Feature image: Jade in her studio. Photo: Aloy Xiong. By Frank Juárez Jade Pergl is a recent BFA graduate (2024) from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She earned a degree in Fine Art + New Studio Practice with a focus in painting and a minor in writing. My first encounter with her work wasContinue reading “Jade Pergl: A Sense of Calmness”
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Of Clowns and Artistic Depth at Carnelian Art Gallery
Feature image: Courtesy of Carnelian Art Gallery. Submitted Madison, WI – Carnelian Art Gallery, located at 221 King St., Suite 102, in downtown Madison, is pleased to announce its July exhibition, titled “Of Clowns and Artistic Depth.” This is a solo exhibition featuring works by Madison artist Douglas Hyslop. Of Clowns and Artistic Depth is slatedContinue reading “Of Clowns and Artistic Depth at Carnelian Art Gallery”
Katherine Steichen Rosing: Reflections and Undercurrents at Kim Storage Gallery
Feature image: Blue Damselflies Flitting About My Kayak, Acrylic on canvas, 44 x 55 in. Submitted Milwaukee, WI – Kim Storage Gallery is pleased to present “Reflections and Undercurrents,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Katherine Steichen Rosing, which immerses viewers in the invisible forces shaping forests and watersheds amid climate disruption. Rosing’s workContinue reading “Katherine Steichen Rosing: Reflections and Undercurrents at Kim Storage Gallery”
COLIN MATTHES: The Intelligentsia is at the Gates at OS Projects
Feature image: The Intelligentsia by Colin Matthes, 2025. Submitted Racine, WI – OS Projects is pleased to present The Intelligentsia is at the Gates, a solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, and prints by Colin Matthes. The exhibition opens on February 21, 2026, and will be on view through April 11, 2026. The gallery will hostContinue reading “COLIN MATTHES: The Intelligentsia is at the Gates at OS Projects”
Oliva Gallery Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary Amplifying Voices and Practices of Women Artists
Feature image: Jason Purcell I by Melanie P. Brown. Courtesy of Oliva Gallery. March 6, 2026 – March 28, 2026 Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2025, 5:00–9:00 PM Oliva Gallery, 3816 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647 Submitted Chicago, IL – Oliva Gallery marks its tenth anniversary with MMM…., a group exhibition presented in conjunction with International Women’s Day.Continue reading “Oliva Gallery Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary Amplifying Voices and Practices of Women Artists”
Monica Rezman: Between Two Worlds
Feature image: Mexico Studio, 2022. Photo: Patricia Robert. By Linda Marcus For artist Monica Rezman, the “in between” is not a point of transition but a place of belonging. It’s where her practice lives — in the slip between mediums, cultures, and states of being. “It feels natural,” she says of this undefined space. “It’s myContinue reading “Monica Rezman: Between Two Worlds”
Where Language Fails: The Art of James Kao
Feature image: James Kao. Photo Credit: Brennan Witt. By April Behnke James Kao’s paintings and drawings inhabit the space between perception and imagination. Shapes of trees, mountains, and water surface recede, emerging through soft layers of color and mark-making. Edges blur; forms appear and dissolve. His images seem to capture not the world as it is,Continue reading “Where Language Fails: The Art of James Kao”
Rachel Hellerich: Where Light Falls
Feature image: Rachel Hellerich, Where Light Falls, 2020, Acrylic and flashe on panel, 30 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Written by Frank Juárez On June 28, 2025, I attended the Great Lakes Invitational Art Fair in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. June was an unusual month for art fairs in Wisconsin, as I have been involved in theContinue reading “Rachel Hellerich: Where Light Falls”
100 years of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Birch and Pine Tree No. 2 painting featured at Rahr-West Art Museum
Submitted On May 15, 2025, as part of the celebration of the 75th year of the Rahr-West Art Museum, the museum offers a day of programming in honor of the gem of our collection, Birch and Pine No. 2 by Georgia O’Keeffe. The painting was completed one hundred years ago, in 1925, and has been a part ofContinue reading “100 years of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Birch and Pine Tree No. 2 painting featured at Rahr-West Art Museum”