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Ron Isaacs, WALLFLOWER, Acrylic on Birch Plywood Construction
Ron Issacs plywood construction sculpture "Wallflower" is featured on the new bookcover of Brazilian author LÉLIA ALMEIDA. Entitled "Este Mundo Que Esquecomos Todos os Dias" or "This Other World That We Forget Every Day," it is published independently by Confraria do Vento a cooperative small publishing house that specializes in projects of prose and poetry.
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Painter Jason Rohlf was just awarded the Sam and Adelle Golden Foundation for the Arts Artist in Residency for September 27th through October 24th, 2015. Specifically for visual artists, the residency website explains, "With a greater array of materials available to artists than ever before, this is an exciting time in art history. The Golden Foundation Residency Program is specifically designed to assist the professional artist in discovering and exploring the many materials and technologies available today. Through the Golden Foundation, residents will have the unparalleled opportunity to work with dozens of unique materials and technologies."
Read MoreTom Uttech hails from Merrill, Wis. (population approximately 9,500), where the Wisconsin River joins with the Prairie River. One suspects that being surrounded from birth by the picturesque cycle of seasons in Merrill has something to do with Uttech’s ascendance to being one of America’s foremost landscape painters and photographers.Uttech, who currently resides in Saukville, Wis., is teaming up with the Tory Folliard Gallery for his ninth solo exhibition in the space. The suite of paintings stem from Uttech’s travels to the Boundary Waters and the Quetico Provincial Park in Canada. As Uttech explains, “These paintings are all recollections of the magic I have found in the North Woods. They never depict any actual place. They hope to recreate the feelings those places generate in ourselves... I do also mean to be saying something about the richness and diversity of life on this planet and how magically wonderful this all is by packing so many individuals and species into the same place at the same time.”
Read MoreBirds have long been a source of mystery and awe. Today, a growing desire to meaningfully connect with the natural world has fostered a resurgence of popular interest in the winged creatures that surround us daily. The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art examines mankind’s relationship to birds and the natural world through the eyes of twelve major contemporary American artists, including David Beck, Rachel Berwick, Lorna Bieber, Barbara Bosworth, Joann Brennan, Petah Coyne, Walton Ford, Paula McCartney, James Prosek, Laurel Roth Hope, Fred Tomaselli, and Tom Uttech.
Read MoreThe Paintings and Drawings of Mark Mulhern, by R. M. Ryan
Sometimes, Master Artists work here beside us. We don’t even see them at first, for they are seeing the same thing we’re seeing.
Read MorePaula Swaydan Grebel will be showing a collection of New Paintings at the Delafield Arts Center's NEW LOCATION at 719 Genesee Street, Delafield, WI 53018. Her Opening and Artist Reception is Friday, October 24 from 5 to 8 pm.
Read MoreArtist, author, playwright and 2014 Forward Grand Prize Winner Terrence James Coffman brings his play, Van Gogh Live to the Charles Allis Art Museum during its Plein Air exhibition running through January 11. This one-night performance, based on Coffman’s fictional book of missing Van Gogh journals, is a riveting and emotional glimpse into the torment and ecstasy of Vincent’s life. The audience experiences the complicated life of this lonely man as Coffman examines his obsessions, madness, and love of art and humanity and is given the chance to question Van Gogh at the end of the evening. Watch to discover two local persons you might know filling the cameo roles of a minister and a French prostitute. Coffman’s book will be available for purchase with part of book sales going to support CAVT.
Admission is $25 in advance/$30 at the door. Call Ann at 414 278 8295 x5 or email RSVP@cavtmuseums.org.
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Charles Munch, MOTHER AND FAWN
The paintings by Charles Munch can be thought of as nature icons, that is, images conducive to meditation on questions that may have no answer but are worth exploring. The mysterious stillness inherent in painted images encourages meditation on the twin riddles: What happened before? & What will happen afterwards? Munch believes that the more deeply we explore our relationship with other animals and the rest of the natural world, the healthier the world will be. The use of bright, clear colors and simplified shapes, convey a distinct image by the plainest means possible. Eliminating extraneous details, allowing room for the expression of emotion through the abstract elements of color, line, and shape. He depicts his subject with barely enough description to make it recognizable, and then brings it to pulsing life through vibrant color relationships and dynamic compositions. Creating images that are even truer to his vision of nature and the emotions about it than a realistic painting could be.
Thursday October 2 through Friday November 21, 2014 in the Besse Gallery, Bay College, Escanaba, MI.
Gallery Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday
Read MoreTwo new exhibitions at the Tory Folliard Gallery (233 N. Milwaukee St.) each introduce the everyday into their art. Cathy Martin comes to her craft from an earthy angle, which steered clear of the contemporary artist’s traditional MFA-lined path. She is an artist whose day job puts food on her table by putting food on other people’s tables. Indeed, her oil paintings on display in the exhibit “This & That” reveal a sensitivity to nature no doubt nurtured by her years as a Wisconsin farmer. Although she is self-taught, the technical execution of her work indicates a rare talent.
Mark Mulhern’s “New Work” uncovers a different domain of reality by means of a different technical approach. Photographic accuracy is here exchanged for figurativeness and atmosphere, which evoke a more primal, immediate stratum of experience. From dog walkers, pigeons amongst passing crowds and the backs of people’s heads, the subject matter also belongs to the everyday world.
The exhibitions open with an artists reception on Friday, Sept. 12 from 5-7:30 p.m. You have until Oct. 11 to make these images part of your everyday.
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