PAST EXHIBITIONS
Great Ladies and Beautiful Arts: Elkins, Standish and Adler
October 12 through January 29, 2012
This exhibition examines the work and influence of David Adler, Francis Elkins and the landscape architect Rose Nichols Standish in the development of the original residence.
Objects for Objects: Work by Venetia Dale
July 6 - September 18,
2011
Dale employs traditional metalsmithing techniques to
“address issues of production, labor, heritage, and representation.” In Dale’s
work “plastic baskets, shower caddies, shopping totes and consumer disposables
are sourced, fragmented, abstracted and re-imagined”, resulting in sculptural
works that explore themes of handmade value in a global economy.
Dale received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and MFA from State University of New York at New Paltz in 2009. She was Artist-in-Residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, OR in 2010 and is now teaching as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department at UW-Milwaukee.
Venetia Dale, Commeration of Occasion (detail) 2011
Venetia Dale, Retain Tag for Reference, 2008
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Strange Vegetation
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
In collaboration with Nathaniel Stern
June 8 - July 24, 2011
Inspired by the fantastical Zuber wallpaper in the Villa Terrace’s second story gallery, Kaganovich has created a room sized latex computerized inflating and deflating piece that evokes rhizomatic plant forms. The work responds to environmental triggers; the latex surface changes with fluctuations in temperature and light, the “organism” evolves over time.
Gallery Guide Link
Strange Vegetation Opening Slideshow
Strange Vegetation - Yevgeniya Kaganovich, 2011
FORMED - Karen Gunderman and Linda Wervey Vitamvas
February 16 - May 15, 2011
Karen Gunderman and Linda Wervey Vitamvas, both of Milwaukee, are ceramics artists whose work evokes anatomical and biological forms. Gunderman draws on the early history of botany and a sense of wonderment in exploring the mysteries of life. Wervey Vitamvas combines peculiar anatomical shapes with medical and surgical tools to investigate an uneasy relationship between the body's internal spaces and the examination and viewing of these hidden places.
Linda Wervey-Vitamvas, Fictilus Organum
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Karen Gunderman, Twixt (detail) |
TOM LOESER: TREES ARE THE BIGGEST VEGETABLE
November 10, 2010 – January 23, 2011
The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum is proud to present the exhibition Tom Loeser: Trees Are The Biggest Vegetable. Loeser is the head of the wood and furniture design area at UW-Madison and his artwork has been included in over 200 national and international exhibitions since 1981. His designs in wood are “one-of-a-kind functional and dysfunctional objects that are often carved and painted and always based on the history of design and object-making as a starting point for developing new form and meaning.”
He is represented in the collections of 14 museums including the Museums of Fine Arts in Boston, The Renwick Gallery, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Milwaukee Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Loeser is also a four-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship.
Children's Art in the Garden
November 13 - December 5, 2010
Inspired by the Renaissance Garden at Villa Terrace, this annual exhibition features art work created by
children from Milwaukee-area elementary schools.
Cyril Colnik : A New Look
July 14 - September 26, 2010
New research, findings and a selection from the archives brings a fresh perspective to the work of Cyril Colnik, a Milwaukee artisan often referred to as “the Tiffany of Blacksmiths.”
McCook Mansion Drive Gates,
Blueprint, 1906.
DAN NAUMAN: EXPRESSIONS IN IRON
April 14 – June 27, 2010
Longtime Wisconsin blacksmith Dan Nauman has worked closely with the Colnik Collection at the Villa Terrace.
His solo exhibition covers new works, some of which draw on lessons learned while studying Colnik.
Metamorphosis : The Transformation of Everyday Objects
January 27 - April 11, 2010
The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum is proud to present Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Everyday Objects. The exhibition brings together six Wisconsin Artists each with their own interpretation of the decorative arts and whose work transforms everyday objects, blurring the boundaries of function, aesthetics and concepts.
Featuring works by:
Ray Chi
Kim Cridler
Albin Erhart
Frankie Flood
Jennifer Harris
Fo Wilson
