Mark Mulhern - Conversations

Mark Mulhern -Conversations

October 20th - November 25th

Mark Mulhern is an American painter best known for his large figurative works capturing the human experience. In each piece, Mulhern encourages the viewer to enter his realm of real and imagined scenes where his characters engage in the simple acts of walking and conversing to more sumptuous moments of making party preparations and enjoying elegant gatherings.

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George Shipperley - Expressions

George Shipperley - Expressions

January 28 - February 25, 2023

Based on years of observation of the natural world, George Shipperley merges memories of nature with his imagination to create a vision all his own. The artist applies multiple layers of oil pastel and occasionally employs a sgraffito technique to the work, creating expert layers of colors and forms. The finished works reveal poetic compositions rooted in realism and finished with the immediacy of abstract expressionism. 

A native of Illinois, Shipperley studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Aurora University. His works are in public and private collections throughout the United States.

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Guzzo Pinc - Nomos

Guzzo Pinc - NOMOS

January 6 - February 25, 2023

Wisconsin painter, Guzzo Pinc, showed a voracious interest in the visual arts from a very early age which led him to study and copy works ranging from skateboarding graphics to canonical paintings of art history. He majored in chemistry in college but switched to art history at the last minute, a degree that offered little in terms of financial stability. 

For the next two decades painting became his single form of consistency as he struggled with itinerance and personal issues. Finally, opportunities began to arise after he was "discovered" on Instagram by faculty members of UW-Madison's painting program who encouraged him to enroll in the MFA program. 

After completing his MFA, Guzzo was offered representation by galleries in the Midwest and included in international shows and museum exhibitions. His work continues to become known in larger and larger circles throughout the world.

Throughout this strange journey, Guzzo Pinc has come to respect and be influenced by sources that are considered very "low" and ones that are very "high", ranging from graffiti and comic books to the canonical artists of the Western and Eastern traditions --and it is this blending of such a diverse range of influences and experiences that gives his painting its unique style.

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Mary Bero - Strange Days

Mary Bero - Strange Days

December 3 - 31, 2022

 Wisconsin artist Mary Bero breaks all the traditional rules of fiber art. She weaves what she calls "tapestry paintings." Her primary technique is to hand-stitch cotton or silk thread or floss to a cloth backing, simultaneously building up areas of color and texture that form striking images and patterns when seen together. Sometimes Bero augments these methods with acrylics, cloth, or paper, creating primitive explosions of vibrant color and emotion. This new body of work includes a multi-themed series of Ideograms sewn on black fabric.

Bero's subject matter may seem simple and direct; freely-rendered human faces and forms, animals and plants, repeated shapes and patterns. However, her artistic choices and technical execution reveal dimensions of subtlety and refinement that belie such impressions of thematic simplicity. As the viewer moves closer to one of Bero's pieces, the complexity and variety of her surfaces become increasingly evident.

Bero's work has been shown in exhibitions across the nation over her thirty-plus-year span of art-making. She is a two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and is in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and more.

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