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Subscription rates in continental U.S.:$15 one year; elsewhere, $28 one year; back issues: $3.00. COUNTY PARKS foodfest. The couple chose to exit rather than give up their candy, leaving the audience to revel in the balance of the program. While Art Muscle could rave on forever about the principal dancers and the talented Corps, it was Bobby Ball who blew them over with his glorious rendition of "Who Cares," a Balanchine mas­ terpiece based on Gershwin's marvelous music. As he elegantly \J swept his Gene Kelly way through it all, in front of a sensational deco-inspired set by Scenic designer Steven Rubin (who also de­ signed the draped and sparkling costumes), he seemed the stuff of stardom. Suddenly I felt sorry for the candy kids who huffed out early. They missed the electric energy of smiling dance sensation Matt Bruno, and the fascinatin' rhythms of Susan Clark and Anne Finch. Please note here, that if new dancer, Kuan Lin-Fan continues his development, he's headed for solo status. The good news for next season is: Milwaukee's Ed Burgess will choreograph The Firebird. And please! leave your goodies at home for soap opera time..

If you are in search of a post-dance drink after the Sunday matinees, bustle over to Cafe Melange for a snort and the taping of Hotel Milwaukee, a show which is getting better and better.

The bane falls mainly on the pane They'll Come From Chicago To See It, by Jimmy von Milwaukee. It has occured to some that the glorious futuristic engineering Bowling with Jimmy Von wonder which will be added to the Milwaukee Art Museum's east side, should include high-tech "seagull deflectors," thus At the April gallery night opening of JV Milwaukee's show eliminating the at Galleria Del Come, the artist himself showed up with a mountains of new look—a shorn pate and cheeks abristle with a wiry droppings that reddish brown beard, though it was unclear if he was periodically pelt disguised as Leo Feldman. Attorney A. Eisenberg was in the windows of the crowd, (looking like himself), along with low fat Dick that particular Bacon, and a blonder-than-ever writer Kathleen Lutkus, all entry. With all gathered to view paintings on bowling balls, portraits on that glass, burlap, and a generous and splendid Sinking of the concrete, and Edmund Fitzgerald, Milwaukee's claim to water-fame. steel, indeed <±> Included in the stellar event was JVM's contribution the design does (painted on newspaper) on how O'Donnell park can best resemble a bird be linked to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Artists Paul taking flight, Bailey and Fred Creasby from Community Art Centers (a but will the real birds use the stunning addition as a non-profit agency that offers programs for persons with respository for the remnants of their last meal? So far disabilities) also created paintings for the show. Ubaldo the media mavens haven't mentioned that this (and and Helen Gaudiosi, who fierce lakeshore winds) could be a problem. The bold opened the space in 1991, and beautiful addition is from the brain of Spanish will donate any commissions architect Santiago Calatrava, who will work with David on sales of Bailey and Kahler of Kahler Slater Architects. That Mr. Kahler is Greasby's pieces to the involved in the project is indeed soothing, and lessens Centers. the "bird anxiety" a bit. He took the time to drop us a reassuring note with the following comment: "Bird-doo, Rocky Mountain low along with the wind are problems which must be ad­ dressed. These issues have been, and will be, discussed Colorado teacher Al Wilder is at great length as the project moves through the design facing termination hearings development phase." because he dared to stand up for freedom by airing the Mississippi mistake Bertolucci film 1900 to a senior class in Logic and One gloomy, sunny day in Clarksdale, Mississippi a Debate. Controversial! young girl named Mary White was waking up. She got screeched school officials. up, washed her face, brushed her teeth and brushed her His union contract, however, long, reddish hair. Her mother's cat was in the living Rush Limbaugh, Great American Series assures him the right to use room laying in an old basket on the floor. When he saw materials he feels are appro­ her coming he purred a mean purr. "Did you purr a mean THIS JUST IN FROM YAMADA FINE priate. Enter: Martin purr at me?" she asked the cat. He purred like this: ART NEWSLETTER... Scorsese, Tony Kushner, and "PURRRR!" Art Spiegelman, who, with Takeshi-fried comments other film directors, writers, She went in the kitchen and cut the oven on to 350 Just three weeks after joining the Chi­ artists, and critics, are degrees, went and picked the cat up upside-down and cago Artist Coalition (CAC), artist urging the Governor to threw in the cat. Just threw it in. "Purr, Purr that! You old Takeshi Yamada left the organization. intercede. Here's their sack of fur!" Twenty minutes later Mother Sylvester According to Yamada, "I thought that scenario: "If all disturbing walked in. Mary sat as still as the Statue of Liberty. She it was an art organization. I was dead and controversial materials smelled something burning and ran straight to the oven. wrong! CAC is a left wing socialist or­ are removed from educa­ She opened it up and there lay the cat burned as crisp as ganization that worships and promotes tional curricula, students extra crispy chicken. Mary got a whippin' with five the Democratic party's political agenda will be left uninformed switches tied by a string. by hiding behind the name of 'art'. about the majority of human These left wing wackos are shame­ history and culture". Is this Moral: Don't put cats in the oven when you know your lessly taking money from innocent art­ reasonable, logical? mama's comin' home from work. ists and spreading lies and begging for government hand-out! To Chew or not to chew — Shikina Bay, from Life's Fables or Don't Leave Cats In The Oven When You Know Your Mama's Coming Home About CAC's monthly newsletter, Despite the couple who From Work. Intermediate West Students, Starms Discov­ Yamada declared, "If you publish this crackled cellophane as they ery Learning Center, Milwaukee, 1996. kind of fanatic left wing papers in Ja­ relentlessly unwrapped pan, you are without a doubt labeled a caramel after caramel at the socialist if not a communist and treated Milwaukee Ballet's recent as an outcast from society. Folks, matinee of A Garden of watch out for this kind of dishonest and Gershwin, the event was a fanatic political organization! Don't be success—thanks to a brave taken in by this deceptive organization: silver-haired matron who Chicago Artist Coalition! stood and asked them to cease and desist their 4 Art Muscle about It's common knowledge that our sense of smell is one of the most primitive. It most closely connects to our emo­ tions, and even memories are trig- COWN expression gered more easily by smells than by any other sensation. PISTON I've begun this article a half a dozen times. Yet when cal, and wrong notes offend me more than People smell a perfume I begin to hold up the word "expression", it slips usual. Musically, I am drained. like the one their mom through my fingers to the floor where is seems wore, and it washes them nearly invisible. I fear that too much stretching or As my role of nurse gradually recedes, my with childhood, be it good UQIJ2D poking (my analysis), will tear it. vitality increases. Still, I am not ready to or bad. They are finding that much of our attraction or aversion write about expression. But I do begin towards others is based on unconsciously perceived scents, to If I write about expression from a political viewpoint, practicing with some attention to detail- say nothing of the obvious effect of those odors we can't ignore. my words sound tired, echoes of the hundreds of just in time for the final preparation for Holy I noticed an article in the business section of the paper the other editorials I've read earlier. Writing about the Week and Easter, services which re-enact day about the popularity of scent boutiques and such, so I necessary balance between technical expertise and the same drama for the two thousandth thought I wouldn't sound like a complete lunatic when I wrote passionate outpouring, only puts me on trickier time, and require music played with this piece about my, uh, obsession. ground. I begin to see the need for both balance passion. I give myself over to the task. and imbalance. I can still conjure the smell of one of the first meaty books I read Following Easter I try to practice and give —The Hound of the Baskervilles. It had been doused with a Suddenly all my efforts are put on hold when my up after an hour. Instead I clean out choir lavenderish perfume and that made the experience complete. husband is scheduled for surgery. At 12:30 in the folders and eat an apple. What I really want An emotionally entrancing book laced with an exotic perfume. afternoon, I deliver a relatively robust man to the to do is have a drink, but it's too early in the I was on the road to a life of noticing and giving meaning to the hospital, and at 5:30 on the same day, I take him day, so I stop and buy some smokes, a rare aromas I encountered. Ironically, I'm allergic to almost every home— a queasy, pale man who can barely get out treat for this would be tobacco addict. I plant on the planet so my nose is perenially stuffed, but that of the car. For the next 72 hours, he needs help walk along watching the flow of the hasn't hampered my enjoyment of olfaction: the shoe repair, Milwaukee River. I the yeast smell on the freeway near Red Star Yeast, the hops smoke and enjoy the smell near the breweries, the scent of bakeries, BBQ's, a baby's sounds of buses and hair, freshly sawn wood, and the ozone smell before a thunder­ children and construc­ storm. Even some that aren't universally considered pleasant have tion. special places on my list: the smell of gasoline, the smell of the ink the old ditto machines used, the smell of the pads of a dog's As I gaze at the water, paw, horse manure, and even my own child's (and no others') I see where expression shit. There's a wonderfully disturbing novel which speaks to those comes from. It's a dark of us who findssmell s so compelling—Perfume by Peter Suskind. place within me that is Adapted by John Kishline and performed recently by Debra nurtured by watching Clifton of Theatre X, it is the story of an 18th century French and wondering; by freak who develops a technique for creating essences of every­ being alone and not thing, including humans. He is, as it turns out, what I need. rising from bed and negotiating stairs. My ear "trying" to express. And I think to myself, in becomes somewhat "patient" from listening to his light of the hectic prior events, that some­ You see, this love of smells was all well and good and could not steady stream of complaints about his condition. times it also comes from tremendous be misconstrued as aberrant behavior—but then all that changed The extra work and emotional strain, exhaust and exertion. when colognes entered my life. They held more than pleasure rattle me. or displeasure—they took on the association of the person who -Karen Beaumont wore them. I can remember Jade East on the first guy I thought It takes all my gumption to drag myself into church Ms. Beaumont is a local musician and regular was cool. He was the Don Juan of my older sister's class, and he each day to practice. Everything becomes mechani­ contributor to Reflexus. went with the foxiest girl. I wanted to be him, and smelling like him was only a Walgreen's away. It took about 6 years for the delayed reaction to kick in, but when it did, the poor girl who happened to be my necking partner at the time, got a snout full. P I went through a latency period when my hippie-influenced at­ titude decided colognes were unnatural, but that didn't last and PERSPEX I revived my lost love in spades.

