As our streets and boulevards reanimate with pedestrian life, MOWA is also showing up and showing out in The Street. This timely exhibition explores the sights, sounds, and vibrance of city streets and the artists who move and are moved by them.

Featuring more than 40 artists, this exhibition is a love letter to the paved roads and towering buildings that are the backdrop and center stage for our daily work and play, and a continual source of inspiration for artists. With photography, sculpture, and so much more, The Street has something for everyone.

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Bad As Can showcases the work of street photographer Isaac Harris, also known as Breaking Fad. Harris coined the name in 2012 when he moved to New York and the television show Breaking Bad was at the height of its popularity. Breaking Fad refers to nonconformity and having a strong sense of individuality—qualities that are fundamental in Harris’s work. He strives to capture the essence of the human experience, from the glamour of burgeoning influencers and renowned celebrities to people down on their luck.

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With sharp photographic focus and poetic deadpan wit, Madison-based photographer Lewis Koch trains his lens upon an often-overlooked fixture of American life: the wood-framed, one-car garage. Originally exhibited in 1983 as an installation inside Koch’s own garage, Garage Interiors: The Topography of Hidden Space is a series of formal, almost diagnostic black-and-white prints. The underlying construct posits that if the automobile is the brain, then the garage is the skull, and the crumbling brick walls, cracked concrete floors, aged wooden beams, and dusty castoff artifacts found inside are the “membrane of memory.”

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Through a complex layering of encoded meaning, personal narrative, and social commentary, Taj Matumbi depicts a dynamic world of alter egos.

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Showing remarkable commitment and perseverance, every day from September 2020 to September 2021, four Milwaukee residents and friends, Phyllis Bankier, Heather Ho, Diane Rychlinski, and Kathy Smith, photographed the Milwaukee County shoreline as the sun rose.

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Using the camera as a tool of self-inquiry, Vaughan Larsen explores personal perceptions of identity.

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The exhibition will feature forty-five paintings displayed within a re-created lounge environment of leopard-painted Buddha sculptures, a taxidermy bear, a 1961 camper van, a VW, and plush household furnishings.

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