Steve Feren and Marna Goldstein Brauner (Side-by-side solo exhibitions)
August 5-September 14, 2008
Opening reception Friday, August 8, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Oregon, WI artist Steve Feren's glass sculptures depict intricate landscapes of stark trees and scenes of human industry. The works exude a sense of solitude while implying the necessity of connection in the world. Marna Goldstein Brauner (Shorewood) modifies and combines antique objects, including children's and doll's clothes, handkerchiefs, doilies, and celluloid pieces, to create her artworks. Brauner's extensive layering of imagery and ornamentation gives the original textiles and celluloid a rich history and depth of meaning.
These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
Hall & Moline, Phylum, 2007
Underwater Noise of Rain Lane Hall and Lisa Moline (Milwaukee)
in collaboration with aquatic zoologist Dr. Rudi Strickler
September 30-November 19, 2008
Opening reception and Fall Gallery Night Friday,
October 3, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Scientific and quasi-scientific visualization bump against poetic print and video fragments documenting interactions with nature, in the backyard and in the scientific laboratory. The imagery draws from two archives. One is the archive of the artists themselves, who have been collecting specimens of suburban wildlife (insects, birds, reptiles, mammals) for many years. The other is the archive of freshwater scientist Dr. Rudi Strickler, who has spent decades recording the lives of tiny aquatic fauna. Underwater Noise of Rain is a study in how we seek narrative sense through scientific visualization, and how the results are often ambiguous, tenuous and poetic.
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Overture Foundation and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
A. Huggett / S. Hutchison
Ariana Huggett and Sally Hutchison Side-by-side solo exhibitions
December 2, 2008-January 11, 2009
Opening reception Friday, December 5, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Both Ariana Huggett (Milwaukee) and Sally Hutchison (Madison) work in a style that plays color against shape. Huggett applies oil paint to canvas stretched over embroidery hoops and to cut-out geometric wood shapes. Her painted patterns are informed by the shape of the support in combining elements of abstraction and illusion. Hutchison employs intense color and textured paint to form abstracted figures based on geometry that speak to a sense of mystery.
These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
J. Angus & J. Hitchcock, Three Flies, 2006
SuperBug: An Installation by Jennifer Angus and John Hitchcock January 23-March 8, 2009
Opening reception Friday, January 23, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Madison artists Jennifer Angus and John Hitchcock collaborate on an exploration of the beauties and perils inherent to our relationship with the natural world. In this exhibition they focus on patterns, visual and biological, that relate to the activities of "superbug" bacteria.
This multimedia print project combines hand drawn images of insects with screen printed layers of lacy patterns derived from virus and bacteria. The resulting installation is filled with a mysterious, and sometimes menacing, beauty that raises questions about human health issues and the fragility of life in the 21st century.
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
High Honors: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows March 24-May 10, 2009
Opening reception Friday, March 27, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artist Talk, Sunday, April 5, 2:30 pm, Natalie Settles
Artist Talk, Sunday, April 19, 2:30 pm, Fred Stonehouse
Spring Gallery Night Friday, May 1, 5-9 pm, Gallery talk begins at 6:30 pm, Charles Munch
This exhibition will feature several art works by each of the seven winners of the 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowships. The result of a highly competitive program, these fellowships honor outstanding Wisconsin artists from all parts of the state who work in a wide variety of media. The artists represented in High Honors are Jennifer Angus (Madison, art installation), Beth Lipman (Sheboygan Falls, mixed media), Steven Lubahn (Milwaukee, mixed media), Charles Munch (Lone Rock, painting), Jim Rose (Forestville, metalcrafts), Natalie Settles (Madison, drawing), and Fred Stonehouse (Slinger, painting).
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Overture Foundation and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
View the slide show from the High Honors Exhibition
(top)B. Baker / (bottom) L. H. Wiesenfarth
Brenda Baker and Louise Halpin Wiesenfarth Side-by-side solo exhibitions
May 19-June 28, 2009
Opening reception Friday, May 22, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Madison artist Brenda Baker's small-scale, intimate, abstract paintings use line and color to refer to human relationships as well as to various aspects of the natural world, including patterns intrinsic to weather and the passing seasons. Louise Halpin Wiesenfarth's large acrylic paintings depend on line to describe the activity of an abstract presence that inhabits the two-dimensional field of the canvas, but they also resonate with the effects of events in the outside world. Her recent works speak to the disastrous aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
R. Knight / P. Kursel
Richard Knight and Peter Kursel Side-by-side solo exhibitions
July 7-August 16, 2009
Opening reception Friday, July 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
In Milwaukee painter Richard Knight's exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects, shared components of an expressive language of form and color move from one medium to the others in a visual game of search and find. Knight creates visual poetry based on interchangeable parts. Oregon, WI artist Peter Kursel's paintings are influenced by cartoons and movies and contain overtones of sexuality, religion, and cosmology. They create a colorful private world where humor and uncertainty are presented in surprising abstract narratives that play with space, scale, and representation.
These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
J. Ganser / J. Wineberg
Julie Ganser and Jeremy Wineberg Side-by-side solo exhibitions
August 25-October 4, 2009
Opening reception Friday, August 28, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists' talks begin at 6:30 pm
Fall Gallery Night Friday, October 2
Gallery talk begins at 6:30 pm
Sun Prairie artist Julie Ganser's multi-layered assemblage/paintings combine craft and plant materials, found objects, and sheer fabrics to form a "shadow box" effect. Grids of glassy surface texture translate and transform aspects of the natural world as if seen through the eerie glow of a digital screen. Madison installation artist Jeremy Wineberg utilizes drawing, painting and sculptural practices as a way to mirror natural and cultural events and to build form in a complex way. Wineberg uses a dramatic sense of movement between these processes to create an environment that questions assumptions about the everyday culture we live in.
These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ongoing support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison, The Garden Guest House, Bayfield and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
