The Tory Folliard Gallery’s latest exhibition, “surreal…so real,” features 28 modern artists united by their ties to surrealism. The 20th-century avant-garde movement was pioneered by Salvador Dalí and concerned with giving expression to the unconscious mind. The roots of the movement, however, run as deep as Hieronymus Bosch’s psychedelic 13th-century depictions of hell. The artists represented here tap both the movement’s history and its universal themes.
Read MoreTory Folliard Gallery Artists to Appear in SUPER NATURAL at the John Michael Kohler Art Center
John Wilde, WILDE WORLD II (THE WAY THINGS SEEM TO BE), 1963–64; oil on wood panel; 21 1/2 x 33 in.
On view in the Main Gallery during the WISCONSIN WILD AND TAME series, this major group exhibition presents the work of twenty-four artists who venture into the realm of magic realism.
Read MoreTom Berenz Solo Exhibition at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters
Tom Berenz's current paintings combine recognizable bits and pieces from ordinary life--playground equipment, mittens and hats, ducks and strawberries--with swaths of color and pattern, piling them together into tight compositions that he calls mounds...
Read MorePatrick Farrell's Obituary from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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 MoreTom Berenz' Exhibition at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac Reviewed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Memory 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 MoreEric Aho Exhibition 'ICE CUTS' at Dartmouth College featured in American Art Collector
Tory 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.
Read MoreThe Wonderful World of Stephen Warde Anderson - Rockford Art Museum, 2016
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).
Read MoreRobert Cocke at the Tuscon Museum of Art - 2016
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 MoreElizabeth Shreve's 'The Mysteries of Flight Revealed' featured as an Art City Pick for winter Gallery Night & Day
Article 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 MoreEric Aho’s Icy Abstractions at the Hood Museum of Art Emphasize Nature’s Innate Contrasts
Article 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.
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