I wonder how many people have noticed Richard Artschwager's Blips (1968) at the Only to be followed by yet another latency period caused by the Milwaukee Art Museum. It took a museum employee to draw my attention to them. I punk-influenced "colognes-are-decadent" attitude. Having sur­ could only wonder how many times I passed right by one of them without seeing it. vived that, I am happy to report my preoccupation is in, well, full bloom. The Blips are purposefully insignificant: small, thin, flat oblongs of matte-black painted; wood. They are placed according to the whims of the museum technicians, cleverly At some point during this most recent resurgence, I realized that hidden in plain sight among the museum's busy and imposing inner architecture. I I'd noticed a certain smell on some men, always older ones, that have personally only seen three, and I must now work to avoid making every museum I really liked. Actually it was more than liking, it was as close to visit a hunt for the rest of them. loving as is humanly possible. This smell would literally stop me in my tracks and fill me with a sense of awe or at least admira­ tion that I somehow never thought of (and still don't) as hav­ So, what is an art that is merely an interruption in our field of vision, an annoying itch ing come from a bottle. I am convinced that I will go to my in the corner of the eye, a corneal glitch? A bump on the smooth surface of percep­ grave wondering, "what is this wonderful smell?" On one occa­ tion—a reminder that art is not meant merely to be looked at, but to be felt at sion I asked a perfect stranger what cologne he was wearing. He sensory levels beyond immediate com- prehension. The Blips do not an- replied that at his age one had to wear something to hide the nounce what they are, but instead illu- mine what they aren't. This art admits actual smell, but then disclosed the name of the cologne he was the existence of the environment that surrounds it, indeed thriving on the wearing. I immediately purchased it. It didn't work. The other world's busy clutter. man I remember smelling that "certain way" died a while back and I can't bring myself to call his wife and ask her about the In the space of an art museum the Blips ^^r play a clever game: appearing like scent. fixtures themselves, they call attention to the fixtures of the museum. The elevator buttons, doorknobs, desks, and especially those curious corner humidity-readers all One encouraging development has occured and that is that my become like sculptural objects. They, too, are in the art museum, why shouldn't they own dresser where I keep my colognes (I keep only two out, be art, too? Which brings us to that nagging area of distinctions as to what is or isn't though I continue to haunt cologne counters, even journeying art. Formally Artschwager seems to suggest that art can be whatever one notices as art. to Chicago just to try Dunhill, Jerry Lewis' favorite) has taken on So do we need artists if we can all go around enjoying elevator buttons as art? the remotest hint of the mystery aroma. Maybe it is just my desperate need to find the scent, or maybe it is the scent of all Which brings me to the question of the artist's place in society. Indeed, I've come to men as they age, combined with the essence of all colognes— feel the artist's place may be no place. Art and its makers exist in a slightly detached the eau de cologne de cologne as it were. Who knows? I guess state, necessarily distanced in order to maintain a broader view of things. Or they are there are mysteries that are meant to stay that way. so immersed and focused as to appear alien and perhaps unwelcome. Or, and more commonly, they are like everyone else, in the world, voting, taking care of their kids, Some things are too exquisite to be bought. their homes, their ideals. You see them without knowing it, without noticing anything more than a curious blip on your radar screen... — Bobby Friedman

— Nicholas Frank Mr. Friedman is a local musician and owner of Sound-Sound Studios. G

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/ttr «//, */ on* *r ifo wmf in any Apart of the art food chain, why not start at the beginning—make agreatprod­ uct that becomes someone's best friend, and let the market take care of the rest? something The other day French composer Erik Satie briefly entered my life. In the long spaces between his notes, my doubt and irrita­ tion vanished. I knew exactly what I should That means for every dollar spent on all the be doing. Nothing more or less than lis­ artists in the state—the composers, film­ tening. makers, playwrights, choreographers, paint­ ers, performance artists, sculptors, photog­ raphers, poets and novelists—$2.31 goes This is when it seems so clear what art is. to the people who give out the money, and It is simply a direct way to locate oneself $9.13 to the organizations that sell or in the world, to understand what it is to present the art. be someone other than yourself, to be slightly less lonely. This is when my other­ continent, art made here reflects our specific To put it more graphically, we invest as wise muddled life makes sense. Wisconsin cultural milieu. much money in all our artists (perhaps the next Satie) as we pay four violinists at the Everyone has their own Erik Satie. But As Manet did for his hometown of Paris, or as Milwaukee Symphony, or the top adminis­ when we talk about art funding, we forget Faulkner did for the American South, local art­ trators of three major arts groups. why we love art—that it is essentially an ists tell our story. And Wisconsin's most valued intimate conversation between two people. achievements in the arts-the art that travels to Why not give more money to the the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to Now cut to the culture wars—Jesse Helms cultural centers in Europe, South American and waving Mapplethorpe and Serrano photo­ Erik Saties of our state? After Asia-are made by individuals. graphs in the air, the huffing and puffing all, if one is to invest in any on talk radio. The "controversies" are so When I asked Dean Amhaus why so little art cranked up, so suffused with a phony po­ part of the art food chain, why money goes to artists, he said, "The squeaky litical opportunism, they seem to drown wheel gets the grease". That is, art funds go to the notion that we have intimate experi­ not start at the beginning-make the best and most professional complainers. It ences. a great product that becomes is just too easy to ignore individual artists. Bu­ reaucracies are much more comfortable talking So the arts community, a desperate lot, someone's best friend, and let with other bureaucracies. It is just too easy to start talking about the arts' relationship to the market take care of the rest? overlook the fact that none of our art service economic development, its multiplier ef­ agencies create the art we love, which is the rea­ fects. There are even art education profes­ son we have symphony orchestras and art mu­ sors who argue that art is good because it An art community is really no different seums in the firstplace . helps kids concentrate better in math class. from an economic community of produc­ ers, marketers and consumers. Originating Spending art money on artists is not a radical But this message, that art is good for soci­ artists (the art-funding term for authors) idea. It should be part of our desire for self- ety in some explicit material way, is as make the products that eventually find their knowledge instead of self-loathing. Patronage phony as the posturing of anti-art politi­ way to local and international cultural mar­ of artists is just what civilizations do to inhabit cians. What is never talked about is how kets. Institutions package and then retail the world. we spend what money we have for the arts. art to the public. Art says "We are here." Consider the Wisconsin Arts Board bud­ One would think that such petty public get. According to executive director Dean vices as narcissism and boosterism would —TOM BAMBERGER Amhaus, this year's budget of $3.4 mil­ be enough to get artists a little more lion apportions 8% for individidual arts, money. Unlike a Milwaukee Symphony Bamberger is an 'originating artist' who 73% for arts groups, and 19% for arts board performance of Mozart that imports cul­ recently received a Wisconsin Arts Board administration. ture from another century and another Fellowship. 11 with the

force of MSO musicians, board members, and administrative staff, who are work­ ing to extend the number of weeks in the contract by adding a summer season simi­ lar to other orchestras of comparable size and economic status. At this point things are only in the planning stages, but there is hope.

As an educator, (he teaches both at Carroll College and out of his home), Metzger In talking with Richard Metzger, a long finds the current economic climate rather time MSO member, I realized the 1904 disheartening. "A recent audition within utterances of Theodore Thomas may be MSO," he says, "attracted 96 qualified closer to the truth than we care to admit. musicans for a one-year temporary posi­ tion—an example of the dearth of oppor­ Metzger was hired in 1960, while still a tunities for musicians already in the mar­ student at the University of Wisconsin- ket." Milwaukee working for a B.S. in Music Education. One of 16 full-time musicians For the first 15 years of his symphony ten­ employed by the orchestra at the time, he ure, the greater part of Metzger's income says the remaining positions were filled was from teaching. Which is not unusual. by "jobbers" (frequently teachers). Mem­ Most musicians teach and also perform bers of other orchestras rounded out the with or lead ensembles. Luck has been on roster. The 16 week season brought in his side, he says. "I was able to learn on $85.00 per week for full-time musicians, the job—a luxury." But in these years, he rehearsals were at night, and in addition and his wife sat down with the MSO con­ to subscription concerts (Pops and Classi­ tract before them and asked themselves, cal), the musicians were expected to form "Do we do it again?" Their answer was small ensembles and perform in a variety always affirmative. "I was born in Milwau­ of schools during the day. Outreach and kee and raised in West Bend," Metzger education programs were considered part says," and we didn't want to uproot our of the effort; indeed, they were viewed as four kids from school." He notes that at community responsibilities. one time, he was a finalist for a position with the Chicago Symphony, he also re­ And, the MSO was not particularly presti­ marks that most of his private students gious. It suffered from competition with are from Chicago. Still, he feels MSO is other regional symphonies—primarily, the "family". He's commited to them and the Waukesha Symphony, which ironically city of Milwaukee. His wife Karen and imported principal players for each sec­ daughter Vicki sing with the MSO Cho­ tion from Chicago. There were growing rus. He has a good working relationship pains as more full-timers were hired and with other members of the trumpet sec­ the season expanded. Quality control be­ tion, splitting responsibilities with co- came a prime issue leading to the replace­ principal Dennis Najoom who does the ment of many original Pops members, Pops runs, thus leaving the Classics to however, some of those members left seek­ Metzger who admires the German Roman­ ing work with other ensembles because it tics. was an easier pay­ The Metzger family. Photograph by Linda Kimpel check. If the city of Milwaukee In this Milwau­ pushed its resident symphony kee Sesquicen- The relationship orchestra the way it promotes tennial year, it is between time and easy to look at its Brewers, a lot more Chica- Milwaukee needs much before it can claim standing asearnin a g a living the MSO's brief are a continuing goans would be aware of history and grow musical center. She boasts a large number of singing problem for most what a fine ensemble the complacent. For societies...but there is no art. From what I know and have professional musi­ Milwaukee Symphony has in a relatively heard from others, Milwaukee fails to support artists who short span, they cians. At its most become... expansive, the have become a come here. She has no orchestra, she has no art. from The Chicago Tribune MSO performed nationally re­ October, 1990 — Theodore Thomas Founder, The Chicago Symphony,5 19040 week s per year spected sym­ (this included a phony. They've summer season); currently that has been toured Europe and Japan to rave reviews. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO), as we know it, reduced to 42 weeks a year for 90 full-time They attract international talent, have a has been in existence since I960, but the first incarnation of musicians. Reducing the number of weeks significant body of recordings, and a solid the group took place in December of 1890 and lasted less hasn't eased the burden—the number of coming season. than a season. Such was the fate of practically every sym­ concerts is essentially the same. The typi­ phony and philharmonic organization in Milwaukee between cal season includes: 18 Classic subscrip­ Richard Metzger has seen it all from within 1890-1955, when three different ensembles assumed the name tion concerts (averaging three perfor­ the MSO. This gives him credibility when "Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra". None were able to sus­ mances each); 10 Pops concerts (each with he expresses concern that his "family" not tain the continued interest and/or financial support of this Friday- Sunday performances), numerous be taken for granted, and that there must community. youth concerts, and schedulings through­ be community participation in order to out Wisconsin. survive. Beginning in 1891, The Chicago Symphony (CSO) performed ten concerts a year at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, all Metzger believes it is extremely difficult "We cannot afford to rest on our laurels," underwritten by the Milwaukee Orchestra Association. It was for an organization to attract top-quality he says. the general consensus that CSO concerts attracted Milwaukee's musicians to a market that is unable to affluent citizens, and funds were not available, nor was any­ promise a season comparable to other or­ Is it a coincidence that on June 7-9, the one apparently interested in sustaining a local symphony that chestras. It is also difficult, he says, to build MSO Pops will feature an "All In The Fam­ would directly compete with the CSO. John Annello changed a cohesive ensemble if the personnel is ily" concert? this in 1959 when he formed the Milwaukee Pops Orchestra, constantly seeking better situations. and then transformed it into the MSO, a full fledged sym­ Writer Pearce is an artist and a member of phony with both Pops and Classical repertoire. The problems are being addressed by a task the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. 12 Art Muscle What is the "X Factor" In the Formula that deFlnes Timothy X. Troy? three years and directed shows For Lawrence University's Theatre Department. As For teaching, he says, "I Felt I was too young. I loved the classroom, but I "I direct Fundamentally...! enjoy the preparation, the rehearsals, the meeting with needed more oF an artistic challenge." Consequently, he directed in a diversity designers. I enjoy the challenge oF channeling the company's energy toward one oF places—Milwaukee, Appleton, Waukegan, Chicago, and Madison. Along the goal For each show and the Fact that each is a window to a diFFerent world. Through way he served an internship with the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. preparing for performance, I get to live in that world. As a director, you live and create the world the actors inhabit...! am suited to be a director." But working in the Midwest (speciFically Milwaukee) proved to be "work to — Timothy X. Troy get work."

