos of fables, myths, and poems. Their poses and baldness express a vulnerability not of victimhood, but of the strength and courage found in today's women. 

Born in Berlin, Anne Siems lives and works in Seattle. Her drawings and paintings can be found in numerous collections across the country, including the Tacoma Art Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Boise Art Museum, Museum for Contemporary Art & Design- Kansas City,  Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Hallmark Collection among others.

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Craig Blietz - Haul Road

Craig Blietz - Haul Road

October 21 - November 26, 2022

Craig Blietz creates masterful paintings of farm animals and rural imagery that observe the quiet beauty of agrarian life.

In the new body of work, Haul Road, Blietz reflects on his time spent on a Wisconsin farm. Shortly after the artist's visit the property was sold and destined for residential development.  With his usual cast of domestic farm animals, Blietz replays the reductive imaginings he experienced during his visit to that farm.

Craig Blietz received his BS from the University of Denver and continued his art and design studies at the Harrington College of Design.  He completed his formal studies with academic training at the School of Representational Art in Chicago.

Selected Collections

Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI; Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI;  JB and MK Pritzker Collection in the Governor’s Mansion, Springfield, IL; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Dohmen Company, Milwaukee, WI;  Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, MO; NiSource of Indiana, Merrillville, IN;   West Bend Mutual Insurance Company, West Bend, WI

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T.L. Solien - Interiors, Exteriors, & Divided Lights

T.L. Solien - Interiors, Exteriors, and Divided Lights

September 16 - October 15, 2022

 Landscapes are often the setting and the stage upon which TL Solien’s doleful characters experience significant changes or depart on life-changing journeys. Solien's new body of work, "Interiors, Exteriors, and Divided Lights" continues this tradition by pulling viewers into his disquieting orbit of sardonic scenes through his compositions of impeccable narratives charged with signs, symbols, and tropes mimicking socio-political culture.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1949, Solien earned a BFA from Moorhead State University, Moorhead Minnesota, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska.  He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Whitney Biennial Exhibition, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in Painting. 

Solien’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the country and is included in public and private collections around the world.  

Selected collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art;  Minneapolis Institute of Art; Tate Gallery, London;  National Gallery of Australia; Singapore Art Museum, among others.

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Of Nature

Of Nature

July 15 - September 10, 2022

Of Nature lies between the boundaries of the physical and the imaginary realms.  Glimpses of ephemera and captivations of the natural world are represented in painting, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by thirty-two Midwest artists.

Participating Artists include: 

Chris Berti, Christina Bothwell, TD Brenner, Mark Chatterley, El Gato Chimney, Emma Daisy, Laura Dronzek, Kathy Hofmann, Laurie Hogin, Ron Isaacs, Claire Kellesvig, Flora Langlois, Veronica Mortellaro, Mark Mulhern, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Michael Noland, Judy Onofrio, Russell Panczenko, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Jan Serr, George Shipperley, Aniela Sobieski, Fred Stonehouse, Robin Whiteman, Tom Uttech, John Wilde, Jonathan Wilde, Mary Alice Wimmer, and James Winn. 

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Jeanette Pasin Sloan - New Paintings

Jeanette Pasin Sloan - New Paintings

June 4 - July 9, 2022

Jeanette Pasin Sloan's paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. Pasin Sloan works primarily in still lifes, which she describes as, “between realism and abstraction, knowing and unknowing, and order and disorder.” Her work’s main focus is not the objects that she paints, but the reflections in the objects. These reflections take on their own life, subverting both genre and style, infusing the traditional genre of still life painting with highly abstract tendencies. Closely-cropped, and set in carefully manipulated compositions, the subject matter of Pasin Sloan's work takes second stage to its formal intensity. Pasin Sloan’s work seeks to depict a world of harmony and order, despite the knowledge of chaos.

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Ben Grant - Re-Signed

Ben Grant - Re-Signed

June 3 - July 9, 2022

 Galvanized by iconic Hindu and Western religious paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries, Wisconsin artist Ben Grant's work combines an interest in commercial painting techniques with the visual reinvestigation of ubiquitous cultural signifiers. Just as the painters of the original masterworks who attempted to instill their sense of style and feeling into worn representations, Grant brings his own preoccupations to bear in new, hybrid icons.

Grant combines a multi-layered process of applying a variety of media such as paint, pencil, and ink with a multitude of techniques including brushing, scraping, rolling, spraying, and drawing. Grant leaves his work "Untitled" as he does not want to impose any personal meaning on the work of art, instead, he invites you to enter the painting on your own terms and make connections based on your life experiences, beliefs, and outlook.

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Fred Stonehouse - Falling Waters

Fred Stonehouse - Falling Waters

April 22 - May 28. 2022

A major figure in Wisconsin art, Fred Stonehouse is nationally recognized for his beautifully executed artwork and witty sense of rebellion. His style has a sophistication that reflects his diverse, cross-cultural interests, and outsider and folk art influences. Often encompassing religious or surreal contexts, his paintings are a materialization of his nostalgia for familiar cartoon figures of the past, blended with the artist's own delicate balance of humor, beauty and derangement. Fred Stonehouse, a Milwaukee native, has enjoyed over fifteen museum exhibitions across the country including a retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and has been featured in Blab and Juxtapose magazines.

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