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New MOWA exhibition celebrates the Magical and Weird Wisconsin Wilderness | By Jennifer Turner – Washington County Insider
West Bend, WI –The Museum of Wisconsin Artwork (MOWA) presents Magic Wilderness: Dreamscapes of the Forest that includes 16 artists who have fun the Wisconsin wilderness in all its rebellious, bewitching glory. The exhibition shall be on view October
22, 2022–January 15, 2023. A gap reception with the exhibiting artists shall be held
Saturday, October 22, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
A sturdy schedule of programming accompanies the exhibition and could also be discovered beneath.
Put in as an imagined ecosystem, the exhibition pays homage to the opposites that co-exist in nature. The lyrical and the bizarre, the magical and the mathematical, in addition to the micro and the macro are in proof throughout work, sculptures, pictures, and combined media.
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Highlights embrace a unprecedented, immense mural by longtime College of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee professor John Colt. The 22 ½ x 8 ½ ft. canvas was commissioned in 1958 to honor Rev. John J. Walsh, who put Marquette College’s theater program on the map. Not seen by the general public in a long time, Colt’s mural is an evocative composition of variations on themes drawn from pure varieties.
The leaf of the wild mandrake is a recurring motif, rendered in Colt’s mid-century palette of ethereal orange, inexperienced, yellow, and black. In 2021, the Kohler Basis and Colt’s widow, Ruth Kjaer, gifted the portray to the Museum of Wisconsin Artwork the place it’s now a part of the everlasting assortment.
A number of works by celebrated painter Tom Uttech are additionally featured, together with the surreal diptych included within the 1975 Whitney Biennial, which emphatically introduced Uttech’s arrival on the nationwide stage. Additionally on view is Mid-Summer season Night time’s Dream, a spectral scene depicting the encounter of a woman-deer hybrid and a musk ox, a woolly breed native to the arctic tundra.
Extra works by Jacob Bautista, Theodore Czebotar, Kyoung Ae Cho, Maureen Fritchen, Kevin Giese, Mary Hood, Andrew Khitsun, Gloriann Langva, Barbara Manger, Shane McAdams, Cassandra Smith, Fred Stonehouse, Brooke Thiele, and Eugene Von Bruenchenhein create an immersive forest setting worthy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
This exhibition is supported by 2022 exhibition sponsors James and Karen Hyde, Larger
Milwaukee Basis, Decide Heaters Inc., RDK Basis, Thomas J. Rolfs Household Basis, and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
The Museum of Wisconsin Artwork in West Bend is open Wednesday by Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Admission as little as $15 gives limitless visits for one full yr.
EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES
Exhibition Opening Occasion
Saturday, October 22 | 2:00–4:00
Rejoice the opening and meet the artists
of the exhibition. Take pleasure in mild bites, a money
bar, and reside music by Microcosm.
Speak: Incredible Fungi
Saturday, November 19 | 2:00–3:00
Glen Stanosz, College of
Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Tree and
Forest Well being will speak concerning the various and
extremely developed organisms which might be vital to
the perform of forest ecosystems.
Speak: Aldo Leopold—Pure Soundscapes and Spirit of Place
Saturday, December 17 | 2:00–3:00
College of Wisconsin –Madison retired professor Stan Temple will discover Aldo Leopold’s
fascination with pure sounds, introduce the brand new discipline of soundscape ecology, and share his detailed recreation of the daybreak refrain of birds that Leopold meticulously documented at his beloved shack in 1940.
Speak: Wisconsin’s Magic Realism
Saturday, January 14, 2023 | 2:00–3:00
Curator of Work on the Minneapolis Institute of Artwork, Robert Cozzolino, PhD discusses canonical Wisconsin Magic Realism painters reminiscent of Tom Uttech, John Colt, and Theodore Czebotar, and the way their careers could have intertwined.
