We’re just one month away from the opening of a compelling solo exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Calendar” is the latest display of gorgeous oils by painter Craig Blietz, who’s best known for his depictions of cows.
Drawing on both the narrative and formalist aspects of painting, Blietz situates his animal subjects in lovely Midwestern landscapes and seeks to capture much more than external beauty.
Read MoreGallery artist, John Dilg is recognized as a stand out artist at the 2016 Dallas Art Fair in the May issue of Terremoto. Read the review by Dorothée Dupuis here.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreOn 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'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 MoreOne 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.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreGallery 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.
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