The search For "X" starts with an introduction to, and conversation with, Troy grew up watching theatre in Milwaukee and says he likes it here. He this charismatic director oF theatre and opera who I soon discover is concedes that the problems associated with proFessional directing in also a teacher, playwright, actor, and (occasional) bartender. His opin­ this area are similar to proFessional directing anywhere in the United ions are intelligent and passionate—perhaps they explain the X Fac­ States. "Theatres are run by artistic directors who in themselves tor? are directors, he says. "The guest directing slots are often taken by directors who staFF directors elsewhere. The paradox is that As our conversation continues, I Find in exploring the deeper there are Few opportunities to direct unless you are on staFF levels, that the mysterious middle initial doesn't solve the somewhere." puzzle. For here is an erudite theatre artist who has staged the works oF Brecht, Williams, and Machiavelli. He is also A paradox leading us back to the thorny questions that able to discuss politics and the arts, sociology and sports, Foster the hunt For "X". What I needed was a clariFica- with the ease oF educator, longshoreman, and taproom tion, perhaps From a mate or From Troy's mother, conFidant. Carmen, who along with his Father William, raised seven children. She recalls Tim at the age oF 3 or 4, To be sure, the starting point For our discussion opening the curtains to entertain Family and neigh­ was his most recent project, the Milwaukee pre­ bors by singing and acting. In Fact, she believes miere oF "StifF CuFFs", a comedy at the newly his directing career began with acting. As to Founded Evergreen Theatre in the Grand why he stays in the Midwest, she says: "This is Geneva Resort. We talked about the various where his roots are, and there is a lot oF rewards and challenges oF directing For a theatre in the Midwest. He's a Family guy." new company located in a Former Lake Geneva Playboy club; but the many sta­ As to the problems of juggling employ­ tistical questions and his intriguing an­ ment and the costs, she knows it's swers, grew into an overview (albeit tough. "I think you've heard that be- a tenuous one) oF an individual Fore. It takes a great deal oF dedi­ questing to earn a living direct­ cation and he's Fortunate that his ing For the stage in the Midwest. wiFe JacqueTroy is with him all We touched upon the cut and the way." As to the "worth" oF the Y-factor

dried aspects oF directing it all, she Feels it is always up For a living, but that Failed to the individual. to explain the "X" Factor be­ hind this specific individual Jacque Troy believes her husband's (and perhaps many, many oth­ directing interests are Fired by his love ers) who work in the arts. of history. "He finds that the past is the­ atre, and that art is an incredible way to Why, I wondered, would one choose speak to people." About his devotion to the to work in the Midwest—specifically in Midwest, she says: "People who value a sense Milwaukee? Why accept low paying or of home and family desire a 'normality' that non-paying gigs? How long can paying may not exist in a bigger city." projects be juggled with teaching? With tem­ porary jobs? With tending bar? And what are And the stress of juggling work and accepting non- the costs of pursuing one's "liFe's work?" paying gigs?

Is it worth it? These queries only compounded the "A sense of quality is important to Tim...We're in a part­ search For "X". nership because I want him to do the work that feeds his soul. The time spent apart takes its toll, not necessarily on First, some statistics: Troy graduated Magna Cum Laude us as a couple, but on our ability to carry out daily work." with his Bachelor oF Arts degree in History ("it's the First She thinks it is worth it as long as her partner continues to background For a director," he says) From Lawrence Univer­ grow and challenge himself. "What he's chosen to do is incred­ sity in Appleton, Wisconsin, and then received his Masters in ibly brave. It takes a great strength of character to follow your Fine Arts From the University oF Iowa. heart in a world that values money."

His interest in theatre studies (when he wasn't acting as a Fullback Thus was the mystery of "X" cleared up by Troy's family members and For the Football team) began at St. Catherine's High School in Racine. their sense of "home, family, dedication, and heart". In clarifying this By his Junior year, he was participating in a student exchange program for me, they pointed me back to his words: and a summer Arts College Studies program Australia. Though he had to lie about his age to study at Sydney's National Institute For the Dramatic "I direct fundamentally. I enjoy the rehearsals,...the challenge of channel­ Arts, it proved to be a turning point when he participated in an obscure ing the company's energy toward one goal...I enjoy how each show is a win­ Bertolt Brecht play and was turned on to the Fusion oF art and politics. So dow to a different world. I'm suited to be a director." much so, that Troy says, "learning about Brecht and the magic oF a theatre artist concerned about the political and the beautiFul was tremendously exiciting, — Mark Bucher For in the work I saw both historical depth and cultural breadth." Bucher is a local theatre critic and director of the Boulevard Ensemble Theatre. When Troy returned to the states to complete his studies, he taught theatre For One of his juggling acts is waiting tables at Mader's restaurant 13 14 Art Muscle &&'•»

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Gii&cmiiijjs, STUFFED WITH NOTES, APPOINT­ participattfiig;::in;:her grandchildren's iiv<&£attd MENTS AND THE OTHER TOOLS OF overseeing her Other space, Banaker Gallery in HER TRADE, SHE FIELDS SOME CATCH­ San Francisco, means she rushes about in overdrive Sante Fe was once on her flight UP QUESTIONS FROM HER STAFF, path—jjt was the site of her third gallery effort— THEN SETTLES DOWN TO TALK ABOUT but she gave, it: up when she felt she was 'losing THE WORLD OF KATIE GINGRASS. her marbles T Twice yearly she travels with She's been on the road since dawn, fighting grid­ selected 3-D items to the Chicago and Miami lock to take her granddaughter to school. When S.O.FA. shows, where she says, "business is very I inquire how many grandchildren she has, she good, indeed." She hopes her summer replies, "A wad!" exhibition of Wisconsin artists will also do a brisk business. Her gallery, all 2500 feet of it, blazes with the richly textured oil pastels of Jody dePew McLeane ** and the raku ceramics of international artist, Bennett Bean. An inventory of exceptional craft With the help of Elaine Hoth (curator of items (elegant boxes, airy baskets, beaded Gingrass' upcoming Art to Wear event) she's containers, beautiful glass and ceramic pieces), are already firming up plans with the Italian interspersed with Wisconsin photographer Ray Community Center for a benefit for the Haiti's color studies of blooming gardens, Jean Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Crane's bountiful watercolors, elaborate textiles, Scholarship Program. It opens September 7th and enough glittering jewelry to pacify Lady Di. with a runway fashion show and then continues at her gallery for two months. Before we begin the interview, she stops one more time to okay arrangements for delivery of a 50 lb. I asked Gingrass if she takes flak for showing framed Moving Sky, Still Land by artist Bill Gallen. conservative art, rather than in-your-face work A year ago, Gingrass strolled uninvited into with a nasty, dark edge and/or social message. Gallen's studio show, and her eye for potential Her answer was emphatic. quickly marked him as a perfect match for the clients who trust her to make them 'look good'. "Most people do not want confrontational art. They just want something to hang on their **> walls. The angry stuff has never interested me, though I guess in the '70s and '80s there was Some may fantasize that Gingrass was born with some pressure from local artists to exhibit it." a golden spoon in her Swedish mouth. Not so. She grew up in a small Indiana community where She does major business with corporations— her earliest memories are of the hard working hospitals, banks, and offices who are directed by people (including her Grandfather Sundberg, a people who do not want dingy environments. grocery store owner in Avon, Illinois) who kept "But they certainly have budgetary their shops open every day. She remembers concerns,"she says. "We just finished the new wrapping pennies for him, in the era when building at Froedert Hospital, then went back pennies meant something. While this may sound into the old hospital, and re-thought their art like a rags to riches saga, Gingrass does 'keep pieces, using unique works in their conference shop' seven days a week, though she occasionally rooms, and the less provocative, less expensive puts her feet up and stays home on Sundays. Her works in the hallways." early observations about the meaning of work have served her well, but even Gingrass needs a She's shown Jody dePew McLeane pastels for day of rest. years, considers her a top artist, but knows intuitively that it would be a tough sell for the Decades ago when she was a Wauwautosa hospital trade, though the pastels are well- housewife and mom to five active kids, she accepted in corporate board rooms. Gingrass served as Art Chairman of the Channel 10 Gallery also installs work on a rotating basis at Auction. "Because of the position, I became Sanfords upscale restaurant, and recently, she familiar with many Wisconsin artists, and sold a 7' McLeane work simply by exhibiting it eventually sold their pieces from my old house in there. A smart move. 'Tosa. It was a natural move to purchase my first gallery [on Milwaukee street] ten years ago. "This isn't a business where you can make much Though ready and willing, I didn't know beans money. First you need to be wealthy, then you about developing a business. Or so I thought. I can be an art dealer. I'm not wealthy, but I earn discovered that organizing my household in enough to pay the landlord, the utilities, taxes, Wauwautosa was a business boot camp. You take and help support a staff. I get the last paycheck," in money (I handled all of our household she says. accounts), you pay it out. Unfortunately in the art business you take in about the same as you pay out," she says. —Judith Ann Moriarty 15

