EXHIBITION SCHEDULES
Spring 2009 EXHIBITIONS
Choose from the following below:
Inova/Kenilworth
Inova/Arts Center
Inova/Zelazo: The Mary L. Nohl Galleries
Additional Exhibitions

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July 10-September 27, 2009
ROY STAAB: FOUR SEASONS/FOUR CORNERS
Opening reception: July 10, 6-9 pm

Reception to mark completion of the outdoor work & publication of catalogue: August 18, 7-9 pm Minimalism and Earth Art developed simultaneously in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Several noted artists, like Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Alice Aycock, combined strict geometries and minimal aesthetics with the vicissitudes of land, weather and atmosphere. With Roy Staab: Four Seasons/Four Corners, a retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), Milwaukee-based artist Roy Staab will finally be recognized as an integral part of this movement. Staab's early work of the 1970s shows a preoccupation with pitting solid lines against the osmotic properties of water and natural forms. This concern would grow into large-scale installations in nature, which, in using native materials from each site and no permanent fixative devices, strictly adhere to the "leave no trace" environmental ethos. Inova will present evidentiary documents of Staab's thirty-year oeuvre of temporary geometric form-based earthworks produced in locations throughout the world, along with original works on paper, artist's books, and related ephemera. Inova is commissioning two works for the exhibition: a major new indoor installation and an outdoor, community-participatory work sited near the Peck School of the Arts Kenilworth building.

February 25-June 14, 2009
JEFFERSON PINDER: ANTHOLOGY
Artist talk: April 4, 2009 at 10:30 am
Artist reception: April 4, 2009, 4:30-6 pm

Jefferson Pinder, a Washington D.C.-based filmmaker and performance artist, produces experimental videos and films that also reference music videos and physical theatre. In Anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Pinder's film and video work, he investigates race and identity through a series of short pieces that explore cultural co-optation and inversions of traditional roles. These pieces often take the form of self-portraits: solo performances in which the central character is played by the artist. Pinder's work, which will be shown in installation and screening formats, mirrors crucial discussions that continue to shape our society. The artist will be in residence in early April in conjunction with a Multimedia & Performance symposium at Inova/Kenilworth (April 4). He will present a workshop, Performing Identity, while in residence.

April 17-June 14, 2009
THERE THERE
Work by Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Steven Burnham, Nancy Ford, Eunice Kim and Scott Reeder
East Gallery
Opening: Friday, April 17, 2009, 6-9 pm

In these tough times, simplicity is a valuable commodity. A back-to-basics approach is necessary. Yet, simplicity is not always so simple. And simpleness is not always so straightforward. There There brings together six artists--Joe Bradley (New York), Sarah Braman (New York), Steven Burnham (Milwaukee), Nancy Ford (Chicago), Eunice Kim (San Francisco) and Scott Reeder (Milwaukee)--whose work appears simple, castoff, or even dumb, yet is replete with all the qualities of a good joke: charm, wit and elusive truth. Gertrude Stein commented on her native city of Oakland that "when you get there, there isn't any there there." The exhibition's title phrase is also a common expression of sympathy. Together, the work in There There suggests that sometimes, only one "there" is all that's needed.

February 6-April 5, 2009
DENNIS BALK: EARLY WORK, 1890-2090
East Gallery
Opening: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6-9 pm

Dennis Balk exhumes his past work, collecting and piecing together fragments of his own history to present a purposely disjunctive narrative. As disparate as the elements of his production have been--plays, props, drawings, diagrams, digital images, speculative photographs, portraits, stories, and books--his subject has remained consistent and coherent: how the frictions, fissions and fusions of competing visions of reality are inscribed upon the world.

April 4, 2009
10:30 am-4:30 pm
MULTIMEDIA & PERFORMANCE
Inova/Kenilworth

Inova brings together three residency projects in the Peck School of the Arts-Jefferson Pinder: Anthology, the American Sounds Project, and the Nikolais Project-in a day-long event exploring Multimedia & Performance across the disciplines.Experience and consider multimedia, performance and their varied intersections over the past half-century through performances, open rehearsals, a guided tour of interactive installations, talks and a panel discussion.

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February 11 & 12, 2009
SOPHOMORE COMPETITION
Students in the first two years of study in the Department of Visual Art display work informally for scholarship and award consideration.

February 18 & 19, 2009
JUNIOR COMPETITION
Upper level students in the Department of Visual Art display work informally for scholarship and award consideration.

March 6-28, 2009
MA/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION I
Opening reception: March 6, 5-7 pm
Gallery talk: March 10, 4-6 pm
The first of two annual spring exhibitions of work by graduate students in the Department of Visual Art features four artists receiving their MA degrees: Maria Bolivar, Kristin Haas, Richard Mutz and Leah Schreiber.

April 14-25, 2009
MA/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION II
Opening reception: April 16, 5-7 pm
Gallery talk: April 14, 4-6 pm
The second of two annual spring exhibitions of work by graduate students in the Department of Visual Art features three artists receiving their MA or MFA degrees: Carrie Hoelzer, Madeline McGrath and Ashley Morgan.

May 5-16, 2009
BFA THESIS EXHIBITION II
Closing reception: May 16, 5-7 pm An exhibition of work by students receiving their BFA degrees in spring and summer 2009.

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May 15-October 11, 2009
African Art from the UWM Collection
A Gift of Mark and Mary Jo Wentzel

April 16 - May 6, 2009
METALS! 09
Opening reception: April 16, 6-8 pm (Juror's choice awards will be announced at 7 pm) This annual exhibition of work by students in the Metals area, juried by Kim Cridler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), is a perennial favorite. This is the second of two exhibitions opened by the Department of Visual Art on April 16; join the graduate students at their opening in Inova/Arts Center from 5-7 pm.

January 20-April 3, 2009
JOHNNY NAUGAHYDE: JUST IN CASE
Johnny Naugahyde creates seven mini-installations or tableaux--ranging from the intimate moments we share to the public personae we try to disguise or embellish — in the galleries' seven cases. Naugahyde's new work consists of tooled leather objects, fabric constructions, drawings, paintings, photographs and more. Johnny Naugahyde is a Kansas City-based artist whose most recent solo show, 2008 The Little White Lies of Johnny Naugahyde, was at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO.

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April 10-17, 2009
UWM DEPARTMENTS OF FILM & VISUAL ART
FOUNDATIONS X: PUBLIC ART
Closing reception: April 17, 5-8 pm
UWM Union Art Gallery, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
Hours: M-W & F-Sa, 12-5 p.m.; Th 12-7 pm.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-6310
The Foundations program provides first-year visual art students with a broad background in basic drawing, 2D and 3D concepts, and the digital arts. The Foundations year is a time of artistic and personal development, when students choose their areas of concentration and begin to see themselves becoming visual artists. Each year assignments are structured around a general theme (this year it's public art) — this provides a sense of consistency as well as providing the students with programming that facilitates their concept development.