Milwaukee
Sketch Club Collaborative Exhibit to Open at Inspiration Studios
“Art in
any form emotes and invites feelings. The same can be said for life's experiences,” says Arlene Davey,
whose acrylic paintings are part of a collaborative exhibit scheduled for May at
Inspiration Studios. The Milwaukee
Sketch Club Exhibit will feature thirteen artists and their varied body of
work, exploring emotions and nature, using several mediums.
An Opening
Reception with the artists, free and open to the public, is scheduled for
Sunday, May 5, 2:00-5:00pm at Inspiration Studios, 1500 S. 73rd
Street in West Allis. Refreshments will
be served.
“Art is an
expression of my appreciation for life and the wonder of it all,” says Tom Piedt, who coordinated this
exhibit. “I have been compelled to take a
unique personal journey for forty plus years when I paint. I'm trying to
discover a surreal, ethereal image that reflects relationships of the world
around us in an abstract way.”
In her attempts to capture the beauty of
light and color as they permeate the world, Julia Pagenkopf explains, “I
want the viewer to be able to enter the painting, to smell the air and feel the
breeze, or remember a certain place they once knew where their imagination took
flight.” Her pastel and watercolor pieces are an emotional response
to the changing moods of the seasons.
”My themes are usually landscape oils,”
says Art Bartkowiak. “Many are ethereal or mysterious--to invoke
contemplation and mystery. Ambiguity is strived for, especially in my
abstracted and mixed media canvases, using foils, marble powder, some pastel
and oil paint.”
Karen Wick‘s paintings (acrylic, pastel, charcoal) will occasionally
include words or symbols buried in the under-painting, or they will subtly show
through as words or symbols that have significance for the piece. Other times,
more noticeable “random” squiggles or lines appear that become an expression of
an undefined feeling or energy that she experiences while trying to represent a
3-dimensional object onto a 2-dimensional canvas.
Betty
A. Storey
of Muskego states “I signed up for the
Drawing and Painting class at Wilson Senior Center a few years ago. The
facilitator, Al Minzlaf, urged me to keep trying, to pay
attention to detail, watch ‘the lightest lights and darkest darks’, to try
something new and to stay active and involved. These paintings are the result
of his encouragement.”
This collaborative
exhibit also includes works by Al Minzlaf
(acrylic, watercolor); Bonita Bruch
(pastel); Carol Liesenfelder (mixed
media); John Peine (oil); Joyce Radtke (watercolor); Lisa Luz (acrylic, watercolor); and Steve Klein (wood). Most artwork will
be available for purchase.
For those who can not
attend the Opening Reception on May 5,
the Milwaukee Sketch Club Exhibit will
be available for viewing on
Sunday, May 12 (2-5pm);
Friday, May 17 (4-7pm),
Saturday May 18 (2-5pm),
Friday, May 24 (4-7pm), and
Saturday, May 25
(2-5pm).
A Closing Reception will also
be held on Sunday, May 26, (2-5pm). Inspiration
Studios is located at 1500 S. 73rd Street in West Allis.
More information is available at
www.inspirationstudiosgallery.
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Erico Ortiz
Founder
Inspiration Studios
414 587-3474 c
