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Wednesday, April 16,2008
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Love Thy Artists
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As
the city emerges from winter cold, a host of young artists emerge during Spring
Gallery Night and Day.The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
(MIAD) offers its senior exhibition featuring 145 design and fine art students.
Exciting new Latino artists display their work at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and the Hotcakes Gallery showcases another six MARN Mentor 2008
award-winners.
MIAD’s “2008 Senior Exhibition” features the vividly colored paintings of Brad Conklin, Katie Donoghue’s combinations of photographs and light boxes, Benjamin Rothschild’s sculpted metal toys, Julia Schilling’s dye-on-metal drawings coordinating with cast aluminum sculpture, Boris Ostrelov’s interactive mixed-media pieces, and Colin T. Dickson’s 31/2 Miles to the Center of Somewhere. The latter, an 18 x 18 ft fabric installation constructed of thousands of cotton tubes hung from honeycombed wood and fastened to the ceiling, is an impressive work that requires walking through. Opening Friday at 5 p.m.
Photographer
Nicole Rodriguez and Martin Morante, along with painter Monica Sirimarco, are
only three of the many artists represented at
Opening
April 18, Hotcakes hosts the second of three MARN Mentors show that represents
mentors alongside their “mentees.” This show features Kevin Miyazaki, Mel
Trittin, Fahimeh Vahdat, Caroline Morrell, Jason Yi, and Ashley Morgan. May 4
marks the final display of award artists, and on May 25 Hotcakes Gallery will
close. Show your support for Hotcakes and the MARN mentoring program at the
opening reception on Friday, 5 p.m.
Also
this weekend, Tory Folliard Gallery—
now a well-established member of the Historic Third Ward’s thriving arts
district—hosts its“20th Anniversary
Celebration.” This festive exhibit, which opens April 18, features 66 artists
that Folliard embraced and encouraged through the years and who now pay tribute
to her dedication to the arts community.Along with serving anniversary cake, commemorative buttons that read “Love
Thy Artists”will be given away at an
opening reception on Friday from 5-9 p.m.
Woodland Pattern Book Center, a newcomer to Gallery Nights,
portrays ecological concerns through artistic mediums with their “Seeing Green:
Art, Ecology, and Activism in
The Peltz Gallery exhibits a collection of
watercolors and etchings by Warrington Colescott, offering a preview of the
artist’s upcoming retrospective at the
Other
exhibitions to visit this weekend include Milwaukee
Street Gallery’s “Four-Sided Show,” opening
Friday at 4 p.m. and featuring Gary Gresl, Janet Roberts, Todd Burton, and
Devin Sommerville; Fashion Ninja’s
“Hand Bag Expo,” an exclusive three-day event starting Friday, 7 p.m.; and Luckystar’s “Wish You Were Here,”
portraying the finer side of the postal service with an intriguing mail-art
exhibit that includes pieces from six countries.This surprising show opens Thursday, April 17
at 6 p.m., and runs through Gallery Weekend for one week only until April 26.
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