kathryn e. martin
February 17 - March 28
For Untitled (The One from Wisconsin ), my primary
material is recycled cardboard
packaging, or ExpandOS. Marking a shift away from
previous works with Styrofoam,
this project continues to highlight my process:
assembling and re-arranging elements
to display a simultaneous state of being and evidence of
doing. It shows my interest
in the potential of everyday objects. I work with
ordinary forms-often tens of thousands
of them-then shape the accumulated fragments into
immersive environments. Untitled
(The One from Wisconsin ) uses approximately 10,750
individual forms. For Untitled
(The One from Wisconsin ), I worked to have the forms
mimic the natural world: a
wasp, hornet or swallow nest, singular barnacles or
collective hives. I worked to
provide a place of contemplation and observation - to
pull together the everything
and the nothing; where nothing is hidden and everything
revealed. The material,
marketed as a "sustainably manufactured internal
packaging system that creates a
protective cocoon around each and every product shipped"
(http://www.expandos.com),
speaks also to the nature of protection, safety, and
security. As such, the forms
and their presentation reflect each other. Inspired by
the tranquility of the Museum,
I was curious of its sectioned off spaces and formal
rooms. Using the architectural
space as its borders, I worked to confine the work
between the chair rail and its
benches, to provide an intimate space for viewing and to
give the body a space to
sit and the mind a place to wander.
kathryn graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
from the Milwaukee Institute
of Art and Design. In 2005 and 2007 respectively, she
received a Master of Arts
in InterMedia and a Master of Fine Arts in InterMedia
both from UW-Milwaukee. Since
2004, kathryn has taught classes at UW-Milwaukee and the
Milwaukee Institute of
Art and Design.
2009 Schedule
The MWA's One from Wisconsin exhibition series, inaugurated in 2004, shows contemporary
artists each year. This series has showcased the work of some of the most exciting
young artists working in the state today.
Kelli Hoppmann
January 3 - February 1
(Madison)
Kelli Hoppmann’s immaculately and vibrantly-hued paintings reveal an almost surreal
world inspired by personal experience, myths and allegories. Filled with humans
and animals and dealing with themes of love, death, sin, pathos and contrition in
theatrical-like settings, these paintings will enchant and fascinate.
Jayne Reid Jackson
February 4 - March 1
(Madison)
Jayne Reid Jackson is one of America’s finest practitioners of the mezzotint printing
process. Using everyday objects as her subject matter, she skillfully pulls beautiful
images that are imbued with a stunningly timeless and classic feel.
Beth Lipman
March 4 - 29
(Sheboygan)
A glass artist of national renown, Beth Lipman’s gorgeously created glass still-lifes
pay homage to the still life paintings of the 17th to the 20th centuries. Seeking
to capture its essence and expressive qualities, Lipman recreates the painting in
three-dimensions, and photographs it to return the still-life to two dimensions.
Tom Jones
April 1- 26
(Madison)
Lecture: April 4th, 2:00PM,
lecture FREE with general Admission, members always free.
Tom Jones is determined to change the conventional “beads-and-feathers” portrayal
of his Ho Chunk Native American Indian community. His photographs are supremely
sensitive to presenting an insider’s view of daily life and his subjects’ determination
to maintain traditions and identity with respect to the dominant “white” culture
that surrounds them.
Emily Siegel Belknap
April 29 - May 31
(Milwaukee)
One of the brightest prospects to recently graduate from the Milwaukee Institute
of Art and Design, Emily Siegel Belknap’s extendedlength watercolors and bronze
sculptures reflect the interaction and interdependence of modern culture and the
landscape.
Valerie Zimany
June 3 - 28
Artist Lecture: Saturday, June 6, 2 PM
(Appleton)
For the past three years, accomplished international ceramics artist Valerie Zimany
has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Art Department at Lawrence University in
Appleton. This exhibition will mark the culmination of her work from her time there.
George Ray McCormick Sr.
July 1 – July 31
George Ray McCormick Snr.’s bas-relief wood carvings hint at his colorful past,
but more importantly provide a keen insight into his personal spiritual awakening
in 1991 that drives and informs his work to this day. These colorful, scripture-filled
carvings are the physical manifestations of a complex person finding peace, salvation
and inspiration.
Sonji Hunt (River Hills)
August 1 – 30
A painter who loves to sew, Sonji Hunt’s quilts challenge traditional forms in both
construction and form. Dominated by movement, color and texture, these elements
reflect her everyday life and experiences, deconstructed and reassembled to tell
a particular story.
Bird Ross (Madison)
September 2 – 27
Bird Ross loves the alphabet: her ABC's are forever organized -- and endlessly reorganized.
“Take a Letter” explores the alphabet and puts it to work. She experiments with
typography in three dimensions, finding new materials that freshen up the familiar.
Here is the alphabet you thought you knew: dissected, diagrammed, manipulated, and
re-imagined.
Larry Basky (Plymouth)
September 30 – November 1
A consummate printmaker with more than forty years experience and numerous national
awards to his name, Larry Basky is fascinated with the process and the product of
printmaking, especially serigraphy. This technique is the vehicle for producing
prints that focus on his favorite subject matter – the landscape – and these colorful
images can incorporate, on average, twenty colors each.