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Celebrating the Glory of Wisconsin
When Mark Brautigam returned to his home state of Wisconsin in 2000 after serving in the Marines in San Diego, he didn’t know what to do. None of the jobs he’d been considering appealed to him. He was thinking about going back to school. “When I got back, I was used to that grand, epic California landscape, and it was so foreign to me. I had this new appreciation for a subtler, quieter sort of place like Wisconsin,” Brautigam said.
Read MoreRead the article about Mark Brautigam‘s “On Wisconsin” series in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by clicking here!
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A quartet of talented men arrives for three exhibitions at Tory Folliard Gallery this fall. The exhibitions, opening Sept. 9, include Wisconsin artists Mark Brautigam and Peter Barrickman, St. Louis’ Mark Horton and New York’s James Benjamin Franklin.
Read MoreMark Brautigam recently brought in his beautifully made, limited edition box set of 25 prints from his “On Wisconsin” photo series. Always with an eye for detail, Brautigam worked with a custom box maker in New York to produce this elegant, cloth covered archival repository for this collection. Each print is stored in individual, acid free sleeves so that the images can be safely viewed. It is so pristine that we have to keep it in back, but it is available for viewing upon request.
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Wednesday, August 31 saw the opening of the Current Tendencies II exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. The exhibition features 10 Milwaukee artists working in a diverse range of media. I have 16 photographs from my series On Wisconsin in the show and am thrilled that they are now part of the permanent collection at the Haggerty. The exhibition runs through December 31.
Read MoreAfter years of roaming the state to capture intriguing subjects, Mark Brautigam recently completed his series On Wisconsin. Finding beauty in settings others might overlook, Brautigam focuses on ordinary people and places around the state, expressing their quiet dignity and importance through carefully framed shots with his 8×10 camera. We will be presenting ten photos from Mark Brautigam‘s series On Wisconsin in an exhibition of the same name September 9th through October 14th, in the meantime, click here to see more of Mark Brautigam’s work.
Nothing says says Summer in Wisconsin like tubing down a lazy river. Our summers are short, and beautiful days sometimes seem rare, so when the perfect day occurs, everyone comes out of the woodwork to enjoy it. Mark Brautigam‘s On Wisconsin series features many images from around the state in all seasons, but this is one of my favorites. The carefree tubers on the sparkling water under the shimmering trees makes for a delightful scene. The true beauty of this view communicates naturally in large format photographs. The image size measures35×44 inches. The artist lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps for four years.
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