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When I was a kid, I'd play in the grassy acres beyond the landfills and new home con­ struction of suburbia. By dropping to one knee, im­ mediately a circle of infinitely complex plant life would sur­ round me, transporting me away from bulldozers and pounding hammers. It was Alice's wonderland; I was immersed in it—amazed by it. With a magnifying glass in hand, I observed the humid plant geometry grow, blos­ som and wither into dry evi­ dence of itself.

Now, as a photographer, the plant world continues to transport me into a surreal wonderland. My work is an ongoing meditation exploring the plant world's sensuous longings for itself.

For the past eight years I've been the photographer for the Marquette University Dental School, where I provide the majority of the photographic services for the students, faculty, and staff, including some Photoshop and Persuasion graphics on the Mac. —Jim Brozek 2 Art Muscle Saturday's got it going on! J 'unday Gospel..

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Name Change For Civic Symphony The Milwaukee Civic Symphony Orchestra has taken on the new status of an independent non-profit orga­ nization, along with a new name—the Festival City Symphony. The Civic Music Association, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, will give financial support to LETTER FROM the Festival City Symphony for the next three years, and when appropriate, will facilitate fund-raising for the new venture THE EDITOR during the transition period. Visual artist, Valerie Christell, is the Exeuctive Director for the association, which is located in I moved from Walker's Point to PERSONNEL the former St. Mary's Academy on South Superior. r Shorewood recently. In the three weeks since my re-location, I have NEWS Digital Wright seen very few of my new neighbors. A selection of 5,000 Frank LloydWrightpresentation drawings Even on nice, sunny weekends, the Woodburn Edits American Girl and conceptual sketches from the FLW archives at Taliesin only life I hear from the street is the Former editor of Milwaukee West is currently being digitized and placed on CD-ROM for twittering of birds. The only move­ Magazine and Art Muscle maga­ scholarly research and study. Luna Imaging, Inc. in Venice, ment I see is the rustling of leaves. zine, Judith Woodburn, has been California, is handling the digitalizations. Sponsored by the J. It's a bit eerie, kind of like an elegant working in Madison since mid- Paul Getty Trust and Eastman Kodak Company, the high t ghost town. May as editor of American Girl resolution images will be available at the FLW Archives later this Magazine. Keyed to girls age 12 year, and a lower resolution set will be available to libraries, j% I used to live directly across from a and under, the publication museums and other institutions. m freeway exit ramp where semi- addresses feminist issues, and is J trucks, livestock trailers with moan­ supported solely by subscriptions. New Art Co-op ing cargo, and mufflerless hot-rods Nicholas Frank has opened a new non-profit cooperative space blaring salsa music, provided a con­ New Curator at WPCA in Riverwest, which will host symposiums during each show. tinual rattle. I grew accustomed to Kat Hendrickson has been Included in his plans for Hermetic Gallery are performances by it. It was the sound of commerce and life (albeit, named assistant curator at local poets and artists. amid clouds of exhaust pollution). My Walker's Walker's Point Center for the Point neighbors were always out on the street, Arts, suceeding Linda Corbin- Outstanding Choreographer walking dogs, grooming flower gardens, washing Pardee, who left the position to UW-Madison athletes are not the only ones winning nationally. cars, repairing their houses, or simply enjoying a have a baby. (It's a boy!) Student Elise Knudson presented her trio "Ties" at a national late afternoon breeze from the front porch. For Hendrickson is a painter who gala at Washington's Kennedy Center, and was also nominated human contact, all I had to do was walk out my earned an MFA and a Master's for the Dance Magazine/ACDFA award for outstanding door. Invariably, I'd run into someone willing to Degree in Art History from the student choreographer for this same work. stop and chat. If that failed, there was the family University of Wisconsin-Milwau­ run corner store. I knewthe names of my neighbor's kee. (Her art history thesis was Amadeus Moving To England pets, where their grown children live, who wasn't on New York graffiti art). She Amadeus Dance Companywill give its fareweUperformance(as part feeling well, what allergies people suffered, and the has taught art at various univer­ of a benefit for St. Francis Children's Center) at Renaissance Place, exact time of year to expect their poppies or rose sities for eight years, served as 1451N. Prospect, on June 17, after which time its artistic director bushes to bloom. an assistant manager at the and dancer/choreographer, Joan Majewski, will be moving to former Posner Gallery, was a England. She and her fiance, Chris Browne, are planning to form I get the feeling that people stick pretty much to curatorial intern at the Milwau­ a dance ensemble in or around Ellesmere Port themselves in Shorewood. They probably have their kee Art Museum, and has own circles of friends and view their homes as very shown her work widely. She Pratt Among Recipients private realms where they escape from the grind of hopes to bring new artists into Among the recipients of the 1994 Friends of the Hispanic high-stress professional lives. But the strangest thing WPCA and is planning a fall Community Awards are Senator Brian B. Burke, Michael J. is that I haven't even seen any children running show dealing with spirituality. Cudahy, Sarah M. Dean of the Faye McBeath Foundation, Jack around. Are they all in the basement playing Ladky and Alderman Marvin Pratt. Nintendo? Since I've only been there three weeks, Poet Heads WP&S I realize I haven't fully cracked the code. Milwaukee poet and host of the Artists Dry Out MATA TV show "Where The The flood of '93, as seen through the eyes and ears of Iowa But, the oddest part of it all is the inversion of Waters Meet," Christina artists, is available in a collection of literary, performing, and values. Walker's Point is a poor neighborhood, Zawadiwsky, is the new president visual artwork entitled FortyDaysand Forty Nijjhts. If you're on feared by suburbanites for its gangs and graffiti. Yet of Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors. the road through the corn this summer, look for it in the State to live here is to become a part of a warm commu­ Historical Building in Des Moines, and various music stores. nity, where individual contributions, such as plant­ Maestro Commutes ing a flower garden, painting your house, putting While he will continue to raise Survival Workshops up Christmas lights, offering a friendly greeting to the baton as assistant conductor Plans are underway to bring a commissioned piece by dancer someone on the street—do make a difference. of the Milwaukee Symphony, Bill T. Jones to Wisconsin this fall. Milwaukee and Madison will There is a spirit of sharing and openness that I've maestro Harvey Felder will be be hosting "survival workshops" for HIV-positive persons and never experienced anywhere else. The seemingly commuting to Tacoma, Wash­ a related symposium in Madison will bring the medical commu­ unspoken rule of the suburbs, however, is one of ington, to act as music director nity into the project. polite isolation and privacy. People appear more of the Tacoma Symphony, "careful" or guarded, even though the environ­ effective in September. Accessible Theatre ment is practically crime-free. The Milwaukee Repertory Theater has received the Community Landwehr's Successor Achievement Award from Milwaukee Associates in Urban Devel­ This summer issue of Art Muscle celebrates some of The new director of the Paine opment (M A.U.D.) for its efforts to make theater accessible to all. the people who do spend time in their yards, those Art Center and Arboretum in who had the courage to put a personal statement into Oshkosh is Jill Mabry Ko-Thi Educates public view. We found these ornamented lawns in the Donabauer. Chosen from more The Ko-Thi Dance Company recently spent six weeks in more humble neighborhoods. This is not to say that than 45 applicants, she suc­ Delaware where it conducted an arts residency and presented the ornate flowerbed s of the rich are any less notewor­ ceeds William C. Landwehr, more than a dozen concerts. For the first time, the company thy. It's just that when people begin embellishing who was there for four years. also created a teacher's manual, to be used in conjuction with their yards with lawn ornaments, wooden figures, their performance-demonstrations and hands-on activities. found objects, etc., there's something more individu­ MAM Staff Changes alized about it. It reminds us that there really are Polly Scott, formerly of the New Galleries at Art Institute people living in the houses, that they spend time in Milwaukee Symphony, has been Art work not seen publicly for more than half a century, plus old their yards, that this is a world full of diverse sensibili­ named director of communica­ favorites, are now installed in the Galleries of Ancient Art at The ties, quirky tastes and specific personal histories. It's tions at the Milwaukee Art Art Institute of Chicago. The new galleries were designed by something I find comfort in witnessing. Museum. Joseph Ruzicka, Chicago architect John Vinci. formerly of the Museum of With this issue of Art Muscle, we also introduce a new Modern Art, has been named Holy Harley editor, Judith Ann Moriarty, a painter and free-lance MAM print curator. The Holy Ranger, Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum, is now under writer, who lives in Bay View with a 15 foot sculpture contract to Harley-Davison for archive research and preserva­ of a "giant comma," in her back yard. tion. When last seen, he was laying tracks for New York's Harley Cafe, where art from his archives as well as actual bikes and —Debra Brehmer Harley engines will be presented as fine art. 5?Wf5«