I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE: UN­ Once the show is chosen, Hanthorn selects a princi­ a more classical image." The result: a beautiful full- or a two-tnlck show?" someone asks, referring to how pal cast. Arrangements must be made at least two color poster depicting a stylized statue of a horse and many vehicles it takes to haul the set. Someone re­ TIL RECENTLY, MY ONLY KNOWLEDGE years in advance. For Hanthorn, it boils down to rider. It is a key element of the opera's plot. On the plies, "One-truck." Amy hands out copies of the pro­ OF OPERA CAME TO ME VIA THE MARX simple math: "Of the hundreds of singers in the poster, the show's title appears in bold brushstrokes, duction schedule: All preparations for the show will BROTHERS. WHICH IS, IN FACT, THE world, there may be only three or four who have the the color of flames. At the top, a single word: take place in the span of three weeks. REASON I AGREED TO WRITE AN AR­ right vocal quality for the show and are within our MOZART. reach financially. If you don't put them on hold, you'll Three days later I enter the small studio above the TICLE ABOUT MILWAUKEE'S lose them" The Director of Production, Amy Peterson, invites Marcus Center where rehearsals are already under­ FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY. I me to the show's first production meeting. At age way. Stage Director Bliss Hebert is summarizing the WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT A BRANCH Many tilings can happen in two years. A singer may 27, she's the youngest member of the company's staff, show's plot for the chorus of 18 men and women OF THE PERFORMING ARTS THAT WAS become ill. A voice may "darken" with age. Hanthorn and is responsible for creating a production sched­ who will transform into Mozart's musical villagers. tells me a bizarre story about a cast member who, ule, coordinating rehearsals, and assembling a crew Conductor Joe Rescigno, who speaks fluent Italian, COMPLETELY NEW TO ME. due to a change in allergy medication, suddenly found of technicians to make Mozart's opera a reality. "It's translates the lyrics. "We'd like you to know what's he could not reach high notes. "He's fine now, but it difficult to define what I do," she says. "I can't point being said so you can react," Hebert explains. That PERFECT TIMING! WHEN I CONTACT took him until this past December to figure it out." to anything and say, 'I did that.' Basically, I know done, the Director begins laying out the complex I've done my job on a show if you can't see my fin­ THE FLORENTINE, THEY ARE JUST BE­ trajectories of entrances and exits. They practice the The Florentine forges ahead, despite the risks. A year gerprints all over it." first entrance. Chaos. They try again. An hour later, GINNING WORK ON THEIR FINAL OP­ before the production of Don Giovanni, a brochure everyone gratefully goes home. ERA OF THE SEASON, MOZART'S DON is sent to subscribers announcing that the show will On a windy afternoon in mid-April, we arrive at a GIOVANNI. I'LL BE ABLE TO OBSERVE open May 10,1996, for a three-day run at the Marcus warehouse in Milwaukee's inner city. Inside: bare A hand lettered sign says: Costume fittings, Men's AS THE SHOW IS BUILT (LITERALLY AND Center for the Performing Arts. brick and concrete, stained with a patina of grime Dressing Room. The tiny space is a tangle of jackets and paint. The high-pitched whine of a power saw and shirts, white muslin and wire coat hangers. Ten FIGURATIVELY), PIECE BY PIECE. This brochure and all subsequent promotion, is over­ can be heard. The production meeting is held on a male choristers are in various stages of donning or seen by Dan Petry, the Florentine's Director of Mar­ narrow platform overlooking the warehouse floor. shedding their costumes. A woman with a British Don Giovanni premiered in 1787, but its latest in­ keting. In March, Petry meets with a graphic designer; Here gather the technical crew—a motley bunch at accent introduces herself as Lyn Edwards-Giles, the carnation was conceived in 1994 by Dennis together they examine the opera, searching for an first glance, but it soon becomes clear that they've Wardrobe Mistress. "These costumes came from an Hanthorn, the Florentine's General Director. Why icon to visually represent the show to the public. worked together many times, and each knows his or opera company in Portland, Oregon. They were tai­ Don Giovanni? "The music," Hanthorn replies. "This "There are some great opera posters being produced her task. They tend to speak in terse half-sentences, lored to fit their actors. That's where the surprises opera has ten arias that are recognizable bits. Many today, really cutting-edge stuff, but we're going for peppered with backstage jargon. "Is this a one-truck come in." Lyn's staff of seamstresses dash to and fro, people consider it to be the best opera ever written!" pinning and tucking. Everyone is asked their shoe size. A few jokes about codpieces are exchanged. And it's over.

Monday, MSy 6: Last night, a truck bearing the Don Giovanni set arrived from New Orleans. Today, an Italian villa will be built on the Uihlein stage. To­ night, the entire cast and crew will convene for the first dress rehearsal.

Amid a din of bangs, shouts and crashes, Technical Director Paul Mazurek and his assistant, Mike Griebl, supervise the set's construction. Painted canvas flats are raised and fixedtogethe r like a huge jigsaw puzzle. The flats are tall and unwieldy; at one point, some­ one dashes up a ladder to prevent the set from'top­ pling. Slowly, stairs and doorways take shape.

Suddenly the lights fade. Everyone continues work­ ing in the semi-twilight. Lighting Designer Don Thomas begins testing the show's 303 lighting in­ struments. Each light has been assigned a number; Thomas calls them off one by one—checking to see that the instrument works properly. The crew, still over the piano. There are the usual false starts and It's almost time. In fifteen minutes, the legendary busy with construction, is bathed in blue light...then interruptions. Looking out into the empty theater, Don Juan will be stealing hearts and sealing his fate. red...then gold... it's hard to believe that in four days these seats will Should I watch the show from herd Observe the be filled. players as they silently take their places? • That evening, when I return, the set is complete. Soaring arches and balconies set against a brilliant Opening night. I stand in the dim light backstage. No. It's time to take my seat and enjoy the illusion. blue sky. Ornately decorated, the buildings convey a The air is charged with expectancy. From here the surprising sense of solidity and depth. A tile court­ set looks flat—a sharp contrast to the magnificent yard covers the stage, a huge sunburst mosaic at its rococo arches and balconies I remember from the center. dress rehearsal. Struts and wires hold everything pre­ —David Parr cariously in place. Nearby, Properties Artist Richard (Mr. Parr is an actor, magician, and director. He's Wearing their costumes, but no wigs or makeup, the Haske brushes dust from a velvet tablecloth. The table also a columnist for Genii, the international cast goes through the motions of the show. They're is set for a feast: breads, cakes, fruit. A close inspec­ conjuror's magazine) conserving their voices, so it is difficult to hear them tions reveals most to be made of plastic.

16 Art Muscle 17 IN 1971 MATT FINK LOST HIS FOSTER FATHER IN 10 A FREAK DRAGSTRIP ACCIDENT. SHORTLY AFTER THAT, FINK MOVED TO WHITELAW, WISCONSIN TO WORK ON HIS UNCLE'S HOG FARM. WHAT ALLEGEDLY ENSUED WAS RITUAL ABUSE BY A BROTHER-SISTER DUO OF HIRED FARM HANDS. DESPITE THIS, HE EARNED A GENERAL EDUCA­ TION DEGREE IN 1984 AND TRAVELED THE COUNTRY SELLING MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Jimmy Von Milwaukee (JVM) to Matt THE 31 YEAR OLD FINK HAS LIVED IN THE Fink (MF): RIVERWEST AREA SINCE 1986 WHERE HIS RECENT Do you come here often? "HELL IS FOR CHILDREN" EXHIBIT IN THE MF: Ah no, usually I go to Rickey's or The WINDOWS GALLERY EXPLORED THE EFFECTS OF Cheetah Club. This is kind of upscale for me. SATANISM ON TODAY'S YOUTH. HLS LATEST But really classy though. The girls are real hot — SERIES, "LLL HUMMELS" (BASED ON THE FAMED lots of ink, piercings. My kind of girls.

COLLECTIBLES SO POPULAR IN THIS STATE) JVM: Are you as BAD, BAD, BAD as art DEPICTS CHILDREN IN MOST UNUSUAL SITUA­ critic Jim Auer said? TIONS, IT IS A WARNING, HE SAYS, ABOUT CHIL­ MF: Am I as BAD as Jim Auer said? Well, I'm not as bad as alot of the art students who DREN AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CIVILIZATION. do, say, a real academic, sterile still-life or a smudgy abstract thing. Nobody gives a fuck about that stuff. It's been done before. IN 1993 FINK'S "SHEMALE TROUBLE" SHOW AT JVM: You were in a serious motorcycle acci­ THE NEO-POST-NOW GALLERY IN THE SLEEPY dent 3 years ago. Did it affect your art?

