This week’s care package explores the various ways artists have used writing/language/words in their artistic practice—and invites you to try making your own art! Artists like Barbara Kruger, Lawrence Weiner, Jenny Holzer, and Glenn Ligon have famously utilized phrases to convey meaning in their work. A local example of… Read More
Tadashi Nakayama Girl in Sunflower Fields (1972.1.1) And Girl with Flowers (1972.1.2) Both wood block prints The two pieces being presented today are both by the same artist from Japan who never went to UWM. But how did they ever get into… Read More
This week’s care package will take you on a cosmic adventure of art in space! First, we start in the Earth’s stratosphere with Makota Azuma’s Exobiotanica project. In this project, Azuma and his team recreate the still life at nearly 100,000 feet by launching a weather balloon with a bouquet of flowers from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. He also launched… Read More
Donald Bendel Ceramic Horn Clay 1969.2.1 Visual Description: Circular horn with some parts glazed and blue and orange checkered coloring. Inconsistent width of horn with a bell and mouthpiece. In addition to our many two-dimensional works, we also have a handful of three-dimensional ones, like this… Read More
This week’s care package is themed Performance and Place. Milwaukee is host to many renowned performers and we want to introduce you to two of them. The first artist is UWM’s esteemed film professor Portia Cobb. In 2018, Cobb reimagined Fo Wilson’s sculpture Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities with her performance Rooted: The Storied Land, Memory,… Read More
Mary Bunde Die Karten Spieler Gouache 1990.3.1 We here at the UAG would like to remind you to practice social distancing and NOT play cards like the people depicted in this painting! Visual Description: Gouache painting of two people sitting at a table playing… Read More
Easter Egg Hunt This week’s care package is themed Easter Egg Hunt. Through google, the Rijksmuseum offers a “street view” tour of their impressive collection allowing you to digitally wander their halls! Can you find all the artworks on our list? Are you up… Read More
Garden This week’s care package is themed Garden, based on the exhibition Garden from Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Here is a link to the show: Garden. Be sure to click on the artwork you enjoy as you can zoom in to see more detail. Our favorite piece in… Read More
Malena Magnolia Portrait of a Chameleon Fashionista – Michael Charcoal, Acrylic, Water Media Collage on Panel 2013.1.1 (from the Celebrate Queer Milwaukee Series) Visual description: This piece is a vertical, partially geometric work done predominantly in shades of orange, tan, green, white,… Read More
David Lenz Winterscape of Milwaukee River Pastel on paper 1983.21.1 Visual Description: Pastel drawing of a cluster of trees in wintertime with a bridge in the background. Hi there, I’m Emily Hankins and I am the Assistant Manager at the Union Art… Read More