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One might easily imagine the life of Wisconsin artist Patrick Farrell as just an illusion.
How else could it be that a boy raised in a trailer park — who never went beyond the eighth grade in school — could grow into a renowned painter, breathing three-dimensional life into oil and canvas with a skill that was totally self-taught?
Read MoreMemory becomes fragmentary in time. As the past moves into the distance, memories become less distinct, reduced at times to images, colors or scents that evoke mnemonic awakenings. This is the creative realm where Tom Berenz works.
Tom Berenz' recent exhibit at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac was a small grouping of wonderful, at times poignant, paintings.
Read MoreTory Folliard Gallery artist Eric Aho's recent exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College is featured in the March 2016 edition of American Art Collector.
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Stephen Warde Anderson, Clueless Gray Aliens on a Park Bench, 2015, acrylic on illustration board, 8 x 12 inches.
The Wonderful World of Stephen Warde Anderson explores the vivid imagination and artistic genius of this accomplished outsider artist and Rockford native whose stylized paintings are inspired by beautiful fantasies of figures throughout history and mythology, film and literature, as well as subjects and stories culled from his own genealogical research. Also featured in this 15-week exhibition is the 2014 short film Fantasy Tableau by award-winning documentary Kate Balsley who explores his "marvelously eccentric" life and art. Related education programs include a free lecture by Anderson on Thursday, March 24, at 7 p.m. Concurrent exhibits at RAM include the landmark 75th Young Artist Show (opens March 6).
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Gallery artist Robert D. Cocke will be represented in a major exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art. The show, titled "Into the Night," examines the long tradition of the nocturne in art, and the various ways that artists consider the enigmatic notion of the night. More than 65 artists, working in a variety of different media, will be included in the exhibition, which was curated by TMA Chief Curator Julie Sasse. Cocke's work is an oil on panel painting titled "The Key-- Hotel Capricorn."
Exhibition dates are February 27-- June 10, 2016.
Read MoreArticle taken from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Art City
Giant rooms, open doors, banquet tables filled with elaborate desserts, napping girls, Francis Bacon-like cubes, hovering humans and birds of varying scales — these are some of the elements that occupy the curious and curiously inviting spaces within Elizabeth Shreve's wonderful paintings.
"The Mysteries of Flight Revealed" is Shreve's second solo show at the gallery inspired, in part, by the Wright brothers and the human desire for flight. The cheerful, confectionery colors belie a psychological undertow, a response to Shreve's surroundings in rural Wisconsin and her background in psychology.
Also on view is "Wallflowers," a group exhibition focused on the flower in contemporary art by area artists.
Friday until 9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m." - Mary Louise Schumache
Read MoreArticle taken from the Hood Museum of Art and Dartmouth College.
The avanto, or the hole cut in the pond ice next to a Finnish sauna, has captivated nationally recognized Vermont artist Eric Aho for the last nine years and inspired the ongoing series of paintings titled Ice Cuts. The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, is delighted to gather together, for the first time, a large group of these works, along with the artist’s related watercolor studies and monotypes. This exhibition provides the opportunity to share in Aho’s extended meditation upon this austere, simple, yet mesmerizing subject. Eric Aho: Ice Cuts is on view from January 9 through March 13, 2016, and programming highlights include an opening artist talk and reception on Friday, January 8, as well as other talks, tours, workshops and family events, and member exclusives.
Read MoreAn interview with Tory Folliard Gallery Artist Fred Stonehouse from the HEY! exhibition at the Halle St Pierre in Paris.
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Michael Velliquette: What We Are Looking For is What is Looking
January 11 - February 21, 2016
Artist Talk and Reception Thursday February 4, 2016 5-7pm
Marian Gallery
Mount Mary University
2900 North Menomonee River Parkway
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53222-4597
Mount Mary University presents a solo exhibition by Michael Velliquette, a mixed media artist known for his elaborate collages and sculptures made from cut paper.
Read MoreNext month Stephanie Trenchard and Jeremy Popelka will be teaching a one-week class called Narrative Inclusions at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Date: January 11 - 16, 2016
Technique: Furnace Casting
Level: All Levels
Duration: One-Week Session
Fee: $825
Description:
In this class, you will explore the creative possibilities of sand casting hot glass working with the molds, inclusions and surfaces. The class will explore the aesthetic and expressive opportunities of narrative imagery in glass as well as the technical aspects of casting with inclusions. This unique technique of casting allows for the hand of the artist on glass.
Sand casting, hot sculpting, enameling, and stenciling will be covered. You will paint with frits and enamels for the inclusions that will be encased in the hot glass. You’ll also explore the sculptural potential of sand casting by creating multiples and elements that can be assembled to form larger pieces, as well as surface treatment options, including organic material, stenciled imagery and textures. No casting experience required, some glassblowing experience useful.
To apply and for more information, please click HERE.
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