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Living Rolodex Juried Show Hola amigos, coming up. Chicago Imagist painter Jim Nutt will New Focus For Through the 1994 jazz Master Awards, $5,000 Visual Art Hardy Gallery juried photography show, write or call for present a lecture at 5:30 p.m. June 16, commemorat­ has found its way to musicians from Illinois prospectus: The Hardy Gallery Photo Show, PO Box 394; Dare Frasquita say it's finally spring, or will ing the opening of his show there...The City of Mil­ Milwaukee County and Ohio. Previous jazz Masters in the unoffical Garden & Lawn Ornaments Ephraim,WI 54211. Curator: Bill Jacobs, 8 39-2947 or 312/ she jinx it by saying the s-word, and will waukee Arts Board has a new public art subcommit­ Riverwest Art Center, 825 E. Center Street, seeks original garden and Fellowship Program jazz hall of fame, include Roscoe Mitchell and 563-5200. another six inches of white stuff pour tee. Its first project is to get gradeschoolers to create Richard Davis, of Wisconsin. And Arts Mid­ lawn ornaments (made by artists), for Objets de Jardin, June 7-August down in June as punishment for her impa­ designs for bronze medallions that will be used as west is now distributing free copies of the 13. Donations to be auctioned June 17 (7-10 p.m.) at benefit for RAW. tience? Fiddlesticks. Spring, spring, spring, deisgn elements in the new Riverwalk....Fox Televi­ This is the sixth year that Milwaukee spring 1994 debut issue of Midwest Jazz. It's Deadline: June 5. Contact Wanda Connell, 962-2266. spring, spring. Now she's gone and done sion is starting a live show of zany midwestem artists County Artist Fellowships will be being billed as a living rolodex. Printmakers it, and she's going to have to head south (one wonders what nasty stereotype of the midwest awarded. The program is the single Art Block to the border now —para siempre— to this is based on) and win be in Milwaukee filming source of funding for individual artists The Right Stuff Applications invited for Art Block ^4, August 5-6. Juried; original work Gallery 451 avoid any unpleasant consequences. Ac­ during the months of June and jury. They are looking in all disciplines in Milwaukee County. Dick Tate, founder of the Right Street The­ only. Sponsored by the Historic Third Ward Association. Deadline: July Call for entries, Printmakers Show. Deadline: June 17. For tually, she's met a very nice hombre in for "old hippies" and the "look of the '50s," especially atre, 901 E. Wright, has been chosen as a 5. SASE Historic Third Ward Association, 219 N. Milwaukee St,, prospectus send SASE: Gallery 451, 510 E. State St., Rock- Ecuador who wants to introduce her to any Fonzie impersonators. Sure, sure. Milwaukee's just Art Futures, the volunteer group of art­ winner of the JC Penney Golden Rule Award. Milwaukee 53202. Attn: June Lehman. For info call 332-9299. ford, IL 61104. the joys of Andean culture. Ho,really, the full of Fonzie impersonators. If you absolutely cannot ists administering the program, has re­ The $2,000 cash award will help support the truth is she's got a nuevo job that will take restrain yourself, go ahead and call Dana Campasuto at defined the focus of the fellowships to non-profit neighborhood school and theater Cover Art Competition her well out of listening range of Milwau­ Fox TV in New York Gty for more information. All recognize "emerging artists." The new school. Second annual juried Encore Program cover-art competition. Spon­ kee-area gossip. So this is the last time Frasquita can say is they better pay you muy Milwaukee County Emerging Artists sored by the Milwauke Symphony Orchestra League. Five categories Film and Video Frasquita (or at least this Frasquita) will be mucno...Remember Tiny Tim? He's now living in a Awards will present ten grants of ap­ Newman & Target from kindergarten through post-college/adult work. Two dimensional gradng these pages with her pearls of two-room hotel suite at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in proximately $3,000 each this year. "The more salad dressing we sell, the more and original artwork only. Deadline: June 15. Send or deliver to MSO/ Original works innuendo and truth (or anything that Iowa, maintaining a low profile, and claiming to have money we can give away." Words from super Encore competition, 330 E. Kilbourn Ave., Suite 900, Milwaukee Lesbians in the Creative Arts seeks submissions for An Evening resembles it).... Benefits for artist Deone found an"uncommon tranquiBty"...New club news: Art Futures defines an emerging artist as star Paul Newman who recently granted 53202. For info, call MSO at 291-6010. with LICA: Video Cabaret. Presentation groups seeks original Jahnke whose studio was recently torched As everyone knows by now, Chip and P/s, a popular anyone who "has NOT received a major $5,000 to the Children's Outing Association. video works for public shows and possible distribution. Artists raised over $1000, and she's now com­ restaurant on south Fifth Street, went awol to the fellowship in their discipline, including It will help top off the 1994 'Turning Point" Door County Shows must own all rights. FFLVideo, Suite 443,496A Hudson St., fortably re-established in a new space on suburbs a few years ago, and the building's sat empty research grants. An emerging artist is program for at-risk teens at Camp Helen Seeking artists, 18 years or older, for maximum of three works of original New York, NY 10014. No Deadline. south First Street The story is she's going pretty much since then. But now there's a promising- NOT someone who is a degree candi­ Brachman. Target stores which have been arts and crafts in all media. Works, readyt o display, accepted at gallery to San Francisco soon to explore the pos­ looking new dub in place: Saturday's. Has a nice multi­ date or a full time tenured instructor at the target of controversy in Oconomowoc, 6/9/94 and 6/10/94. $10 fee. Juried; noslidesplease. Write or call for Unccnsored sibilities of bi-coastal living.... Walker's cultural crowd on Saturdays, and word is they're a college level art institution. have kicked in $3,000 in support of Parent prospectus: The Hardy Gallery Juried Art Annual; PO Box 394, Planet Central Television seeks broadcast quality films, videos Point Center for the Arts director, Jane planning to offer Sunday brunch that swings with Education/Nurturing programs, also atCOA Ephraim, WI 54211.854-2018 or 868-2682. and animation censored by American television. Bonus consid­ Brite, reports after a recent trip to Cuba gospel singing!!! Check it out... Oooooooh, this is An emerging artist is NOT someone erations for submissions that have an irreverent attitude. Send that while their architecture is crumbling wild: As a fund-raiser, Greenpeace has just recorded a who has published a novel, a book of Goldsmith's Endowment Co-operative Gallery tapes to: Dana Saunders, director ofprogra m acquisitions, Planet and poverty is rampant, the art in their "solar" compact disc, with songs from R.E.M., U2, poems, or has published work in recog­ A $1,000 endowment from The Society of Cedarburg craft co-op has openings. Sell your art pieces in exchange for Central Television, 20178 Rockport Way, Malibu, CA 90265. museums and at Trie Biennale which she Midnight Oil, Annie Lenox, Soundgarden and Dispos­ nized periodicals. An emerging artist is North American Goldsmiths has been part-time staffing. 375-4099. attended, is political (and uncensored) able Heroses of Hiphoprisy Whoever they are) to name and that, surprisingly, much of it has just a few, and it was all recorded using solar-generated NOT someone who has had a one-per­ awarded to sculptor Evan Larson, who will San Diego seeks Strong feminist overtones... Fred power. The irony, of course, is that we're all going to son museum exhibit or a series of solo use the funds to finish his education in Seebeck Seeks Broadcast quality 16mm film or video projects up to 20 Stonehouse, at his recent show at Carl play it on our own CDs using good old filthy coal- exhibitions at a professional gallery. In metalsmithing at UW-Milwaukee. Seeking works in allmediafor 1994-95 exhibitions, andsubmissionsfon minutes long, completed as course requirement in an accred­ Hammer Galleries in Chicago, nearly sold- generated power. Available in record stores, but if you mediums like music or play writing, a Spaces and Holiday Jewelry shows, deadline: June 10. Send 6-20 slides, ited school of television and film, eligible for First Frames. playwright or composer who has had a Project Grants resume and SASE to: Seebeck Gallery, 5601 Sixth Ave., Kenosha, WI out the house...Former Milwaukee per­ can't find it, contact national Greenpeace office 202/ Info: First Frames, Telecommunications and Film Dept., formance artist, Jon Ericson, (he teaches major work of theirs produced for the The Wisconsin Arts Board has awarded a 53140.657-7172. 462-1177. The solar generator used to make the CD PSFA-222, San Diego, CA 92182. English at OSU in Columbus), is creating public would not usually be considered $930 project grant to sculptor Debra Fabian- will be in situ in Madison June 16, in Library Mall (that's new works to be performed at the Wexner an emerging artist." Matson, who will use it to teach art at Art Park between the campus and State St) from noon to 5 Out About Age Center this year. Former Cream City artist Guadalupe South, a Headstart school located Applications invited for Art Park *94, sponsored by the Walker's Point p.m. It will power a concert by Miiwaukeean Willy Artist Television Access is accepting entries for Out About Tony Kubiak is teaching at Harvard, and Art Futures believes that this money can at 239 W. Washington. A project grant for Artists Association, July 30, 31. SASE for entry form: Art Park '94, Porter and Harmonious Wail, acoustic, jazzy-folky Age, a program dealing with age and queer sexuality, includ­ Chris Ferris, is living and dandng in New make a significant difference in the pro­ $1,421 was also awarded to The Peninsula c/o WPAA, 218 South 2nd St., Milwaukee, WI 53204. 277-7800. stuff.... And that's all for now and forevermore. Have a ing videos by or about young people (under age 23), or senior York where she has had her work pro­ ductivity of artists who haven'tyet gained Arts Theater in Door County. The funds will wonderful life. citizens. FFI: Out About Age, c/oArtists' Television Access, duced by Dia Center for the Arts and recognition in the community. The funds launch the second Peninsula Theater Festival, Palmyra Possibilities 992 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110,415/864-5855, Outback Dancer Tom Thoreson has been are substantial enough to allow an artist julyl1-Jury25. New gallery seeking artists focusingo n abstract works and furniturepthers Dealine: July 16. Yours terriblytruly , to purchase a piece of equipment, set up considered. SASE/I^frmanI^taprises,POBra^ awarded a 1994/95 Wisconsin Arts Board a studio, or finance research. "This par­ Milwaukee Foundation Grant Inividual ArtistGrant. .Galleria del Conte, A opened their new space at 1226 N. Astor ticular group of artists seems to have Eagle's Wing Productions received a Milwau­ AGA in Appleton in May with a swank party and tours of the been overlooked in terms of the support kee Foundation grant of $10,000, which will Artists may apply for exhibitions in 1995-96. Deadline: June 15. Send Generic spacious new site (High Victorian Italianate) they need to continue to live and work in make it possible for high school students to 20 slides, resume, short proposal and SASE to: Yvon Ashen, Curator of which is purported to have been a house our community," according to Leslie offer video and graphics production services Exhibitions, AGA Center for the Visual Arts, 130 N. Morrison St., Space available of ill repute, though this may be a rumor Fedorchuk, an Art Futures member. "In­ to law enforcement agencies and non-profit Appleton, WI 54911. Office space available for lease by non-profit organizations. romantico.. .The new M IAD dorms at the Yes, Frasquita is moving out of town so Art Muscle needs vesting in people who may be at the organizations with limited budgets. Another Marian Center, formerly St. Mary's Academy, 3195 S. Superior. comer of Chicago and Water will be com­ a new gossip columnist Anyone who thinks they have the beginning of their careers offers encour­ $15,000 has been approved by the Founda­ Gallery Ten Contact Sister Lourdette VanDriel, 483-2430. necessary skills to be the next agement for their future and for the pleted in mid-August Three floors of re- tion for a program to tutor teens in basic desk It Figures, a National Juried Exhibition to be held September 23- habed space will include the original ce­ "Frasquita, "shouldsend us future of the cultural life and reputation top publishing and provide on-the-job expe­ October 28,1994. All media. Juried from work and due September 3. Java & Zink a letter explaining of our city," she said. dar beams and columns. Single, double, rience in graphic arts production. The Pabst Prospectus available: Gallery Ten, 514E. State St., Rockford, IL61104. Coffee lovers - send black and white photos, artwork, poems, and and triple rooms with bathroom facilities whythe/dlike Theater received $20,000 toward reconstruc­ 815/964-1743. short (1500 wds. max.) xoZink Magazine. Their new address is: for every six students—air conditioned, the job and Emerging artists working in all media, tion of its second balcony. P.O. Box 92491, Milwaukee 53202. SASE, attn: editor Lissa too. Sounds muy swank...Casthaus Zur whattheir including the literary arts, performance, Domes Carlson. Published ten times per year, they describe themselves Krone has a new feature—live musk on unique musiccomposition, film/video, collabo­ Challenge Grant Art Images at the Domes, August 28, seek entries for juried outdoor art as "the java magazine of Milwaukee." Sundays from 6-9 p.m. for people who apti- -|Sj rative projects and new genres are en­ Milwaukee Performing Arts Center's Silver fair. Also sidewalk chalk artists. Info: 453-2712. have to hit the workplace the next tudes & couraged to apply. Renaissance Campaign hit the jackpot with Writers wanted day...Former curator at the Haggerty might a $500,000 challenge grant from the North­ A.R.C. Seeking writers. Send SASE with request for writer's guildelines Museum, Johaan Reusch, is at The b e . Applications are available at the follow­ western Mutual Life Insurance Company. It Cooperative gallery jurying for solo and group exhibitions for '94-95 to: Booklovers Writer's Guildlines, P.O. Box 93485, Guggenheim in New York City, tending Send ing locations: El Centro de la will help with the $12.7 million needed for season. Also juryingsitespecificproposals for RawSpace. Deadline: June Milwaukee,WI 53203. to business as a curator where he is work­ inquir- *^j Communidad, University of Wiscon­ the interior renovation and modernization 15. Send 20 slides, vitae, statement and proposal or SASE for informa­ ing on things associated with Beuys and ies to: \| sin-Milwaukee Art Museum (Vogel of the facility. tion: A.R.C. Gallery, 1040 W. Huron, Chicago, IL 60622. Essayists Baserrtz...The Milwaukee Art Museum's Frasquita, • Flail), Haggerty Art Museum, Inner Arc you interested in contributing to Art Muscle? Seeking Friends of Art volunteer group seems to 901W. Na­ City Arts Council, Gallery 218, Mil­ Weidener Center Receives Grant essayists with solid opinions on art related topics or thematic have taken a cue from the quaint 19th- tional Ave., waukee Institute of Art and Design, Arts Midwest Dance on Tour grants will be ideas. Contact Art Muscle, 901W. National Ave., Milwaukee, century party custom of creating living Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Silver Paper helping a number of Wisconsin presenters Photography WI 53204. 672-8485. "tableaux." This year's recent Bal du Lac WI 53204. Gallery, Woodland Pattern Literary Arts, this season, including Weidener Center for featured a live tableau of an artist and and all Milwaukee area coffee houses. the Performing Arts in Green Bay and the Forum seeks photos Volunteers needed (ostensibly) nude model. Don't rush for Oshkosh Grand Opera House. One of the Photo Nominal ^5, a national exhibition will include work utilizing any Volunteers needed for art center: education, public relations, the smelling salts, though: her privates Applications must be returned to the bigger grants went to the Pabst Theater photographic process. Deadline: August 2. Send 10 slides, resume, related curatorial, and technical opportunities. Also opportunities to were discreetly covered....The Art Mu­ Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Consortium which received $25,000 to tour materials and SASE to: Photo Nominal '95, The Forum Gallery, 525 create an urban garden. Walker's Point Center for the Arts, seum has another "don't miss it" event by Friday, July 1,1994. the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Falconer St, PO Box 20, Jamestown, NY 14702-0020.716/665-9107. 672-2787.

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11 Tom Hoffman, Untitled #2

THOMAS HOFFMAN influences of Bacon and Van Eyck are the April 22—June 18 clearest, but Hoffman has found his own Silver Paper Gallery "face," along with a good understanding of how to get it onto canvas. Though I dislike comparisons between artists, Much of contemporary art is boring to the imagine the works of a young Larry Riv­ Eva Gasteazoro, Amor De Mis Amores point of nausea. Playing heavily on gim­ ers with a muted-palette, and Francis mickry, predictability, and even worse, Bacon. Hoffman emerges somewhere be­ death of a father, the choice of a husband, bad painting, it rides the fringes of a plu­ Also not to be missed is Paul J. Hefti's yard tween them. Frankly, I did not expect this and the confusing process of cultural ralistic accepting public. environment in La Crosse, which has been level of maturity from an artist's first solo transformed with bottles, bike wheels assimilation. show. and other cast-off objects into a "colorful Thomas Hoffman's first solo show at the Kenn Kwint and kinetic sculpture environment." And Ms. Gasteazoro plays all roles, transform­ Silver Paper Gallery is a refreshing water- (Kenn Kwint is a Milwaukee painter). there are many others: The Painted Forest ing one character into the next with simple hole in this desert of banality. in Valton, The Prairie Moon Museum and body language and voice inflection. But Garden in Cochrane; a variety of religious often, the transitions become muddled, The fourteen oil paintings, uniform in grottos; and the Fountain City Rock Gar­ (particularly the one bridging mother and color, texture, and direction, have a con­ den. daughter) but perhaps this was meant to sistent string of merit flowing through SACRED SPACES suggest genetic similarities. most of them. His dark and glowing pal­ AND OTHER PLACES One sad note, is that some of the sites no ette establishes a relationship between Lisa Stone and Jim Zanzi longer exist. Mollie Jenson's Art Exhibit, Much of the play is in Spanish. But rather subject and environment that succeeds Published by the School of the for example, chronicled in photos in the than being a distraction, it highlights the more often than not. When they do suc­ Art Institute of Chicago book, was an inspired landscape of movement, musical salsa rhythms, dance, ceed, they're right on target. Hoffman embellished sculpture and small struc­ and patterned speech, pushing beyond knows that image alone won't get the job For those on a limited travel budget this tures, all built by this farm wife, begin­ the barrier of literal interpretation. Addi­ done, so he uses image to make paintings summer, Lisa Stone and Jim Zanzi's new ning in 1938. After Jensen died in 1973, tionally, the minimal use of props keeps scratching key lines for the eye to follow, book, "Sacred Spaces and Other Places," the family dismantled much of the site, the focus on Eva. Between the first and and allowing the paint to speak of his is your guide to some of Wisconsin's most worried that it was a hazard for children. second scenes, a video, resembling news presence. In this way he balances subjec­ interesting artistic sites. footage—bytes of Nicaraguan society— tive line and color relationships with the are dubbed over with a voice from a stability of the painting as object. The Providing both a record of what once was Priced at $14.95, the book offers a rich Spanish radio station. Key words signal­ work engages the viewer immediately, and what still is, the book offers an inspi­ chronicle of 37 "vernacular" sites, 23 of ing Americana, i.e. Michael Jackson, and speaks with conviction. These are rational journey through the lives and which are in Wisconsin, and even pro­ clearly mesh the two cultural influences. more than pictures, more than images. labors of artists who had the courage and vides maps and a few diner/restaurant imagination to turn their personal worlds notations. into something out-of-the-ordinary. As the video rolls, Eva ritualistically Odalisque,Toweling Off, and perhaps, changes into traditional Nicaraguan Untitled #4 are the most memorable Debra Brehmer The book resulted from a class the au­ dress—a sheer flounced red petticoat, a works. It's awkward explaining paintings (Debra Brehmer is an editor and pub­ thors have taught since 1985 at the Art crisp white linen blouse with ruffles at the via the written word, and space consid­ lisher of Art Muscle). Institute of Chicago, called "Artist in the collar, a full satin skirt, a wide-brimmed erations don't permit me to describe each Landscape." The class breaks the placid hat and dainty white gloves. She remains in depth. Furthermore, paintings are vis­ slide/lecture routine and journeys out to attired in this dress, symbolic of Nicara­ ual statements that must be taken into the places such as the Dickyville Shrine to gua, for the remainder of the perform­ eye and intellect of those who love art. AMOR DE MIS explore art that in varying ways is some­ ance, adding and removing articles to Hoffman's paintings need to be seen more how intricately linked to its landscape. AMORES display character and the influence of the than talked about. The book is divided into sections on grot­ Eva Gasteazoro upper-class beauty of her mother. tos, embellished homes, the architecture Walker's Point Center for the Arts There are some weak pieces. The Fall of of mystery, and "other places." Icarus *1 and San Pedro Sunset #2, were April 26—27 The performance was well lit, and al­ a bit forced compositionally, and the lowed clear eye contact between per­ It tells the stories of people such as Fred handling of the paint was not up to Amor de Mis Amores, a new solo show former and audience. This heightened Smith, a retired lumberjack, who in Phil­ Hoffman's reach. Six drawings (these conceived and performed by Nicaraguan their exchange of painful reflections. By lips, Wis., spent many of his later years in were shown in a bin) are best described performer, Eva Gasteazoro, testifys that mastering the stream of consciousness life (beginning in 1949), building huge as academic and lacking the strength he is people do not instantly become the per­ flow, this performer, in defining her concrete sculptures near the edge of High­ able to muster with paint. The show would sons they are, particularly when the proc­ contradictory passions, successfully way 13. Ranging from a monumental be better served without them. ess involves filtering through the numer­ brought us to the understanding that she tableau featuring the Chariot Race from ous cultural guises of womanhood. In cherishes her upbringing. the movie Ben-Hur, to animals, Indians, In his artist's statement, Hoffman says he Ms. Gasteazoro's "coming of age," those Kimberiy Tyler and local legends, Smith embellished the formative fragments (branded into place), (Kimberfy Tyler is a member of the looks for equal inspiration from Rogier sculptures with broken glass, reflectors van der Weyden, Jan Van Eyck, Francis are relived through Amor, which incor­ Screaming Penguin Theater Productions, and mirrors. His Rock Garden Tavern is porates the eccentric maiden, Tias's, the and is currently a dramaturgfor The Mil­ Bacon, and Joan Miro, while trying to also still extant. give visual form to his inner life. The cheating chaos of a drinking mother, the waukee Repertory Theater).

