One From Wisconsin 

kathryn e. martin February 17 - March 28
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.