TOWN OF MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN, EXPLORED MF: Yeah, definitely. Before the accident I TRANS-SEXUALITY AND NEW STYLE SEXUAL TOP­ used to paint with my teeth. After the acci­ dent I could paint with my arms, my feet, my ICS. "BARN BUGGERS," AT LEO FELDMAN teeth, my hands. Everything man. It's awe­ some! GALLERIES IN 1994, OPENED TO THE SIZZLE OF JVM: Have you ever been institutionalized? FRYING PORK LINKS AND OPENED THE EYES OF A CAPACITY CROWD THAT VIEWED SHOCKING MF: Yeah, yeah. For a long time. I went to public schools for almost 10 years, man. IMAGES OF RURAL CHILDREN WITH THEIR FURRY continued on next page FARM-FRIENDS.

1 THE FOLLOWING INTERVIEW WAS TAPED BY JIMMY VON MILWAUKEE (JVM), AND ART MUSCLE DECIDED THAT IN THE INTEREST OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO LEAVE IN THE F WORD. AFTERALL, EVEN THE STAID NEW YORKER IS USING THE WORD THESE DAYS. THE INTERVIEW TOOK PLACE IN MILWAUKEE'S GENTLEMAN'S CLUB, LE CABARET, IN HISTORIC WALKER'S POINT. THE CLUB'S DANCERS, JESSIE (AT THE TIME OF THE INTERVIEW SHE WAS DOING A GRUNGE NUMBER) AND BLACK-LEATHER CLAD SAMANTHA, JOINED IN WHILE THE MUSIC OF KORN, CLUTCH, AND BENDER, GROUND AWAY IN THE BACKGROUND. III' crack kids, Matt Fink 18 Art Muscle 19 Hey Girls! Here's Your Chance to I was little, except there were no be Imortalized on Canvas! naked people with sheep or hip­ Matt Fink is currently accepting pies with bongs. I like his paint­ applications for models interest­ ing of the tripped out little kids ed in posing with: armbinders, doing bongs. Those will be my halloween masks, suspension kids." devices, ball gags & moon boots. Height, weight (proportional Performer Samantha speaks only), piercing a plus. Afternoon about Fink: "First of all, I think he and evening hours. Strictly pro­ is a very good artist. The one of fessional. Always discreet. the hippie kids is the one I can IF YOU SEE FINK IN A TAVERN, relate to the most. All I have to DON'T BE AFRAID TO APPROACH say is that if the government HIM. would just give it a chance and not worry about their own profits, Performer Jessie speaks about this would be a better place. Like Fink: "The pictures remind of Fink's painting, society should the ones I had in my room when have no boundaries."

Hippie kids, Matt Fink continued from previous page

JVM: Speaking of institutionalized, have you ever been to the Milwaukee Art Museum?

MF: Never heard of the place. Is that a strip club, a bar?

JVM: Who's your favorite porn star?

MF: Ah, all my favorite porn stars ended up : ; dead. I was really into Savannah, Shuana Grant, but if I had to pick one it would be Sulka, she was really a hot star in the 70's, one of the first trans-gender ones, she made Holly Brown look like a super-model. But eventually, ah, Sulka went for the full opera­ tion and lost her credibility.

JVM: What rock bands do you f— to?

MF: Ah, I don't know. My wife, she likes the girl-girl flicks you know. We got a 27 inch Sony, so that works for her. My girlfriend, she's just into New Rock 102. Me? I just pre­ fer the sounds of an air compressor. All that droning and hissing sound. I'm really into that.

JVM: What beer do you drink?

MF: What'a ya got that's cold? I'm not picky.

JVM: Do you eat meat?

MF: Let me say this about vegetarians, man! Those people are like Food Nazis! They tell you what you can and can not eat. I say a plant screams just as loud as an animal when it dies. Everytime I cut my lawn it sounds like a slaughter house. It brings me to tears, but hey!, you gotta do it.

JVM: What do you have to say about your recent "Iil Hummels" paintings?

MF: Yeah, this is really my biggest stuff yet. It's ah, really tight. It reflects what's going on today, like little kids and all the problems they have. I'm trying to get some points across to enlighten people about the not too bright future.

JVM: Well, that's a good way to end this.

liHSi Sunday Sermon, Matt Fink 20 Art Muscle Phillip Schultz B.A., A., G.A.. S.S.D

ach and every day, Phillip Jonathan Brahms, a band award trophy from 8th grade, and a of the building. Everything is handbuilt. The weld­ Beck Schultz writes a sonnet and white egg with one end blown out. His framed ing table, constructed from an old steel bedframe, signs it 'J.B. Shaultz.' To date, he's degrees hang near a small oak desk: UW- supports a top devised from salvaged grates. He handwritten four thousand obsessive Milwaukee, BFA, 1972. M.FA., 1977. Production gives credit to George Koehler, a boiler operator at 14 liners which are then laboriously Welder certificate, 1973. He wonders out loud if his Johnson Wax, for his help and advice on making copied into a 1940s Royal type­ alma-mater is currently teaching students how to much of the equipment. Schultz explains the mold- writer. Outside of his modest apart­ build a studio space, how to manage finances and making room, a sandblaster unit, and the 1500 ment in Racine, a handmade sign, art careers — the skills he needed and didn't have degree (Fahrenheit) carbon burnout oven to me. blowin' in the wind, reads: when he graduated. It's clear from the sheer amount of spaces that this Bezalel Studio J. B. Schultz, BA., MA., GA., S.S.D. He hands me a typewritten page titled "Brief man has patiently developed that his disability does­ Summary of Artwork." The information touts his n't keep him in a rocking chair waiting for things to The 'GA.' signifies general assistance, from which Kandinsky inspired paintings as "The Johannes Ecks happen. Though certainly from a financialperspec ­ he says he's since graduated. 'S. S. D.' is the short­ Oil Paintings, framed with my own "Unrealistic tive, he rocks daily on the edge of survival. ened form for Social Service Disability. Picture Framing Co., surrounds." The summary further describes him as an American Academic Each month he receives $656 from S.S.D. His med­ "I have a bad back and I've been labeled 'crazy,' says Abstract Primitive Mannerist. This rather extensive ical expenses are covered with a medical insurance Schultz. I consider it, however, to be an art-stipend label may have kept him from showing his pieces at card. The income, sparse as it is, allows him the lux­ blessing." Inside the parlor of his comfortable Milwaukee's Dean Jensen Gallery, because "I'm not ury of making art. He's not a slacker. He has home, another sign announces: an outsider," he says. I wonder if his life is about worked at a variety of jobs, in fact they put him labels? He remarks that no more than four people through college. And in the past he was a welder for Gallery Incognito have ever visited Gallery Incognito. AO Smith.

I ask him about that other form of assistance— grants. He dismisses them as having too many ardu­ ous forms and a strange selection process. There is also the real danger that extra income will upset the Social Security apple cart.

So he bakes his own bread, shops at re-sale stores, and plays nurse to his white (with rust) 1976 Dodge van. On its side, scripted in elegant black, is 'Roncanite,' the name of Don Quixote's beloved steed. Schultz is not a conspicuous consumer.

At age 49, he's traveling relatively 'incognito' in the art world, though his pieces have been exhibited at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Perimeter Gallery in Chicago, and the now defunct Metropolitan Gallery in Riverwest. He's also shown his art in coffee shops, rehab hospitals, and shelters for the homeless.

Because he seems somewhat grumpy about the whole art scene, I ask him if he ever wanted to be an 'Art Star.' He replies that "it would be okay if star­ dom comes, but now I'm concentrating on surviv­ ing. I'm a mental junkie. A former longhair who smoked pot and did coke once. These days I work at art and think a lot," he says.

Schultz's highly competent paintings and excellent sculptures are flamboyant—theysee m much happi­ Here he displays his many oil paintings, cast bronze In the next room (a kitchen/workspace), generous er than the gentleman I am interviewing. It occurs sculptures and welded steel figurations. One such windows look out to a three-tiered Schultz built to me that his art could be a disguise similar to his beautiful figure, "The Streaker," rests on the man­ birdfeeder bustling with chickadees and grackles. other disguises—"J.B. Schaultz, Gallery telpiece of his elaborately carved fireplace. She's We visit the attic, a huge, cluttered space for paint­ Incognito, Bezalel, and American Academic wearing a hat and nothing else. "This is my homage ings, wax sculpting, and recording copies of his four Abstract Primitive Mannerist." to the streakers of the '60s and '70s," says the artist, hundred 45rpm oldies. Descending from our tour, who on a fine Easter Sunday morn (long ago) we pass the second floor 10' x 17' one room space But this is mere conjecture. From an aesthetic removed his clothes and ran along the fence bor­ which he occupied for 13 years while concentrating standpoint, Schultz is a resounding success. Bad dering Mound Cemetery in Racine. "But that was on making art and developing his basement welding back, 'crazy' label and all. He didn't always define in the early '80s. I never followed the fashionable room. At the landing he pauses to offer water to a himself as an artist, but he does these days. In doing trends," he laughs, "however, it was exhilarating parched ivy plant. I am reminded of the Good so, in sticking to making his art and yes, in tilting at reliving the resurrection of Christ." Samaritan. windmills, he has in effect, named himself: Phillip Schultz, Artist. Also on the mantel is a photo of his aged, and now We get to his welding room by exiting his home's deceased, parents. His dad, he says, was an accoun­ back door, stepping gingerly around a mysterious tant who wanted to be a minister, but never had the hole covered by a metal grate (Schultz frets about 'voice.' Other mementos of Schultz's life are placed falling into the hole someday), removing a screen —Judith Ann Moriarty nearby—a 16" softball from his church-team days, designed to keep out the neighbor's lummox of a (A decade ago, Ms. Moriarty exhibited her work junk metal scraps, a chipped faux bronze bust of dog, and negotiating steep stairs to the dark bowels with artist Schultz. It was a night to remember.)

