Green Gallery West

Team Lump

631 E Center Street

March 10, 2012

3-5pm

As part of the [Riverwest Satellite Gallery Day], curator Nicholas Frank is pleased to bring one neighborhood gallery to another. The Green Gallery West will host Team Lump, of the Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lump is run by Bill Thelen, a former Milwaukeean and UW-Milwaukee Film Department Alum ('93). Team Lump will show a large-scale collage made in homage to Ray Johnson's time at North Carolina's Black Mountain College in the years just after WWII, in addition to a selection of recent work by Thelen.

Team Lump is an artist collective that has been actively collaborating for over a decade. The group began as an outgrowth of the Raleigh, North Carolina project space Lump. Bill Thelen, its founder, curates artists into the collective, and the team fluctuates slightly on a project-to-project basis. Team Lump has had solo exhibitions at Cell Projects in London, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Plus Ultra and Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, The Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, AVA in Chattanooga, TN, Artscape in Baltimore, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, Suitable Gallery in Chicago, Milky World in Seattle among others. Their work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Sculpture, Time Out - London and New York, The Independent, NY Arts Magazine, Proximity, Art Papers, and many on-line journals.

nAbr gallery

Neapolitan

2974 N Frantey
March 10, 2012

6-8pm

nAbr gallery presents a new installation by Sean Cairns, "Neapolitan" in reference to his performance, We Can’t Deny It’s There’ = Nothing; A Performance, with nAbr gallery at the Art Shanty Projects in Minnesota.  

"In the work titled, Concrete Comedy - Ice Cream Social - Sublime Humor - Skepticism of Culture (2012) the focus is on Milwaukee’s art scene. Needless to say, the title brings up works by one of Milwaukee’s most recognized and influential artists, David Robbins. Such works by Robbins have become the image associated with the current jive in Milwaukee, but little critique goes much further than whispering rumor. The work presented in the Neapolitan exhibition plays the role of the critic reacting to the internal voices of Milwaukee who exercise one common complaint. The absence of criticism and a true critic to fill the boots. Admittedly this is only one of the lacking necessities required for real growth in a successful art scene, but what I find important and free for everyone to take part in is self-criticism. Not to worry about who’s not doing their job, but staking the claim to do it better. Performing not only the duty of a disciplined analytical viewer, maker, connoisseur, but one assuming responsibility for whatever works, galleries, and even viewers who deserve attention ... meaning those exceptionally valued in Milwaukee, then on down the line."

-Sean Cairns

C E N T E R

Tune & Twerk

631 E Center St, 2F

March 10, 2012

1pm-7pm

Highlighting some of the brighter aspects of our community, CENTER is turning it's self, with the help Dream Bikes, into a bicycle maintenance, social, free form, dance program with a place to rest if all becomes too stressed. The craft and outcome of the two practices transcend from maintenance to well being, and is sure to be refreshing and renewing.

Jazz Gallery

THE

926 E Center Street
Soft opening March 6th 6-9pm
Hard Opening March 10th 5-8pm.


Join us for "THE" an exhibition curated by Ashley Janke at the Jazz Gallery, featuring an arrangement of 11 local, national and international artists. THE explores visual interpretations of the word detached from symbolic reference. THE functions as a structure, framed by the context of words around it; aiding support to its subject. How can THE function removed from its framework?

Featured Artists:

Alec Regan
Allison Heape
Gitte Bog
Holly Coulis
Josh Reames
Khine Hline
Michelle Grabner
Peter Barrickman
Richard Galling
Stevie Kinast
Stephen Strupp


A statement from Janke:
"Gertrude Stein was a prominent novelist, poet, and art collector, however, she began her career as a psychologist. Her interest in the process of objectifying words derived from an experiment she started in her twenties where she filled pages with whatever words that popped into her head, in an attempt to discover her subconscious. She realized this was not working but discovered an inherent structure in language. From this experiment, she began trying to separate words from their symbols through reputation and prose (ex. a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose). Through this research, I was reminded of a process I went through, when I was young, for dyslexia. I had trouble with my eyes jumping around the page and fallowing the linear progression of words. They said that many visual people have problems with this because of words, such as 'the', that do not have visual symbolic reference. They had me draw, paint, and sculpt my interpretations of 'the' to help bridge the gaps and create a visual association. I am intreats in how other critical visual people can use the minimal qualities of "the" to create something that exists on its own outside of its usual context."