Calling all contributors: A weekend of art by Art City.
The results of the Frank Juarez Gallery and Latitude 43′s new partnership is mentioned by Stacey Williams-Ng, Art City Contributor.
The Frank Juarez Gallery continues to provide its audience with ongoing video series focusing on its featured artists.
Artist Highlight with Evie Grasse
Artist Highlight with Melissa Musante
Their exhibitions end June 15, 2013.
This exhibition features paintings/mixed media works by Kay Jelinek, paintings by Tony Conrad, and photographs by Peter Hernandez. If you missed the reception, there is plenty of time to view these works. Ends August 13, 2013.
Reception photos courtesy of Pat Ryan from PMRFoto.
Come out and support Kay Jelinek and Tony Conrad.
This exhibition marks the start of a new partnership with Latitude 43 and the Frank Juarez Gallery.
They are the first exhibiting artists at the newly remodeled Latitude 43. Kay is currently showing earlier and most recent works in acrylic and mixed media. Tony is showing earlier abstract works (earlier than 2009).
TONIGHT is an artist reception for these artists from 6-8pm. Artist talk at 7pm. Hors d’ oeurves and champagne will be served.
Their work will be on exhibit until August 13, 2013.
You do not want to miss this.
The Frank Juarez Gallery hosted “Progeny featuring installation, video, paintings, and mixed media works by Melissa Musante and “Impressions of the Southwest…and Beyond” featuring watercolors by Evie Grasse.
Melissa Musante takes the gallery visitor on a journey through a collection of objects. Her work incorporates time based media elements, sculptural objects, and traditional abstract painting. Musante hopes to invoke reflections on all stages of the child.
Evie Grasse’s works consists of a collection of watercolors inspired by her travels from Wisconsin to the American Southwest during the winter months.
Gallery hours are Saturdays from 10am-4pm and by appointment.
To view more photos click here
Contact Frank Juarez at 920.559.7181 or frankjuarezgallery@gmail.com for further information about this exhibition.
Ends June 15, 2013.
On May 11, the Frank Juarez Gallery hosted another critique session. This time with Christine Style, UW-Green Bay art professor and printmaker. Next critique session is schedule for June 15 with Tom Uebelherr, UW-Sheboygan art professor and artist. Please contact frankjuarezgallery@gmail.com for more information or to RSVP. Here are some photos taken from this critique.
About Christine Style
Christine Style is a Professor at UW-Green Bay teaching courses in printmaking and drawing. Her MFA in printmaking was from UW-Milwaukee and her BS in art was from UW-Madison. Style is currently president of the State Board of Directors for Wisconsin Visual Artists and she is active in the NE Chapter of WVA. She is also on the board for Print Forum, a support group with the Milwaukee Art Museum and for Cedar Center Arts, the board that operates the ARTgarage in Green Bay, WI where she founded Summer Art Workshops for grades 1-12 (beginning its 7th year). Style has exhibited her work regionally and nationally and is currently represented by the Peltz Gallery in Milwaukee. Style has been taking both university and community students to Florence, Italy for Arts Italy: Studio Art Intensive every even summer since 2002. Arts Italy 2014 will be for the month of June 2014 and is offered through UWGB Office of International Education. Style is also the USA Administrator for the Nek Chand Foundation volunteer program in Chandigarh, India.
Artist Statement 2013 about Christine’s recent woodcuts
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much: but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere. . .” Jane Austen
Woodcuts: Stories of the Heart
I set about to complete a series of nine woodcuts about four years ago with the concept they would each represent elements related to stories of the heart. A woodcut I did just before I began this series (not exhibited here) was one large cut-a-way view of an organic human heart but within the series of nine I use the universally known symbol for the heart, as it allowed me to visually and more graphically play with ideas. The addition of the ‘talk’ or ‘thought’ bubble further layers the visual narrative and expands the dialogue. The early works focused on illustrating the inner body, incorporating my interest in anatomical medical illustrations and Indian miniature painting imagery and the last four drew on Renaissance religious and portrait painting postures. Just as stories and meaning form when words are placed together, visuals do the same. I embrace opportunities to visually layer forms, subjects, and stories and viewers are invited to weave in their own interpretations and thoughts.
My process:
Printmaking is about process. The visual composition for these woodcuts began as drawings that were researched, drawn in pencil and refined in ink at least four or five times before the physical carving of the wood began. One block takes about five days to carve if working twelve hours a day everyday. I generally can’t devote that much time to carving and still have a life and a job so the blocks took varying amounts of time. Warrior Heartsat 1/5th carved for over a year as my time was needed elsewhere. Four of the blocks were carved in the last two months— Benevolent Heart I and II, Discerning Heart, and Empathetic Heart. Originally the printed images were hand-painted in selected parts using multiple colors but when the series of nine were finished I decided that finding one-color and using it in all the prints would work better. I mixed this light green that I call “Fra Angelico Green’ using Akua water-based inks.
photo courtesy of the artist
Empathetic Heart
Woodcut with hand painting
2013
22” x 16”
To learn more about Christine visit her at http://www.christinestyle.com/
I have been invited to do studio visits at RedLine in Milwaukee on May 21, 2013. I will be advising them on how to promote work, present ideas, and facilitate individual critique session with each of the artists. I will also be sharing my curatorial knowledge with them, how they could best present their works to a curator, how they could package work for a show, ideas of presentation that make the viewer want to see more work from the artist.
Stay tuned for an update.
