really?...

For Mel

in honor

of a legend...

Grant Ernhart in Perspectives Gallery

Grant Ernhart's Gustine now on view in MIAD's Perspectives Gallery through April 10, 2009. Grant will be in Milwaukee (virtually via Skype) on Tuesday March 31 at 11:15 for an artist talk.
All are welcome to attend. MIAD, 273 E. Erie St. 2nd floor, Milwaukee

The Armoury Gallery - TONIGHT

petrified, 2009 - installation view

My March madness is coming to and end with the third and final opening for me this month. It has been a challenge to keep up with each event but I am really pleased with each of the exhibitions! For this exhibition at the Armoury I have worked with some of the shark teeth that I collected at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. It takes approximately 10,000 years for a shark tooth to fossilize....

The Armoury Gallery Presents : Night Work March 27 - May 2, 2009

Works by: Nathaniel Stern, Jessica Meuninck Ganger, Nicolas Lampert, Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg, Sonja Thomsen

See you at the reception tonight frrom 6 - 10pm

The Armoury Gallery

1718 N. 1st St. 3N3

Milwaukee WI 53212

414 265 2806

Oil Self Portrait (3), 2008 & petrified, 2009

spring is here!!!

Update (3.28.09) Its sleeting/snowing/raining outside... spring has not yet arrived in Mil-town

I'm loving these longer days!!!

MAM after dark...

Update:

March 20, Milwaukee Art Museum 5-Midnight....

Fountain of Youth will exhibit (one night only) the results of four week collaborations between MIAD freshman and artists from Milwaukee.

my collaborator Julie Wayer

Come to the Milwaukee Art Museum tonight to see a rear projections on windows in Windhover Hall.

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lacuna, 2009
installed at the Haggerty Art Museum

petroleum at Haggerty...

see you at the opening tonight!!!

lacuna at Haggerty ...

Come see it in its entirety...

Opening reception is Thursday March 12 5-7pm

Haggerty Museum is located at 13th and Clybourn Streets on the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin

come to Milwaukee to see this show...

Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin

March 12 – June 14, 2009

Opening Reception Thursday March 12, 5-7 pm

The Haggerty Museum’s Current Tendencies Ten Artists from Wisconsin will feature recent work and new installations by contemporary artists in Wisconsin. The ten artists in the exhibition -- Jennifer Angus, Peter Bardy, Anne Kingsbury, Colin Matthes, Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg, T.L. Solien, Sonja Thomsen, George Williams, Jr. and Xiaohong Zhang. The art in the exhibition will range from paintings, drawings and photographs to mixed media. Site specific works are being created by Angus, Matthes and McCaw & Budsberg specifically for this exhibition. These works will subvert various spaces throughout the museum. In addition to these installations, one gallery will be dedicated to the work of the late Peter Bardy, a self-taught artist from Milwaukee who transformed his home into a private world. This will be the first ever exhibition of Bardy’s sculptural work which was largely unknown until his untimely death earlier this year. New work by Sonja Thomsen and Xiaohong Zhang will be featured in the exhibition along with variety of works by Anne Kingsbury and paintings by T.L. Solien and George Williams, Jr

Orion Magazine, nature / culture / place

I am pleased to have 15 images in the current (March/April) issue of Orion Magazine. Thanks Jason. I am thrilled to be paired with Richard Louv's article promoting a child's right to experience nature. I was pleased to see friend Rebecca Horne's images reproduced in the issue as well. Documentary photographer Jonathan Olley has a powerful piece The Forbidden Forest, where the Great War continues to generate casualties. Check out the issue here.

Mark Brautigam Represent

"Plymouth, WI" © Mark Brautigam

Mark Brautigam is representing Wisconsin in the 50 States Project! We are in good hands here in WI.