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UW-Madison Art Department Newsletter
Oct 24, 2022

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FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,

This past weekend was Homecoming weekend so you can imagine that campus was busy with a good many people in town to visit. We had some tours of our own this last week—on October 14th and 21st the Art Department hosted families from around the nation to join us for UW-Madison Experience Wisconsin Open House. In addition to tours of the Art Department facilities, participants observed panel discussions and general campus information sessions as well. Experience Wisconsin was part of the almost thirty outreach events scheduled through the Art Department for the fall term.

This week we want to highlight the hard work and great advocacy provided to all the arts on campus by the Division of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The clear and perfect message of the Division of the Arts is: “Arts for Everyone, Everywhere.” We want to thank Christopher Walker and Kate Hewson and the entire team over at the Division for all the work that they do in support of all the Arts on campus. Please check out their new video that does an excellent job of threading together all of the Arts related units on campus.

If you are in Madison this Friday the 28th please know there is an Artists’ Night event with multiple artists and venues including great local spaces like Arts + Literature Laboratory, The Bubbler at Madison Downtown Public Library, Communication, Midwest Clay Project, and number of other spaces. Visit their website for the full schedule and list of event venues.

Please mark your calendars Professor Emeritus TL Solien's exhibition reception at Tandem Press Friday, November 4th and the Art Department Open Studio Day on Saturday, November 5 from noon to 6pm.

Flyer for Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Colloquium Jovencio de la Paz.This week the Art Department Colloquium features artist, writer, and educator Jovencio de la Paz whose work explores the intersection of textile processes such as weaving, dye, and stitchwork as they relate to broader concerns of language, histories of colonization, migrancy, ancient technology, and speculative futures. Join our weekly Colloquium Visiting Artist Lectures online or in person in room L160 in the Elvehjem Building.

Thank you for following us, have a great week.

Chair Derrick Buisch

UW/ART
IN THE NEWS

See student artists in action at the Art Department’s Open Studio Day on Nov. 5, UW-Madison School of Education News, October 19, 2022.

Artist’s Night 2022 by 8 O'Clock Buzz, WORT 89.9FM, October 17, 2022.

UW–Madison’s O’Neill exhibiting at Abel Contemporary Gallery through Nov. 6, UW-Madison School of Education News, October 14, 2022.

Alumnus shares ‘words of wisdom’ in Noun Project blog post featuring top designers, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 29, 2022.

Abdu’Allah is guest on new episode of Halverson’s ‘Arts Educators Save the World’ podcast, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 26, 2022.

Leslie Smith III wins Joan Mitchell Fellowship, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 23, 2022.

Couple’s multi-media dance work addresses race, prejudice and inequity by Vicki Larson, Marin Independent Journal, September 21, 2022.

Why Race Matters Episode 4: Art & Black Joy with Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, PBS Wisconsin, September 21, 2022.

Madison Artist Faisal Abdu'Allah's “Dark Matter” Invites Public into His Journey of Transformation by Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, September 20, 2022.

SPECIAL EVENT

UW-Madison Art Department
Annual Open Studio Day 2022
Saturday, November 5 @ 12-6pm

Locations: Humanities Building, 6th and 7th Floors, 455 N Park St
Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI

Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 5th from noon to 6pm as we once again host our Annual Open Studio Day 2022. Over 50 artist studios will be open at this annual autumn arts celebration event! Meet the student artists, see their work, and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their working process.

In both of the buildings that house our operations—the 6th and 7th floors of the Humanities Building and the Art Lofts—more than 50 studios will be open to showcase our multidisciplinary graduate students. This event will also include a number of special presentations at our different media labs and workshops as well as our undergraduates working in their studios and labs and department tours.

All studios and events are free to visit!

Humanities Building, 6th and 7th Floors, 455 N Park St: Only one Humanities Building elevator goes to the top 6th and 7th floors. Enter the Humanities building through the open breezeway on the ground floor and go in the doors marked “ART” in large white letters (E01-02) that are nearest to the Chazen Museum’s back entrance (the Chazen is next-door, immediately to the east). In the lobby the stairs and elevator are to the left.

Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St: The Art Lofts building is located to the east next to the Kohl Center.

