ink on paper (2) ...

Recently learned of this review of the Current Tendencies show at the Haggerty in the July/August issue of ART PAPERS. I find it interesting that Watson assumes that all eight of us that are educators are "artists with health benefits and retirement accounts." I know I speak for myself and fellow adjunct faculty when I say.... "come again?!?" Despite this generalization, I was honored to have been mentioned in the review.

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Milwaukee's Spring Gallery Night...

Spring Gallery night in Milwaukee is one of the most well attended event as many of us are itching to come out of hibernation and stretch our legs.

Tonight be sure to stop by the Armoury Gallery, MIAD, the Haggerty Art Museum, Green Gallery and shoo (to see (h(om)e) of course!)

detail of petrified, 2009 installed at Armoury Gallery

Talk at Haggerty Art Museum...

For the very few of you whom may have time on Wednesday April 8th at 11:30am, I will be giving an informal talk about my work in the Current Tendencies: Ten Artists From Wisconsin

Lunchtime Learning with Sonja Thomsen.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
11:30 a.m.
(in conjunction with Current Tendencies)
Free and open to the public



The show has not been reviewed as of yet but Mike Brenner did write a short recap of the show for The Decider.

Photographer and installation artist Sonja Thomsen explores the fragility of memory and experience in her piece "Lacuna." Serene images that capture private, contemplative moments in time are systematically scattered on the gallery walls. Several of the images are presented in stacks; like stories told again and again, the images start to fade and blur until, at the very bottom of the pile, only a blank piece of paper remains. - Mike Brenner for The Decider

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

Must attend event....

Panel Discussion – The Emergence of the Color Photograph
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Moderator-Wally Mason, Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art
Lisa Hostetler, Associate Curator of Photographs-Milwaukee Art Museum
Brian Ulrich, Photographer
Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Tom Bamberger, Photographer

Stephen Shore in Milwaukee!!!!

Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

July 24

6:00pm

Stephen Shore will talk about his exhibition "Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979"

Be there people!!!

Photography in Milwaukee - that's right!!!

The other date to put on your calendar...

Panel Discussion – The Emergence of the Color Photograph
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Moderator-Wally Mason, Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art
Lisa Hostetler, Associate Curator of Photographs-Milwaukee Art Museum
Brian Ulrich, Photographer
Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Tom Bamberger, Photographer