12 Art Muscle Magdalena Abakanowicz, Crowd No. 2 John T. McCarthy, Hiawatha Homecoming

MAGDALENA BEETHOVEN sounded about as it would if performed road yard of the bygone Milwaukee Road by an excellent modern orchestra, soloist Company. At 366 E. Stewart Street, Mid­ ABAKANOWICZ: EXTRAVANGANZA and conductor, and not as it likely would west Hiawatha keeps a very low profile, CROWD NO. 2 Historical Keyboard Society have been rendered (pun intended) by nestled between the Hoan Bridge and of Wisconsin Kinnickinnic Avenue, just southeast of April 9—June 12 the under-rehearsed pick-up ensemble April 16 Medusa Cement Company and the Kin­ Elvehjem Museum of Art Beethoven actually employed in 1808. Pabst Theater nickinnic River. University of Wisconsin-Madison Even better than these performances was soprano Ellis' definitive solo work in Ah, On December 22,1808, in Vienna, Ludwig perfidd which left the afternoon audi­ Of the five cars, only #1292, the cocktail A crowd of stiff bodily forms, bathed in van Beethoven (1770-1827) presented a light, filled gallery VI of Madison's ence cheering. lounge (the others serve as a "clubhouse," four-hour concert, called a musical Elvehjem Museum of Art. Magdalena for current and former RR executives) is Akademie, that contemporary accounts Abakanowicz's figurative and haunting The remaining selections showed that open to the public. Every Thursday, Fri­ described as a fiasco. Crowd No. 2, made up of twenty life- Beethoven was still fallible. The two day and Saturday from 5 p.m. until mid­ sized, hollow and headless, androgynous excerpts from the Mass in C Major suf­ night, railroad buffs can sit in the 1950*s One hundred eighty-six years later, in figures, were immediately recognizable fered from insecure performances, but armchairs and love seats and relive the Milwaukee, the Historical Keyboard as the Abakanowicz style. Fragmented also from comparison to the greater Missa hey-day of train travel. Dimly lit outside Society presented a replica of that con­ expressions cast in resin-impregnated bur­ Solemnis. But the Choral Fantasy for or­ and in, the interior has remained virtually cert, and it received a standing ovation. lap stood in four row configurations. Her chestra, piano solo, vocal sextet and untouched. A map of the Great Northern Directed by Joan Parsley, it was the cen­ process of layering muslin and burlap chorus, demonstrated conclusively that Line, with red tracks marking the path of terpiece of an eight-day festival focusing (combining them with other materials) Beethoven could compose a real clunker. the once well-traveled route, hangs on on the second of Beethoven's three com­ recalls bandaging or embalming. But be­ Written for the 1808 concert to bring one wall. Decals of Oregon, Montana, positional style periods (1803-1812). yond the natural browns of the tactile everyone on stage for a grand finale, even British Columbia, Manitoba, Wisconsin, materials, she applies no color, prefer­ in the excellent performance here, the and the other American and Canadian For this concert, HKS brought to Milwau­ ring to express her view that, "the color of work sounds like a rush job, disorganized states that made up the legendary Great kee the Handel and Haydn Society Or­ a sculpture is its skin, its complexion." and melodically insipid. Northern route are displayed on fake chestra of Boston, an outstanding en­ And though the shells of these bodies wood paneling, between windows hung semble that plays on replicas of antique generously populate the gallery, the mood Nevertheless, the themes, harmonies, and with closed Venetian blinds. instruments. Joining them were Pianist of the installation is both ghostly minimal structure of the choral fantasy often sound Robert Levin; the Wisconsin Conserva­ and monumental. startlingly like unconscious gropings I visited the Midwest Hiawatha recently, tory Chamber Singers, prepared by con­ toward the choral finale of the great and was amazed at how the lounge has ductor Lee Erickson; and soprano Roch- Symphony No. 9- HKS's wonderful trib­ been preserved. Sitting down, I moved Born in 1930 into an aristocratic family in elle Ellis, mezzo-soprano Kay Schoen- ute to Beethoven's second style period my chair forward, began munching on Poland, the artist witnessed World War II feld Belich, tenor Kenneth W. Bozeman thereby concluded with a foreshadow of the Gardetto's in a nearby bowl, and atrocities, and the Communist regime and bass-baritone David Berger. Christo­ the third. pushed a white call button on the wall. which forced her family to abandon their pher Hogwood, one of the pioneers of Robert, the lone waiter in the lounge, estate. As a consequence, much of her Leon Cohen the historically-authentic performance came out and rearranged my chair, ex­ work appears to spring from the hatred (Leon Cohen, op-ed editor of The Wis­ movement, conducted. plaining they had recently been sued by she has experienced, i.e. the violent con­ consin Jewish Chronicle, has a master's a woman who injured her back trying to sequences of the twisted mentality of degree in music history and literature The result was brilliant—a fresh look at move one of their chairs. "May I take your Nazi Germany. It informs her fragmented, from Northwestern University). this master composer, who was at times, order, sir?" he said efficiently, and left amputated individuals. taken for granted. It also demonstrated immediately. A passing train parallel to the strengths and limitations of attempts car #1292 overpowered the saccharine- Crowd No. 2 echoes collective identity, to perform old music as the composers MIDWEST HIAWATHA sweet cabaret style music of the lounge the mentality of the masses, and the loss had heard or imagined it. From the start, car's sound system. of self. Simultaneously sensuous and HKS had to make an important conces­ 366 E. Stewart Street repulsive, the figuresinvit e touch while sion to modernity by dividing Beethoven's Open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays suggesting decay. They stand firmly from 5 p.m. to midnight. Robert returned with my drink. I inquired one concert into two — one in the after­ if they usually have snacks, seeing a sign planted, their substantial feet in perfect noon, one in the evening. balance, a dynamic rhythm of relation­ Aside from the locals, few Milwaukeeans that read, "Thursday's Snack." ships between deliberately arranged in­ The featured compositions included three ever experience the reservoir of greasy teractive bodies. They are subtle, varied, "We're not locked into anything around well-known classics: Symphony No. 5, spoons, ethnic hang-outs, and backwater and sexless. They speak of Polish history here," he said, "when I feel like it, I put Symphony No. 6 Pastoral, and Piano taverns on Milwaukee's South Side. High­ and personal history. Their message is the sign up." He went on to explain that Concerto No. 4. Hearing these on the brow suburbanites rarely venture south dizzying and paralyzing. In the end, it the same goes for their hours, only be­ instruments Beethoven knew, provided of downtown, perhaps afraid of the was up to me to reconstruct indentities cause they don't wish to attract too many surprisingly few acoustic revelations. "element." Places such as At Random, Art lost in the discarded shells of departed Altenburgh's Concertina Bar, and the people. The evening I visited, I was one souls, and in doing so, I was forced to of five patrons. Before my visit ended, The woodwind instruments, made of White Manor have such charm and beauty reconsider my own personal and collec­ Robert, who said he teaches a graduate different materials and having fewer keys only because they have maintained their tive identity. course at Northwestern University on the than their modem versions, sounded a bit stuck-in-time atmosphere. Elizabeth Ellis development of the railroad and com­ mellower. One heard how Beethoven mutes from Illinois to bartend in the (Elizabeth Ellis is a recent graduate of Such is the case at Midwest Hiawatha, a worked around the limited ranges of lounge, asserted, "I'm a railroad man." UW-Madison's Art History department. valveless horns and trumpets. The rep­ 1951 luxury cocktail lounge train car, She is particularly interested in contem­ among the most charming and extraordi­ Joe Kutchera lica Beethoven-era piano used in the (foe Kutchera is a local musician and porary American art). concerto didn't sing out its high notes nor nary night-spot jewels on Milwaukee's South Side. The four train cars attached to free lance writer who has traveled exten­ boom its bass, as would a modern con­ sively through Europe, Mexico, and the cert grand. But in general, the music one locomotive, and the nearby caboose, sit on tracks at the edge of the former rail­ United States).

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:|| emember cramming eight of your best friends into the car and Movies Under the Stars heading off to see some goony flick at a drive-in, giggling and Ilk grooving? Remember sitting in the convertible under the stars with Forget that Baby Sitter the one you thought you loved out in some farmer's field as the picture flickered 30 feet high, dissolving into dusk at the edges? Neither do I, really. The myth of the drive-ins seems to have slipped out of my ken, not Come as You Are beyond my grasp, but into an area whose existence is so ridiculous to contem­ plate that I'd rather ignore it. Somewhere in the netherworld of pre-Zep rock' n' roll and heroin the first time around. Smoke When You Please Like anyone, I have a few drive-in experiences that would be memorable if they weren't so bland. I remember the first run of Apocalypse Now at a drive- Leave Your Girdle at Home in off of Wisconsin 47 in Shawano, remarkable only because I was about 11 and didn't get the acid scenes. I remember a cheap kung-fu flick in an outdoor Eat While You Look in the sweaty summer hillbilly hills of southern Ohio in my dad's Buick. And some heavy-ammo/low dialogue movies in Detroit's far northern suburbs, mid-70s Novas with fatty tires revving the V-8 across four lanes of—what was Knit While You Sit it, Woodward Avenue?—to get to the drive-in entrance. It's just not much to goon.

Save While You Spend A 1949 study by the American Association of State Highway Officials noted that in 1941, there were 52 drive-ins in the country. Eight years later that Forget Your Parking Problem number had grown to more than 1,000 and was expected to double by 1950. "The idea for combining two of America's favorite pleasures, the motor-car and the movies, seems to have caught on rather slowly at first,"th e highway Relax In Your Car 7 / planners said, but after a time "...Apparently, America has accepted the drive- in theater and it is here to stay." By Nathan Guequierre 16 Art Muscle And 40 years later the drive-in seems to be dead. Or at least dying. The outdoor Theaters: A Manual of Design and Operationby George M. Petersen, claims that won't ever, I suppose, disappear completely, not as long as there are kids with "many parents of teenage children have objected to their patronizing the drive- cars and nothing to do, but the drive-in has lost its general appeal. Of three drive- in theatres because 'they were dark and things could happen.' Everyone who is in theaters around Milwaukee, one doesn't answer the phone, one (the 41 Twins familiar with these operations knows that it would be extremely difficult to con­ Outdoor at 7701S. 27th Street) opened for the season on May 20 with some Mel summate an immoral act in a properly operated drive-in theatre." Right. Stories Gibson bullet-holes-and-plastic explosive movie; the third, out in the impossi­ of drive-in life fall into one class, really: low-level thrills. Drive-ins are made for bly distant town of Muskego, was sold last year and closed. smokin' a bone laying' back with some buds. For getting nervous with a fox and keeping your fingerscrossed . For waiting until the time is rightt o make that "For good, as far as I know; I couldn't even tell you who bought it," the young move. woman at the nearby multiplex told me. So once-proud motor movie culture is slowly choking on the orts of its history, on its connection, the car. In 1933, when The drive-in has faded because our perception of its usefulness is dead. We no the first drive-in opened in Camden, New Jersey, car time was kind of fun. In longer believe that this is a world where copping a feel is an important or note­ 1994, it's just not a novelty to spend another couple of hours behind the wheel. worthy or even thrilling sexual experience. We're worried, and the queasy And who wants to sit through a double feature in a Geo? sexuality of the drive-in doesn't count because our other problems loom so much larger, like the picture on that enormous screen. Regular old sex and drugs Home

The twilight of the drive-in. Maybe it's one of those small mercies. I can't really are no longer particularly illicit when we have teen pregnancy and welfare de­ say that I could find, once I subjected the question to what Wodehouse would pendency and crack houses to worry about, not to mention abortion clinics, call "a merciless scrutiny," too much to mourn in the passing of the outdoor. I semi-automatic weapons and Rush Limbaugh. It's not a loss of innocence so have a hard time feeling the tug of nostalgia. In my experience, drive-ins are a much as the way we perceive what we once had. What I'm saying is that the mostly creepy place to watch movies, with scary patrons, dirty bathrooms and drive-in with its hints of furtive touching and steamed-up windshields, has come extortionary prices on popcorn and Twizzlers. Everyone claims to have fond to the end of its self-limiting tether. The drive-in's brand of immorality is just too memories of drive-ins, but who among us goes to them except on the once-a- innocent, too paltry, to bother with. The thrill is gone, and the drive-in has decade hoot, a first-rate GenX ironic adventure? Drive-ins fail to entice beyond entered the realm of the merely somewhat tacky, the merely somewhat sad. this point because the world has changed around them. And not just because B- Drive-ins are ok, it's just they're no longer what they used to be. It's hard to have movies now go right to video. fun in the modern world, I guess.

If we are to believe the celebratory baby boom accounts, after the Second World Nathan Guequierre is a Milwaukeepoetandfrequentcontributorto ArtMuscle. War the drive-in slowly ceased to be about movies at all. The 1953 Drive-In Look for his reviews in our CD. column, too.