UW ART OPEN STUDIO DAY 2022

FALL 2022 VISITING ARTIST COLLOQUIUM

University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department
Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Wednesdays @ 5 - 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160

Discover the latest developments in Fine art, Craft, and Design at our free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors.

The Art Department Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday and Faculty lectures are held every Thursday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public.

FALL 2022 VISITING ARTIST COLLOQUIUM

October 24
Jovencio de la Paz

Jovencio de la Paz is an artist, writer, and educator. His work explores the intersection of textile processes such as weaving, dye, and stitchwork as they relate to broader concerns of language, histories of colonization, migrancy, ancient technology, and speculative futures. Interested in the ways transient or ephemeral experiences are embodied in material, de la Paz looks to how knowledge and experiences are transmitted through society in space and time, whether semiotically by language or haptically by made things. He is currently Assistant Professor and Curricular Head of Fibers at the University of Oregon.

OCTOBER 24: JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ

#ARTSATUW

Enigma: The Prints of David Lynch
September 6 – October 28

Location: Tandem Press, 1743 Commercial Ave, Madison, WI 53704

Enigma: The Prints of David Lynch presents a selection of fine art prints that David Lynch created at Tandem Press between 1998 and 2021. A free outdoor screening of the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life will be shown during the exhibition reception.

ENIGMA: THE PRINTS OF DAVID LYNCH

Call for Artists: Create the Art that Welcomes People to the New Home of CDIS
Apply by October 27, 2022

The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) will commission art for the planter area outside of the northeast entrance to the new building opening in 2025. This prominent location will be viewable by community members both from the University Avenue and Charter Street and from elevated vantage points. We hope to create a visual and physical invitation to join our CDIS community. The commissioned work can draw inspiration from technology and be responsive to the building’s architectural design concepts including nature, sustainability, and connecting with others to create community and drive global impact. It can also embrace the natural features and seasonality of our local Wisconsin landscape.

APPLY TO THE CDIS CALL FOR ARTISTS

How to breathe at a shopping mall: Exhibition Opening
September 30 - November 4

Location: Union South Gallery, Madison, WI 53704

How to breathe at a shopping mall contains an ongoing collection of indoor plants propagated from Chicagoland retail spaces, along with a series of accompanying artworks in the gallery by artists Anton Auth and Sara Grose. This project draws on the artists’ interests towards the poetics of human presence, plant provenance and the retail apocalypse.

HOW TO BREATHE AT A SHOPPING MALL

Workers in Progress by Anthony Adcock: Exhibition Opening
September 30 - November 11

Location: Main Gallery, Memorial Union, Madison, WI 53704

“Workers in Progress” is a collection of thoughts and moments generated at the intersection of blue-collar construction and contemporary art. Viewers will encounter job-site inspired trompe l’oeil paintings, sculptures, and installations which function as a conceptual bridge that explores the relationship between labor and value.

WORKERS IN PROGRESS

Division of the Arts launches new website and Call for Proposals for its Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts has launched a new website for its Arts Residency Programs, synchronized with the opening of the call for proposals for the 2023–24 cycle of its Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program.

The Division of the Arts’Arts Residency Programs bring innovative and diverse artists to the UW–Madison for semester-long, academic year-long and short-term residencies. Visiting artists bring their expertise to campus arts programs, open opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, expand students’ horizons and engage with campus and Madison communities.

Complete and share your proposal for the 23–24 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program by Monday, November 14, 2022 at noon CT.

Visit artsresidency.wisc.edu and artsresidency.wisc.edu/propose for more information.

Questioning Things: A Quarter Century of Material Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
August 24 - November 20

Location: School of Human Ecology, Nancy Nicholas Hall, Ruth Davis Design Gallery, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706

Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5-7pm

Questioning Things invites visitors to look closely, to sit down, to compare, to connect, and to interrogate the common and wondrous objects that have animated the work of scholars and students across our campus. It shares things that make us curious, things we might covet, and things that open new worlds of intellectual possibility.

QUESTIONING THINGS

Uncut Attire: How Weaving Informs Wearables
September 14 - December 4

Location: School of Human Ecology, Nancy Nicholas Hall, Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706

Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5-7pm

How has weaving influenced clothing design, particularly in cultures where handweaving is strongly embedded into communities? This exhibition, completely drawn from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, will show the creative ways various Indigenous cultures have found ways to create garments with minimal to no cutting or sewn construction.