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23 sona), Anina Bacon was a highlight of subject of energetic discussion. "Roschambo Tabernacle" and its Bandalier #i, a small, controlled pas­ manic, text-laden choreography. Jen tel with a dark palette, was my personal p Moore's "Marlboro Gal" also invovled favorite. persona and she laced it with irony in this light and dark piece. Barnett also carries the works of UW- Oshkosh graduate Dan Muller, whose 0 Sarah Wilbur's ensemble piece "Cut many glorious interpretations of Me Some Slack", courted danger with Wisconsin's lake and land forms go humor and unpredictability in its ath­ beyond mere painting and into the letic, vigorous exploration of relation­ realm of the spiritual. He's not a copy­ ship. This was one of the most fully cat stylist intent on saying "Look at realized pieces of the program, al­ me! Aren't I great?" But he is. s though the performance space did not allow the depth needed to take it all Here you'll find finely tuned lithos ripe in. with New Hampshire greens, sinuous landscapes, blooming trees by realist T These young choreographers (teenag­ painter Stephen Perrault, a great Sail­ ers to those in their early 20's), seemed ing In The Rain, North Lakeby Chuck to be just developing their vocabular­ "Garbo" Hajinian, and the stunning ies of movement and artistic sensibili­ Susan Falkman pink marble sculpture, ties, even when technique was well- Cloud Bird Vll. honed. The work of a young artist of­ ART 96 CHICAGO ten reveals more about her teachers From June 15-July 31, the gallery will Navy Pier than about the artist herself. (And this feature the American Modernist paint­ May 10-14 is appropriate.) Still, this program ings of Abraham Walkowitz. Get set demonstrated that this process of for vistas of people strolling in parks growth and development can be as and woods or lounging (contented as Within the span of just a few years, Art TBA's now famous Art Chicago logo. rewarding to the viewer as the highly clams) in Bathers on the Rocks. Chicago has established itself as polished work of established choreog­ America's largest and most significant raphers. There is promise of much ex­ At the time of this writing on May 15, contemporary art fair. The fourth edi­ "Our phones have been ringing off the citing work to come. it's 45 degrees with fog and rain. If tion of the fair on May 10-14 was held hook as a result of being at Art *96 higher temperatures still haven't ar­ in Festival Hall at Navy Pier, and at Chicago.'' — PEGGY HONG rived by the time you read this, you'd this writing, organizers were anticipat­ be well advised to soak up the broad ing that the attendance figures would — MARK SNELL Ms. Hong is a dancer and poet. smile and golden treasures of Mr. reach 30,000. The weekend I visited, the weather was by no means outstand­ An Art Muscle intern, Mr. Snell is Barnett—a gentleman who began col­ ing, but it was not enough to dampen headed for DePaul University in Chi­ lecting art at age 15 and is happy to my enthusiasm for the more than cago this fall to begin work on his share it with the citizens of this state. 2,000 artists exhibiting in the grand master's degree in English. DAVID BARNETT GALLERY hall. 1024 E. State Street — JUDITH ANN MORIARTY Milwaukee DANCEWORKS About half of the 175 exhibitors were MUSEUM OF from 20 different countries; the Independent & Emerging Trim and glowing at age 50, David CONTEMPORARY NOVELTIES United States was represented by gal­ Choreographers Barnett obviously loves his historic 826 E. Locust leries from 29 cities. All of this pro­ Walker's Point gallery at the corner of State and Pros­ duced a dramatic mix of both foreign pect, and the fact that he still has time Riverwest and domestic dealers and a diverse Center for the Arts to paint in his studio/residence on range of styles and disciplines. Under May 3-5 Beaver Lake. In September, he'll be Artist Jennifer Novack is co-curator of one roof, I found a microcosm of the exhibiting the first-ever show of his wa­ the swell Hermetic Gallery on E. Lo­ world of contemporary art which in­ From lyrical to exuberant to wacky, tercolors at his gallery. "I'm already cust. The day I visited her, blue-jeaned cluded the tried and true; the newly Danceworks put together an eclectic getting nervous about it," he says, writer R.M. Ryan, was the only other tried and hot. Thomas Blackman is program of up and comers. WPCA has adding that his two year old daughter body in the space. He left raving about president of the group TBA that or­ a long, narrow space appropriate for is showing signs of being a great art­ the comic books on a nearby table. The ganizes and manages the fair. To him the solos (which the program favored) ist. Will she be heir to her dad's tradi­ Hermetic exhibit, Nerve, was okay, it is much more than an assemblage of along with a few duets and one en­ tion of excellence? most particularly Jean Roberts' excep­ wonderful galleries. "It is essential to semble piece. tional "Cowbird" paintings and the the United States art market," he says, Barnett and staff were hanging the photo installation by Sue Bietila, but "and increasingly it is essential to other The show opened with Catey Ott's pastel and oil paintings of Peggy my mission on this Saturday afternoon countries, too. In terms of doing busi­ "Nutrasweet Sensation," a sultry and Leonard the day I visited. There was was Ms. Novack's Museum of Contem­ ness and/or collecting 20th century subtly humorous dance of relation­ lots of framing left to be finished, and porary Novelties, located just east of art in the United States, it is the place ship—in this case with sugarless gum. her lovely wilderness works were the Hermetic. to be. Gallery participation was up 8% It paved the way for some of the this year, an indicator of good things themes that would emerge through to come." the program of these choreographers, all women this year: relationship, iden­ It would be futile to discuss highlights tity, sexuality, and femininity, among of the event—that's what the 300 plus other impulses. page exhibition catalogue was for. As a student I couldn't afford the $15 Deanna Anderson's "Tinsel Town", catalogue price, but one trend I did was a provocatively ambiguous duet note, was the wealth of non-traditional with women in men's suits. The vo­ sources for contemporary art. For ex­ cabulary of modern/postmodern ample, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery movement with non-Western move­ from London, featured the works of ment was evidence of her solid back­ South African artists. Also, the ground in cultural dance forms such Ambrosino Gallery from Coral Gables, as Afro-Cuban and Middle Eastern Florida, exhibited video and mixed beledi. media installations by Israeli artist Hilla Lulu Lin. Milwaukee was nobly rep­ Both Carrie Ahern's "Modulations," resented by the Michael H. Lord Gal­ and Andrea Hill's "Chrome (3rd Story lery who showed the work of Sandalwood)", set off movement with Lawrence Laatsch. This artist's bold music, in an abstract manner, empha­ and apocalyptic imagery stood out well sizing counterpoint and quick, some­ in the multitude of booths. If you'd times explosive transitions. Hill's like to see some of what you may have movement was intense and dreamlike, missed in Chicago, Mr. Laatsch's Ahern's quirky and sensual. paintings, sculptures, and assemblages, will be at the Michael Lord Gallery With her resonant stage voice and from July 19-August 24. Bill chirpy, light movement style (well Budelman, assistant to Mr. Lord, said suited to her raucous swings of per­ Sailboats, Lake Michigan, Dan Muller.

24 Art Muscle Denis Sargent but takes the social diorama at face value, Pattern & Practice leaving us to draw our judgements from hollow and colorless characters. This re­ April 13-May 12, 1996 ductive approach can be effective in clini­ Walker's Point cal studies, but rarely finds room to Center for the Arts breathe in a meditative practice like painting. Placing these non-painting, With Pattern & Practice, Denis Sargent non-rug proto-tapestries at an ironic dis­ places himself outside of both 'Ameri­ tance from the incredibly lavish carpets can' and 'foreign' cultures. This show they emulate weakens their potential represents a significant departure for the impact. It seems Sargent wants us to par­ artist, evidenced by higher-keyed ticipate in his disdain, but I found my (though still muted) colors, tapestry-like disdain turned more towards the paint­ painting supports, and overt subject ings themselves and what they weren't matter. By appropriating a simplified giving me. version of an oriental scroll format, Sargent seems to want to wear the guise I can appreciate Sargent's move towards of an outsider, while admitting but shun­ clarity, but his earlier work, muddy and ning his identity, and giving a wink that mysterious, remains clearer in my his intended inauthenticity is authentic. memory. A complex proposition, indeed. Some examples of custom furniture found at Jennifer Novack's Museum of — NICHOLAS FRANK Contemporary Novelties. I was stunned at first by the distance of departure from his earlier work, famous My first impression of the museum was bleed out of the blackness. They are built in my mind for muted graphite-on- that I had entered a playhouse for kids. of wispy brushtrokes, bare suggestions graphite tones and eerie, spiritual rich­ BRADY ST. ART BENEFIT My second was that it is definitely for of figures, with no knowable identities ness. The Pattern & Practice paintings Beauty adults who appreciate fine craftsman­ but for the hooded Klansmen stuffed are coldly executed in flat tones, tans and 1437 East Brady Street ship. Open on Saturdays from noon- ambivalently into the background. The clay reds and olive greens, all framed in May 4-5 4pm (or by phoning ahead), the lim­ central figure, the lynched man, looks thick flat black lines. This move towards ited hours mean you really have to oddly powerful in his moment of death. a more forthcoming approach is embod­ The practical reason for this show was want to see what is behind the canvas The composition is like that of crucifix­ ied in the silhouetted character forms to benefit the Milwaukee Inner City covered storefront windows. Don't ion-scene paintings, evidenced by the that make up the repeated patterns in Arts Council. From a broader perspec­ bring a crowd. placement of the figures at the base of the paintings. If one lingers long tive, it said "not only does art belong the tree, who with bowed heads mourn enough, the somewhat cryptic shapes in our everyday lives—we should I tried on charming handmade hats the tragedy. A ladder reaches up the right resolve as businessmen at work, house­ breathe it, wear it, reflect upon it, be­ hanging on pegs near a gilded tiny side of the painting, and whether the wives cleaning, and children playing, come it, and use it to inspire others. mirror, and browsed through hand­ hangman's ladder or Jacob's ladder, I along with starving children, athletes, And convince people not be afraid of made Felixir Press tomes. Arranged in thought of the executioner having to as­ and soldiers. All act as metonymic sym­ it." the lilliputian layout were exquisite cend to the level of the victim. At first bols, frozen in colorless monotone. samplings of recycled, handpainted the whole scene appears hellish and bru­ Sargent places them in circuitous hier­ Transformations of the cosmetic kind furniture—high and low tables and tal, the tree of deep orange brushtrokes archies, one group of figures wrapped occur daily at Beauty, the salon where simple chairs. My favorite was the chair resembling a pillar of hellfire. But a around another, and the next contain­ the show was held, but on this week­ decorated with senuous blue dots that longer view allows a panopoly of read­ ing another. The two or three patterns end many of the pieces were linked to fairly beckoned me to sit, order a cup ings to come through. The artist's free in each painting are too few to set up a the past by art-alchemy. I think that of camomile tea, and wait for the white use of color to suggest a breakdown of genuinely complex interaction. They most of us are born "artistic," but lose rabbit to come huffing by... skin-color barriers, and the central fig­ read mostly as mundane political rela­ creativity when we break with the pure ure appears to be bathed in divine light; tionships, with Sargent's effort at criti- vision of our childhood. In this exhibit, Considering Jennifer Novack's out­ a resurrection. From one horrible event, cality largely cliched and somewhat re­ children contributed collages, paint­ standing talent, the items are priced one horrible era, to one soaring paint­ petitive. ings and sketches. Their pieces were stunningly low. Nothing in the mu­ ing, in one soaring museum. hung next to works by adults using ma­ seum smacks of The Cheddar Cheese In his artist's statement, Sargent admits terials considered by some to be juve­ School of Craft. Ring up 264-1063, So in this month's remembrance of the "ironic" inauthenticity of his work. nile and/or primitive. she'll be glad to unlock the door and humanity's wretched depths, I was given This is asking alot of the viewer. I found show you her museum of novelties cause to look for humanity's highest ex­ it hard to appreciate them as paintings, Like artist Doug Hoffman who uses most contemporary. pression. I found it not only in The impossible to appreciate them as proto- Crayola markers for portraits and Lynching, one man's attempt to speak rugs, scrolls, or tapestries, and difficult cityscapes. By returning to the tools — JUDITH ANN MORIARTY the unspeakable, to reach across bound­ even to accept them as faux-hybrids. This of his childhood and re-learning with aries to all people, but in the institution body of work signals a desire for a clearer limited materials, he says he increases where the painting hangs. America's approach, but Sargent succeeds best his artistic growth. For Hoffman, form The Lynching, 1988 Black Holocaust Museum gives a pow­ when he plumbs the murky depths of is primary. Michael Russo erful and proper context to the paint­ metaphysical confusion, as he did in his American Black ing. The museum's director, James older tree paintings. That profound con­ Few of us knew the rules of drawing Cameron, is eager to communicate with fusion remains the engine behind the Holocaust Museum or what art should be when we were all who walk through his doors. Each Pattern & Practice paintings, but is ironi­ on permanent display children, still, we felt pow­ person who visits will be one more step cally lost to the formal clarity of these erful when creating it. towards conciliation and understanding. works. April was Holocaust Awareness Month, That art can literally be­ a time to address the unspeakable depths come part of us, as in the — NICHOLAS FRANK to which humanity has sunk. Moved by This work is engaged with the political, wearable works of St. Paul the PBS documentaries depicting the artist Katherine Tilton, American liberation of Nazi death may be a scary concept, camps, I decided to visit America's Black but this artist believes that Holocaust Museum in search of a paint­ when her vests and play­ ing I had read about: The Lynching fully decorated dresses are (1988), by Michael Russo. donned, they energize the wearer. Russo uses the endlessly pliable medium of painting to reach across a gap that has Thanks to everyone's gen­ fp been widened by a lack of communica­ erosity, the event raised a tion, and by an inability or unwilling­ whopping $2,000 for the ness to seek out the truth. He demon­ Inner City Arts Council. strates that all communication is essen­ Non-profit agencies who cr? tially a one-on-one proposition. Each are interested in benefit­ viewer will have an individual reaction ing from next year's event, to the painting, helped by its wise inclu­ can contact Mary Jane sion in this institution. This painting Zvara at 321-1171. cannot tell the whole story, but in its way can tell the story of each person who — JULIE LANG looks at it. Ms. Lang is a free lance The painting is dark, and the figures A Beauty of a Benefit. Photograph by Julie Lang. writer and painter.

