Dave Jordano has been making pictures for nearly fifty years. After a long and successful commercial photography career, he began making personal work in 2000. Since then Jordano has produced several long-term documentary projects, all of them focused on the Midwest. His first book about Detroit, Detroit: Unbroken Down, was published in 2016.
Yevgeniya Kaganovich is a Belarus-born, Milwaukee-based artist whose hybrid practice encompasses jewelry and metalsmithing, sculpture and installation. Kaganovich received her MFA from the State University of New York, New Paltz, and her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yevgeniya has been an active art practitioner since 1992, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her work has received a number of awards and has been published widely.
Madison-based artist Toby Kaufmann-Buhler uses his work in video and sound to examine the intersection of public and private as well as the environmental and institutional. While this work is becoming more personal, it is simultaneously continuing to explore the rigid structures of the mediums that contain it and working to infiltrate the modes of perception in our media-saturated environments.
Letha Kelsey makes artwork about the everyday. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions regionally and nationally, including the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; Green Gallery, Boston; Gallery 19, Chicago; and the Berkeley Art Center, CA.
Millicent Kennedy’s (they/them) practice is interested in how we archive a physical world in flux. Through skills both laborious and ancient including book and box making, natural dye and hand stitching, Kennedy connects to the knowledge of generations of unknown hands who worked to hold their world together.
Raised in Hollywood, Florida, as a child Sharon Kerry-Harlan was surrounded by art deco architecture, streamlined furniture, and mid-century modern patterns that piqued her interest in design. Her home life was enriched by graphic art, especially the paper and fabric collages made by her uncle, Marion Sampler, who worked as a graphic artist and educator in Los Angeles.
Jayne King (Chicago) is a Jewish artist and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2022), where they spent their time focusing on ceramics, object collection, and book making.
Throughout his career, Gregory Klassen has sought to examine the criticality of chance and fortuity in the creation of image, and the ways in which natural process, harnessed and overseen by the artist, can be converted into "abstract works of breathtaking realism". Klassen received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1990 and continued his training in painting and drawing under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
Phone: 608.733.6633
James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25
