Now Hanging: Winter Gallery Night
Where to go for your free art fix this weekend
Mayuko Kono’s Ghost Dog VII
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With temperatures and the economy in a deep-freeze, Milwaukee’s Winter Gallery Night on Friday and Saturday is a cultural stimulus package you can afford. All the shows are free and most galleries offer wine, cheese, and all the crackers you can handle. The 50-plus venues—ranging from museums and galleries to restaurants and banks—can be a bit overwhelming, so Decider’s done the dirty work for you and hand-picked the crème de la crème of the Gallery Night offerings.
Dean Jensen Gallery: Big, Big Bangs/Small, Small Bucks
There are 100 works of art priced at or under $750 and created by 41 artists with ties to Milwaukee. Pieces not to miss are Joseph Bolstad’s Vanitas II, Mayuko Kono’s Ghost Dog VII, Katheryn Martin’s Knot, and John Riepenhoff’s TYME Machine. (Friday 6-9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.)
INOVA: Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Exhibition
This exhibit showcases seven Milwaukee artists who received the state’s most prestigious fellowship in 2008. Check out the installations by Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen, Colin Mathes, and Kevin Mayazaki. (Friday 12-9 p.m.; Saturday 12-5 p.m.)
The Armoury Gallery: Western States
Highlights include work from Austin artist William Hundley, San Francisco artist Colleen Sanders, and Milwaukee’s own Colin Matthes. (Friday 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 12-5 p.m)
Haggerty Museum of Art: Stop. Look. Listen.
The Haggerty brings together 13 video artists from all over the world, including Denmark’s Mads Lynnerup and Finnish artist Salla Tykkä. (Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.)
DWR Milwaukee Studio: Cheap Thrills 2
Twelve Milwaukee artists are selling their art for around $100. Pick up a print by: James “Jimbot” Demski, Kristopher Pollard, and The Little Friends of Printmaking. (Friday 5-9 p.m.)
Cramer-Krasselt: Time-Based Media
Eighteen local filmmakers, from student to seasoned professional, fill nine rooms with everything from animations to documentaries to experimental films. Don’t miss Bobby Ciraldo and Andrew Swant’s Zombie Killer and Marc Tasman’s East Side Dregs. (Friday 6-9 p.m.)
Blue Ant Gallery: New Works
Milwaukee painter Craig Pete’s circus sideshow banner-inspired works will be featured in this relatively new art space. (Friday 5-10 p.m)
Elaine Erickson Gallery: Sympathetic Fibers: Recent Prints and Drawings by Rina Y. Yoon
MIAD professor Rina Y. Yoon’s large-scale prints are collections of hundreds of delicate marks that come together to create systems similar to those found in the human body. (Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Tory Folliard Gallery: New Work and Streetwise
This exhibit features work from five Wisconsin artists, including local favorites Clare Malloy and Kendall Polster, aka Weld Guy. (Friday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.)
Urban Ecology Center: Returning to Earth
Make a point of seeing award-winning landscape photographer Robert Lewis Smith’s images shot along local waterways. (Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design: Personal Culture: New Art from Latin Americans
A show of artists from Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and Ripon, Wisconsin. Don’t leave without seeing Milwaukee artist Santiago Cucullu. (Friday 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Tulip Restaurant
Third Ward Turkish restaurant Tulip features the large-format landscape photos of Waukesha artist William Lemke. (Friday 5-10 p.m.)
Fasten Designer Collective: Garbage and Glue
Fasten presents the found-object sculptures works of Becky Tesch and the oil paintings of Erika Wolf, both Milwaukee artists. (Friday 6-9 p.m.; Saturday 12-7 p.m.)
Fratellos Waterfront Restaurant: Burlap Spikes
Recent MIAD graduate Colin T. Dickson created large burlap cones and will position them throughout the restaurant. (Friday 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.)
