Feature image: Debra Brehmer and Frank Juárez at Paradigm Coffee + Music. Photo: Alison Kleiman. By Frank Juárez Art Muscle debuted in the Milwaukee art community in 1986. The magazine was founded by UW-Milwaukee graduate student Debra Brehmer, who is an arts writer, historian, and owner of Portrait Society Gallery Contemporary Art in the HistoricContinue reading “The Story Behind the Iconic Art Muscle”
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Art Against the Odds: Surmounting the Insurmountable
Feature image: M. Winston, House with oatmeal carton roof Gary John Gresl The traveling exhibition titled “Art Against the Odds” is extraordinary in several ways. The roots of the exhibition began in 2021 and took 2 years to organize and plan. It exclusively includes art made by incarcerated men and women in the Wisconsin PrisonContinue reading “Art Against the Odds: Surmounting the Insurmountable”
Shari Urquhart: Musn’t Touch, A Textile Retrospective at The Warehouse and Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art
April 30 through June 30, 2021 Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art is pleased to present this major exhibition in conjunction with The Warehouse. Forty years of Shari Urquhart’s fiber art tapestries are being presented in two Milwaukee venues. This is the first time this extraordinary group of more than 30 monumental, figurative textiles fromContinue reading “Shari Urquhart: Musn’t Touch, A Textile Retrospective at The Warehouse and Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art”