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Randall Berndt is an assistant curator at the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. He received an MFA in painting from UW-Madison in 1969 and has pursued the life of the artist mixed with the demands of the "real world" ever since. Some career highlights include a major award for a painting accepted into the Butler Institute of American Art's 62nd Annual Midyear Exhibition, a 1996 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship and participation...
I focus on abstract painting informed by ordinary, everyday visual information. Twelve years of painting abstractly provides me with a fertile working territory. The major concentration in this body of work is the development of an idiosyncratic, abstract visual language. My original fascination in ideograms transitioned into a more automatic, abstract painting vocabulary. These paintings involve the investigation of three specific properties: drawing, structure, and color. Inspirations for these works come from a variety of pedestrian...
Colescott is a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy, an Academician of the National Academy of Design, and has won prizes in five of their annual exhibits and has juried their graphic entries three times. He was appointed Printmaker Emeritus by the Southern Graphics Council in 1992, a special honor. His work has been selected for purchase by the American Academy of Art and in 1994 he was designated Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts by the Hartford School of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.
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Kristy Deetz, associate professor and Chair of the Art Discipline at UW—Green Bay, received her MFA in painting and drawing from Ohio State University. Kristy has taught painting and drawing at a number of universities and art schools over the past twenty years, and frequently gives encaustic painting workshops at art centers such as Anderson Ranch, OxBow, Haystack, and Penland. Her extensive exhibition record includes competitive, invitational, and solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. Her recent Veil paintings revise...
Born in Sterling, Colorado in 1933, Burkert moved to Wisconsin with her family in 1945. She married Robert Burkert, a professor of Fine Art at UWM, and has two children, Claire and Rand.
In the introduction to The Art of Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Bantam, 1977), Michael Danoff, then curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum, states, "Burkert works in a tradition of artists for whom book illustration is one of the fine arts like painting or sculpture. Each of the drawings she makes is, in its own right, a fully realized work of art. Her...
Carol Emmons is an internationally acclaimed artist who creates mostly site-specific installations, often in overarching series. Site-specificity (an individually tailored response to each site) can be seen in two installations she made for the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery, both part of the Surveying Desire series. The first, The Pathology of the Heart (2000; at the old gallery space) drew on the site's origins as a medical clinic, and transformed the space to conflate the medical/physiological heart...
Martha Glowacki, director of the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery, has been a curator, exhibition designer, and grantwriter/fundraiser for the Watrous Gallery since 2004. She previously was director of the Design Gallery at the UW–Madison (2000–2003). Martha has an MFA degree from UW–Madison and is a sculptor showing her work on a regional and national level. She is particularly interested in intersections between visual art and the natural sciences.
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BA Harrington is a Madison artist and a traditionally trained furnituremaker who earned an MFA in wood and an MA in Art History from the UW–Madison. Her work, as well as her collaborative projects with Chele Isaac, has been shown regionally and nationally. Harrington and Isaac share a fascination with the myth of the American West. Their work for the Watrous Gallery has been fueled by their 2011 road trip along historic westward migration trails. Guided by an inquiry into how nostalgia influences our identification as Americans...
