New ‘Collateral Damage’ art exhibit shines light on mental health by Pat Dillon
Artist Victoria Charleson is “a stigma warrior.” For as many years as she can recall, she has struggled with co-occurring mental illnesses, searching for tools to mask what she couldn’t escape. Despite living a high-functioning life, Charleson remembers many...
Barber, printmaker, professor finds humanity beyond race
Faisal Abdu’Allah, a professor and the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art at UW–Madison, is a printmaker and a trained barber whose artworks explore race, culture and identity. His most recent work is a 7-foot limestone statue of himself that he designed and was...
‘Somewhere Between’ at Tandem Press depicts a changing landscape
Tandem Press is pleased to host “Somewhere Between,” a thesis exhibition by Carley Schmidt, an MFA candidate in the School of Education’s Art Department and current Tandem Press curatorial project assistant. Schmidt’s work explores place as part of a narrative about...
Figuration and Fragmentation in Marfa by Lauren Klotzman
Wrong’s Let Me Hear Your Body Talk pairs artists Joey Fauerso [MFA ’01] and Gyan Shrosbree in a dialoguing contrast of dayglo and black and white, united by a mutual interest in fractured figuration. This show is one of piecey portraiture, whether witnessed in...