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4D00 N. 7DTH ST. S321D 438-8888 IN BDSINESS F0D 30 VEADS letters to the editor The WAMIs: Quit Complaining accepted in the general balloting pro­ owners. You, after all, will need to As a musician, I have always held an cess. If your favorites are not win­ make choices about the way you ideal concept for the WAMI. I ning WAMI awards, they have not develop your work, so don't be watched, listened, went to the semi­ been represented within the WAMI strong-armed into sticking to a style nars and showcases, and I finally membership for nomination. This that "seems to be an easy sell." More Compound Red joined...that just wasn't-.enough. In has been the problem for the music than one artist has fallen into that Mr. Microcosm (Hardspun) November when the WAMI news­ community at large in accepting the trap, and it kills exploration. Your Ooh-boy, this is no joke. Compound letter announced a WAMI Commit­ WAMI awards as valid. voice is distinctive, your work should Red has risen, and Mr. Microcosm is so tee Invitational, a call to the mem­ be recognizably your own. Ask the good it hurts, like being gut-shot by the bers to lend a hand by joining a This problem is also the perfect anal­ gallery you are interested in for phone woman you love: you bleed a little, committee, I took the opportunity ogy for the status of the ongoing numbers of artists who exhibit in sure, but there's a kind of intense beauty to become involved in the inner WAMI effort to bridge the gap to the their gallery. Do not refer to it as in it. A driving, dense guitar sound—no working of the organization. music community. their "stable," a label that's offensive heroics, no jingle-jangle cop-out—the If the WAMI organization seems bi­ to both artists and many gallery own - sort of subcutaneous, uptempo, repeti­ What I discovered was a relatively ased toward the industry rather than ers. Get referrals, check out how care­ tive hooks and macro-drumming that small but intense collection of local toward the musician, it is because the fully the galleries handle their con­ actually change your biological rhythms and regional industry professionals musicians have not brought their signed works, and discretely inquire in the pull of their undertow. All comple­ and musicians giving freely of their perspective to the table. The WAMI about their financial reputation. mented, somehow, with fierce, liver- time and energies to make the recent will only be successful and achieve —Pat Hidson, Milwaukee wrenching vocals that leave your head WAMI Music Convention Weekend that conceptual ideal that all musi­ (This letter is in response to the April/ behind. It's not for the faint of heart, but a reality. Through a series of com­ cians have hoped for when the music May Art Muscle inquiry regarding if I were king, Mr. Microcosm would ring mittee meetings, and the monthly community is represented sufficiendy artists &gallery space) throughout the land at top volume. —NG meetings of the Board of Directors, in the WAMI membership and ac­ the WAMI weekend flurry of activity tively participates in the formulation A Masochistic Nature was conceived, planned, confirmed of its policies and practices. Only In response to your request for writers: and funded. Each component of the then will we be able to span the Crash Test Dummies convention had been deliberately cre­ longstanding gulf between the in­ Opinion #1: Art Muscle is a role of God Shuffled His Feet (Arista) ated to support the others to show­ dustry and the music community. dollars short of the jackpot, even then Crash Test Dummies' lead mouth and case Wisconsin's array of musical I think we should all quit complain­ there are the odds to contend with. songwriter, Brad Roberts, has a voice strengths to the national contingent ing and start working on this bridge! not unlike a mud bath for the ears; a gathered here for the event. Membership is $10.00. Justification: "Only" is merely a mar­ sound deep and unclean, yet warm and —Gregg Huber keting tool, it does not necessarily unusually comforting. And on his band's In many respects The WAMI Music make it good, just more accessible. second outing, that's only the begin­ ning. With the help of local Jerry Convention was a success, though I On Finding a Gallery doubt that it has done anything to As my work is exhibited across the Clarification: For a long as I can Harrison at the knobs (the album was change the predominant attitude to­ United States, I believe I have enough forget, I'm fine. I look forward to the recorded in Milwaukee, eh) the Dum­ ward the organization within the mu­ experience to comment on what to latest issue, it is my masochistic na­ mies shaped their folk-tinted stylings sical community. It seems that the look for when trying to place your ture. I say that because it pains me to into a colorful array of 12 uplifting and general consensus among musicians work in galleries. Number one is see such a misrepresentation of the thoughtful pop songs—surprisingly im­ is that the WAMI is a pawn of the locating a gallery that you admire local art scene. I'm told you staff proving on their sparkling 1991 debut. industry, perhaps even a corporate and want to be associated with. One numerous seasoned citizens from the Musically,God gently rocks with trade­ promotional manipulation,or maybe that exhibits artists with solid reputa­ art community, but is this any justi­ mark acoustic guitar, piano and man­ just a nostalgic hand-mirror for the tions, has a well-developed clientele, fication for nose-turning, dry pens, dolin arrangements—accented periodi­ old guard of the Milwaukee music and a good location. and sheer arrogance that your publi­ cally by Harrison's zen keyboard riffs, scene. But those stilted evaluations cation shows towards the not-just- or, (in the title track), Adrian Belew's only beg the question and avoid seek­ young-at-heart-but-age-as-well? synthesized guitar weave. Lyrically, God The exhibit space is very important. is sublime. A study of the human heart— ing an understanding of why it is What are your needs? You should be what it is. this album finds Roberts at ease paint­ able to have breathing room around You are right in calling for writers, ing curious sketches of strange people your work, whether it is large format possibly a few from the other side of and the even stranger things they do to The people who have worked so or small. From this artist's point of art, as opposed to your side. And it live and love. Great pop songs like hard to bring the WAMI this far have view, a crowded gallery is much less pains me to see Art Muscle, the rep­ these, need not reinvent modern music. done their best! They have invested desirable. Most artists would agree. resentative of Milwaukee's art com­ They simply tell a new story. —PR tremendous amounts of time and Once in a while you may have to munity, pay so little attention to talent, and have created a solid foun­ compromise if the gallery is particu­ design. Hasn't Emigre taught us dation on which to build a bridge larly outstanding. anything, whether reaffirming or oth­ between the music industry and the erwise?... Alternative NRG music community. They have done Young artists frequendy have acoun- —Chad C. Anderson, Milwaukee Hollywood Records (Various Artists) their best, but they are working from terproductive attitude, i.e. an an­ One can never be too rich, too thin, or one side of the equation. If this bridge tagonistic view of galleries—an "us p.s. I would be interested in writing have enough party tapes. Recorded is to be built, we of the music com­ vs. them," attitude. That never helps for Art Muscle and working with the and mixed with solar power, this munity must bring our perspective anyone. A partnership with a gallery design and editorial staff if requested Greenpeace benefit CD is unique by to the table as well. This problem can is like any other business—mutual to do so. being simultaneously politically correct only be solved from both sides of the faith and trust are the keystones. My and cool. Using a mobile solar-power- equation, this bridge must be built advice to young artists is to be prac­ Reply to Mr. Anderson from Editor generating truck the crew travelled across from both sides! tical and down to earth—it pays off the country recording various artists live. to meet the galleries halfway. Sorryy but I was unable to squeeze in Ironically, the hottest song on the album, The nominations for each WAMI the lengthy list of your friends who feel "Cold" by Annie Lennox, was not re­ award are generated from within the As anyone who reads art reviews "estranged" by Art Muscle. I don3t corded (but itwas mixed) with solar power. WAMI membership. The ballot that knows, the artist needs to be pre­ understand why you feel we ignore Alternative NRG's lineup is an excellent the general public uses to cast their pared to face the pressures out there. young artists. We}re always working mix of contemporary bands including U2, votes, is created by nominations sub­ It's a very tricky business to balance with new writers, and strive to be Soundgarden, R.E.M., Midnight Oil, & 17 mitted by WAMI members personal artistic growth with slowly unbiased when covering artists. See (among others) that is sure to please just only...there are no write-in votes educating the public and gallery the April/May cover for proof positive. about everyone. —TF

19 God Bless the American Lawn n the mid-1800s, landscape architect and writer, Andrew Jackson Downing, promoted the notion that a home presents a I public image of its owner. He describedproper upkeep and adorn­ ment of the home grounds as "a democratic duty."

Most Americans still pride them­ selves in being "democratic," but the choices of how we embellish our lives are shrinking. As we march off to our jobs, we're frequently restricted as to what we wear— especially in service industries and professions defined by uniforms. Even in the more liberal work places, social pressures limit the way we present ourselves.

Could it be that a person's home really is his castle—one of the last bastions of self-expression? The late 19th century technological explo­ sion sent cities sprawling outward, creating the vast green, preened regions now called suburbs. These expansive yards presented the op­ portunity for more design choices, yet it seems that the suburbanites merely moved the ordered pretti- ness of their interior spaces to the front yard. By far, the most interest­ ing yards, the ones reflecting the o widest range of choice, are in less X affluent neighborhoods, where some residents still don't fear ap­ pearing "different."

A walking tour of these neighbor­ hoods, (some good viewing can be found by taking alley routes and peering into backyards where home­ owners have placed their ornaments to avoid vandalism and theft), reveals that yard "ponds," and intriguing Beware of the Dog signs, Happily, in Milwaukee and most of the surround­ diversity can still be found. In an area where shaped into smiling bulldogs with blood red lips. ing suburbs, there are no residential restrictions American flags are plentiful, spaces are shared with regulating these choices. And even though you plaster VirginMarys, dead tree trunks painted white, It's apparent that the demarcation of private space may prefer the sameness of the suburbs, if you and geraniums spilling out of barrels cut in half and remains an on-going feature in the American land­ choose to decorate your yard with a seven-foot set beside benches hewn from logs. You can find a scape. While most us can't, or don't choose to metal guitar that you trucked back from Graceland, 1360 lb. forged iron anchor from the St. Albans, and replicate the Fountain of Flora in Versailles, France, the law is on your side. others of lesser dimensions, encircled with posts (with its half-naked goddess, resting on a bed of and marine rope. Or perhaps a five-footwoode n varied flowers, surrounded by young cupids), the But beware of the trend toward neighborhood cardinal, plastic penguin, or ten birdfeeders strung many who personally select and install ornamenta­ covenants (rules and regulations set by architec­ on iron plumbing pipe, alongside a recycled bird tion, represent democracy at its best. Be it concrete tural-control committees and homeowner associa­ feeder jug, gerry-rigged with a Rube Goldberg muskrats, marble nymphs, or the milk cartons, tions) which threaten to dictate what does or doesn't device for outwitting the squirrels. broken dolls and stuffed animals that furnish the look "nice." Meanwhile, get out and look around, outdoor spaces of the homeless, (described in the it may not be long before our "democratic duty," is Options may also be purely practical, like the birds book Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives), decid­ re-defined. with wind-driven wings, used to keep seedlings ing on the perfect personal and at the same time from disappearing into the beaks of voracious very public statement, is an opportunity of free- Judith Ann Moriarty is an editor of Art Muscle. So feathered newborns. Or bath tubs converted into choice in a country of increasing regulation. far, her neighbors haven't commented on the 15' sculpture in her backyard.

By Judith Moriarty 20 Art Muscle Luminous Orbs on the Lawn

nal herbs to promote health and prosperity. They were called "wish" balls or "witch" balls at the time and were also hung from cottage ceilings to keep away evil spirits. A lovely, clear sphere hangs prominently from the ceiling in Vermeer's last painting, "Allegory of Faith," 1672. An article in a 1992 issue of Fine Gardening magazine states that the globes were sometimes given as presents to bestow prosperity and long life.

The globes made their way to America in the 1860's or 1870's, and were most popular in the South. They fell out of fashion until the 1920's, when art deco reinstated them to their proper garden perch. It seems as if they may have taken another plunge in popularity until the late 1950's or so. And this is where my personal gazing globe memory begins. I remember seeing lots of them on our periodic family trips up north—staring bored and travel weary out the window until a splotch of color would beckonfrom some tiny, trimmed yard. Kevin Milaeger, owner of Milaeger's garden center in Racine, called the game "GG." "When we took rides in the car as kids, we'd call out 'GG' whenever we saw a globe." Milaeger says they're back in fashion now, though people often hide them in backyards to prevent theft. Milaeger's carried them in his store for 35 years and says that gold and silver are still the best sellers.

Marietta Silver Globe Manufacturing Company in Marietta, Ohio, is the country's oldest manufacturer of gazing globes and the only company (there are two other manufacturers in the U.S.) that still blows them by hand. Linda Flannery, the company's owner, said her grandfather, George Rigaux, a Belgium glass blower, started the business in the o X 1930's. The company's five employees produce 150 gazing globes a day and are currently two months behind on orders. Ms. Flannery was a little reluctant to even talk about the business because every time there's a a new article published, they o o get more calls, and they are having trouble keeping up with the growing demand. The Wall Street -Q .O Journal just called," she said, "and I told them not (!) do an article."

