Around Milwaukee: Gallery Exhibitions

Milwaukee is an awesome place to come to art school as we have an abundance of galleries in such a small area of square miles.  Most of these galleries are easily accessible through public transportation, have free parking, and best of all are grouped by other local restaurants and venues for maximum enjoyment.

February proves to have many dynamic and exciting shows for us Milwaukee-dwellers to visit.  Below you will find a list of exhibitions and information on hours and admission.  If you visit any of these leave a comment below and let us know how it was!

The Daughters by Tina Barney 

Exhibit:  The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney
Where:  Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University
When:  January 18-May 20
Hours:  M-S 10-4:30 / R 10-8 / U 12-5
Admission: Free

"The Europeans is an intimate look at Europe’s grand families through the eyes of American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). In a series of large, lush and colorful portraits, Barney presents a side of the European gentry, initially unfamiliar to her (She grew up in New York and Rhode Island and began photographing friends and family as an artist in 1975). With this project, Barney embarked on her own modern version of the Grand Tour, or traditional trip around Europe, capturing those who would earlier have commissioned painted family portraits."

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Among The Grasses (Susanna York) by James Lloyd

Exhibit:  Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection

Where:  Milwaukee Art Museum

When:  February 10-May 6

Hours: T-U 10-5 / R 10-8

Admission: $15 (Free to Stritch Students with ID!)

"This exhibition celebrates the gift to the Museum of the Anthony Petullo Collection, with the most extensive grouping of European self-taught art in America. Comprising more than three hundred artworks, the gift greatly enhances the Museum’s holdings and establishes the Milwaukee Art Museum as a leading American institution for self-taught art.  Accidental Genius will feature more than 200 works by many of the most important European and American artists in the genre, including Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Martín Ramírez, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis, Adolf Wölfli, and Anna Zemankova."

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Untitled by Michelle Grabner

Exhibit:  Cottage Work: Michelle Grabner

Where:  The Green Gallery East

When:  January 21-February 26

Hours:  R 4-8 / F-U 2-6 / By Appointment

Admission:  Free

"On January 21st, The Green Gallery will feature Michelle Grabner’s new body of paintings in the exhibition, Cottage Work, a title that implies an association with the informal and practical traditions of craft, particularly weaving.  Conceding to the traditional linen support of painting her on-going interest in the minimalist grid, found composition, and domestically orientated textiles, Grabner explicitly imbues painting and its Twentieth Century abstract conceits with the literal artifacts of weaving and the representation of warp-and-weft material construction in the new work. Evoking the long-debated critical relationship between the fine arts and craft this work more profoundly underscores the poetics of all elemental visual language construction."

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Totem by Jonathan Wahl

Exhibit:  The Decorative Impulse

Where:  Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum

When:  February 17-May 20

Hours:  W-U 1-5

Admission: $5 ($3 for Students)

"The Decorative Impulse brings together six international metalsmiths whose work actively engages with the decorative arts to pose provocative questions about the place of the decorative in current art dialogs. The artists - Jamie Bennett,Gésine Hackenberg, Rory Hooper, Anya Kivarkis, Amelia Toelke and Jonathan Wahl- draw from a range of cultural and historic sources such as Victorian jewelry, Old Master paintings, export porcelain, mass produced jewelry and botanical prints. Their work brings the often marginalized category of the decorative arts to the fore, as both a strategy and an aesthetic choice."

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Mound of Being - Disintegration by Gary John Gresl and Valerie Christell 

Exhibit:  Wisconsin Visual Artists Juried Exhibition

Where:  Lyndon Bradley Sculpture Garden

When:  January 31-March 2

Hours:  M-W 10-5 / F 10-5 / U 12-5

Admission: $9 ($7 for Students)

"The Lynden Sculpture Garden hosts the Wisconsin Visual Artists Juried Exhibition featuring the works of WVA Southeast Chapter members. The exhibition is juried by Fo Wilson, Assistant Professor at Columbia College in Chicago.  Wilson chose 32 works by 26 artists. Taking the location of the exhibition at Lynden as her starting point, Wilson focused on sculptural form. The sculptures chosen range from intimate tabletop pieces to large outdoor works. When selecting two-dimensional work, Wilson identified "paintings, prints and drawings that had a winter theme or responded well to the beautiful grounds of the site.'"