Aris Georgiades (Stoughton) and Karen Gunderman (Mequon)
Jean Roberts Guequierre (Milwaukee) and Diane Sheehan (Madison)
Carol Emmons (Green Bay)
Spectrum: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2006 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows
Wisconsin's People on the Land
Doug Fath (Madison) and Marsha McDonald (Milwaukee)
Robert Atwell (Menomonie) and Jessica Jacobs (De Pere)
Karen Gunderman
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Aris Georgiades (Stoughton) and Karen Gunderman (Mequon)
Side-by-side solo exhibitions
September 5 - October 15
Opening reception Friday, September 8, 5-7p.m.
Gallery Night, Friday, October 6
Aris Georgiades
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Sculptor Aris Georgiades uses thick industrial felt to make objects that are reminiscent of tools or working objects and related hardware. They are intended to refer to something that may be functional but in its current form cannot serve any practical purpose. Karen Gunderman's installation will be site-specific, created in response to the gallery surroundings. In her artwork, Gunderman suggests systems of growth, disintegration, and realignment occurring over time. She combines ceramic forms with drawing directly on the gallery walls.
Diane Sheehan
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Jean Roberts Guequierre (Milwaukee) and Diane Sheehan (Madison)
Side-by-side solo exhibitions
October 24 - December 3
Opening reception Friday, October 27, 5-7p.m.
Artists' talks begin at 5:30 p.m.
John Roberts Guequierre
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Jean Roberts Guequierre creates small-scale oil paintings inspired in technique and style by Flemish old master painters of the 15th and 16th centuries. Through narratives, her paintings show children's games and the actions of children in play that may result in cruelty or kindness. These primal doings of childhood presage what may lie ahead in adult life. Fiber artist and UW-Madison art professor Diane Sheehan incorporates narratives of contemporary life in her textile art that combines traditional loom techniques with patterns developed by computer. A recent piece was based on the Bayeaux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman invasion of England in 1066 A.D. Sheehan's interpretation is based on the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Carol Emmons
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Carol Emmons (Green Bay)
Solo exhibition
December 15, 2006 - January 19, 2007
Opening reception, December 19, 5-7p.m.
Artist's talk begins at 5:30 p.m.
Carol Emmons creates large-scale installations that often are made for specific sites. Her complex sculpture frequently incorporates architectural elementslight, found objects, and textthat relate to the conceptual framework of her pieces. The installations surround the viewer, who becomes an active participant as he or she moves through the space.
Stephen Milanowski
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Spectrum: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2006 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows
February 2 - March 18, 2007
Opening reception Friday, February 2, 5-7 p.m.
Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton and Wisconsin Arts Board Executive
Director George Tzougros will give opening remarks beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Gallery Talks:
Stephen Milanowski, Friday, February 16, 5:30 pm
Stephen Hilyard, Friday, March 2, 5:30 pm
Chris Niver
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This exhibition will show several artworks by each of the seven winners of the 2006 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowships. This highly competitive program draws several hundred submissions from artists all over Wisconsin working in a wide variety of media. Artists in this exhibition are: Kyoung Ae Cho (crafts/fiber,Milwaukee), Santiago Cucullo (art installation, Milwaukee), Stephen Hilyard (mixed media, Madison), Tom Loeser (crafts/wood, Madison), Stephen Milanowski (photographer, Middleton), Chris Niver (drawing, Milwaukee), and Amy Ruffo (drawing, Sheboygan).
David Lenz, Thistles (detail), 2001
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Wisconsin's People on the Land
April 3 - May 20, 2007
Friday, April 20, 7 p.m. Panel discussion with exhibition artists, rural sociologist Mike Bell, folklorist Ruth Olson, and gallery co-director Randall Berndt. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art lecture hall. Reception following.
Sunday, April 29, 2 p.m. Wisconsin author Ben Logan reads from his book
The Land Remembers. James Watrous Gallery.
Sunday, May 13, 7:30 p.m. Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society will premiere a new musical composition by Mike Bell as part of a concert of rural themed music. MMoCA lecture hall. Tickets required.
Monday, May 14, 5:15 p.m. Native American foodways presentation with Paul Smith, Rhonda Funmaker, and Ruth Olson. James Watrous Gallery.
Wisconsin's People on the Land examines the changing rural landscape of Wisconsin as seen through the eyes of four Wisconsin artists: Milwaukee painter David Lenz, Madison photographer Tom Jones, and Manitowoc photographers J. Shimon & J. Lindemann. The exhibition is part of the Wisconsin Academy's multiyear initiative, The Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin.
Exhibition sponsors:
The exhibition is made possible by a generous gift from Culver's Restaurants, and by grants from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation and the Overture Foundation, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Additional funding comes from DoubleTree Hotel and the James Watrous family.
The Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Concert is sponsored by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP and the Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. with additional funding from Chris and Martina Mann.
Doug Fath
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Doug Fath (Madison) and Marsha McDonald (Milwaukee)
Side-by-side solo exhibitions
June 1 - July 8, 2007
Opening reception Friday June 1, 5-7p.m.
Artists' talks begin at 5:30 p.m.
Marsha McDonald
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Doug Fath's black and white oil paintings record images from a cross country road trip. Through these intimate works, the artist expresses qualities of isolation, irony and disconnection that he sees in the modern American landscape. Marsha McDonald's paintings are muted, quiet explorations of landscape that explore light and color as both phenomenon and metaphor.
Robert Atwell
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Robert Atwell (Menomonie) and Jessica Jacobs (De Pere)
Side-by-side solo exhibitions
July 17 - August 26, 2007
Opening reception Friday July 20, 5-7 p.m.
Artists' talks begin at 5:30 p.m.
Jessica Jacobs
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Robert Atwell's colorful, patterned paintings and interactive wall installations are inspired by popular culture, cartoons, digital graphics and the Midwestern landscape. The visual ambiguity of Atwell's abstract works allows viewers to invent meaning and context. Jessica Jacobs' color photographs evoke a sense of adventure and the feeling of exploration in a fantastical world. Jacobs' use of constructed spaces, unusual props and organic materials transforms photographic environments into emotional landscapes. Robert Atwell lives in Menomonie, WI and Jessica Jacobs lives in Madison.
