Colin Matthes: Instructional and Flood Resistant Work at Bockley Gallery

Bockley Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibit by Milwaukee artist Colin Matthes. Instructional and Flood Resistant Work presents paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Ten works from Essential Knowledge, a series of drawings on paper illustrating basic skills for success in challenging situations, are included in the exhibition. Additionally the artist has constructed flood resistant…

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Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now at the Cleveland Museum of Art

“Contemporary printmaking is extremely diverse,” stated Jane Glaubinger, curator of prints. “Some artists reinterpret traditional printmaking techniques, while others experiment with new technologies or print on unusual materials. The large size of paper and presses allow prints to rival the scale of paintings that dominate the field of vision.”While some artists look inward to personal…

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Eric Ketelsen at Bloomington Theatre and Art Center

Eric Ketelsen’s abstract paintings and drawings may, at first glance,  appear to be a series of repetitive lines, but it is the detail happening below and within the layers of each piece that reveal the subtle yet rich variations in tone, texture, color, and gestural mark. Influenced by Japanese Zen calligraphy, Ketelsen’s work centers on…

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Jim Hittinger MFA framing award winner

Jim Hittinger is a co-winner of our annual MFA framing award. Providing professional framing advice to art students has been a long term goal of ours. For artists to be successful as they enter their professional life it is necessary to understand how to present their work professionally.  Our goal is to help students understand…

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Overcoming Discouragement: Frank Long’s WPA-Era Works at Berea College

On display in the Doris Ulmann Galleries at Berea College are a series of Frank Long’s mural studies for public post offices and his more personal series of woodcut prints depicting the achievement of Hercules. Long had close ties to Berea College and was living in Berea when the murals were produced. The Treasury Department…

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Elise Nicol “You’re Always Brilliant in the Morning”

Do images piled atop one another deny or define what’s underneath? Do collaged layers invite you to look at them as a whole? Or do you look through and around a pieced-together image instead of just at it? What happens when two images bump up against one another? Or words bump up against an image?…

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Wendy Wolf ” Examined Repetition” at Bromfield Gallery in Boston

The series “Examined Repetition” is my form of poetry. My repeated mark-making evolved from artwork I was creating using automatic writing as imagery.  As I worked I wanted to remove my direct use of words from the image and make it more about the meditative actions. Although it is no longer text, my intent with…

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Andrea Carlson “Ink Babel” at the Bockley Gallery

The Bockley Gallery boasts the debut of Ink Babel, Andrea Carlson’s newest large-scale painting. As in previous works, Carlson continues to draw upon landscape and storytelling. Her new efforts apply a direct connection to the formal and physical constrains of the cinematic filmstrip. Ink Babel is a work painted with ink and oil on 60 paper panels assembled…

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Janet Gorzegno “Old Souls” at Bowery Gallery in New York City

Painter Janet Gorzegno’s new works in gouache on paper that invent for contemplation glimpses of the human—her recurring motif is the human head, which appears as a symbol of human consciousness. Gorzegno’s intimately sized paintings discover their form from within; they concentrate the eye on serene faces that appear wrapped in stillness as if attending…

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Weird, Wild, & Wonderful

Weird, Wild, & Wonderful, The Second Triennial New York Botanical Garden Exhibition, opened in the Garden’s Ross Gallery on April 19. Curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists, the traveling exhibition features contemporary artworks of botanical oddities and curiosities, and includes artists from the US, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the UK. The forty-six…

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