Andrea Skyberg

Meditations & Revelations: The Work of Lauren Grossman & Prophet William Blackmon

In these side-by-side solo exhibitions, contemporary artist Lauren Grossman of Seattle, WA and Prophet William Blackmon, visionary artists from Milwaukee, exhibit work that reflects their interpretations and reflection on the Christian faith and Bible.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Female Interpretations of Beauty

This exhibition looks at the forms used to teach children the expectations and standards of female beauty and sexuality, such as dolls, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales. Artists in this exhibition include: Claudia DeMonte, Nicky Kriara, Rebecca Pearson, Della Wells.

Blessed: The Work of Joyce Scott

This exhibition showcases Joyce Scott’s phenomenal work in prints, sculptures, and mosaics. Drawing from influences ofAfrican and Native American cultures, comic books, television, contemporary American culture, and the streets of her urban Baltimore neighborhood, Scott is renowned for her remarkable creations of social commentary. This exhibition is connected to ABEA’s companion exhibition Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom: Race & Gender Matters, curated by Della Wells and Evelyn Patricia Terry.

Blessed: The Work of Joyce Scott was supported in part by a grant from the greater Milwaukee Foundation.

Hearing Aids & Other Personal Prosthetics

Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics combines the ambiguous body objects of Yevgeniya Kaganovich with the absurd character paintings of Heather Layton. Together these works bring focus to the issues of interpersonal communication and psychological states of intimacy and isolation, providing an awkward tension between what is functional and dysfunctional.

Figuratively Speaking: The Artworks of Rina Yoon & Waldek Dynerman

Working in similar formats and concepts, Rina Yoon and Waldek Dynerman create autobiographical works that serve as a projector of their sensitivities to space and surface. Yoon works in the realm of family dynamics and family history, creating images of silhouetted figures that serve as empty vessels to act as containers for memories, history and time. Dynerman’s work exists on levels of sadness and despair stemming from his family history of war and survival, while also contacting an element of playful irony and a hope fore happy resolution

The Milwaukee Divide

Many people think of Milwaukee as hyper-segregated city—a place where miltiupel degrees of division exist. In this exhibition, artists address segregation in Milwaukee, interpreting it broadly to include racial, political, economic and geographical divisions. In this way, The Milwaukee Divide hopes to question the borders that are present within our communities and open the door to a dialogue about how and why these division continue.

WARNING: Contains GRAPHIC Images

Comic-influenced art and graphic novels are hugely popular. Comic artists are not only creating new and diverse characters, they’re addressing serious social issues and events. Focusing on the intersection of social power and comic art, this exhibition explores divers theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies, political economy, feminist critique, queer studies and mythic analysis.

Out of Fashion

Out of Fashion showcases wearable sculpture that blurs the line between fashion and art. Utilizing the visual language of clothing and fashion, the pieces focus on the interaction between body and garment. The process of creating wearable three-dimensional pieces is outlined through preliminary sketches, fashion photography, sculptures, runway video and performance art. Addition pieces will be featured at the closing reception runway show.

Marriage, Home & Family

With the political and social atmosphere boiling over with a mixture of religions convictions and civil rights legislation, the issue of constitute marriage and family is ver relegated to the contemporary discourse. Within the realm of marriage and family lies the home, the private space that is created around the grouping of individuals and their beliefs. This exhibition showcases work from local, regional and national artists who address these topics in a variety of mediums.

Fresh from Julieanne’s Garden: The Bronze Work of Preston Jackson

Preston Jackson depicts the history of the pope of different ethnicities living in the Southern United States in the period before and after the Civil War and how their stories are intertwined through his beautiful bronze sculptures. Touching n themes such as the ravages of war, racism and sexism, Jackson brings and air of delicacy and stability to his creations.

Metamorphoses

Lindsay Lochman and Barbara Ciurej began working collaboratively in 1978, chronicling the rites of passage and domestic rituals of women. Their photographs and narratives that address the passing of time through the bodies women—from the androgyny of adolescence, through the bump of pregnancy, the weight of motherhood, and finally resting in the wrinkles of age. These continuously changing bodies express the story of life and relationship of the body to the influence of time.