One From Wisconsin 

Tom Berenz (Fond du Lac) May 16 - July 8
Image for Tom Berenz (Fond du Lac) FOREST WRECK, Tom Berenz, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2012

Wisconsin bred, born and educated, Tom Berenz’s remarkable paintings are visual responses to various disasters that have befallen the US in recent years as substantial man-made structures are left ruined by nature’s extreme violence. In its aftermath remains a sense of stillness, of muted abstract forms that, in being removed from their greater context, offer a grim reminder that as powerful as humanity is, it is ultimately impotent against nature.