Always enjoyable Gallery Night yielded a few notables during the winter 2011 edition. Originally posted to the Sane Artworks Blog January 26, 2011. ---- -- ---- Gallery Night Milwaukee: Green Gallery, Patricia Terry, Berkeley and other splashes The winter edition of Gallery Night in Milwaukee took place Friday and Saturday this past weekend. I took... Continue Reading →
Use out of the useless at MAM After Dark, feats by Chakaia Booker
February's installment of MAM After Dark kept it fun and snooty, truly befitting of the Calatrava. Although the recently opened Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition fills the main gallery space, providing the draw of a registered trademarked name, New York artist Chakaia Booker concluded her MAM co-starring role. The MAM atmosphere, ambient with disc jockeyed music... Continue Reading →
Funk, e’Lectrick Warbabyz do it, to it
The dedicated month to recognize Black History brought forth a small gathering of culturally inclined and community oriented minds to enjoy one of the greatest musical genres invented in America, funk music. An underrated space in an underrated neighborhood, King Commons II in Harambee, played host to the e'Lectrick Warbabyz' Friday night performance. A squad... Continue Reading →
Retrospective: Gallery Night, Summer 2009
Originally posted July 27, 2009 on the Sane Artworks Blog, this is a bad-a#$'s version of a Shih Tzu. ------ ---- ------ All around Milwaukee you can see physical changes taking place: clean-cut mixed-use developments, fragrant plantings in the boulevards. The streets are even getting paved after ten years of neglect. Some of that same... Continue Reading →
Retrospective: Waldek Dynerman, Train Project
A post about artist Waldek Dynerman was my first. The original release date was February 1, 2009 on the Sane Artworks Blog. ------- ---- ------- Non-Obvious takes on Big History through Little Eyes In plain view under a curved lamppost with a conical fixture beaming down light, sits an endomorphic body-type mannequin postured upright on... Continue Reading →