UNCUT ATTIRE

Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance
September 12 - December 23

Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706

For generations, University of Wisconsin–Madison students and staff have been committed to the “fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” a commitment to understanding the world and using that knowledge to improve the lives of people in Wisconsin and beyond. But the university has never stood separate from the nation’s currents of exclusion, or from its struggles for equality. Soon, the university community will have an unprecedented opportunity to learn from its own histories of discrimination and resistance, to sift and reckon with our past. In the fall of 2022, the UW–Madison Public History Project will present Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance to the public through a collaborative partnership with the Chazen Museum of Art. The UW–Madison Public History Project is a multiyear effort to uncover and give voice to these histories. In response to the increased awareness of the Ku Klux Klan’s presence on campus in the 1920s, Chancellor Rebecca Blank created the project to better understand our university’s past. The exhibition will survey over 150 years of history, using archival materials, objects, and oral histories to bring to light stories of struggle, perseverance, and resistance on campus.

SIFTING & RECKONING

ART STUDENT EVENTS

Artists' Night 2022
Friday, October 28

After Party: Giant Jones Brewing, 8-10pm

Run by artists for artists.

Adriana Barrios Studio: Adriana Barrios [MFA '19]. Open 6-8pm, 111. S. Livingston St, Third Floor (enter through Arts + Literature Laboratory).

Arts + Literature Laboratory: The Shape of the Environment featuring Fábio Erdos, Patrizia Ferreira, Hong Huo [MFA '22], Hattie Lee, Lianne Milton [MFA '22], Richie Morales, Beth Racette, Nirmal Raja, Sparker, Roberto Torres Mata [MFA '21], Maria Amalia Wood, Derick Wycherly [MFA '22], and Rina Yoon. Open 6-8pm, 111 S. Livingston St. #100.

Atwood Atelier: Philip Salamone [BS-Art '03] (and many other artists). Open 5-10pm, 931 E. Main St. Suite 16.

The Bodgery: Various Bodgery Members. Open 6-8pm, 740 Oscar Avenue.

The Bubbler at Madison Public Library (Central Library): Audifax, Bubbler Room Artist-in-Residence (ground floor) AND Our Town Everywhere project (Madison Room + Gallery 3rd floor). Open 4-6pm, 201 W Mifflin St.

Cafe Domestique: Samantha Carter. Open 4-8pm, 1408 Williamson St.

Communication: 1) Communication - Revelations featuring Abbie Jane Kurtz, Ava Moore, Ava Parr, Betsy Korbinyr, Finn Porter, Hillary Mitchell, Josie Schoen, Keegan Onefoot-Wenkman, Keith Phelps, Lori B, Matthew Gernandt, Meija/Maya Borowski, Natalie Branch, niibiiwakamigkwe, Paulina Ivanova, Sara Coenen, Tim Whitney. 2) Featured Artists in the shop will be Sturgeon Amlaw and Ava Stevenson. 3) GG of Green Goodies will be doing live painting. 4) Itty Bitty Bookstore will be hosting a pop-up bookshop. Open 6-8pm, 2645 Milwaukee Street. *Masks required.

Fiddlesticks Knits: MFA Candidate KT Simmons-Uvin, Lauren McElroy/Mother of Purl. Open 10am-6pm, 1976 Atwood Ave.

Garver Canvas (inside Garver Feed Mill): Eric Baillies. Open 12-8pm, 3241 Garver Green.

Giant Jones Brewing: Women's Work 2022 features woman-identifying artists in Dane County, and includes the winners of this year's Forward Art Prize! Open 4-10pm, 931 E Main St (Entrance on Brearly St., through the pink door).

giige: Ari Gochberg, Bear Cunningham, Mar Gosselar, nibiiwakamigkwe, nipinet. Open 6-9pm, 1236 Williamson Street.

Mad City Dream Homes: Defending Black Girlhood founder Lilada Gee will be present to showcase her inspiring artwork for sale at Mad City Dream Homes. Open 5-8pm, 1619 Monroe St, Suite 1.

Mimosa Books & Gifts: TL Luke. Open 11am-7pm, 409 State St.

Midwest Clay Project: Midwest Clay Project studio members. Open 5-8pm, 78 N Bryan St.

