The Green Gallery is excited to participate in the inaugural Door County Contemporary art fair this week, June 5th through 9th. Once again we are proud to collaborate with our friends at MISAKO & ROSEN to present two booths with six artists in total. This project is being held at a Jim Sheilds designed building at Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. The fair will bring together artworks from twenty galleries from around the Midwest and world for a contemporary art experience that has promise to be hyper-contemporary in content and uniquely Wisconsin in location and community. We hope you can join us this week.
The Green Gallery will show new work by Michelle Grabner (Fox Point, WI), Yui Yaegashi (Tokyo, JP), and Brit Krohmer (Milwaukee, WI). Grabner’s small oil on bronze paintings are cast from jar lids and adorned with the artist’s signature gridded gingham pattern. Grabner’s framing of familiar found domestic objects invites us to revisit patterns and grids from our everyday, with elevated materials, delicate brushwork, and a dry dose of Wisconsin humor. In compliment, Yaegashi’s small scale paintings explore grid and pattern structures through palettes and compositions inspired by industrial fiber productions. They feel familiar but also mysterious in their dissociation from the everyday. Yaegashi’s hand is always present, allowing subtlety and nuance to reveal an inner dimension, hidden beneath the visual structure. There is theater in Krohmer’s objects as they suggest history of use and the erosion of time. Again they are welcoming and familiar objects but also mistranslated; artifacts with invented pasts, coalescing together in an open-ended narrative. Krohmer mediates on a rustbelt vocabulary; mental reflections on utilitarian fragments of days past.
MISAKO & ROSEN will show Trevor Shimizu (Dobbs Ferry, NY), Richard Rezac (Chicago, IL), and John Riepenhoff (Milwaukee, WI). Shimizu’s lush surfaces present ambiguous representations of nature. An economy of brushwork here freshly captures the outside world and flirts with ways it has been depicted in the past. These paintings draw us in with visual splendor but quickly point to their matter-of-factness. Rezac’s work comprises of refined and elevated objects and materials. His highly finished compositions are emotive abstract objects of high design. The tension Rezac’s work creates has an expressive tenor while maintaining an austere reverence. Riepenhoff’s paintings observe the magnitude of Wisconsin skies via an organized system of mark making. There is an attempt to negotiate the known and unknown, vastness versus something raw and pragmatic. Riepenhoff’s painting is both expansive yet compressed, aware of its rectangular occupancy while seeking beyond.
You can find The Green Gallery at booth 7 and MISAKO & ROSEN at booth 6. We look forward to visiting with you this week up in Door County.
VIP Vernissage
Thursday, June 5, 4-7pm
Public Hours
Friday, June 6 - Saturday, June 7, 11am-6pm
Sunday, June 8, 11am-5pm