Character Driven Vibrant and playful portraits done by Brittany Farina, incarnate famous personages of past entertainment eras. Gray scale metallic tones, with bright accents on focal points like eyes or lips, give visual range to portrait subjects like young Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. In the Brumder Mansion's lower level gallery, Farina's work complimented well the... Continue Reading →
Pt. 5, Art Opulence, Sara Risley
Digital Foreground With streaking complex patterns and distinct color palettes, Sara Risley experiments with unsuspecting motifs, splashing them with highly concentrated and intense tones. Risley's creative work easily stands on its own, but also does well providing themes for promotional materials and other formats more deliberately aimed at communicating messages. Risely recently began experimenting with motifs... Continue Reading →
Gallery Night, Summer 2011, Bryan Cera
Expanding like a sponge with access to water, Milwaukee can't help but ingest all the art it can get its dilated eyes upon. Gallery Night in Milwaukee is truly reaching major event status, even without complete buy-in from all of Milwaukee's artistic strong holds. Some of the Light, Blue Ant Gallery, Third Ward Through the... Continue Reading →
Suspended Hanging, MARN: Things on a String
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) challenged its emerging artists to work vertically, in Friday night's exhibition Things on a String. Roughly 35 designers worked with lengths of string that varied greatly in size, some dangling from the ceiling to the floor, others at a length reasonable for guests to reach the objects attached to the... Continue Reading →
Mostly Mammals and Minds, J.M. Kohler Art Center
An hour jaunt up I-43 will land you in Sheboygan, WI, a stylish lakeside neighbor with maritime charm. John Michael Kohler (Gilded Age Wisconsin industrialist and famed namesake of fine toilet and faucet fixtures) felt Sheboygan, at population of 15,000, had too many people a decade into the 20th century to have room for his... Continue Reading →
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