The Pinney Studio (Madison Public Library - Pinney Library): (1) Angela Johnson [MFA '16] (2) 2022 Bus Lines Poetry Contest: Dreaming a Future (3) Permanent public art in Pinney Library. Open 6-8pm, 516 Cottage Grove Rd.

The Popp Town Mall: Emily Popp, Kel Mur [MFA '20]. Open 5-8pm, 223 E. Mifflin st. studio #6, second floor (No elevator).

Robinia Courtyard - live painting mural in vault: Karmalover. Open 5-8 for live painting (bar will be open later), 829 E Washington Ave .

Studio Campbell: Ash Armenta [MFA '22], Affiliate Faculty Jill H. Casid, Leah Stargardter, Lower Astronomy Studios, Professor Anna Campbell, and friends. Open 5-8pm, 4001 Felland Road, Unit 123.

ARTISTS' NIGHT

Art for Change:
UW's First Art Activism Club

Using art as a medium for change in society and campus life.

Through service on projects, on-campus murals, fundraisers, art shows, and other art making events, our mission is to promote social justice, inclusivity, diversity, activism, sustainability, community, and education through art.

ART FOR CHANGE

Congratulations to 2022-23 Marie Christine Kohler Art Fellow Praveen Maripelly!

Maripelly's MFA research aims is to use various artistic methods to creatively approach every aspect of life to bring about positive social change by seeking to blur lines between gender and caste issues, address institutional racism and colourism, and build social interactions and relations between people in rural areas and the greater global community through ethical components of generosity, hospitality, connections, and social aesthetic ‘conversation’.

The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows at WID are graduate or professional students selected on the strength of their commitment and abilities to contribute to interdisciplinary thought. The Kohler Fellows work and collaborate within WID, connecting graduate students across campus through a range of stimulating projects and events.

2022-23 KOHLER ART FELLOW PRAVEEN MARIPELLY

FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH

Beyond the Frame
July 8 - October 30

Including: Professor Tom Jones

Location: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL

Beyond the Frame spotlights the MoCP’s permanent collection. By placing works by historical and contemporary, local and international artists together according to distinct themes, we invite you to look with awareness, and when you re-enter the image-saturated world beyond the museum’s walls, to pursue thoughtful, questioning engagement with the visual depictions you encounter. There is always more to the story beyond the frame.

BEYOND THE FRAME

Professor Emeritus T.L. Solien: Along the Way
November 4 - January 13, 2023

Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-9pm

Location: Tandem Press, 1743 Commercial Avenue, Madison, WI

Tandem Press is excited to host an exhibition of prints and paintings by Madison-based artist T.L. Solien this fall. T.L. Solien has worked in the Tandem Press studio in two occurrences, creating four editions of prints during those times. His most recent print created at Tandem Press, The Spanish Chair, belongs to a larger series of work Solien has been developing over the past few years. We will show a selection of works on paper and one large painting from this series alongside his new print.

ALONG THE WAY

Dance On Screen FilmFestival 7th Edition
November 4 - 6

Professor Douglas Rosenberg's recent film, Song of Songs, will be featured at the Dance on Screen FilmFestival, at the  Contemporary Art Museum, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. The program is curated by Valentina Moar.

DANCE ON SCREEN FILMFESTIVAL

19th Annual Ceramics Invitational: Group Show
September 16 - November 6

Artists: Jamie Bates Slone, Sandra Byers, Winthrop Byers, Jeff Campana, Nick DeVries, Delores Fortuna, Stuart Gair, Daniel Garver, Mark Goudy, Professor Gerit Grimm, Rain Harris, Rick Hintze, Stacey Johnson Hardy, Nicole McLaughlin, Charlie Olson, Kyungmin Park, Matt Repsher, Reid Schoonover, Juliane Shibata, Jose Sierra, Mark Skudlarek, and Shumpei Yamaki

Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI

For the 19th year, Abel Contemporary Gallery will host an invitational of new works by ceramicists from across the country. One of our most anticipated exhibits, the show will be available in person and online.

