Ben Grant and Richard Taylor

Ben Grant and Richard Taylor both explore the use of color and pattern in their work. Grant takes his inspiration from Religious iconography and explores this imagery through vibrant colors and patterns. Taylor’s approach to making is more akin to Jazz in how the work expresses rhythm, shape, and texture.

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Guzzo Pinc

Mixing bold colors with graphic elements and representational figures, Wisconsin painter Guzzo Pinc, creates dynamic abstract compositions that toe the line between abstraction and figuration. The artist manipulates the surface by layering jute on the canvas and sanding painted areas to create a translucent effect that invites further study. Through pattern and repetition, Pinc’s large swaths of flat, colorful shapes provide exciting movement and tension, resulting in a visually striking work.

Guzzo Pinc’s work is influenced by sources ranging from graffiti and comic books to the canonical artists of the Western and Eastern traditions. It is this blending of such a diverse range of influences and experiences that gives his painting its unique style. Pinc received his BA in Art History from the University of Richmond, VA, and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.

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New Paintings by T.L. Solien

Expressive color and imaginative imagery abound in T. L. Solien’s provocative paintings. A self-described artist of the “absurdist cultural critique,” Solien is concerned with the contemporary collapse of our culture.  Engaging and often paradoxical narratives are constructed with references to his Scandinavian heritage, family memories, and the art and literature of the past. 

Born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1949, Solien earned a BFA from Moorhead State University, Moorhead Minnesota, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska.  He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Whitney Biennial Exhibition, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in Painting.

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Jeremy Popelka and Stephanie Trenchard

Jeremy Popelka, and Stephanie Trenchard have owned and operated a working glass studio since 1997, all while continuing to create and show work on a national scale. Recently, Jeremy Popelka and his wife, Stephanie Trenchard, helped establish BGC Glass Studio in Bangkok, Thailand. The facility is the country's first learning center for art glass, offering training courses in glass design and glass forming techniques. 

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Michael Hedges

Hedges effortlessly combines color, line, and form, producing a dialogue of reverberating hues and mark-making in every canvas. He has thoroughly absorbed the push-and-pull lessons of paint and dimensionality on a flat surface as if the work emerged alongside the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. His love of painting is matched only by his tremendous skill and dedication.

A native of Illinois, Hedges studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before receiving his B.A. in Studio Art from Loras College in Dubuque, IA. His paintings are in public and private collections throughout the United States.

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Caitlin Lempia-Bradford

Caitlin Bradford is an intuitive abstract painter whose practice is deeply rooted in play. She creates games for herself, making various rules to constrain and enable her creative process.

Bradford received a BFA from the University of Iowa in 2015 and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. She currently makes her home and studio in Minnesota.

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New Paintings by Anna Kunz

Color, form, and surface are the fundamental elements that Anna Kunz plays with when approaching a painting. She is deeply invested in the power of paintings to connect people and to create experiences through her art and installations.

Kunz lives and works in Chicago where she was born and raised. She earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Northwestern University. Her artwork has been honored in numerous national and international collections, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artadia Chicago, Rema Hort-Mann Foundation, Monira Foundation, and the Sharpe Walentas Foundation.

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Derrick Buisch

Derrick Buisch’s paintings concentrate on the development of an idiosyncratic, abstract visual language. His paintings involve the investigation of three specific properties: drawing, structure, and color. Inspirations for these works come from a variety of pedestrian sources such as roadside signs, strip malls, graffiti, tattoos, and product symbol design.

A Professor Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1997, Derrick Buisch’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries regionally and nationally.  In 2016 he was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors.

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