25 I5THKE BY THE LHKE [THE DDWNTDWN TRANSIT CENTER]

THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM'S FUTURE ADDITION HAS PROMPTED ME TO REEVALUATE THE ARCHI­ TECTURE OF THIS CITY'S DOWNTOWN LAKEFRONT. '""Si ' ' ' • Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava's bold design encourages fresh scrutiny of existing nearby t f i f il buildings. Consequently, one building stands out as 1 'oaf-ish,'—the Downtown Transit Center. I can S55S* only wonder how the elegant tour-de-force of "•—rssssssS'' Calatrava will mitigate the nearby 'bus blunder.'

Located at a pivotal junction, The DTC is bordered m by Lincoln Memorial Drive, Michigan and Clybourn Streets, and is highly visible from the East-West Freeway and the Hoan Bridge. And its painful presence is obvious during strolls along Lake Michigan's nearby edge. A site as prominent as this deserves a structure of great merit, a com­ pelling, thoughtfully designed and sensitively exe­ cuted building.

And what do we have instead of a remarkable land­ mark? A banal concrete box, which will indeed be a counterpoint to the soon to come transparent museum addition. How could we have allowed the 1965 demolition of The transit center was supposed to be a commuter the landmark Chicago and Northwestern Depot, terminus for downtown bus riders, a central link in and 27 years later okayed something like the DTC a countywide mass transportation system — a hub *MKt to rise in its place? of activity, a place for people. Consider the building. It is a precast concrete Instead, it is a desolate bus barn with benches. shell with preformed metal roofing. On the north facade are over-scaled glass block bays, a choice A journey through this building leaves you wanti­ that is capricious and off-putting. All of the win­ ng, wanting, to leave. On weekday mornings and dows are on the north side; they are mirrored and afternoons, when some sixty thousand people trav­ copper-tinted. I am of the opinion that unless el to and from downtown, this place is empty! It someone is hiding the slaughter of farm animals, gives new meaning to the word 'lonely.' How could windows should not be mirrored. Are we ashamed planners have been so wrong about Wisconsin com­ of our buses? muters? The DTC is really not the center of any transit. Adding nothing to the architectural composition, the center was then topped off by a ridiculous clock The traditional litmus test of the worth of any . tower sporting a clock face of, what else?—glass American city was, at one time, its train station, block. The tower's proportions are odd and its pur­ : 2S2fiIl|i2 pose elusive; furthermore, the clock is difficult to which visitors equated in particular with the pro- ME gressiveness, wealth, and import of their destina­ read at any distance! If the goal was an allusion to tion city. Without overt reference to Milwaukee's the great stone clock tower of Milwaukee's long- abomination on St. Paul Avenue, why then, must lost depot, the result is so diluted that no serious downtown suffer a second indignity? visual or historic connection can be made.

In the near future, throngs from 'up north' and elsewhere, will venture into Milwaukee to pass judgment on Mr. Calatrava's opus. The addition will have its detractors, and I suppose there are those who judge the DTC a success. Those people, Milwaukeeans included, who find the Art Museum's steel-and-glass membrane addition 'too bold,' too 'not-Milwaukee,' will be disappointed.

For these are the folks who are most comfortable with 'background' buildings on principal sites. They are the ones probably content with only famil­ iar (i.e. 'safe') looking structures.

But they really are the victims, who with the DTC designers, have joined the ranks of the architec­ turally challenged.

The Downtown Transit Center is their poster child.

—Joseph Korom (Architect Korom is a construction specialist for Neighborhood Housing Services-Milwaukee. His paint­ ings will be exhibited June 7-July 26 at Grava Gallery.) 26 Art Muscle WALKER'S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS "Art Center for the Global Neighborhood" HAS MEMBERS. (IT'S TRUE!)

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Because seven out of ten Americans belong to a professional organization and WPCA is as professional as it gets! You might as well join. Because you don't have to do anything except send in a check, and in a world full of things you have to do, doesn't that feel nice? Because WPCA is near alot of good restaurants and bars, and what better way to start Saturday night than snacking on cheese that sweats under track lights? You'll save on appetizers. Because we like you. We're your friends, we're not like the others.

You might meet the man or woman of your dreams at an art opening, though you'll probably wake up.