19th ANNUAL CERAMICS INVITATIONAL

In no. 5: Halls Creek Lodge by Tim O’Neill
September 16 - November 6

Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI

Tim O’Neill is an accomplished studio artist working in both wood and metal. His most recent body of work, Halls Creek Lodge, looks to Castor canadensis, the North American Beaver, for inspiration. While surveying damage wrought by beavers on a recent visit to a friend’s riverside cabin, O’Neill was struck by the uncanny resemblance between a chewed piece of wood and Constantin Brancusi’s sculpture, Torso of a Young Man. O’Neill sees the works in this body as collaborations with beavers, using gnawed wood forms as impetus for furniture and sculptures. Drawing connections between the “mark making” of the beaver’s teeth and the wood worker’s chisels and saws, O’Neill also creates imagined sculptural tools using cast beaver teeth in playful visual comparisons.

HALLS CREEK LODGE

Kyoung Ae Cho: Pause and Dakota Mace: Land and Memory
September 9 - November 6

Location: James Watrous Gallery in the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St, Madison, WI 53703

Artists Kyoung Ae Cho and Dakota Mace grapple with the natural world, family, memory, and loss. Cho's art is grounded in an intimate dialogue with organic materials and the way their physical properties reveal nature’s language of growth and change. Drawing from her Diné heritage, Mace explores themes of family lineage, community, identity, and the concept of balance within nature. Her art has often centered on the symmetry of designs within Diné culture and the stories connected to land.

PAUSE AND LAND AND MEMORY

Taekyeom Lee
October 10 - November 11

Location: The Lightwell Gallery, OU School of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma, 520 Parrington Oval, Rm. 202, Norman, OK

Taekyeom Lee will have a solo exhibition in The Lightwell Gallery at the University of Oklahoma.

TAEKYEOM LEE

Small Neon
September 9 - November 15

Including: Professor Helen Lee and Lecturer Thomas Zickuhr

Location: Ken Saunders Gallery, 2041 West Carroll, Chicago, IL

Featuring an expanded rooster of artists including newcomers like young Chicago artist Audra Jacot and the incomparable Neon Queen, Lisa Schulte of Los Angeles. A total of twenty artists have created small works in neon. Admission is FREE and all of the works are for sale.

Neon is lit. Neon is sexy and cool. Neon is the past and future. Neon is N0W.

SMALL NEON

Remnants
September 23 - November 18

Location: Lawrence University, Hoffmaster Gallery, 613 East College Avenue, Appleton, WI

Remnants by Professor Tom Jones offers visitors a deeper exploration of the ways American Indians have been visually represented in historical popular culture and also raises crucial questions about these depictions of identity. The dialogue between the engraved images and the vibrantly colored carpets in the photographs encourages reflection about events in U.S. history and the future for Indian communities with casino revenues.

REMNANTS

Swept: This Work I Will Do by Lecturer Cate O'Connell-Richards
June 17 - November 27

Location: Chace Gallery, Hancock Shaker Village,, 1843 West Housatonic St, Pittsfield, MA

In Swept: This Work I Will Do, artist and broom squire Cate O'Connell-Richards [MFA '20] presents a series of broom-inspired sculptures alongside Shaker brooms, connecting Shakers to contemporary craft practices and exploring the Shakers’ influence on American craft and art today.

REMNANTS

Through A Glass, Darkly
September 9 - December 31

Including: Professor Helen Lee, MFA Candidate Carolyn Spears, Heather Sutherland [MFA '17], and Matt Jacob [BFA '18]

Location: The Delaware Contemporary, 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE

Spanning across six galleries, selected works engage the historical promise and power of the material to reveal and to bring clarity, while challenging viewers to acknowledge an inherent interconnectedness between enhancement and distortion.

THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

Reclaiming Identity
August 26 - January 8, 2023

Curated by: Lecturer Dakota Mace

Including: Professors John Hitchcock and Tom Jones

Location: Trout Museum of Art, 111 W College Ave, Appleton, WI

25 renowned Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Mexico tell stories of identity and share what it means to take control and preserve their culture. Through the themes of borders, family lineage, shared histories, colonization, and assimilation, the artists respond to the complexity of blood quantum in their artwork and demonstrate how they are reclaiming their Indigenous cultures.

