Spackle's last show!

Thank you to everyone who supported our gallery. If you have not heard, "Perfectionless" will be the last exhibition at Spackle. It runs until Sunday, January 18th.

Perfectionless

Join us as Spackle Gallery opens its final exhibition: Perfectionless, featuring prints, drawings and installation by Milwaukee based artists Allison Lindner, Sam McMahon and Nick Wieczorkowski. This show opens on Friday, December 12th from 6pm to 10pm with an on-site artist collaboration starting at 8 o’clock. There will also be a closing reception on January 16th from 5pm to 10pm for winter gallery night.

According to Jean Arp, much of his work was created employing “the laws of chance,” explaining that chance is “simply a part of an inexplicable reason, of an inaccessible order.” Embracing ideas of chance allows an artist to create at anytime from anything and imbues images with their own language of meaning. These artists work with chance and free association to investigate how the personal extends to the universal and the result are works deep with honesty and insight.

Allison Lindner’s prints are minimal compositions exploring social issues by reducing their components to simple, childlike imagery. Her handmade book of plentiful meals juxtaposed with the repeated and bland image of macaroni and cheese illustrates the result of rising food costs; and the reoccurring icon of a house facing oppositional forces situates the individual in mounting domestic crises.

Sam McMahon’s drawings and installation work are reflections of the depths of the human psyche. Working with a practice of intuitive almost ritualistic drawing, he discovers images existing in his mind since childhood. In his installations, different kinds of associations are revealed as he arranges tableaus from collected objects. Sam expresses that “art is not about a precious final product…it’s about experience.”

Experience is at the very center of Nick Wieczorkowski’s work. His work is constantly affected by his environment as he steps, spills and spits on it. He lets the moment shape each work, saying “I don't know what I'll create when I start…I don't really care. How I create, the process and the composition are the things that interest me.” The final product represents an experience and journey where each personal act and interaction with it was deemed significant.

Meet Your Neighbor

Spackle Gallery proudly presents Meet your Neighbor, featuring the work of Andrea Avery. The show opens for Fall Gallery night on Friday, October 17th from 5-10pm with an artist talk at 7:30pm and runs through November 30th.

Combining her background of traditional needlework with postmodern elements of collage and appropriation, Andrea Avery concocts playful, nonlinear narratives. Each piece represents a personal reaction to events affecting people from her hometown; and although each piece has a personal connection, Avery aims to make these stories universal through her use of material and open ended imagery.

Using idealized figures and ambiguity, she explores the “complexity of human relationships, birth, procreation, and death” by presenting “recognizable imagery and everyday objects [such as] paper dolls and their clothing” so the viewer may gauge the meaning based on his or her own experiences and associations. The result is an exploration of one’s own connection and attention to community through the collection of human stories and experiences.

Meet Andrea Avery at www.ajavery.com

Spackle Gallery is located at 2674 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue, Milwaukee, in the Bay View neighborhood; gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm. Contact info@spacklegallery.com for additional information.

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:

LAST SHOW!!!


December 12th - January 18th.
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