EXHIBITIONS
Jonathan Wahl,Toad in the Hole - 2008 Charcoal on paper
The Decorative Impulse
February, 17 through May 20, 2012
The Decorative Impulse brings together six international metalsmiths whose work actively engages with the decorative arts to pose provocative questions about the place of the decorative in current art dialogs. The artists - Jamie Bennett,Gésine Hackenberg, Rory Hooper, Anya Kivarkis, Amelia Toelke and Jonathan Wahl- draw from a range of cultural and historic sources such as Victorian jewelry, Old Master paintings, export porcelain, mass produced jewelry and botanical prints. Their work brings the often marginalized category of the decorative arts to the fore, as both a strategy and an aesthetic choice.
The Decorative Impulse is a collaboration between The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and the UW-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts.
The show is co-curated by Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the Peck School of the Arts.
Events
Artists Now! Lecture Series -Anya Kivarkis
Jewelry Appropriating Jewelry: From Dutch Portraiture to the Internet Archive
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 7:00 p.m.
UW-Milwaukee, Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL 120)
2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard
Free and open to the Public
Panel Discussion with Jamie Bennett, Anya Kivarkis, Amelia Toelke, Jonathan Wahl and Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Moderated by Ethan Lasser, Curator of Exhibitions, Chipstone Foundation
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:15 p.m.
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Free and open to the Public
Opening Reception
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Artists
Jamie Bennett - http://www.newpaltz.edu/metal/people.cfm
Gésine Hackenberg - http://www.gesinehackenberg.com/?id=3
Rory Hooper - http://www.roryhooper.com/index.htm
Anya Kivarkis - http://art-uo.uoregon.edu/faculty/kivarkisa
Amelia Toelke - http://www.ameliatoelke.com/
Jonathan Wahl - http://jonathanwahl.com/
Ameila Toelke
Anya Kivarkis
Gesine Hackenberg
Rory Hooper
Jamie Bennett
