(Pop) Group Show

March 10 - April 1, 2023

Part group show, part pop up, (Pop) Group Show brings together the work of three female Milwaukee artists who met each other within the local maker scene. Craft shows and markets are usually considered a far cry from gallery shows so for this exhibition, they are coming together at a time of exploration and refinement of one sort of another in each of their practices. Each artists’ work can straddle the line between art and craft and this exhibition will illustrate how their practice can live comfortably within both worlds.

Allie Fritsch is a stained-glass artist based in Milwaukee, WI. Her love for glass started in her high school stained-glass class. It can be a complex art to travel with, so she put her glass cutter away when she ventured off on her college journey, never thinking they would meet again. Allie’s glass cutter reappeared when she started her business, coolAFglass, a few months into the pandemic while she was stuck in her college studio apartment. Her ever-evolving style and designs continue to explore different uses of transparencies, colors, and textures. Allie has been designing and creating unique custom pieces that involve a rollercoaster of emotions, but those emotions are what drive her desire to create.

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Jenny Kyle Smith is a freelance artist living in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Jenny achieved her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from The University of Oklahoma, and is passionate about working in mixed media.

I have been creating mixed media art since I was two years old, however back then I used ribbon, paper, crayons and glue. Today I am still experimenting through various processes including photography, digital media, hand-rendered-illustration, and linoleum block printing as each art piece develops. In 10 years I have put forth a large sentimental and historical portfolio of mixed media work celebrating the uniqueness of the Midwest. This year I am ready to push my skills in mixed media through experimentation, and learning from others. My new direction reflects people and our humanness versus places, however I continue to work in grayscale as I feel comfort in the absence of color. Using acrylic paint, block printing, stenciling, and illustration, my new process ventures onto various surfaces including canvas. The crossover from where I have been to where I am going has just begun, and the outcome is unpredictable like life, and this is how I prefer to create.

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Stacey M Stewartson is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her artwork involves an always-evolving exploration of color, texture and pattern using salvaged leather to create abstract, mosaic-like compositions. Her pieces reflect an unapologetic love of color and the joy of arranging it through the use of theory, self-prescribed rules and intuition. Stacey also works with salvaged leather as a jewelry artisan. She is the owner and designer of a handcrafted jewelry brand named Maebel. Along with leather, she utilizes brass, acrylic, resin and semi-precious stones in her work which can be found at a variety of markets and art fairs throughout the year.

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Opening Reception: March 10, 2023, 5-9pm

Open Gallery Hours featuring Serenity Sound Healing with Kristy, 12-4pm

Sip & Shop Ladies’ Night at the Gallery: Thursday, March 16th, 5-8pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, April 1st, 12-4pm

Cultivate: Renee Luna Bebeau and Todd Mrozinski

January 20th through February 25th, 2023

This dual exhibition features work that has grown from the cultivation of Luna and Todd's garden and compost. Todd focuses on the sunflowers that he carefully watched over from tender sprout to bowing elder. His etchings and aquatints explore and record this life cycle through traditional and experimental intaglio printmaking processes. Luna shows you where to look amongst the garbage and the flowers for the beauty that is still vital in discarded food scraps. Working from close up photos, she has recently begun a series of monotypes that will be on view amongst works in other mediums to shine a light on a solution to landfill issues: home composting.

Renee Luna Bebeau is a multi faceted artist who is curious about the life cycles of the natural world and our place inside that realm. She finds joy in gardening, composting, cooking and baking. Being an energy healer keeps her in touch with the vibrations of the universe. Fascinated by the transitional moments in life, she enjoys the processes that occur with the changing cycles. An array of mediums are used in her art practice as she explores materials of all kinds including painting, drawing, henna and etching. She finds beauty in a crispy, wilted flower bouquet or the contents of her compost container. She lives and works in Milwaukee, WI.

