Artist Marie Mellott’s Multi-faceted Career
Paintings, drawings, mixed media pieces as well as poetry and performance art have all been part of her repertoire.
View Article‘Generations’ at Racine’s OS Projects
I started wondering about the nature of industrial complexes that perform very subjective operations as soon as I left OS Projects in Racine. How did the painting complex compare to the academic...
View ArticleJewish Museum Milwaukee Announces ‘Women Pulling at the Threads of Social...
A new exhibit at Jewish Museum Milwaukee uses textile and fiber art to communicate messages of social and political matters.
View Article‘Florence/Somerset’ at The Alice Wilds
“Florence/Somerset” is a nostalgic show that will naturally arouse our collective feelings of those summery escapes that shape our lives.
View ArticleJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center Debuts New Acquisition of Works by Kea Tawana
Kea Tawana (c. 1935–2016) is known for creating the Ark, a monumental eighty-six-foot-long, three-story ship in Newark, NJ.
View Article‘Image in Dispute: Dutch & Flemish Art from the Collection’ Haggerty Museum...
The skillfully curated exhibition focuses on how the Low Countries responded to the upheaval of the 16th and 17th centuries.
View Article‘Mining Gems’ a Treasure Hunt at the Grohmann Museum
The Downtown museum found creative ways to highlight select artworks from its permanent collection.
View Article10 Years of Var
In a complex of dozens of studios and thousands of works of original art, the most impressive maker in the lot might be the proprietor himself, who happens to be the only one in the building who...
View Article‘Predecessor: Works from the Layton School of Art’ at MIAD
The exhibition progresses chronologically through the groundbreaking school’s decades of operation.
View Article‘The Architecture of Everything’ at James May Gallery
The juicy color and raw materiality of the work wasn’t only rejuvenating, it was affirming.
View Article‘Art, Life, Legacy’ at Milwaukee Art Museum
The exhibition and shows us the story of 17th century Northern European art and culture alongside a biography-through-collecting of Alfred Bader.
View ArticleReal Tinsel Gallery ‘Seeks out the Edges of Things’
New exhibit at Mitchell Street gallery explores the interplay between art and viewer.
View ArticleDarrel Ellis’ ‘Regeneration’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum
The show reflects on the nature of how an identity endures in memories and imagery.
View ArticleVaughan Larsen: ‘Everything I Could Ever Want'
Larsen, a Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based, trans-feminine artist, employs the camera as a tool of “self-inquiry.”
View ArticleFrom Goodwill to Faberge in Ben Starks’ ‘9 Eggs’
The Milwaukee artist fashioned a set of nine sculptural objects, densely ornamented ovals that pay idiosyncratic homage to Faberge’s famed Easter eggs.
View ArticleChristopher E Burton’s Journey with Art, Fashion and Medicine
The multimedia artist and fashion designer’s ultimate vision is to open a holistic health and wellness clinic.
View ArticleEvil Twins DIY space hosts Brooklyn’s Rachel Yanku
Let’s hope the Twins are the beginning of a lot of new leafy artistic growth in Milwaukee.
View ArticleMelissa Cooke Benson: ‘Generations’ at Mount Mary University’s Marian Gallery
Benson’s work employs graphite exclusively toward spectacularly imagined and executed images of everyday moments and objects.
View ArticleLarry Bell’s ‘Iceberg’ at Milwaukee Art Museum
The work by Light and Space artist Larry Bell features four laminated glass panels spaced a few feet apart in zig zagging footprints.
View ArticlePeter Barrickman ‘Untitled Melodies’ at Green Gallery
The works in the exhibition evolve from three basic natural conceits: winter landscapes, fulfillment centers, and fires.
View ArticleRachel Foster’s ‘Empathetic Objects’ at Grove Gallery
The meaning of her work hides in plain sight like purloined letters in a digital parlor, only before eventually revealing their nature … and our relationship to the nature of their nature.
View ArticleHurt and Healing Inhabit MOWA’s Current Saint Kate Exhibit
“Ecstasy and Escape at the Swan Song Motel” is the first solo show by Door County artist Meg Lionel Murphy and is admittedly a powerful one.
View ArticleJoyce Kozloff’s ‘How We Know What We Know’ at Kohler Arts
Kozloff’s work is rooted in a rigorous visual vocabulary that she’s always marshalled toward social and political causes.
View ArticleQuirky Jewelry with Whimsical World of Waarvik
Vanessa Waarvik is an artist who makes all kinds of quirky jewelry. The imagery in their work includes nature, fantasy, rainbows, Halloween and more.
View ArticleJMKC’s ‘Muddy Water’ Celebrates the ‘Essence’ of Wisconsin
The Secret of Muddy Water” exhibition celebrates 50 years of the successful art/industry partnership between JMKAC and Kohler Co.
View ArticlePen, Paper and Punk with Wazaloo
Fueled by punk ethos, she has a passion for making art for her friends and community with the goal to evoke visceral feelings through her work.
View ArticleDawn Cerny’s ‘Coconut Effect’ at Hawthorn Contemporary
The exhibition strikes an informal tone from the beginning, offering a mix of drawings, wall sculpture, and draped textiles.
View Article‘Home Grown’ at Latino Arts
The show is modest and approachable, with a work in a variety of media and subjects presented in groupings that highlight each individual’s offerings rather than an intermediary’s secondary conceptual...
View ArticleNew MOWA Installation May Mark a Milestone for Indigenous Art
The three-dimensional structure blends contemporary and traditional architectural aspects in unique and compelling ways, while exploring themes of familiarity and alienation within the environment it...
View Article“The Time Has Come” at Lynden Sculpture Garden
The art world has a long and somewhat illustrious history of staff-based exhibitions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened an annual private showing of work by their security guards to the...
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