•§ (!) Part of the popularity, she said, is due to recent Hol­ lywood interest in gazing globes. Flannery's com­ pany sells to 20th Century Fox when they need I never knew what they were called until two years these orbs—a co-mingling of '50s kitsch with movie props and her globes have appeared in the go when I had to find one for a prop in a play. something far nobler: art-deco cool shaded with Beverly Hillbillies feature film, Falling Down with Lucille, the owner of Garden Gate on Layton Ave­ the distant echo of 18th century English garden Michael Douglas, EdwardScissorhands and nue quickly educated me on the phone, "Oh, you regency. Wayne's World. want a gazing globe." I guess I do, I responded, lingering over those lovely words—gazing globe. Recorded accounts of gazing globes begin in Venice With a baby crying in the background and all those around 1280. Silver globes were apparently pro­ orders to fill, I didn't want to keep Ms. Flannery on Lucille Puzia has carried the globes since she started duced in Germany in the 15th century and cut into the phone any longer than necessary. "Please," she her garden center and lawn ornament business 28 convex mirrors, as seen in the famous Jan van Eyck said, exasperated, "don't put our address or phone years ago. She says in recent years they have been painting, "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," of number in this article." growing in popularity and are now available in 1434. While there's a gap in historical accounts, richer hues of red, deep blue and purple, along they resurfaced in England in the 1700's where they For anyone interested in purchasing their own with the standard issue silver and gold. (The lighter were placed in gardens among flowers and medici- gazing globe, the good news is that most local colors are more reflective). Gazing globes don't garden centers now carry them. Call first,the y may really have a purpose, other than sitting on one's be out of stock. lawn and sending out emissions of sparkling light. Yet there's something gloriously sublime about Debra Brehmer is an editor and publisher of Art By Debra Brehmer Muscle. 21 The Lade Family Wonderland

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In cruising through the countryside on a recent they a low-maintenance substitute, a guarantee of The Lade wonderland grew out of Carta's love for Sunday afternoon, I encountered a species of crea­ "wildlife," in the backyard? What about the more painting. She buys blank cement figuresan d takes tures unique to rural and small town landscapes. human characters? Are they an extension of the care to model and shade the surfaces, rather than Herds of cement deer, flocks of wooden two- imagination and whimsy of childhood? Clearly, my generically slapping on coats of paint. Her father dimensional geese, ducks, and chicks, along with musings were the product of one too many gradu­ also provides wooden cut-outs for her to work on. bright pink vacuformed birds, tiny Dutch couples ate courses, but they ran wild during that Sunday One by one, the figures were placed, in the front in pre-smooch poses, and mini-colonies of swol­ afternoon drive. and back yard, in the garden, by the pool, along­ len-cheeked gnomes. I also found it not unusual to side the house, and in the trees. They are derived be mooned by a pair of polka dot bloomers every The yard of Carla and Robert Lade of Sheboygan not, as my over-intellectualized speculations might few blocks or so. has been transformed into what passerbys call a suggest, from some mass-produced rural kitsch "wonderland." At least one example of every aesthetic, but simply from one person's desire to I wondered about these yards and the people variety of lawn ornament has taken up residence paint. The plain carved figures and wooden silhou­ responsible for them. Are these animated adorn­ on the property, and the most spectacular display ettes are her canvas, and the yard is her gallery. ments, filtered through our late-twentieth century of characters occupies an enormous side lawn that mass produced culture, a rural version of man's is divided into small stage-like areas, each with its Linda Van Sistine-Yost is the administrative coor­ ancient and instinctive need to beautify his sur­ own assortment of figures positioned to create dinator of Flying Colors/Artspace at The Kohler roundings? As the overwhelming majority of the individual dramas. A three-hundred pound cement Arts Center in Sheboygan ornaments are replicas of plant and animal life, do Snow White, surrounded by her Seven Dwarves, they reflect the owner's intimacy with nature, or are highlights the theatrical environment.

By Linda Van Sistine-Yost 22 Art Muscle Twelve Acres of Concrete

coming a Super Bowl quarter-back, so I switched my major to landscape architec­ ture," he said.

Initially, Malkowski had no intention of re­ turning home to help his dad run a small business that specialized in concrete patio blocks and a limited number of lawn orna­ ments. He'd already put in many hours (since age 10), helping his dad out by oiling molds and running errands for their road­ side enterprise, which was just south of its present location. As a high school student, he continued to help out part time. "My dad was very creative, and built many fountains from stone—even as a kid, I learned a lot from him. But my parents felt it would be impossible for me to get ahead without a college degree. When I enrolled in Madi­ son, they were very happy."

About the time Malkowski graduated from college, the family business went up for sale, so he and his brother stepped in to see if it could be salvaged. It started making money, and suddenly he had a way of making art, continuing the family business,

Q. and earning a living. E it Malkowski says there have been many changes in the lawn ornament business, such as new materials which emphasize detail and texture, replacing older methods of casting which left pieces flat and lifeless. But he's also seen changes in the choices people make in selecting ornamentation. Wild-duck fountains and concrete deer are being replaced with Roman ruins, Greek columns and angels. Overall, he sees a trend toward fountains, because, he says,"they can be heard as well as seen." Currently, he's designing a $40,000 fountain J for a River Hills residence, which will be sculpted from clay, then cast with 6,000 •12 pounds of concrete. It's his biggest job to o date, but not his most unusual request. That a one came from a nudist colony in Burling- e ton, Wisconsin that wanted a nude sculp­ ture for their group. The project never came to fruition, but if you want a sculpture com­ memorating your favorite dog, Malkowski's staff will design one for you. They also sell Since earliest times, people have demanded the well-placed grape leaves. Whatever the prefer­ concrete pigs nursing piglets. transformation of raw materials into enduring ence, it probably can be satisfied at a 12-acre bazaar monuments. Perhaps it's a desire for permanency, of the unusual, Milwaukee Concrete Studios, on Still, Malkowski's favorite design jobs are those a desire for immortality, that propels them to search south 27th Street in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. which express his own fine arts vision—starkly for statuary with French and Italian details, squat contemporary fountains, painted in southwestern Buddhas and small temples that speak of gardens In the early 70s, while studying sculpture at UW- colors, and suggesting a cross between the sculp­ of the Far East and countries most of us only dream Madison, Jim Malkowski, co-owner of the busi­ tures of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. And of visiting. Perhaps it's the lure of elegant faux ness, began thinking about the reality of making a while he's clearly figured out how to make a living marble fountains topped with "love doves," stately living as an artist. "I figured the chances of making and still work as an artist, he admits to sometimes lions or Greek statues swathed in little more than it as an artist were about equal to my chances of be- yearning for his life as a fine arts student.

By Judith Ann Moriarty 23 Saws, Sieves, Sewing Machines and Sleds

At the corner of 92nd and Dakota in West Allis, on Winter. Old leather baby shoes sit on the rocks from past lives. Remarkably, nothing has ever been a lawn which won the Mayor's Beautification Award, year-round, alongside a cast iron stove from neigh­ stolen. On the fourth of July, their house, replete twenty years of Nan and Jack Winter's memories bors up the street. People who hang over the blue with flags, will complement the Old Glory they are scattered across a weed-free swath of green, and white fence, admiring the yard, are frequently raise daily at sunrise and lower during each and and attached to much of the exterior of their blue invited in for the grand tour. It's a welcoming at­ every sunset. Tradition is important to the Winters, and white house. mosphere, with replicas of pineapples attached to and in a world where our memory banks are the home's shutters. The pineapple motif is of growing smaller, their ornamental touches make a Saws, rakes, sieves and strainers, fire hydrants, and Swedish and German origin, and symbolizes friend­ lot of sense. working fire alarms (Mr. Winter was once a fire­ liness. man) define their environment, along with ice Across the street, in another blue and white house, cream makers, milk cans, pitchforks and coal When the lower branches of a magnificent pine the neighbors have apparently caught the collect­ scuttles. That's just the beginning. Railroad spikes were trimmed recently, the couple found addi­ ing fever, too. "For a long time people thought my (grandfather was a railroad man), a variety of sleds, tional space for their ever-growing collection, which daughter lived there," said Mrs. Winter. "We like it among them a Flexible Flyer (her dad's), and seats they said, "gets in your blood, and before you know though, their matching color scheme ties in this from an old theatre are set among rocks gathered it you can't stop collecting." The pine tree shelters whole corner." from vacant lots in Brookfield. "We scrubbed and monumental wooden tulips handcrafted by Mr. polished each of those rocks. I'd never part with Winter, and a diorama of straw deer, hand pumps, them. I'm a saver. I got that from my dad," said Mrs. a dentist's drill, sewing machines, and other relics

By Judith Ann Moriarty 24 Art Muscle Northwoods on the Southside

many state yards, and perhaps symbolizes the pos­ sibility of dreams coming true.

Some of the ornaments are gifts from friends. The fair-haired Cinderella, for instance. She wears a shiny mauve concrete gown and stands near an­ other dog which honors a deceased family pet. Nearby, a boy leaps over a fire hydrant, memories of their now grown family. Three of the five bear cubs climbing a wooden post on the west side of the property were painted by the mister. They're all on the tour route of hundreds who drive by to see the array of ornamentation.

Duck-shaped wind chimes tinkle near a mail box painted with mallards whipping across a fantasy marsh—an introduction to the first of two large chicken-wire bins featuring an assortment of con­ crete Wisconsin critters. Carefully arranged around a limpid green pool, a badger, an eagle, assorted rabbits, fawns, a skunk, fox, and wooden orioles and woodpeckers, co-habit peacefully among the rocks which have been hauled back from the Lakewood cottage.

One of the bins is lidded and padlocked to keep out the neighborhood kids who have been known to stand inside the bins in order to better peer at the turtles, ducks, frogs, a beaver, and again, two Q. £ fishermen. For this homeowner, "even a day with­ out fishi s a good day if I'm on the lake up north," he says, passing an elaborate fountain surrounded by sea gulls and pelicans perched on piling draped with marine rope. It's all about memories. About up north. About working hard and retiring to a dream place.

In the modest 20'x30' back yard, a scaled-down bridge, homemade but carefully crafted, holds a number of yellow-capped and bearded gnomes, which the bride painted. Wearing pink, blue, and °fl orange jackets over lime green trousers, one holds a squeeze box. The gnomes are overwhelming favorites in the scheme of things, but it has nothing to do with art. The couple are simply fond of "little people." Their garage is decorated with plastic butterflies, and another chicken-wire box waits for the real croakers which kids bring in the summer. On Milwaukee's near southside, in a yard sur­ a stray shepherd they adopted. The cement canines Children are welcome here. rounding a neat-as-a-pin aluminum clad home, is a guard the front door, joined by a green chain little bit of the northwoods. It is occupied by a supporting a wooden sign scripted with the polite There's a storybook touch, too, in the tall Bo-Peep working couple who wish to remain anonymous. message, Deliveries to the Side Door. On the way arrayed in a vinyl dress and holding a staff—perfect They plan to retire soon to their cottage in to that door (it matches the front one which is for herding two black and white sheep wearing Lakewood, Wisconsin, taking every piece of lawn replete with white plastic ducks), is a wishing well coats of polyester wool. In this yard, everything ornamentation with them. In the meantime, they with a vinyl American flag flying proudly from its stays out all winter, even the gulls and doves have recreated the northwoods look (and a lot of asphalt roof. A whirligig bird with wings that swing perched on a twelve-foot high bamboo pole. Va­ memories) with a variety of concrete and wooden in the breeze flies high above the base of the well cant eyed, they stare at the real avians whisding specimens. which is planted with wooden flowers in bright from trees to the west. The couple admit they'd like red, blue, green, and pink. The "bride" (which is one more item which they haven't been able to The largest are a duo of lifesized dogs—a collie and how the man of the house refers to his wife) has find—a concrete otter. a shepherd— memories of a Lassie they owned and planted real flowers, too. While the wishing well isn't necessarily a Wisconsin icon, it is duplicated in

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An essay on tanning By Kyle Cherek

To tan or not to tan? With the warm sun beginning to heat just to get their fix," he said. "I've seen people at and vases of flowers." Gwiazdowski says she uses her seduce us out of our homes, Milwaukee poet Kyle Cherek tanning spas actually sweating as they tried to get an tanning time to think and sort out her day. But what turns his attention to the complex polarities that define a appointment through someone else's cancellation. about old sol's legendary link to accelerated skin aging? "healthy glow." They're tanning addicts. And if that isn't enough, "If you're going to get old, you'll get wrinkles," she body building magazines advertise capsules that you says. "The tanning booth relaxes me, and you get more The whole story starts with skin. In the Milwaukee can gulp for a golden glow." wrinkles from worrying." County Yellow Pages, there are 88 listings for tanning salons and various other places where you can darken Greg Hoeffleur, owner of Jamaican Winds on Port So what's the problem? The neighbors do it. Ladies in your color for as low as $6 for 20 minutes and $55 for Washington Road, is a veritable encyclopedia of their seventies and college kids do it. Several Milwaukee an unlimited month. In the scheme of things, that's tanning information. He doesn't deny that tan­ laundromats now even have tanning booths adjacent to on par with a cheap 900-number exceptyou're alone ning can be injurious, but asserts simply that their rows of dryers. The tragic flaw, it would seem, is in a very brighdy lit coffin. The listings can be found human beings, "were designed to be in the sun. the idea that a tan represents health and beauty. between Tanning Equipment and Supplies (for Burning white skin is dangerous, but maintain­ True, it may be one of the last bastions of body animal skins) and Tape Recorders. Needless to say, ing a careful tan provides a protective shield." decoration, but isn't it just a bit masochistic? a tanner and a tanner are not the same. Hoeffleur opened his salon 10 years ago, when there were only a handful of tanning spas in the Tanning wasn't always the thing to do. Witness the Historically, tanning came into vogue somewhere city. He now sees about 600 clients a week. monks in the Middle Ages who diligendy kept around the early 20th century when wealthy The growing popularity, he says, parallels the their burlap sleeves rolled down while working the women, who a few generations earlier sat indoors increasing "body beautiful" trend, whereby monastery rose garden. Victorian women, who and avoided the sun, traveled to the seaside to aerobics, weight lifting and workouts have wore corsets and swallowed tape worms to keep sunbathe. thin, allowed themselves only small and highly regulated doses ofsunshine . Parasols and long Interestingly enough, now the pendulum "The whiteness, the hairless- sleeves with tight cuffs were standard ward­ swings in both directions. Much of our popu­ ness, the oversized nose, robe items. The term "red-neck" originated lation can afford to trek to some sand stretch in the south, referring to farm and plantation and come back a week later in deeper hue. all gave him the look of a laborers. For centuries, one distinct differ­ Or, they can scrap the trip and travel a few ence between peasants and gentry was their minutes from their homes and darken post­ philosopher pale from too skin color. haste under the electric glow of a sun lamp. The names of these spas are part of the art of much reading, or a man Opinions vary as to when and why people tanning itself, and the one you choose reflects began tanning, but the best research puts it in your individual take on the whole process. It who had slept three nights a period between 10,000 and 35,000 years is, after all, a very individual process. Tanning ago. As humans moved from the African booths take all the social relations out ofBeach in the belly of a whale..." Savannah into cooler northern climes, their Blanket Bingo. Milwaukee offers everything —John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues skin slowly lightened due to changes in air from the Lectric Beach and Catch a Ray to pressure, and new vitamin and chemical varia­ exclusive salons like For Women Only and become ritual components in most people's tions. Additionally, studies show that darker skins Gendeman's Tanning Salon. Othello, originally lives. Hoeffleur links the beginning of electric are, in fact, more susceptible to frost bite, so this, known simply as the Moor of Venice, would turn tanning to World War II, when physicians too, may have contributed to the evolutionary over in his grave. Actually, when you consider the discovered that soldiers who were tan, healed lightening of skin as we moved north. Tanning may tragic elements of tanning, the whole thing is rather faster fromsurfac e wounds. Consequendy, lamps have also developed out of a need for protection Shakespearean. were developed to speed up that process. "Inci­ from ultra-violet light. Ifyo u think about it, our skin dentally, the word 'artificial,' is not accurate," is really the only thing between our bodies and the According to the 1991 publication of the American said Hoeffleur. "An indoor tan is as real as any you rest of the universe. So what has evolved as a fashion Medical Association on varying types of cancer, one get from the sun." and grooming accessory is actually only a form of out of every 105 Americans was projected to develop protection. That's terribly American, if you ask me. skin cancer that year. In 1991,65,000 people died of One committed tanner, Laura Jean Gwiazdowski skin cancer, with a projected seven percent increase (manager of Steny's Tavern in Walker's Point) says Tanning took a technological leap in the 1950s when each year. Recently, the largest health club organiza­ it's not just the tanning process that lures her to a Sears and Roebuck offered the first"orde r directly to your tion in the country discontinued its tanning beds booth at least three-days a week in winter months. home" sun lamp in 1955. The American public could nationwide because of health risks to its members. The booth she frequents provides an "incredibly enjoythe novelty oftoning-up for the beach vacation, even Milwaukee tanner Dick Osterling added this touch of relaxing environment," she said. "The room is painted in the dead of winter. The trick was to carefully assemble the macabre to the whole spell-binding fad: "A die-hard in pastel colors. You can turn the lights off. There are your swimming suit so the tan stayed within the proper tanner would recline on a pile of garbage in 120 degree two fans that provide a breeze. There's a stereo in there lines—a kind of coloring exercise foradults . 28 Art Muscle June 17 - August 28, 1994