Todd Mrozinski acquired his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 1997 where he was the recipient of a Fredrick Layton Scholarship and attended The New York Studio Program. Mrozinski was the 2015-16 Pfister Artist-in-Residence and exhibits his work at Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. He was a contributing art writer for Urban Milwaukee and Artdose Magazine, was a MARN Mentor and currently teaches etching, drawing and painting at MIAD, AP3 (Anchor Press Paper and Print) and the Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN. He and his wife, Renee Bebeau, have a studio in The Nut Factory in Milwaukee, WI.

Scape Grace - Karen Greenstreet

Irresistibly and unaccountably drawn to painting after a career in law, academia, and business, Karen Greenstreet uses acrylics with ceramic and glass media on canvas to capture abstract scapes:  landscapes, townscapes, and mindscapes.  Intense coloration, touchable textures, curves and circular motifs characterize much of her work.  Some of her recent brushwork is inspired by centuries-old Florentine paper designs. Elevated by the magical atmosphere of the Grove Gallery, Karen’s works range from small canvas board studies through several larger diptychs and triptychs of abstract rural, mountain, and urban imagination.  The centerpiece of her Scapegrace exhibition is a multi-season 15-panel landscape that continues to grow out of her insatiable curiosity to discover what lies on the other side.

Beth Stoddard - Forest Floor

Drawings, drypoint etched prints, colored pencil, and silverpoints inspired by the four seasons as observed in the Milwaukee County land conservancy Fitzsimmons Woods.

Part of a two-location exhibition with Gallery 224, Port Washington.

Exhibition catalogue features essays by Todd Mrozinski and Scott Noel.

Forest Floor | works on paper
September 10–30, 2022

Artist's Reception
Saturday, September 24, 2–5pm

Gallery Hours
Friday 5–9pm
Saturday noon–5pm
and by appointment

Contact

beth.stoddard.studio@gmail.com
414 249 1210

TWO SHOWS - Celine Farrell and Don MacCrimmon

Friday, July 22nd, 5-9 PM and Saturday, July 23rd, noon to 5 pm.

Love Notes to My Garden - Celine Farrell

14 New Bronze Castings Inspired by the Garden

We’re having an Art Show for the Gallery Owner and artist Celine Farrell. A Special Garden Dedication Party for the Lunney Garden, named in honor of Kathleen Lunney Farrell and inspired by the Irish Folk Song, Down By the Sally Garden. The show features early drawings inspired by her first gardens and 14 New Bronze Castings inspired the by the Garden today.

ALSO OPENING

GALLERY NIGHT AND DAY Friday, July 22nd, 5-9 PM and Saturday, July 23rd, noon to 5 pm.

Aspects of Actual Space - Donald MacCrimmon

Aspects of Actual Space is an exhibition of recent paintings and prints by Donald MacCrimmon of Madison, Wisconsin. Grove Gallery is showing 25 recent watercolor paintings, intaglio prints, and wax-resist drawings. Each image is an experience that glows with unexpected colors, movement, and energy. Masterful washes of pigment and confident lines illustrate the subject matter: figures engaged in conversation, dancers, and sharing time outdoors. These impressionistic scenes take place in WIsconsin, the Southwestern United States, Mexico and in imaginary landscapes.

Public Gallery Hours (and open by appointment)

Fri, July 29, 5-9pm
Sat, July 30, Noon-5pm
Fri, Aug 5, 5-9pm
Sat, Aug 6, Noon-5pm
Sun Aug 7, Noon-5pm

Contact: Leslie Vaglica, leslievaglica@gmail.com

Adam Beadel-Chews Your Words

Adam Beadel Chews Your Words. Milwaukee letterpress artist Adam Beadel will be exhibiting his newest large broadside poems, relief prints, Wheel of Fortune woodcut, and other typographic wonders at the Grove Gallery. His mysterious Gravity Computer will be on view along with linocut flowers, and souvenir paper hats. The works were all hand-printed using antique wood and lead type in his letterpress print shop next door to the gallery. Beadel takes ideas, words, phrases, even individual letters, and transforms them into art. This is letterpress like you've never seen it before. 

