Jun
12
to Oct 10

Racine and Vicinity 2024

Racine and Vicinity Show 2024: All Media Juried Exhibition

June 12 – August 10, 2024
at RAM’s Wustum Museum

Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
2519 Northwestern Avenue
Racine, WI 53404

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Jun
8
to Sep 1

Watercolor USA

Watercolor USA 2024

Exhibit Details

June 8, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Weisel and Kelly Galleries

This is the 63rd exhibition of Watercolor USA, a national, annual juried exhibition recognizing contemporary American watermedia painting. This year's exhibition will be juried by Carole Hennessy, President of the Watercolor USA Honor Society.

Opening Reception
Friday, June 7, 2024, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in the Springfield Art Museum Lobby

The public is invited to a sneak peek of the Watercolor USA 2024 exhibition. Enjoy complimentary light refreshments and meet some of the Watercolor USA artists in the exhibition gallery. No reservation or ticket is required. Free and open to the public of all ages. The Family Art Lab will be open.


Springfield Art Museum
1111 E Brookside Dr.
Springfield, MO 65807

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May
3
to Jun 28

Richeson School of Art and Art Gallery Wisconsin Watercolor Society Spring Exhibition

Richeson School of Art and Art Gallery
Wisconsin Watercolor Society Spring Exhibition

May 3 - June 28, 2024
Reception: Friday, May 10th 5:30-7:30pm

Founded in 1952, the Wisconsin Watercolor Society was the first Wisconsin art organization dedicated exclusively to supporting and promoting watercolor artists in the state. This show celebrates watercolor painting through the diverse works of artists from across the state of Wisconsin.

557 Marcella Street
Kimberley, WI 54136

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The Modern Landscape
Feb
2
to Mar 9

The Modern Landscape

The Modern Landscape

Arts & Culture Gallery
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI

February 2 – March 9, 2024

Opening reception:
February 9, 4:30 – 7:30 pm
Artist Talk/Panel Discussion 5:30pm

Hours:
Monday–Saturday: 10am–4pm
Sunday: Closed

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Watercolor Wisconsin 2023
Dec
13
to Apr 14

Watercolor Wisconsin 2023

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Watercolor Wisconsin 2023

December 13, 2023 – April 13, 2024
Charles A Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Hours:
Wednesday–Saturday: 10am–4pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

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Oct
6
to Nov 14

Wisconsin Watercolor Society 2023 Fall Exhibition

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The Wisconsin Watercolor Society 2023 Fall Exhibition

Alexander House, Port Edwards, WI

The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, October 6, 2023, 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Artists will be present and refreshments will be served

The exhibit will continue through November 14, 2023.

The Alexander House is open from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday or by special appointment.

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Sep
24
to Feb 3

Wisconsin Artists: 1960–90

Wisconsin Artists: 1960–90

September 20, 2023 – February 3, 2024
at Racine Art Museum

This exhibition surveys art in Wisconsin from 1960 to 1990. Not only was this an exceptionally fertile time in the history of a state with a (surprising to some) rich and layered history of creative production, it is also the period that Don Reitz—an artist with a concurrent exhibition at RAM—taught in the ceramics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The work on display was specifically created during this period while the artists lived in Wisconsin. Identifying similarities among artists in a region can be daunting since there can be multiple points of comparison and contrast—as is the case with any group of people. The goals of this exhibition are not to define the work relative to the region, but to showcase it both as a way to contextualize Reitz’s work and celebrate those involved in building the legacy of art in this state, especially in the years leading up to the establishment of RAM and its 2003 opening.

All work—including works on paper, baskets, furniture, jewelry, painting, and ceramics—is drawn from RAM’s collection and reflects the range of ideas, media, and processes at play in the state and memorialized within the museum’s holdings.