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Two Approaches to Manipulating Form United Community Center, Gallery of the Riverwest Art Center, 825 E Center; 374-4722 Priscilla Kepner Sage & Marcia McEachron Americas, 1028 S 9th; 384-3100 Uncommon Thread: Idioms in Navajo Weav­ June 11-July 31 ing Now-June 30 Midsummer's Day Dream June8-Jury 17 The New Beadwork Mark Winter, Catherine Ludwig, Heather Eiden; George Raab: Prominence & Ascendancy in Katie Gingrass Gallery, 241 N Broadway; reception June 11 1 -5pm 19m Century Regional Art 289-0855 Junel2-JuK/31 Mark Romko: Garden Party The Spirit of Myth, Early Paintings Now-June 30 Tim Steep & Kathleen Randolph, Adirondack Rarely-exhibited works Alfred Session A Retrospective furniture, w/Ann Powell, Betsy Boltic; recpetion July 20-August 28 American printmaker; Jewish Community June 12 6-9pm; Artistry Studio Gallery, 833 E League of Milwaukee Artists Center: Fishman Gallery/Ross Art Wing, 6255 Center; 372-3372 Landscapes by Russell R Allard, Arthur W N Santa Monica Brvd; 964-4444 Bartkowiak, James Cook June12-Juh/ll West Bend Art Museum, 300 S 6th, West Bend, Now-Jury 3 Patricia Gilman Graham, Pastel Paintings 334-9638 Fete Parisienne Jane Rumpf Knight, Pen & Ink Drawings Mixed media installation recreating a French Reception June 1211:30am; Leenhouts Gallery, Now-June 6 atmosphere; Anderson Arts Center, 121 66th 1342 N Aster; 453-6822 Paper Classic 1994 St, Kenosha; 653-0481 AGA Center for Visual Arts, 130 N Morrison Junel2-July31 St, Appleton; 733-4089 Now-Jury 8 Telling It Like It Is: Be A Friend, Celeste Spransy & Alan Gass, 2Paint - 2Gemer Realism in Paintings, Drawings, & Prints Now-June 10 Jury 22-October 9 Richard Finch, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Philip Mail your $50 check today Tara Bogart, Natural Portraits Impressions of Nature: Pearlstein, Linda Plotkin, Al Leslie, others; re­ Douglas Krimmer, Manhattan Virgin Dedi Knox & Cardi Toellner ception June 12 3-5:30pm; Peltz Gallery, 1119 Third Ward Gallery, 221 N Water; 272-0555 Watercolor landscapes, painted furniture, E Knapp; 223-4278 with you name, address, charcoals; reception July 15 6-9pm; Piano Now-June 10 Gallery, 219 N Milwaukee; 276-3525 June 12-August21 city & zip to: PetarKapa Oriental Watercolors Montenegro-bom abstract painter; Galerie Art Now-Jury 28 Reception June 121 -5pm; Cedarburg Cultural Today, 218 N Water; 278-1211 Audrey Dulmes, Oil Landscapes Center, W83 N643 Washington Avenue, Art Muscle Magazine Donna Surge, Watercolors Cedarburg; 375-3676 Now-June 10 West Bank Cafe, 732 E Burleigh; 964-4598 PO Box 93219 Todd TutHe, Hopeful Monsters June 12-September 4 June 17-Juty 22 Now-Juh/31 The Aesthetics of Athletics: Michael Mikulay JeffNoska & Barbara Reinhart, Sports, Games & Exercise Milwaukee, WI 53203 July 29-September 2 Recent Work in Clay Images inspired by athletics & games; Charles Sources: Femerston/Bogarite Mamie Pottery, 2711 N Bremen; 374-7687 A Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, 2519 North­ (hermetic) gallery, 828 E Locust; 264-1063 western Ave, Racine; 636-9177 31 ^mZ:%-

'Training ideas from Arc East range from the traditional to the unusual." f OUT THERE EASTS DER Tlte Mikuauhe Journal ^Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design's Mark Lawson is keen on installing a tattoo artist in the Distinctive Collectibles **• Frederick Laylon Gallery to adorn visitors during the Eye Tattooed America exhibition — it fc- certainly wouid last longer than a catalogue. But tattooing is illegal within Milwaukee County, so the adventuresome will just have to enjoy the art of the tattoo, induding flash (tattoo designs), paintings by tattoo artists, and photos and paintings of tattooed figures, instead of the real thing. Eye Tattooed America caught Lawson by surprise last summer when he wandered into Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago, the show's original venue, where the works, displayed salon style, filled the gallery top to bottom. Despite its prohibition here, Lawson feels that a Art Pottery . show about tattooing will be popular in Milwaukee. "It's an underground art form that in the abulous last few years has become prominent in public awareness,* he says. The exhibition, curated by Art Glass painter/printmaker-turned tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy, combines works by traditional tattoo artists like Sailor Jerry Collins and Fred Corbin with related works by more established artists Vintage Clothing -j frames/^ who use tattoo iconography, such as George Klauba, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Ed Paschke. Eye Art Deco distinct designs Tattooed America continues through August 6. jftadern, funky, 50's June 13-August 5 June 5 Eye Tatooed America Miller Lite Ride for the Arts 926 EAST CENTER Tattoo designs, paintings, photos; reception 5,15, 30 or 50 mile recreational bike ride to 562-2711 i i i i June 17 7-9pm; Milwaukee Institute of Art & benefit UPAF; 7am; 276-RIDE Art & Frames Design, 273 E Erie; 276-7889 WED thru SUN 12-5pm 217 N. Broadway 277-9494 M-F 10-6/Sat. 11-4 June 5 June 17-July 22 Wildftower Show Degenerate & Outsider Art in the Cultural Over 200 species featured; 10am-4pm; free Mecca of Milwaukee w/ museum admission; Milwaukee Public Mu­ Reception June 17 7-10pm; UWM Fine Arts seum, 800 W Wells St; 278-2751 Gallery, 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4946 June 5 June 19-September4 Haitian Art Show & Sale Annual Juried Art Exhibit Traditional & contemporary works; l-5pm; V The Hardy Gallery, Anderson Dock, Ephraim; $15/$5 students; UWM Mitchell Hall, Art His­ 854-5535 tory Gallery, 3202 N Downer; 763-0700

June 26-August 20 June 5-26 Landscape/Floral Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League Free-lance and/or full time. Vanishing Point Seebeck Gallery, 5601 6th Ave, Kenosha; Showhouse 657-7172 Tours of Paula & Erwin Uihlein Residence; M T Ability to sculpt detailed Th Sa 10am-4pm W F 10am-8pm Su 1 -5pm; whimsical and realistic gift July 1-August 31 $10/$8 adv; 3319 N Lake Dr; 228-1990 items in clay. National Original Woodfire '94 Wood-fired pottery; Lincoln Art Pottery, 636 W June 11 & 12 manufacturer seeking Lincoln Ave; 643-9398 Monument Square Art Fair on the Lake Artwork & Juried art, entertainment, food; 10am-5pm; commercially marketable July 18-August 5 free; Festival Park, Racine; 634-4654 items. Send photos of work (to Whitewater Spinners & Weavers Exhibit Jewelry UW-Whitewater: Crossman Gallery, 800 W June 17-19 be returned) to: Main, Whitewater; 472-1207 Lakefront Festival of Arts 154 Green Bay Rd. Nationwide artists' work in all media; F noon- Creative Department 7pm Sa 10am-7pm Su 10am-5pm; $4/$3; P.O. Box 23148 Thiensville, WI 53092 Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 Milwaukee, WI 53223 414 • 242 • 3424 June 18-26 Annual Rose Festival Continuing Over 50,000 roses in bloom; 9:30am-8:30pm; International Recreational Dancing free; Boerner Botanical Gardens, 5879 S 92nd; Tu 7:30-10pm, introductory dancing 6:30pm; 529-1870 no partner required; $2; Muellner Hall, 7300 Chestnut, Wauwatosa; 662-2293 June 24 BEAD Senior Day June 2-4 Guided tours, gallery games, prizes; 10am- Danceworks Benefit Weekend 2pm; free for senior citizens; Milwaukee Art BEADS Th 7:30 pm F Sa 8pm; $ 10; 727 N Milwaukee; Museum; 224-3200 Performance Reviews. 276-3191 June 25 & 26 Interviews June 11 Sfc-owberry Festival AND MORE Texts, Et toi, tu danses? Folk art show, music, food; $2 (art show); Contemporary & classical ballet performance; Cedar Creek Settlement, Bridge Rd, Cedarbu rg; and More!! 8pm; $10-$22; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 377-9620 286-3663 July 9 & 10 July 8 & 9 Art Frolks Danceworks Milwaukee-Madison Exchange Art & craft fair, entertainment, fireworks; Sa Choreographers from both cities share pro­ 10am-7pm Su 10am-5pm; free; South Shore Institutional gram featuring Ettoi, tudanses?, Betty Salamun's Park, S. Superior St; 482-1013 The Planet Bead Dancecircus; 8pm; $10/$8; 727 N Milwau­ \m Sample Issue July 14-17 kee; 276-3191 714 North Broadway Bastille Days Festival (Next to Ameritech French-themed music, dance, food, w/ Present Music, Et toi tu danses? DanceCircus, Bauer Just North Of Wisconsin) Contemporary Ballet, more; free; Jefferson & 11-6 Mon - Sat, 223-4616 Wells Sts area; 223-7500

June 2-5 July 16 & 17 Fiesta de la Communidad Outdoor Arts Festival Hispanic arts festival, live music; Th F 4-8pm F Juried art festival; Sa 10am-6pm Su 11am- While Supplies Last Sa noon-8pm; Walker Park Square, 1028 S 5pm; free; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, MAYLINE 4p%: 9th; 384-3100 608 New York Ave, Sheboygan; 458-6144 ST0WAY1ABLES OFF June 4 July 30-31 MEIAMINETOPS Fountain Art Fair Art Park'94 24"x36" 30"x42" Arts & crafts, silent auction; 10am-5pm; free; Parking lot transformed into fair of local artists, Reg. Price $*9e^CC Reg. Price $2©er©Q: West Allis City Hall Square; 321 -4850 with food, entertainment; Sa 10am-6pm Su OUR PRICE OUR PRICE 11am-6pm; free; Gallery 218, 218 S 2nd; 00 June 4 277-7800 $T14 $120°° Audubon Art Fair Nature-related art, auction, food, entertain­ ment; 10am-5pm; $3; Schlitz Audubon Center, ALL PAINTS, BRUSHES, £%. HUE Brown Deer Rd; 352-2880

PORTFOLIOS & BOOKBAGS^r June 4 ^i|||.jj,li3 Blooming Fun: An Artist's Party Tuesdays Don't Miss Our With Mrs Fun & Mook, silent auction (7pm); Milwaukee Art Museum Gallery Talks 8pm; $10; Walkers Point Center for the Arts, June 7 • Recent Acquisitions SIDEWALK SALE lum w* 11 911 W National; 672-2787 June 21 - Jim Nutt w Books • Kits • Frames • Crafts • Many Art Supplies for Kids July 5 - Abstract Expressionism: Works on IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, SALE WILL BE HELD INDOORS. June4&5 Paper from the Permament Collection EVERY DAY DISCOUNTS Sax Arts & Crafts Retail Store Stone & Century House Tour July 19 - New Wisconsin Photography of10%-30% 100A E. Pleasant St. (Walnut & 1ST), Milwaukee, WI Showcaseof four Cedarburg homes & St Francis Tu 1:30pm; free w/ museum admission; Mil­ Borgia Church; Sa 9am-5pm Su noon-5pm; waukee Art Museum; 224-3200 Summer Savings End July 31st Hours: M-F 8:30-6, SAT 9-5 414-264-1580 $8/$7adv; 375-3676 32 Art Muscle Arti/V wanted Aft Mu/cLe i/ LauNchiNo; d New contemporary dance that's the touchstonefo r Et toi'sapproach—naturall y is the focus of its first re/ource cjuide Li/tiNcj /ervice/ offered full concert for Milwaukee audiences. Artistic Director Yves de Bouteiller's staging of Act II of the little-known classic La Bayadere (which features his nephew, Bernard Courtot de Bouteiller) by cirti/t/. be it hou/e paiNtiNd, y and his own Romeo and Juliet will complement two contemporary pieces by American dancer/ /urNiture re/iNi/hiNd> graphic de/icjN, choreographers. In Sleep...An Angel Waits, Brian Jeffrey of Chicago's XSIGHT! company has based dance movements on sleep patterns resulting in a surreal piece in which "it's up toth e cu/toM work, photography, j audience to decide if the dancers are sleeping or are dead,* says Et toi'sMichae l Griffin. And iLLu/tratioN or aNY a rti/t-produced Airs and Graces, set on the Et toi company by Jeff Satinoff, artistic director of the Lake Erie Ballet, is performed with contemporary Scottish and Irish music. Also look for Et toi, tu danses? MechaNc|i/e, the /ectioN wiLL provide in July during Bastille Days in downtown Milwaukee. reader/ with iN/orMdtioN ON where to f iNd /peciaLty /ervice/. > July 14 Patty Stevenson & Ann Filemyr * **o O *6o /pace/ ^C^ Singer & poet/video artist; preceded by open stage at 7:15pm; 8pm; free; People's Books, -cqLL ANgeL at 672-6465 3512 N Oakland; 962-0575 Mondays deadUHe for Augy/ept i/fue: JuLy 10 Poet's Monday July 21 Open mike & featured acts; 8:45pm; Cafe Dinner with Jane Hamilton Melange, 720 Old World Third; 291 -9889 Reading & summer buffet; 6pm; $16.50/ $14.50 before July 1; Woodland Pattern Book 2nd & 4th Wednesdays Center, 720 E Locust; 263-5001 : Poetry Slam ^.^'^•^•^•^• ^ Open mike & featured ads, then poetry slam; 8:30pm; $2; Y-Not II, 706 E Lyon; 347-9972