Also on view is the unique collaborative linocut print “Break the Block: Pizza Party” featuring eight slices carved by Milwaukee printmakers Celeste Contreras, John Fleissner, Teddy Lepley, Hunter Lewis, Gregory Martens, Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Julia Scheckel, and Beadel.

“Chews Your Words” is an experiment in broadside production, according to Beadel. “Can we trust what we hear?  Can we trust what we read?  I’m fascinated by scholarship and understanding how we know what we know.  I believe in the magic of casting words into the world. Words have the ability to leave an impression when the author is long gone.” 

“Letterpress technology requires that all excess be cut out, and phrases lose their adornment. Brevity is sacrosanct. I choose visual language with connections to the cosmos, book history, printing technology, and the human body.  I respond to visual cues in the text that suggest composition and arrangement. After much trial and error during typesetting, I arrive at a selection of fonts and spacing that is most suited to the story. I hope the viewer will consider the visual aspects of the typography and enjoy the repetition of motifs in the prints.”

Nathan Adam Beadel is a printmaker with a hand in many book-arts.  He specializes in carving illustrations out of wood and linoleum blocks, display typesetting with wood and lead type, and printing posters in the American Show Print style.   In 2005, be began making zines, prints and stickers as Team Nerd Press, becoming a brick and mortar business in Milwaukee in 2013. He works with businesses, non-profs, and individuals to make brilliant, one-of-a-kind prints.

 In 2020, Beadel graduated with an MFA in Printmaking from UW-Milwaukee where he studied history of books and printing, methods for making artist books, and constraint-based poetics.  His letterpress and carving classes are geared towards image-text collaborations between artists. He’s taught at MIAD, UWM, the Studio Arts and Craft Center at UWM, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts and privately.  He keeps a robust flower garden in the summer and enjoys whittling and reading.

Grove Gallery, 832 S. 5th ST. Milwaukee WI,  
Opening Reception Friday, Feb. 11, 5:00-9:00 pm. 
Closing Reception Sunday, Feb. 27, 12:00-5:00 pm.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 12-4 pm and weekdays by appointment, 414-520-3891.
Show runs through Feb. 27

Email: beadelbeadel@gmail.com
Website: www.gallerygrove.com
Instagram: @teamnerdpress
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1343681806073939


Stochastic - Matthew Gramling & Christopher A Brooks

Stochastic.

My work here is purposeful in it’s attempt to physically connect us to our entanglements in life, and demonstrate how we experience our most intimate hours as sentient beings in tandem with subatomic happenings. At least, that’s where my head is at!

I’ve had some truly lovely conversations with friends, family and clients in which we all seem to be reconstructing our reality from the broken bits left to us by offensive years. We look for hope in a collective consciousness, and find meaning in the way the physical world makes limits without telling us what they truly are.

Matthew Gramling is a Milwaukee-based woodworker with a practice in functional and artistic design. Gramling began working professionally as a restoration carpenter in 2004, is self taught, and has a background in art and music. He is the founder of The Table Saw Supper Club.

Gramling is a a father of 4 sons, and lives with the 3 that aren’t yet adults.


Christopher A. Brooks is a woodworker and artist who lives and works in Milwaukee WI. A former teacher, college dropout and aspiring visual/musical artist who found employment in the trades. After many years of a grueling schedule working under an angry old timer as a carpenter, he yearned to make less money and struck out on his own. For the last 12 years Christopher has been practicing his craft independently; Attempting to incorporate his creative predilections into a gratifying and sustainable career free from the indignity of modern splendors such as retirement security, vacations and healthcare. Christopher is a loving boyfriend/husband, proud cat father and owns a cool van. He currently works in the Harambee neighborhood of Milwaukee designing and building functional and aesthetically pleasing three dimensional objects.



Open for January 22, 2022 for Milwaukee Gallery Night, 5-9 PM




Metamorphos - New Work by Jamie Jorndt

Artist Statement 

My artwork is a representation of what I am feeling at that particular moment. Each piece  represents who I am in the most raw and intimate form. 

