Chicago

Recent paintings by Jeff Darrow

Exhibition through February 25

Style, Innovation and Vision: Five Perspectives on a Design Collection

Since the first exhibition in the Brooks Steven Gallery of Industrial Design in 1993, MIAD has accumulated a significant design collection for exhibition purposes. Recently, the college embarked on a program to create a new digital catalog of this collection that is visually rich and of enormous educational relevance.

Now through March 1, 2012

Brooks Stevens Gallery

New Exchanges: Evolving Visual Ideas & Forms

Constantly changing, New Exchanges includes work created onsite, a revolving series of guest curators, audience-oriented interactive comment areas, and dynamic forums for creating dialog and sharing ideas. Explore the concepts informing the creation and process of an artwork, and the responses it elicits. .

Opening January 20

Fred Stonehouse - Marschmeister

In his first solo show in Milwaukee since 2003, Fred Stonehouse explores the theme of the marsh as metaphor for his creative process. New work including paintings and works on paper will be included in this major exhibition. Opening reception and artist talk on January 7 from 1 to 4 pm and artist reception on Gallery Night, Friday, January 20, 6 to 9 pm.

January 7 through February 4

Artist's Reception: Saturday, January 7 from 1 - 4 pm. Artist's Talk at 2 pm

Andy Burgess - Collages / Urban Landscapes

Using vintage ephemera such as advertisements, photographs, and postcards, Andy Burgess creates geometrical collages of cities with a Pop Art twist.

January 7 through February 4

In the East Gallery

Charles Munsch - Playing With Fire

Inspired by the nature surrounding his home in rural Wisconsin, Munch's linear and patterned paintings evoke questions and suggest situations of man's place in the world.

Stephanie Trenchard & Jeremy Popelka - New Work 2012   

In their first exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery, glass artists Stephanie Trenchard and Jeremy Popelka will be showing New Work. Trenchard casts and paints objects to form a narrative within her work. Popelka focuses on reliquary architectural forms that refer to rural farming communities.