2nd & 4th Fridays Words & Musk Poetry & acoustic music; 8pm; free; Riverwest Mondays & Thursdays Art Center, 825 E Center; 374-4722 Alia Levina, Classical Piano 6-10pm; free June 2 John Sanford, Reading Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Sundays Noon; free; Audubon Court Books, 383 W Zoya Makhlina, Classical Piano Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 Tu & Wed 6-10pm, Su noon-4pm; Audubon Court Books, 383 W Brown Deer; 351 -9140 June 2 & July 7 First Thursdays Poetry Reading Fridays & Saturdays June 2 - Atfic Publication Book Release Party &Thomas Clipper!, Classical Guitar Sheila Spargur w/ The Crying Train Trio 7-9 pm; free; Oakland Cafe, 3549 N Oakland; July 7 - Sue Sifvermarie, Louise Loveridge-332-5440 Gallas, Karen Snider Each night concludes with open mike; 7pm; Fridays & Saturdays free; Audubon Court Books, 383 W Brown Jazz piano, guitar; F 7pm Sa 7:30pm; free; Deer; 351-9140 Audubon Court Books; 383 W Brown Deer; 351-9140 June 6-30 Schwartz Bookshops Writers to Readers SeriesFriday s & Saturdays June 6 - Patrkh Reilry Gift; 4pm 17145 W Jazz piano, guitar, folkmusic ; 7pm; free; Daily's; Bluemound; 6:30pm 10976 N Pt Washington 4001 N Oakland; 351 -9140 Rd June 9 - Dave Barry, 7pm; 10976 N Pt Saturdays Washington Rd Jerry Grillo Trio June 10 - Alton Say, 3pm; 4093 N Oakland Jazz cabaret artist; 8pm; free; Cafe Phyllis, 734 June 14 - Jane Hamilton; 7pm; 17145 W 5 5th; 647-2255 Bluemound June 15 - Jane Hamilton; 7pm; 10976 N Pt June 2-5 Washington Rd The Pops Go Classy June 16 - Robert Hellenga; 7pm; 4093 N Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Oakland Harvey Felder, conductor; Th 2pm F Sa 8pm Su June 21 - Melody Beattie; 7pm; 17145 W 7:30pm; $14-$47; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273- Bluemound 7206 June 22 - Mickey Mantle; noon; 209 E Wis­ consin June 5 June 23 - Diane Ackerman; 7pm; 4093 N Villa Terrace Serenade Oakland Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra June 28 - Mark Francis Heffron; 7pm; 4093 N 2:30pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2220 N Terrace Oakland Ave; 744-8866 June 29 - Susan Straight, 5:30pm; 209 E Wis­ consin June 5-Juh/ 31 June 30 - Richard Dooling; 209 E Wisconsin Live Sunday Music July 12 - Jill Nelson; 5:30; 209 E Wisconsin June 5 - Fuschia Boys July 20 - James Lee Burke; 7pm; 17145 W June 12- Bucket of Balls Bluemound June 19 - Ghostly Trio July 25 - JerroW Ladd; 5:30pm; 209 E Wis­ June 26, July 10 - Barn Doors consin July 17 - Fuschia Boys Free; 274-8680 July 24 - Box Turtles July 31 -Bucket of Balls June 9 6pm; free; Gasthaus Zur Krone, 839 S 2nd; Candke Nokes & Brenda Cardenas 647-1910 Singer & poet; preceded by open stage at 7:15pm; 8pm; free; People's Books, 3512 N June 8 Oakland; 962-0575 The Cantomte: 300 Years of Spirituality Through Musk June 11 Jewish musk with Milwaukee Chamber Or­ Lois Ehlert, Reading chestra, world-famous Cantors; 8pm; $15- 11am; free; Audubon Court Books, 383 W $75; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Brown Deer Rd; 351-9140 June 8 June 15 & July 20 Pro Arte Quartet w/ Lucas Foss Evening of American, British, Irish Short Stories7:30pm ; $12/$8; UW-Parkside: Communica­ Presented by actor Yaakov Sullivan; 8pm; free; tion Arts Theatre, Kenosha; 595-2564 Audubon Court Boob, 383 W Brown Deer Rd; 351-9140 June 9-Jufy 28 Jazz in the Park June 22 June 9 - Tribute to Stan Kenton Melody Beattie, Reading June 16 - Juli Wood Sextet 7pm; free; Audubon Court Books, 383 W June 23 - Kaye Berigan & Brass Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 June 30 - Streetiife with Warren Wiegratz July 7 - Ralph Hutchinson's BecJIe Street Jazz June 25 Band Anna Maxes, Reading July 21 - The Teachers: The Kettle Morraine 2pm; free; Audubon Court Books, 383 W High School Jazz Ensemble Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 July 28 • Jim Liban & Jazz Rhythm 6:30pm; free; Cathedral Square Park, Jefferson 6 Wells Sts; 271-1416 1%\:\, m OUT THERE

Sorry, parking won't be available in the lot adjacent to Gallery 218 in Walker's Point on July "30 and 31. It will be full — of art. The third annual ART PARK, sponsored by the Walker's Point Artists Association, will feature as many artists that can fill the S. 2nd Street lot, according . + • w - » e to Gallery 218's Judith Hooks. They'll be representing most areas of the state and Chicago, and their wares range from the peculiar to the practical, including banjos constructed from cookie tins and wood by Formerly Famous Moustache Mike, Maggie Joyce's jewelry crafted from recycled optical lenses, and hand-painted silk wearables and home accessories by Dana Peppin. There will also be what Hook calls "real fine art:* sculpture, block prints, and some SERVICES limited edition serigraphs by Eugene Zakrzewski. Fred and Ethel, TJ Richter, the Milwaukee Youth Theatre, Mud River Lee and others will be on hand for music and more; food and plenty of Sprecher root beer will tantalize hungry fair-goers. Inside Gallery 218, a silent auction runs through the weekend, conduding with a voice auction on Sunday, with proceeds benefiting Gallery 218 and ART PARK. White 0 T T E R Y Buffalo ff u v June 10 June 30-July 28 Season Finale & Party Outdoor Garden Concerts Intertribal Stare Present Music June 30 - Victoria Drake, Harpist Seek The Unique Premiere of new composition by Kamran Ince; July 7 - Boland/Dowdall Flute & Guitar Duo Come see our selection of 8pm; $12; Milwaukee Art Museum; 271 -0711 July 14 - £///e Quint, Soprano & Laura Ward, Native American jewelry, Pianist blankets, kachinas, tapes June 10-12 July 21 - Panagea, Caribbean Steel Drums 2711 N. Bremen Open: & CDs, cards, posters, Classics July 28 - louri Akinchine, Accordionist Milw, WI 53212 Tues-Fri 2-6 lances, and shields Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 6pm; free; bring picnic, lawn chairs; Boerner 374-POTS (7687) Saturday 11-5 Danielpour, Bruch, Mahler, Wagner; F 11 am Botanical Gardens, 5879 S 92nd; 425-1130 We Now Carry Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $13-$47; PAC: Uihlein Experience a Buffalo Meat! Hall; 273-7206 Juh/1 Sousa at the Pops MIDSUMMER'S DAYDREAM Tue.Thu, Sat 10-6 546-4428 June 11 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at Wed, Fri 10-8 Midsummer's Music Keith Brion, conductor; 8pm; $8-$35; PAC: ARTISTRY STUDIO GALLERY Mon: closed 7629 W. Becher Chamber orchestra; 1 & 7:30pm; $10; Door Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Featuring Sun: 12-5 2 blocks north of Lincoln County Library, Miller Art Center, Sturgeon Bay; 746-0707 July 2 Mark Winter — Schiz-O-Steel Sculpture Kathy Ludwig — Abstract Oil Landscape Paul Orgel, Piano INTERNATIONAL June 12 Green Lake Festival of Music Heather Eiden — Everyday Icons Sunday Serenades at the Domes 7:30pm; $4-$l 0; Ripon College, Demmer Hall, 1 pm; freew/Domesadmission;Mitchell Domes, Union St, Ripon; 748-9398 JUNE 11 1 pm - 5 pm 524 S Layton; 483-3223 Showing until July 31 '***••••• • •«'«' July 2-30 Tuesday - Friday 2-5 Saturday 11-5 June 15-Jury 5 Concerts in the Park K&*. 833 East Center Street 372-3372 «fi> bmm JCWCLET Summer Evenings of Jewish Musk July 2 - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pa- June 15 - Generations ofAarons-Dor YDor trhtic Pops, Washington Park Your Style • Our Beads June 21 - Mihwaukeeans Perform Classic July 9 - City Ballet Theater, Washington Park LINCOLN ART POTTERY June 28 - Jewish Vokes of Milwaukee July 12 - Polka Fest, 6:30pm; Humboldt Park ^ Selection, Service, ^ July 5 - Shlell Salutes Mihvaukeean Max Taglin July 16 - Berkeley Fudge & Friends, Washing­ Instruction 7:30pm; $8/$6; Jewish Community Center, ton Park 6255 N Santa Monica Blvd; 964-4444 July 19 - Danilo C Ferrari & Cudworth Ameri­ 2107 N. Prospect Ave. 224-0555 can Legion Band, Humboldt Park June 16-19 July 23 - Hansberry-Sands Theater, Musical Classks Tributes, Washington Park Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra July 26 - Cudworth American Legion Band, Dvorak, Beethoven; Th F Su 7:30pm Sa 8pm; Humboldt Park $13-$45; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 July 29 - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Humboldt Park June 18 July 30 - Monte Perkins & Festival City Orches­ The Souls of Black Folk tra, Washington Park Celebration of African-American poetry & music 8pm unless otherwise noted; free; Washington to benefit African American Children's The­ Park, Sherman Bfvd & Lloyd St; Humboldt Park, atre; 7:30pm; Broadway Theatre Center, 158 3200 S Howell Ave; 257-4501 N Broadway; 291 -7800 July 3 June 21 Firstar Fireworks Concert Community Concert Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Harvey Felder, conductor; free; Veterans Me­ Harvey Felder, conductor; 7:30pm; free; Silver morial Park; 291-7605 Spring Neighborhood Center, 5460 N 64th; 463-7950 July 6 Opera tor the Young: Orpheus Revisited June 21 Green Lake Festival of Music Manhattan Siring Quartet 7pm; $4-$10; Ripon College, Demmer Hall, Selections for winds, strings, piano; 8pm; $10/ Union St, Ripon; 748-9398 $8; Prairie Performing Arts Center, 4050 Light­ house Dr, Racine; 631-3845 July 9 The Ying Quartet June 24-26 Green Lake Festival of Music Pops 7:30pm; $4-$10; UW-Oshkosh, Music Hall, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 800 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh; 748-9398 Featuring dancer/vocalist Joel Grey; F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $14-$47; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273- July 13 7206 The Great Lakes Quartet Green Lake Festival of Music (Hl«fte37-*i353 June 25 7:30pm; $4-$l 0; 1 st Methodist Church, 325 E 3 I ''"" • 'Ml TT" David Burgess, Guitar Franklin St, Appleton; 748-9398 Green Lake Festival of Music A new kind of Evening of Spanish music; 7pm; $4-$10; July 17 PHOTOGRAPHY Wayland Academy Chapel, 101 N University The Kithara Trio w/ Linda Dayiantis-Straub DRAWING CLASS Ave, Beaver Dam; 748-9398 Green Lake Festival of Music Combining basic drawing with self 4pm; $4-$ 10; Ripon College, Demmer Hall, acceptance. KIDS ART CLASSES June 26 Union St, Ripon; 748-9398 Heather Williams, HWM, Instructor The Bushkova & Mushkatkol Piano & Violin Duo Call for free flyer: 481-8555 Green Lake Festival of Music July 19 Acclaimed Russian duo; 7pm; $4-$10; Green Music in the Museum - Nature in Musk Lake Conference Center, Pillsbury Hall, Green Jeffrey Hollander, pianist; 5:30pm; $12/$10; INTERIOR DESIGN Lake; 748-9398 Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200

June27-Julyl7 July 23 Summer Evenings of Music with The Green Lake Festival Choir, Orchestra, Fine Arts Quartet Children's Honors Chorus June 27 - Mozart, Glazunov, Debussy, with Green Lake Festival of Music Conducted by Sir David Willcocks of the Lon­ Daniel Laufer ^nUyUd^^?— July 3 - Beethoven, Schubert, Dohnayi, withdo n Bach Choir; 7:30pm; $5-$12; UW- Christian b/aldi Oshkosh, Music Hall, 800 Algoma Blvd, July 10 - Shostakovkh, Kodafy, Schubert, withOshkosh ; 748-9398 Mihaly Virizlay July 17 - Brahms, Mendelssohn, with VeronikaJul y 26 String Quartet Music in the Museum - Duke Ellington 8pm;$l 4(July 17$16); UWM Fine Arts Recital Jeffrey Hollander, pianist; 5:30pm; $12/$ 10; 961 S. PARK iK^:~/:irS Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4308 Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 MADISON. WI JbV^^ 608.251.5255 '''•'"S