I choose to paint with acrylic paints and use unconventional tools and objects, such as taping  knives and large brushes. I feel this technique gives my paintings a life of their own. My use of the material is both intuitive and true. 

When painting, I enjoy using color as a way of creating excitement for my viewers. I want them to  feel some sort of emotion, through my use of gestural brush strokes, that evolve with no preconceived idea of what the end result will be. 

One thing I can guarantee is there will be a feeling invoked by a particular color or shape. This  process runs a fine line of success and creates an unpredictable tension between the conscious  and subconscious that can only be resolved by its conclusion. 

When I completely let go, the image will become alive and real. The inception of the idea comes from deep inside of me. Painting is like dreaming for me. The process of creating allows me to resolve life’s challenges,  yet others can interpret their own meaning of my work.

BIOGRAPHY 

Jamie has always had an intense love for art. She was born and raised in Lake Geneva, WI and  studied Art at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. While studying under the internationally  acclaimed artist, Terrance Coffman, Jamie discovered her passion for abstract painting. Today,  Jamie is well known for her unique designs and has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine, in  addition to gallery showings. Jamie's art has been featured in private collections throughout the country. 

Opening Friday, November 12, 2021 from 5-8 PM
and Saturday, November 13, 2021 from 12-4 PM
Exhibition runs through November
Artist’s Website: https://jamiejart.com/


About A Vase - Holly Harnischfeger

The series of mixed media paintings portray images of a vase in different environments. At first glance, they are simple shapes and forms that look congruous , balanced; a vase holding simple flowers. Looking closer, one notices the power of the brushstroke ,charcoal gestures, pencil lines, scratches, drips and firework residue create the composition and serve as a metaphor to investigate memories and thoughts. Can a Vase of flowers express a deeper meaning?

October 1st through 31st, 2021.
Open for Gallery Night, October 15th.
View by Appointment.
www.hollyharnischfeger.com

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Dis/Connection - Julia Scheckel and Hunter Louis

September 10th-30th, 2021.
Gallery Hours: Fridays, 4-8PM, Saturdays, 12-4PM.
Closing Reception: Sat, Sept. 25th, 12-6PM.

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Julia Scheckel

My approach to creating imagery starts with the act of carrying around a  camera. While going through daily life, or during special adventures,  imagery will jump out at me, and in that moment I know that I need to  record it. These flashes of connection are often inspired by the sublime  qualities of nature, or cherished moments of friendship. I reproduce these  experiences through printmaking. The act of making prints combines my  love of working in the photography darkroom with my love for drawing.  Shown in this exhibition are some of my recent screenprints. This process  is done by using a light sensitive emulsion coated on screens to make  stencils, which ink is then pushed through, creating an image on paper.  Crafting these prints is a time consuming process which allows me to  relive the moments being depicted. 

Spending time with nature is an escape from the chaos that surrounds  me. Being alone in the forest lets me empty my mind of trivial things,  giving me a better perspective of the bigger picture. I could watch Lake  Michigan for hours and let the tides wash away my anxieties. Most of my  imagery comes from Wisconsin, which is where I have lived my whole life.  It took me a long time to appreciate the gifts that this land gives us,  especially around the great lakes. I try to celebrate this region of the  world so others explore what’s in their own backyard. 

The other living elements in my work are some of the people that I love.  When camping or hiking, the camaraderie that transpires is very special.  Pitching a tent in the rain or spending extensive hours in the car can  bring out the best qualities in people if you’re spending time with the right  ones. When things get tough, friends often show their dedication to each  other and come out stronger on the other side. My connection to the earth  and my favorite people is highlighted in the images here. Spending hours  drawing these scenes lets me spend time in those moments of peace  again. 

juliascheckel.com

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Hunter Louis

My artistic interests and work lie within the realms of illustration and  printmaking, and the translation of one to another. My work exists across the  stages and processes of drawing, both physically and digitally, and  printmaking, primarily screenprinting. Figurative and colorful, my creations  are a playground for whimsical characters to live out their experiences. The  characters invite viewers to celebrate the things that we feel as humans, face  up to darkness that we all experience from time to time, and find the humor  in it while doing so. 

