Upcoming Events
Wisconsin Masters: Bruno Ertz
Opening Reception
Wedensday, Oct 13, 2010
5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
New Media at the Charles Allis
Through September 15, 2010
What is new about new media? Artists James Barany, Jill Casid, Sabine Gruffat, Stephen Hilyard and Chele Isaac approach this question by exploring the interplay between “new” and “old” media forms, adapting established and emerging technologies for artistic inspiration against the historic backdrop of the Charles Allis Art Museum.
James Barany provides a stereoscope for viewing his video projections – the nineteenth century viewing device completes the doubled digital image in the viewer’s mind. Jill Casid uses an iPhone application titled “Shake It” to display polaroid photographs on iPod Touch. Her images from Parisian street scenes are richly reflective and refer to photography’s earlier histories, including photographs of Paris by Eugene Atget. Stephen Hilyard creates beautiful high-definition animation that takes the viewer inside the painted landscape of a decorative serving plate. Sabine Gruffat’s videos combine archival footage with the artist’s own investigations of industrial and natural landscapes to ask about the role that media plays in our access to history and memory. Chele Isaac returns to the final decades of the twentieth-century to follow a late Victorian figure, dressed in neoprene, through a series of settings that now include Mr. Allis’ bedroom.
New Media at the Charles Allis is co-curated by Martha Monroe, Curator at the Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Art Museums, and Amy Powell, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History at UW-Madison and 2010-2011 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of African Art.
Coming soon
Wisconsin Masters: Bruno Ertz
October 13, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Bruno Ertz was a self taught artist whose delicate portrayals of nature appealed to the romantic ideals of his clientele. Early on he specialized in detailed renderings of insects and flowers; later his work evolved to larger landscapes and nature scenes inspired by Japanese prints. The commercial nature of Ertz’s work is a window into the aesthetic sensibilities and standards of artistic taste of the time. The Wisconsin Masters Series at the Charles Allis is an annual exhibition that showcases the work of historically significant Wisconsin artists.
This exhibition was sponsored by West Bend Mutual Insurance
Past Exhibitions
Jill Casid, To Be Frank