34 Art Muscle . • ,. • OUT THERE • • * • •' r— He's been called ihe "Ali of Artists," and the boxing metaphor really is apropos for touring • • • • "artist Denny Dent. He actually "attacks" his 8 1/2 foot black with his fists, which are not > gloved, but clenched around as many as six paintbrushes per hand. Music pumps out of •• background speakers, and as Dent pummels the paint, the strokes suddenly shape into faces: ••* V:;:-^ • •J < A >•• Beethoven, Shakespeare, Bob Marley, Albert Einstein — the list goes on. A performance to Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady," for example, will produce a portrait of singer. If this sounds confusing, don't worry. As Dent, who will appear at the Lakefront Festival of Arts on June 18 and 19, claims, "You have to be there. I'm literally a performing artist, but I always tell people you have FOR SALE OPPORTUNITIES to see it." Dent has painted just about everywhere, from late-night talk shows to President Clinton's inauguration; his finished canvases eventually end up in private collections or galleries. One of the eight portraits he will create during his LFOA performances will be donated for sale to the highest-bidding festival-goer. Dent and his Two-Fisted Art Attack will appear on the festival's Main Stage at 2:30 and 4 pm on June 18 and noon and 2 pm on June Twin Pedestal Bed Art Museum Academic Curator 19. w/Drawers Instructional Program Manager 2 UWM Art Museum $150.00 July 28 June24-Jury31 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Summer in the Park Don 278-0773 Lenny & Aaron: Amerkan Twins Academic Staff with competitive salary plus benefits for a 12 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra UWM Northern Stage Company month contract Starting date September 1,1994. Welt Neil Gittleman leads performances & discus­ As You Like It qualified candidates willhold a Master's Degree in art history, sion of Bernstein & Copland; Pabst Theater, William Shakespeare museum studies or a similar area and will have three to five 144 E Wells; 291 -6010 8pm June 24-26, July 5,13,16,21,24,26,29 INSTANT SHELTER years experience in an equivalent position. Prefer candidate In rotation with CANOPY & ZIPPER SIDE with broad general knowledge of the range of art history, with preference to those candidates with demonstrated interest in Tfie Lion in Winter PANELS. 1 YR, contemporary issues, including pluralistic and multicultural or James Goldman EXCELLENT CONDITION international perspectives. 8pm June 30, July 1,2,6,12,15,20,23,28,31 In rotation with 461-2566 Under a court approved settlement agreement and Wisconsin The Imaginary Invalid statutes, we are required to provide a list of all nominees and applicants who have not requested in writing that their identity June 18 & 19 Moliere not be revealed. Upon request, persons agreeing to be final Denny Dent & His Two-Fisted Art Attack 8pm July 7-10,14,17,19,27,30 Instructional and informational Art Videos, candidates will have their identity revealed as a final candidate. Artist rapidly paints portraits with both hands, $17.50/$ 14.50; Lake Park, 3233 E Kenwood; To apply for the position send a cover letter with a vita and accompanied by music; Sa 2:30 & 4pm; Su 229-4308 tree details. Send stamped envelope to: three references to: Program Manager Search Committee; noon & 2pm; free w/ festival admission; Mil­ UWM Art Museum; P0 Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. A/D June 17,1994. AA,E0E,WMA. waukee Art Museum Lakefront Festival of Arts; July 7-16 Dept. A, P.O. Box 18692 482-1000 Eleemosynary Milwaukee, WI 53218-0692 Lee Blessing Comedy of three generations of brilliant RESTAURANTS Westbrook women; 8pm; $8.50/$7.50; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York WANTED Ave, Sheboygan; 458-6144 Emperor of China Wednesdays & Thursdays July 14-17 NEED CASH? Dead Alewives Tifie Little Prince We buy Motorcycle Jackets, Alternative, uncensored impov comedy with Adapted by Shawn M Guylas Levi Jeans, Bell-Bottoms, etc. live music; W 8pm Th 10pm; Comedysportz, Windfall Theatre 126 N Jefferson; 272-8888 The Little Prince searches for answers to "mat­ SWEET DOOMED ANGEL ters of consequence;" Th F 8pm Sa 2 & 8pm Su 277-0829—By Appointment 1010 E. Brady Street 271-8889 Now-June 5 5pm; $7; Village Church, 130 E Juneau; 332- Best Chinese / 2 years in a row Open 12-6pm every day —1992 Shepherd Express 12th Annual Shaw Festival 3963 Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Caesar & Cleopatra July 15-Augusr 13 RENTAL I PARTY TIME! J Bernard Shaw The Pirates of Penzance June 3 8pm; June 4 4 & 8pm Gilbert & Sullivan A Visit our newly remodeled -Jr In rotation with Charley's Aunt Sunset Playhouse Brandon Thomas Th F 8pm Sa 6 & 9pm Su 7pm (July 24, Aug 7 X* Emperor's VIP room with a *£' PRIVATE MINI STUDIO June 1 & 2 7:30pm; June 52 & 7pm 2pm); $10; 800 Elm Grove Road; 782-4430 *,• new mural painted by local ,?. $10-$24; Broadway Theatre Center, Main amont Stage, 158 N Broadway; 276-8842 July 22-August 6 *& artist Peter Dombrowski. 7/ 100 ^ The Musk Man •J? (seating up to 25 for all party occasions) % Now-June 5 Meredith Wilson Evelyn & the Polka King Waukesha Civic Theatre Chalet at tkt %iver o —custom menu available— Q. John Olive Th 7:30pm; F Sa 8:15pm Su 7:30pm (July 31 823 N. 2nd Next Act Theatre 2pm); $9; 506 N Washington; 547-0708 Artists, hobbiest, art crafters-use Polka king meets 18 year-old runaway daugh­ your quiet retreat whenever you ter; Th F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm Su 2 & 6pm; $17/ wish. 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As a child, he had a stammer and was told Rarely have I seen an exhibition that is as well put together as Reclamation and Transforma­ he was "fat, slow and dumb." He later worked as a part- tion: Three Self-Taught Chicago Artists at the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago. Run­ time driver, janitor and mechanic for a cab company. ning through July 31, it is an absolute must-see. Carved, wooden canes, had always interested him, however. The installation, in the rather difficult, divided spaces of the In the catalog, he recounts the story of his own first Terra, literally sparkles. David carving. "I was visiting a friend in another part of the Philpot's sculptural staffs hang in projects, about four blocks from where we lived. And one room. A huge altar/installa­ as I left his place and walked outside, I heard someone tion of painted and assembled say 'David!' "Over here!" And I looked and I saw no bottles by Kevin Orth occupies one, so I started to go on. Then I heard it again. "David. much of another and then there's Over here." Well, as I turned to focus on where this Mr. Imagination's work, a pleth­ voice was coming from, I saw a group of trees growing ora of it, ingeniously crafted, in up around this entrance to the projects. And I walked groupings that accent the incred­ up to it and began to look at the growth that was in it, ible work ethic of the artist. After and right there in the center was this beautifully shaped taking in the show, the viewer trunk." He said an urgent feeling haunted him, until he can sit in another mini-installa­ was compelled one morning at 2 or 3 a.m. to go over tion that houses the video pro­ there with a saw and cut down the tree. Security guards gram and hear each of the artists chased him through the streets as he clung to the talk about their lives and work severed trunk. It took him a year to carve that first and see the personal environ­ piece. ments that generate and fuel the creations. The video is one of the The tree was an ailanthus altissima, a tree that grows best productions of its kind that I like a weed in urban vistas. It's what he still uses, have seen. The catalog also re­ finding it in abandoned lots near his home. The show flects the overall care that went offers more than 10 years worth of work by Philpot and into the show. Most often, cata­ each of his staffs has a distinct identity. Some are simply logs are filled with barely digest­ the pure wood, carved into intricate patterns, sanded ible attempts at contextualization and finished to a glowing sheen. Others are embel­ that seem to serve the curators lished with gems, mirrors, beads and bright colors. David Philpot more than the artists represented. The essays in this catalog by guest curator Tom Patterson (a folk-art scholar from Winston-Salem, NC) are so well-written Kevin Orth's story is a little different, mainly and carefully edited that they contribute an important, supportive element to because he's a 32 year old white guy with a the show — just what a catalog is supposed to do, but seldom does. college education in English. Still considered self-trained as an artist, Orth only began In his brief introductory essay, making art after several years of soul search­ Patterson puts a gentle contex­ ing and personal crisis. Most dramatic, in this tual spin on the show. First, he exhibition is his "Bottle Shrine from King labels the creative process all Orthy's Cathedral of Dreams." Filling almost three artists employ as "ad- an entire room, on multiple tiers are hun­ hocism," whereby "junked and dreds of painted and transformed bottles, industrially produced items are some made into small figures with sculpted, somehow reworked to produce clay heads and others painted, beaded and new items performing altered embellished. The installation is breath-taking functions." (Each of the artists in in its exuberance—reflecting a wide-eyed, IN the show are self-taught and live creative wonderment and reverberating with in inner-city Chicago neighbor­ the sheer joy of making beautiful things out of hoods where they mine the cast-off trash. streets for raw materials.) Then, most importantly, Patterson Mr. Imagination may be the most familiar throws out the often used "out­ artist in the show, since his work is carried by sider" label. He states "The term Carl Hammer Gallery and has received a fair 'outsider'.. .springs from a deeply amount of attention in recent years. But just ingrained cultural chauvinism when you think you know what Mr. that would isolate 'refined' art by Imagination's work is all about, he changes those schooled in the academies his focus and technique enough to stun the Kevin Orth from the artistic contributions of complacent viewer. Mr. Imagination lives up anyone else—especially anyone who is poor, non-white, elderly, or to his name. His story, recounted in the cata­ diagnosed as mentally ill." In other words, Patterson doesn't differen­ log, traces Warmack's (his real name) artistic tiate between 'mainstream' art and 'outsider' art. He doesn't put these development from his youth when he would artists in the museum with the usual unspoken disclaimer that they offer daily art workshops in an abandoned lot are "different," "special," or a pe­ for children in the neighborhood. Warmack culiar, exotic, sub-species under always made things. Yet, it was in the years bright-light examination. The after a nearly fatal shooting (he was shot twice in the problem with the way this type stomach during a mugging and lay in a coma in the of work is usually presented is hospital for a month and a half) that his identity as Mr. that the "outsider" or "folk art" la­ Imagination coalesced. He began carving industrial bels discretely prod the viewer sandstone that the city would dump in a field near his to look at the work differently home. The show includes the sandstone sculptures, than "real" art by "schooled" art­ bottle cap pieces, paintbrush and broom people, large ists. And the ultimate paradox is multi-headed totems made from wood putty and mixed that it really isn't any different. media, chairs, framed busts, fish and canes. The premise that art needs to be made by people with college de­ All of the art in the show reflects the direct connection grees is so ridiculous it's hardly between the human soul and the desire to make things. worth comment. Perhaps the This work offers the hopeful message that despite most adroit reflection on the mat­ personal adversity in both a physically and spiritually ter of labeling comes from one of crumbling world, there still exists those mysterious the artists, David Philpot, who guiding urges, the sublime signposts that mark the says, "What could you have done way. Self-expression has always possessed a healing for me on the inside that would component. And in no time in our history have we ever have made me more creative?" needed it more.

Indeed, Philpot's lovingly crafted Mr. Imagination staffs belong among the refined 37 WELDER If you look closely enough, you can find the most wonder­ ful oddities in Wisconsin. Pink plastic flamingos set next to square houses in a climate that may dip to minus 23 degrees, concrete deer in wooded yards (do they scare the real deer away?) and everywhere, people working to create their private fantasies. Last week a pair of six-foot high steel dinosaurs with twisting necks and big rusty teeth were installed in a River Hills yard with the intention of unnerving the neighbors. They were built by Gary Kandziora, a Wisconsin self-taught artist who works in isolation, without audience or support

During a break in our spring rains, I drove to Racine to talk with Kandziora. I found him in his wet gravel driveway with an arc welder in one hand, and a cutting torch in the other, assembling a pile of rejected wrenches into the claws of a five-foothig h dinosaur. There was an obvious joy in his eyes at the prospect of sharing his work with an outsider. Hoses and cable trailed behind him and into a small garage/studio that was packed floor to ceiling with sorted piles of industrial scrap metal, castings, tools, experimental pieces and works in progress. A small propane heater provides some heat during the winter. With two dogs barking and wagging nearby, Gary took off his welding gloves and shook my hand.

I had seen some of Kandziora's work the previous week at Valerie's Gallery on South Second Street where two lively metal dinosaurs, an African warrior and a crab were installed on the sidewalk. Inside Valerie's (a shop with unusual oddi­ ties), was a gargoyle and a larger than life-sized skeleton.

Anatomically correct, down to the last metatarsal, these welded steel creatures, were both brilliant and inventive. Though made of found objects (what they were before being transformed was a mystery to me) each part made elegant sense. It was also obvious that the artist was a very good welder.

There's irony in all of this. As spring graduation brings parades of students fresh out of art school, armed with shiny portfolios and knocking on gallery doors—two Milwaukee galleries have already shown interest in Kandziora's work. Initially, he picked Valerie's Art and Antiques out of the Yel­ low pages and simply showed up with a couple of pieces tied onto a trailer. Many pieces he's brought in have been zapped up for substantial prices.

But why dinosaurs? Leaning against his workbench, his an­ swer was unexpected. Yes, he'd seen that Spielberg kid's movie, but he believes the current interest in dinosaurs, monsters, and things primitive and archaic is a metaphor for our potential extinction. For this artist, gigantic industrial stuff with its relentless consumption, could really be "eating us alive."

By trade, Kandziora is a skilled welder who makes big indus­ trial "stuff." For sixteen years he's worked at Harnischfeger in an air-filtered and cooled Darth Vader helmet, welding teeth on giant gears for mining shovels destined for Austra­ lia. Constantly uncertain about his job, (it hinges on obscure mining and environmental bills floating through Congress), both he and his wife, Sandy, have known tough times. However, Kandziora is determined to be self-sustaining, and spends time trying to figure out what art is, and what artists do. A neat pile of drawings plan out his work and serve as memory tools. He spends all the time he can poking around in steel scrap yards, searching for the right hunk of metal to begin the torso of each new piece. He knows which scrap dealer carries what, and how to haggle over prices.

A sturdy descendant of the German/Polish working class, he left Pulaski high school in the eleventh grade to learn a trade. Eventually he joined the Navy and learned welding while seeing the world from the rusty hull of a WWII repair ship. He ended up later in Milwaukee studying archeology, but now his digs are carried out in scrap yards, searching for machine parts and casting rejects which will become the vertebrae, scapulas, and femurs of his sculptures. Hard times and a lengthy recovery from shoulder surgery got him seriously focused on his current work.

Kandziora talks of his dream—a place outside of Racine's city limits, with a concrete slab to work on, a fire-proof garage, and enough acreage to display his creatures, so people could discover them while walking through the woods.

As I left his house, I once again asked myself, "What is art?" Perhaps in investigating the outer edges we can discover something about the range of our culture's creative impulse. Kandziora, as a self-trained artist, reflects that inherently honest drive to create.

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