Think Spring: Guests received a rare glimpse of spring at Samara
Garden and Home’s indoor garden party. Visitors mingled under arbors and
trellises, eying and buying exquisite, handmade garden art and antique
A Trio of New Exhibitions Christens Renovated Space
By Peggy Sue
At a grand reopening party on November 9, the Historic Third Ward’s Portrait Society Gallery hosted a trio of new exhibitions. Three recently enlarged galleries complement an additional room for art storage and documentation that completed a long summer of innovation meets renovation. Each fresh space impressed owner/curator Debra Brehmer’s well-wishers that celebrated with her on Friday eveni...
At Blustein Brandino Fine Art in the Historic Third Ward’s Marshall Building, the second floor art gallery exhibits “New Photo Expression 2012.” Included in the excellent exhibition along with Wisconsin's Eddee Daniel and Larry D’Attillo, photographer Julia Koserski presents Half and Tag, which features nude and unretouched self portraits of herself for a very specific purpose. To ...
Debra Brehmer, curator and founder of Portrait Society Gallery (207 E. Buffalo St., Suite 526), envisioned working with portraits in 2007. It was a far-reaching vision that...
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” Pablo Picasso said of the value of aesthetics in society. Milwaukee's Gallery Night and Day embraces this spirit for its 25th anniversary, July 27-28. The quarterly event, which began...
If you peer through the hole in a wall dividing several rooms at the Portrait Society Gallery (PSG), you'll see an over-the-top installation by Jack Eigel and Skully Gustafson...
Over time, volunteers can transform a city's creative footprint. Each year since 1962, the Milwaukee Art Museum's Friends of Art has sponsored the annual Lakefront Festival of Arts. The festival marks its 50th anniversary June 15-17 with...
For at least 17,000 years, as evidenced by cave paintings in Lascaux, France, man has tried to capture the animal kingdom through art. The complex relationship that stems from sharing personal space with animals, whether explored...