Welcome to the Wasteland is a series of posters introducing viewers to the  characters Flipsy and Potnik and their home, the Wasteland. The Wasteland  is a post-apocalyptic world overrun by disease, violence, corruption, and  wealth-hoarding overlords. Flipsy and Potnik closely resemble the  archetypes of the fool and the hermit, two sides of my personality that I have  tended to switch between amidst the confusion and changes prompted by  events over the past year. There is an implied connection between the two  characters, but the nature of their relationship is unclear. What is clear is that  when push comes to shove, as long as there is someone in your corner,  you’re in a better place than you could be. 

The series illustrates the absurd nature of an uncertain world. To me the  posters are stories without a beginning or end (though they may have those  at some point), like a journal in a time capsule from a parallel world. There  are no heroes in the Wasteland, only the people who make it to the next day. 

Welcome to the Wasteland acknowledges that our world and environmentisn’t always the greatest while also implying that despite this it can be endured by those who are willing to try and those who accept help.

theworldofhunnerlouis.com 

Shelter Lures Me - Adam Stoner, Sara Willadsen, & Daniel Fleming

After weathering a year and a half of a global pandemic, we’ve all adapted new ways of going out into the world—and our home environments have taken on a new layer of biological safety. Yet for many the familiar architectures of the workplace, the grocery, the place of worship, and the classroom are still navigated with the anxiety of contamination. Now more than ever, we are attuned to the surfaces underneath our touch – not in a poetic way, but with alert precaution.

At a time when interactions with our usual people and places had been disrupted, the artists in this show felt the need to think about the various spaces in our lives. Who do we allow into the intimacy of our home? How do we safely rely on public utilities? Will cities of the future have a downtown, or was that just an artifact of a time before video conferencing?

While the artists each worked in their relative isolation, this exhibition served as a place for them to gather together to think through the social and physical production of space. Boundaries, thresholds, and arches are scattered throughout their images. Shelter Lures Me is, in short, their love letter to dwelling places – whether they are protective or secretive, inviting or boisterous. In these images and objects, architecture becomes a container for the salient memories of our lives—our walls which witness our grief and comfort; our rising and sleeping; our labor and reward.

Shelter Lures Me | August 1 - August 31

A group show of architectural works by

Adam Stoner | Sara Willadsen | Daniel Fleming

On view at Grove Gallery August 1 - 31 ; and online at gallerygrove.com

Opening Reception Friday, August 13th 5:00 - 9:00 pm

Adam Stoner

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Adam Stoner (b. 1989) received his Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia Studies from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2019, and his BA in Studio Art and Theater from Williams College in 2011. Stoner makes paintings, drawings, and video installations that visualize the intimate connections between architecture and our bodies. How are we mutually inhabited by the very places we inhabit? If we build structures, do they also build us? Stoner is the recipient of UWM’s Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, Layton Fellowship, and Williams College’s Gilbert W. Gabriel Prize in Theater. Originally trained in scenic design, Adam’s research frequently explores the language of space, the latent agency of materials, and the architectures—visible or invisible—which resonate endlessly in our daydreams.

Sara Willadsen

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Sara Willadsen (b. 1987) received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Northern Illinois University in 2014 and her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Graphic Arts from Lakeland University in 2010. Working mainly with paint and various collage elements, Willadsen’s work explores concepts of abstract spaces and objects guided by her surroundings. She has had work featured in New American Paintings and shows frequently in regional and national exhibitions. Willadsen currently works as a visual artist and graphic designer in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Daniel Fleming

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Daniel Fleming received his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Painting from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2010. Fleming’s work is archetypal: visually abstract but conceptually specific. He uses symbols and associations of symbols that constitute a theme or narrative. His physical process is intentionally raw, direct, intuitive, vigorous, and spontaneous. Fleming works as a visual artist and graphic designer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.