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WALKERS POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS "Art Center for the Global Neighborhood" ARTCLASSES Chicago Artist JERRY SMITH, Large Paintings and Drawings JUNEl- JULY8 CARTOONING DRAWING FOR This show is made possible by a grant from Arts Midwest TAUGHT BY PAMELA SCESNIAK • YOUNG ARTISTS WEEK LONG CLASS MEETS MON 'TWO FROM JAPAN" THRU FRIDAY FOR 2 HOURS TAUGHT BY PAMELA SCESNIAK - HARUKO OIE, Giant Origami Sculptures EACH DAY • AGES 8 TO 14 WEEK LONG CLASS MEETS MON SUPPLIES ARE INCLUDED THRU FRIDAY FOR 2 HOURS EACH DAY • AGES 8 TO 13 HIDEKI MATSUMOTO, Giant Electric Light Prints JUNE 24 THRU 28 JULY 20-AUGUST 12 1:00 TO 3PM SUPPLIES ARE INCLUDED or JUNE 24 THRU 28 1996-97: JOHN FORD/ ARTUR TAJBER and BARBARA MARON 10:00 TO NOON JULY 15 THRU 19 or From Poland/ FRANCIS FORD/ ELLY GRISWOLD/ DIA DE 10:00 TO NOON LOS MUERTOS/ WALKER'S POINT HISTORY PROJECT/ or AUG 5 THRU 9 LINDA JAMESJULIA KJELGAARD,DON STINSON,RON KOVACH/ MEMBERS 1:00 TO 3PM SHOW/ ISLA PRINTSHOP INAUGURAL EXHIBIT/ "HESITATE YOU DIE' AUG 5 THRU 9 curated by Brad Killam & Michelle Grabner/ "RUST1 Scrap Iron Sculptures/ 10:00 TO NOON 55.00 ROY STAAB/ JOHN SHIMON & JULIE LINDEMANN 45.00 911 W. NATIONAL AVENUE, MILWAUKEE 53204 BASIC DRAWING 414-672-2787 WORKING TAUGHT BY RAMONA AUDLEY THIS WITH CLAY 5 SESSION CLASS IS FOR ADULTS HOURS: TUESDAY-FRIDAY 10 A.M.-6 P.M. SATURDAY/SUNDAY 1-3 WHO HAVE LITTLE OR NO DRAWING WITH PAMELA SCESNIAK • SKILLS BUT WHO WANT TO LEARN WEEK LONG CLASS MEETS TO DRAW • INCLUDES SUPPLIES MON THRU FRI FOR 2 HOURS TUESDAY EVENINGS EACHDAY - AGES 8 TO 13 6:30 TO 8:00PM INCLUDES SUPPLIES JUNE 4 THRU JULY 2 JULY 15 THRU 19 PflPERMflKING 1:00 TO 3PM 60.00 SOUTH •dlay W®irlkgib®jpg 60.00 FIMO CLAY with Sally Duback BASIC CLASS WITH PAMELA options^ a.m.-noon each day): SCESNIAK • MEETS TWICE 1. July 8,9,10 LEARN TECHNIQUES OF BEADS & SHORE 2. July 15,16,17 BUTTONS & TILES & CONTAINERS • FIMO IS A MODELING COMPOUND 3. July 22,23,24 THAT HARDENS BY BAKING IN A 4. 3 consecutive HOME OVEN -AGES 12 TO ADULT Sats., July 13,20,27 YOU MUST BRING THE FIMO GWtlK Fee: $75 per workshop, COLORS YOU WISH TO USE plus materials SAT AUG 3 9:30 TO 12:30 for more information AND SAT AUG 10 9:30 TO 12:30 NEW OWNER call 242-3965 40.00 PRE-REGISTRATION AND PRE-PAYMENT NECESSARY 2627 S. KINNICKINNICAVE. weekly classes/LifeDrawing FOR ALL CLASSES atthe GraftotiMill ARTISTANDDISPLAY 9015 WEST BURLEIGH 442-9100 481-1820 SI3 RS MWF TUE & THUR 9 8 PM SAT 9-5 CLOSED SUNDAY fcK36 •* 996 ^ " " DURING SUMMER 27 <£asU*n 'Baaaafi v /»Journey through Art & History I Unique Gifts for all Occasions Arts Organizations: Gallery 110 North Please add Art Musde to Mill & North, Plymouth; 893-0079 Hand Made: your mailing lists Now-July 7 t Jewelry, Embroidery, Glass work, Paper, Scissors & Stone Juried Show Tribal Rugs a Pottery 901 W National Avenue July 12-August 25 j? ••••• Milwaukee, WI 53204 Charles Radtke, Furniture Attn: Megan Powell S SALE 414/672-8485 Grava Gallery ? TRIBAL RUGS 1209 E Brady; 277-8228 Please submit calendar listings for August/ June 7-July 26 * 40% OFF September in writing on or before July 10, Joe Korom, Paintings; Janie Hastings-Guplon, i VISA & MASTERCARD ACCEPTED MAKE 1996. Include dates, times, single ticket price, Sculpture t? Open Every Day 11:00 am - 7:00 pm location & phone number. Unless otherwise Sundays by appointment only stated, all phone numbers are area code 414. Haggerty Museum of Art I 3475 N. Oakland Ave. Marquette University, 13th & Clybourn; 288- < Tel.: 962-8998 For specific information cm events, please call 7290 listings in advance. Now-July 28 mvunfpy j»fff»^ otufyyi -v*Q7 h*if4W u Russian Art of the 19fh Century. Icons & Easter Eggs

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If you usually head north from Milwaukee in the summer just ID cool off in Wisconsin's upper climes, how about slopping on the way for an exhibit and a night of theatre instead of a Snickers, soda and bag of ice? Pull off of 1-43 at Kohler and visit Artspace, the contemporary exhibition space of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center located in the Woodlake complex. Mike Frederickson's portraits of friends in his favorite Milwaukee taverns, all from his Cars and Bars series, are on display there through June 9. After, from June 15 through August 18, Ohio artist Roberta Williamson fills Artspace with her Garden Work, jewelry dealing with personal themes. Continue to the JMKAC in downtown Sheboygan for a viewing of Ming Fay's Feast for the Eyes of large-scale sculptures depicting vegetables, seeds, and sprouts. Most are constructed from man-made materials, but isn't even fake fresh-grown foodstuff better for you on vacation than Frito-Lays? Also, relieve your road trip tensionb y taking in some theatre about families with your family. The JMKAC Summer Theatre presents Neil Recycled & Restyled Clothing Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs June 13-22 and The Dining Room by A.R. Gumey July 11- 20. Plan a longer stay for adult and children's art c lasses, or race in the Cardboard Boat Original • Affordable • Contemporary • Vintage Regatta July 4. Call the JMKAC at 458-6144 for details. Tailoring • Alterations • Custom Lincoln Art Pottery JACKIE B Water Street Antique Market Charles A Wushim Museum of Fine Arts 636 W Lincoln; 643-9398 808 N. Old World 3rd St. • 271-5931 2nd Floor 318 N. Water St. 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 636-9177 June22-July31 June 9-September 1 Wood fire '96 Just Add Water: Artists & the Aqueous World Miller Art Center City Grille 107 S 4th, Sturgeon Bay; 746-0707 1692-94 N. Van Buren; 273-2489 Now-June 13 Now-July 7 21 st Annual Salon of School Art Celeste Spransy, Alan Gass June 8-July 30 MASTERS Antonin Sterba 1875-1963 Constance Lindholm Fine Art 3955 N Prospect; 964-6220 Milwaukee Art Museum **eART Now-July 13 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Tfie Moon in June Now-June 23 July 21-August 26 Robert Ryman Prints, 1969-1994 of fine offset No Bod/s Perfect Now-August 25 John Singleton Copley in America Frogtown Gallery Now-September 1 PRINTING 8142 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor; 839-2566 American Landscape Photography from the June29-Julyl3 Permanent Collection art prints/NEWSPAPERS Windows of My Dreams: Emmett Johns, AcrylicJun e 7-August 18 MAGAZINES / brochures Paintings Recent Acquisitions Cocktails • Alternative Music July 20-August 2 July 12-Sepfember 8 Laura Meddaugh: Rooms With A View; Gloria The Milwaukee Poetry Slam catalogs/NEWSLETTERS Warrington Colescott Van Dixhorn: Earthen Ware Creations every 2nd and 4th Wednesday Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Galleria Del Conte 273 E Erie; 276-7889 of the month at 8:30pm 1226 NAstor; 276-7545 Now-June 22 Have Your Next Party Port Publications, Inc. Now-July 20 Milwaukee Through the Lens of Lyle Oberwise call 377-1250 for a quotation Contemporary Figures Group Show Now-July 20 At The Y-Not II Wisconsin Art from Jane Doud Collection 706 E. Lyon Street • 347-9972 28 Art Muscle NEW VEGETARIAN OU T THERE

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33 Julia Fish Madison Art Center M Julia Fish's paintings, recently exhibited at the Madison Art Center, suggest that she is a pedestrian who loiters in the expansive space of memory. It's a place where we go when something visually A familiar has completely lost us. A kind of place that has tactile surfaces, pungent odors, cooling breezes, regulating pat­ terns and slippery floors. A place we all Falling Photo, 1994 have seen. A private place with public Martin Kersels D access. HERO Commonwealth Gallery Her paintings bring brief messages, in the form of cropped images, from The idea of the hero has many associations: coura­ everyday crossings with her urban geous, noble, strong and too often male. It's also a big environment. Whether that is a mound sandwich. Most importantly a hero is mortal. Which is of grass, an asphalt shingle roof or a to say that hero is flawed, sometimes lumbering, bricked wall, the works are a quotidian goofy, bothersome, sneaky, discrete or dumb and sourcebook outlining our reliance on sometimes just plain regular. S mundane materials to support the little steps we take. At Madison's Common Wealth Gallery, the HERO exhibition promoted the anti-hero as its champion. Fish's works are invested in layered With a curious blend of pathetic banality and insightful surfaces, careful sfumato-like effects and complexities, the works gathered here were exemplary 0 a likeness to an accidentally wonderful models of our need to look within and celebrate our abstract snapshot. But, it's because these own heroic lives: To celebrate our simple needs and are such fastidious paintings that we desires while maintaining a close yet calculated don't see them in the same way that we distance from the struggles of the everyday. Thus, this might view an out-of-focus Jack Pierson show was closer to the anti-hero responding to his or N photograph. We look at them, admire her beeper than any heroic acts that might leave us in them and respond to them for the awe. labour they represent; for the time and concentration to pull such a benign Martin Kersels photographed himself (all 300 plus image out of the everyday and present it pounds) as he happily fell backwards on his ass. Can to the viewer in such a humble yet you imagine the thud of that fall? This gesture simply spectacular way. and effectively brings the ambiguities of natural phenomena, like the most recent Los Angeles earth­ Julia Fish asks us in the most unassum­ quake or just losing one's balance, into an understand­ ing way to stop and consider the rel­ able light. He helps us tap into embarrassment and evance of bitter cold and unbearable misunderstanding by allowing us a laugh at his own humidity, the sweet smell of a freshly expense. In so doing his gesture misleads us with the cut lawn or the beauty of a tiled bath­ illusion that the big fat guy will always be worse off: room floor. In so doing she uncovers an His flops will always be louder and his head always overstock of substance inherent in the harder than our own. Sucker. subtleties of the here and now that we may only live to regret missing. Balancing the scales opposite Kersels' mono-gesture is Alex Bag with her almost endless arrangement of Floor II, 1994 videotaped personalities. Monologue after monologue Julia Fish after monologue, Bag's role-playing of these slightly regular yet animated human characters leads us wading through muddied waters of young adult life. Looking for one's calling couldn't be more difficult with or without MTV and CNN. And, Bag humorously portrays those urgent if seemingly shallow concerns with a guiding light for the n'er-do-well in everyone. r^\

Tom Friedman and Arturo Herrera bring to the equa­ tion the contemplative stance required when confront­ ing simplicity in form and faith. Friedman's speck of shit on a pedestal is so hard to see that faith alone guides us to a belief in our own human cycles. Herrera, on the other hand, requests that our faith be drawn away from manipulative entertainment seeking moral grounding (i.e. Disney). He gently nudges us towards considering our own moral, personal and social desires with dispassionate formalism and straight-forward abstractions. lid Alison Brashaw rounds out the field with what may have been the most problematic inclusion to the show. Her portrait paintings of dogs weren't formally or conceptually good or bad. But the inclusion of dogs as the sentimental, obedient, ever supportive hero was a worthwhile addition to an exhibition that struck another blow to the fabled artist as demigod. After all, if the hero/anti-hero is really as crucial as this exhibi­ tion purports, then those dogs may have provided the y^j mortal comfort zone we need to accept its thesis.

— BRAD KILUM

Brad Killam is a Milwaukee resident.

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