Influenced by traditional American scenes and Chicago Imagism, Michael Noland molds a vision that is uniquely his own. In his paintings, Noland creates vitality through exaggeration in form, repetition of line, and saturation of color. Common views and unique animals seem both darkly surreal and amusing. Flowers pulsate with life and colors reverberate with an electric charge.
Read MoreARTIST SPOTLIGHT | BEN GRANT
Ben Grant, is an abstract painter based in Milwaukee. His work explores complex combinations of color, shape and texture. Grant received a BFA from the Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh and Parkside.
Read MorePaula Swaydan Grebel Exhibition Featured at the Cedarburg Art Museum
Paula Swaydan Grebel will demonstrate and illustrate the process that she takes in drawing inspiration from a work by a master artist and creating a painting in her own style. The artist's current solo show in the CAM upstairs galleries serves as a backdrop for her presentation.
Read MoreCraig Blietz' - Fine Art Connoisseur - May 2016
Craig Blietz, "Pastoral Dreaming," oil on linen, 30 x 40 in. (c) Craig Blietz 2016
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.
John Dilg featured in Dallas Art Fair Review - May 2016
Surreal ... So Real Exhibition Featured in Shepherd Express
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.
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