Artists in the Exhibition

Robert Barber, Jerrold Belland, Jan Buckman, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Robert Burkert, Sandra Byers, Gibson Byrd, Warrington Colescott, John N. Colt, Christopher Davis-Benavides, David F. Driesbach, Lisa Englander, Jim Escalante, Susan Stamm Evans, Donald Friedlich, Verne J. Funk, Martha Glowacki, Sherman Groenke, Ruth Grotenrath, Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Audrey Handler, Gary Hanks, Annette Zolin Hirsh, Kent Ipsen, Randy Johnston, Ruth Lee Kao, Jerome Karidis, Anne Kingsbury, Jim Lee, Marlene Lipinski, Ken Loeber, Tom Loeser, Dona Look, George L. McDonald, Ruth Miles, Eleanor H. Moty, Frances Myers, Harry Nohr, Charlie Olson, Danny Pierce, JoAnna Poehlmann, Tom Rauschke, Sister Remy Revor, Adolph Rosenblatt, Joseph Rozman, Bruce D. Saille, Diane Sheehan, Jean Stamsta, Anthony C. Stoeveken, Linda Threadgill, Mary Tingley, Christel-Anthony Tucholke, Tom Uttech, Lee Weiss, John Wilde, and Kaaren Wiken

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Grammar Lessons
May
13
to Jul 15

Grammar Lessons

Solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings at OS Projects

Artist reception: Saturday, May 13, 2023, 1:00–3:00 pm
Artist talk: Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 1:30 pm

Lisa Englander will also be at the gallery on Fridays 12:00–5:00 pm (except 6/2) to speak with visitors about her work.

OS Projects
601 Sixth Street
Racine, WI 53403

Saturdays
12:00–5:00 pm and by appointment

OS Projects is pleased to present Grammar Lessons, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Lisa Englander, opening May 13, 2023 and continuing through July 15, 2023. An artist reception will be held on Saturday, May 13 from 1 – 3 pm. The artist will also give a talk about her work on June 24 at 1:30 pm.

Lisa Englander’s shamelessly decorative artwork features obsessive patterning, elaborate colorations and simplified ornamentation. Her paintings are visually organized in musical fashion, with sections of color meeting, connecting and abruptly stopping before migrating to a different area of the work like riffs in a jazz composition. Painted areas enunciate and restate themes, while intersecting planes of minutely scaled patterns shade and shadow each other to create complex, imaginary spaces.

In Grammar Lessons, Englander investigates the scope and subtleties of a monochromatic palette. She creates rich black paintings in which no black paint is used as well as vivid works in multiple shades of a single hue. Her paintings—all executed freehand—are made from watercolor washes which can be layered up to thirty times to generate the depth and luminosity of color the artist seeks.

Grammar Lessons also finds Englander returning to her love of drawing, inspired by a discarded vintage copy of Owen Jones’ pioneering work, The Grammar of Ornament, first published in 1856. The book features 100 color plates of objects and patterns from around the world and throughout history, along with propositions about proportions, colors and rules of abstraction.

Englander has long subscribed to Jones’ argument that one of humankind’s universal qualities is the desire to make beautiful things. The artist has also shared Jones’ comprehensive global approach to ornament and beauty, with its focus on pattern and decoration, throughout her career. In Grammar Lessons, Englander revisits her early explorations of Jones’ visual research byusing printed images from the book as the starting point for a new series of elaborate multi- media collages she debuts in this exhibition.

About the Artist

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lisa Englander lives and works in Racine, Wisconsin. She received her BA in printmaking and drawing from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Lois Dodd and Philip Pearlstein, and her MFA in printmaking from UW-Milwaukee.

Englander’s work has been featured in over 25 solo shows in museums and galleries including Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (Madison, WI); Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (Neenah WI); Chicago Cultural Center; Grace Chosy Gallery (Madison, WI); Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, WI); and Bradley Galleries (Milwaukee, WI), among others.

She has participated in over 300 group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Her paintings have also been included in national and international surveys of watercolor including Watercolor Now, Watercolor U.S.A. and the Missouri Watercolor Society International in Barcelona, Spain. Englander’s work can be found in museum, public, corporate and private collections throughout the U.S.

Special Gallery Hours for Exhibit: Lisa Englander will be at OS Projects on Fridays (except 6/2) from noon - 5 pm to speak with visitors about her work. The gallery is also open Saturdays noon - 5 pm and by appointment.




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