RECLAIMING IDENTITY

Fascination Paper
August 14 - January 15, 2023

Including: Professor Michael Velliquette

Location: Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Neue Bahnhofstraße 9 | D-59065 Hamm, Germany

The Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm/Germany will show how infinite the creative possibilities are in dealing with paper in the upcoming large exhibition Fascination Paper. 30 international and renowned artists of paper art have been selected who have mastered the material paper in a sculptural virtuoso way. These artists work like sculptors, experimenting with unusual techniques and staging the supposedly fragile material in a new way. A 200-page catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

FASCINATION PAPER

Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
October 30 - January 22, 2023

Including: Professor Tom Jones

Location: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX

Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography highlights the dynamic ways that Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses over the past three decades to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma. The exhibition, organized by the Carter, is one of the first major museum survey to explore this important transition, featuring works by more than 30 Indigenous artists through approximately 70 photographs, videos, 3-dimensional works, and digital art.

SPEAKING WITH LIGHT

Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Professor Emerita Eleanor Moty
August 17 - January 28, 2023

Location: Racine Art Museum, 441 Main Street, Racine, WI

The exhibition owes its name to a monograph of the artist's work published in 2020 by Arnoldsche Art Publisher, Stuttgart. Thirty-five works dating from 1966 to 2022 are on display as well as drawings depicting the design development of the artist's jewelry. Professor Emerita Eleanor Moty taught jewelry and metalsmithing in the Art Department from 1972 to 2001.

QUIET ELEGANCE

BELONGING TO THE LAND
February 25 - February 17, 2023

Location: Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Madison, WI

BELONGING TO THE LAND is a collection of Professor John Hitchcock’s resent works on paper and neon sculpture. Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of commenting on social and political issues to explore his relationships to community, land, and culture. His artworks are based on his childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma on Comanche Tribal lands next to the US field artillery military base Ft Sill. Many of the images are interpretations of stories told by his Kiowa/Comanche grandparents and abstract representations influenced by beadwork, land, air, and water.

Home
July 30 - February 19, 2023

Including: Professor Tom Jones

Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI

Home, a multi-media exhibition, creates conversations around concepts often tied to the sense of home—memory, comfort, loss, displacement, and reclamation. Sometimes described as a state of mind, home occupies both a physical and emotional space. Each artist examines how the concept of home can alternate based on an individual’s perception, simultaneously serving as a site of renewal or rejection, longing or resistance.

HOME

Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark
February 25 - February 17, 2023

Artists: Eric Ballies, Chuck Bauer [MA '70], Tyanna Buie [MFA '10], Barry Carlsen [MFA '83], Rachel Durfee [MFA '94], Anwar Floyd Pruitt [MFA '20], Professor John Hitchcock, Barbara Justice [MFA '22], Amos Paul Kennedy, Sara Meredith, Henry Obeng, Merikay Payne [BS-Art '09], Yvette Pino [BFA '11], Benjamin Pollock, and Roberto Torres Mata [MFA '21]

Location: Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Madison, WI

Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark features prints by contemporary artists whose paths brought them to or through Madison. UW-Madison has the top printmaking MFA program in the country and the UW's Tandem Press produces fine art editions of prints by internationally renowned artists. As a result of these two outstanding institutions, many emerging and prodigious printmakers come to Madison to study, teach, or produce prints. In that way, Madison subtly affects the artist and in turn the artist impacts our city, creating an influential cultural nexus.

To celebrate the importance of printmaking within our local arts ecology and honor some of the printmakers who have made or are making their mark on Madison, the 2022 Municipal Building Exhibition showcases a wide variety of prints and printmaking processes from internationally exhibited artists and locally celebrated printmakers alike.

IMPRINTED IN MADISON

Dark Matter
September 17 - April 2, 2023

Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI

DARK MATTER by British artist and Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah explores cultural representation and self-determination.

DARK MATTER includes a selection of the artist’s most celebrated series, as well as a reconstruction of Garden of Eden (2003), an architectural installation the artist created in collaboration with renowned architect Sir David Adjaye. Exploring issues of privilege, exclusion, and the voyeuristic gaze, this interactive piece separates visitors based on genetic traits—in this case, eye color—in order to undermine our perceptions of difference and alienation. With Garden of Eden, Abdu’Allah points to the privileges conferred to certain people based on the nuances of their genetic matter.

