The Flyover Report: works by Annushka Peck
Show opening: Friday, Sept. 5th 6-10 with an artist talk at 7pm
Show runs through October 12th
Statement from Annushka:
The experience of travel is inherently a 'luminal' (i.e. threshold or transitional) state. In this state, one can often find themselves in a position of vulnerability. Yet, it is also the case that within the vulnerability that such changing circumstances create, great opportunities for growth and transcendence also can be found. When the trajectory of the event can be anticipated, or understood prior to engagement however, as is often the case with "tourist" experiences of place, the opportunity for growth becomes limited by the pre-ordained routes of travel and package excursions.
A corollary to this can be found in "armchair tourism" – an experience of 'place' derived by engagement with a mediated source, rather than a physical encounter. Such 'tourism' often occurs within the comfort of one's own home, though it may occur in any setting that offers easy familiarity, such as a hotel room television. This exploration of other cultures, places or events, provides the observer with a pre-selected viewpoint, a vantage point that is not arrived at through one's primary experience, but a secondary, pre-viewed and pre-digested understanding of the particular place, culture or event.
This body of work is based, in part, on the recent experience of traveling to and from Ankara, Turkey via Frankfurt, Germany. The images used in this series are part of a larger series of television photographs taken while experiencing an unintended layover in Frankfurt, Germany.
This series of pieces is intended to cull these different sets of experiences: the frustration of direct physical experience with the limitation of images of events and cultures one may only ever experience via mediation."
Redefining Pattern
Fashion, Prints, & Paintings By:
- Alexander Kain
- Daniel David Kaiser
- Steve Sorrentino
Opening Reception August 1st, 6-10pm Featuring Hair Designs by Lara Haefele & rad jams by DJ Macabre
Fashion is dominated by different forms of pattern. Surface pattern, pattern in construction, the pattern of trends and pattern in display. Within these patterns of fashion, society has created a standard of beauty and design unique to our time, place, and modern culture.
To push these standards, these artists have deviated from and redefined the idea of fashion and pattern to create new, fresh and progressive designs and concepts. Kain creates unique and custom fashions for dolls pushing ideas of design and collection on both an intimate and tangible scale.
Kaiser and Sorrentino mirror themes of fashion, pattern, model, and beauty in their work to celebrate and criticize the contemporary fashion industry and to comment on the relationship between the pattern and the model by integrating and dissolving them into each other. These artists demonstrate both how art influences fashion and how fashion influences art.
Re-vision: New Photographic Works
June 24th, 2008
Spackle Gallery presents the work of four Milwaukee-based artists:
- Tom Harris
- Emiko Franzen
- Josh Martines
- Dominic Rodriguez
These Milwaukee photographers have positioned themselves within environments that have been neglected, discarded, or unkempt. It is the vision of these photographers to seek out and compose imagery that is beautiful and novel from sullied spaces. The resulting work presents a fresh examination of various derelict landscapes and creates a sense that one is in the presence of relics or records of modern ruins.
May 20th, 2008
Spackle Gallery is excited to present New York-based artist Delaney Jane Larson and Spackle’s own Tara Klamrowski for our May/June exhibition. 'Peculiar Creatures, Charming Beasts' opens Friday, May 23rd, with an artists’ reception from 6-10 pm and runs through June 22nd.
Delaney Jane Larson was born in Colorado, and then moved to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts, where she received her BFA. Larson currently lives and works in New York, and has shown at Studio #212, Thomas Werner Gallery, and the AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York. Primarily working in gouache, ink, and collage, she creates ‘ridiculous scenarios’ and ‘outlandish narratives’. Larson says of her own work, “I concoct curios ruled by nonsense, love, unexpected reveries, and wishes. Myriad peculiar creatures and charming beasts live in simple spaces, where they find themselves in absurd situations.”
In a recent interview with Milk Magazine (Hong Kong), Larson said: "I want to invoke curiosity and a sense of wonder with my art. When as a child I dreamt of being a lot of different things. I wanted to be an actress, a scientist, an explorer, and also an artist. With my art, I can be all those things. I can be a comedian and I use all I know about the natural world and science, experimenting with materials and ideas."
More information about Delaney Jane Larson can be found on her website: planejaneproject. com.
Tara Klamrowski is a Milwaukee-based painter and one of the five founders of Spackle Gallery. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BFA.
“I consider myself a narrative painter; using characters and objects of my own creation, I arrange them in strange yet generic environments to explore feelings of isolation, loneliness, and identity,” says Klamrowski.Klamrowski has shown at Art Miami – Aqua, the Milwaukee International Art Fair, and Hotcakes Gallery.
gallery hours
Friday, Saturday Sunday: 12p.m. - 5p.m.
Monday-Thursday: By Appointment Only