In other works Abdu’Allah uses human hair, a carrier of DNA, and focuses on the ritual of cutting hair. Abdu’Allah is also a trained barber, a profession he has fully integrated into his artistic practice, most notably through his community-based Live Salon performances (2006–present). During each Live Salon session, he provides free haircuts to willing museum visitors and engages them in open-ended conversations about issues surrounding contemporary social identity and representation. In Hair Traits (2016–present), Abdu’Allah uses participants’ actual hair, which he blends into a fine powder to render their portrait on paper. Regarding his use of human hair, he explains, “Essentially, it brings their DNA, their identity, into the work. Our hair carries a trace of who we are, and it is extremely political. In the history of post-colonialism, the straighter your hair was, the higher up on the chain of respect you were.”

DARK MATTER

Blu³eprint
February 22 - April 2, 2023

Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI

Carved from limestone and measuring almost seven feet in height, Blu³eprint depicts artist Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah seated in a Belmont barber’s chair, a nod to the significance of the barbershop both within his artistic practice and his personal history. For Abdu’Allah, a trained barber, the barbershop reflects the Black experience as a place of physical renewal and social solidarity for generations of men.

Abdu’Allah selected the title to express the communal power associated with the Black salon. The artist made the “u” in “Blu³eprint” to the power of three, to reflect the three “u’s” in the Zulu word “Ubuntu.” Ubuntu is an African concept referring to the interconnected nature of humanity. It communicates the idea that we are human only through the humanity of others, or, “I am because we are.”

Abdu’Allah’s pose may be familiar to some. It mirrors a sculpture that has been an enduring feature of Madison’s public art landscape—Abraham Lincoln (1909), a bronze monument by Adolph Weinman situated atop the University of Wisconsin’s Bascom Hill. In recent years, the monument has generated controversy among some UW students who argue that President Lincoln’s anti-immigrant policies and his belief, despite his opposition to slavery, in white racial superiority means that the monument should be removed.

Abdu’Allah conceived of Blu³eprint as a counter-monument to the Lincoln sculpture—a contemporary work erected as a counterpoint to an existing monument. “My philosophy is that artists have always been the shapers of social consciousness, and for me this piece illustrates that,” Abdu’Allah said.

BLU³EPRINT

Water Memories
June 23 - April 2, 2023

Including: Professor Tom Jones

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

This exhibition explores water’s significance to Indigenous peoples and Nations in the United States through historical, modern, and contemporary artworks. In four thematic sections—Ancestral Connections, Water and Sky, Forests and Streams, and Oceanic Imaginations—diverse aquatic expressions feature both representational and abstract approaches.

WATER MEMORIES

Staring at the Sky by Professor Douglas Rosenberg
2023

Professor Douglas Rosenberg's new book, Staring at the Sky, will be published by Bokförlaget Korpen in 2023, a distinguished publishing house in Gothenburg, Sweden. Bokförlaget Korpen was founded in 1975 with a focus on intellectual publications within the field of art, philosophy, feminism, poetry and contemporary culture. Staring at the Sky collects Rosenberg’s essays on art and culture from his five-year weekly/durational writing project between 2015 and 2020.

ALUMNI EVENTS

Join the UW-Madison Art Alumni Facebook Community!

Share your art, events, updates, catch up with your fellow Badgers, and keep in contact with the Art Department all in one place.

JOIN THE ARTFUL BADGER

Congratulations to 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at Thurber Park Ash Armenta [MFA '22]

THURBER PARK RESIDENT

The Shape of Environment

Artists: Fábio Erdos, Patrizia Ferreira, Hong Huo [MFA '22], Hattie Lee, Lianne Milton [MFA '22], Richie Morales, Beth Racette, Nirmal Raja, Sparker, Roberto Torres Mata [MFA '21], Maria Amalia Wood, Derick Wycherly [MFA '22], and Rina Yoon
Date: Aug 23 - Nov 4
Performance and Closing Reception: Fri, Nov 4, 5-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 South Livingston Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI

THE SHAPE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

AFFILIATE EVENTS

UW-Madison Fall Career & Internship Virtual Fair

Date: October 25
UW-MADISON FALL CAREER & INTERNSHIP FAIR

Mills Folly Microcinema: Notes on the Hinterland

Date: Wednesday, October 26 @ 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 South Livingston Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI
NOTES ON THE HINTERLAND

GLEAM: Art in a New Light

Date: August 31 - October 29
Location: Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3330 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI

GLEAM 2022

Charles Munch: Miracles & Mysteries

Date: September 16 - November 6
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI

MIRACLES & MYSTERIES
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