Art
University gallery
The UWL Gallery displays works by student, faculty, regional and nationally-known artists in all areas of art. In conjunction with the gallery program, the Department of Art presents a visiting artist series of lectures, demonstrations and workshops. Gallery Director, Deborah-Eve Lombard and student workers manage gallery operations.
The gallery is on the first floor of the Center for the Arts located at the corner of 16th and Vine on the UWL campus. You can find a campus map here.
SPRING 2024
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UWL All Student Juried Art Exhibition (ASJAE)
22 March – 12 April 2024
Reception & Awards: Friday, 22 March, 5:00 PM-7:30 PM (Awards announced starting at 5:30 PM)
Exhibition entries due online: Wednesday, 8 March, midnight
Jurors: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt and Mars Patterson
Anwar Floyd-Pruitt is an artist, curator, and puppeteer from Milwaukee, WI. He holds a BA in Psychology from Harvard University (2000), a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (2017), and an MFA (2020) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Chazen Museum of Art, Edgewood College, Mount Mary University, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art recently hosted solo exhibitions of his collages, paintings, and abstract mixed-media self-portraits. In addition to leading puppet-making workshops, Floyd-Pruitt writes and performs a family-friendly singalong called Hip Hop Puppet Party. Recently, he was awarded a grant from the Jane Henson Foundation to engage youth in puppetry. Floyd-Pruitt is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, and he maintains a studio at the House of RAD (Resident Artist Doers) in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood. Anwar is presently Artist In Residence at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel in downtown Milwaukee.
https://www.anwarfloydpruitt.com/
Mars Patterson is an artist, master naturalist, herbalist, environmental educator, and land steward. Patterson, known as Mars, uses interdisciplinary arts of fiber and eco-mixed media to highlight and reflect on the phenology of nature and the human experience with the intent to grow, inspire, and educate.
Using reflective and reconnecting processes, Patterson works to communicate visually through the intersectionality of art, plants, soil, and community. Recently as Artist-in-Residence at Central Library, Madison, Patterson encouraged community participants to feel comfortable enough to think deeply about their identity as related to their surroundings – past, present, and future. Large-scale visuals altered the energy of the Bubbler Room space at Central Library in real-time to explore identity, personal stories and nature.
Artist Talk: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 4:00 PM, Annett Recital Hall
Reception with Floyd-Pruitt and Patterson follows presentation (UWL Art Gallery).
Eagle Visiting Scholar/Artist Grant
3.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
19 April – 12 May 2024
Reception: Friday, 19 April, 5:00-7:30 PM
Gallery Talks: TBA
Gallery hours
| Monday - Thursday | 1:00 - 8:00 pm |
| Friday - Sunday | 1:00 - 5:00 pm |
| Holidays, UWL Spring Break and Summer | * Closed |
- The University Art Gallery is open during exhibition dates.
- The University Art Gallery is open extended hours during events at Toland Theater. Call the Gallery at 608.785.8230 for more information.
- There are paid parking spots on the streets surrounding The Center for the Arts (including 15th, 16th and Vine Streets)
- The elevator at the Vine Street entrance to CFA will take you to the first floor.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
PAST Exhibitions & Events
SPRING 2024
1.
MAKING AND RETELLING: Nicole Havekost & Chris Rackley
22 January – 8 March 2024
Artist Talks: Friday, 9 February 2024, 4:00 PM, Annett Recital Hall
Reception: Friday, 9 February 2024, 5:00-7:30 PM
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
In Making and Retelling, Nicole Havekost and Chris Rackley work with scale and time through labor-intensive processes to examine the body and memory.
Havekost’s monumental soft sculptures of headless figures are hand-sewn forms are covered with red, matted threads and dark masses of eye hooks, evoking dried blood, sutured wounds, and unruly body hair. The bodies are awkward and lumbering as they defiantly occupy the space where they rest. Havekost is fascinated by bodies and the way they can be simultaneously glorious and gross. Drawing upon personal experiences of the feminine body, motherhood, and aging, Havekost imbues her figures with fragility and ferocity by foregrounding the process of making and mending. She assembles her sculptures using irregular seams and ragged flaps of wool skin, creating bodies that cannot be tamed.
Chris Rackley is interested in the power of objects to serve as memory triggers that maintain or re-establish continuity between our past and present selves. He creates obsessively detailed miniature recreations of architectural elements based on childhood memories of the shopping malls where his father worked. Small sculptures become source material for drawings and video works and address themes of isolation and imagination. By processing the same subject through different mediums, Rackley mirrors the way memories are recombined in new ways each time they are recalled. Although the spaces Rackley recreates are anchored in a specific time and place, they are instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever visited a mall.
FALL 2023
1.
Dale Wedig: COPPER
11 September – 6 October 2023
Artist Talk: Friday, 6 October, 4:00-5:00 pm, 116 CFA
Reception: Friday, 6 October, 5:00-7:00 pm, UWL Art Gallery, 100 CFA
An exhibition of hammer formed metal objects created from copper sheets and inspired by the inherent possibilities of this unique element and material. Each piece of art documents how the artist used hundreds of thousands of hammer blows to impose his will upon an unsuspecting sheet of metal—an art process that requires knowing where to start and when to stop!
2.
Len Davis: BRAINSTORMING
19 October – 19 November 2023
Artist Talk: Thursday, 19 October, 4:00-5:00 pm, Annett Recital Hall
Reception: Thursday, 19 October, 5:00-7:00 pm, UWL Art Gallery
Workshop with Len Davis #1: TBA
Workshop with Len Davis #2: TBA
3.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
1 December – 17 December 2023
Artists Talks: TBA
Reception: Friday, 1 December, 5-7:30 pm
Senior Art majors share their current work. Each semester, graduating Art seniors present their art in a group exhibition to learn about exhibiting, promoting and engaging audiences with their art.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
28 April - 14 May 2023
Reception: 28 April, 5-7 PM
3rd Congressional High School Art Competition
12 April – 23 April 2023
Reception: 23 April, 3:30 PM
https://www.congressionalinstitute.org/congressional-art-competition/
Sewn in Memory: AIDS Memorial Quilt Panels
February 27 - April 7
Reception Tuesday, 28 February, 7pm
Monday, 27 Feb
- 1:10pm, costume shop - Joe Anderson will lead a make a quilt panel session for all who would like to contribute
- 2:15pm - Virtual talk with Jada Harris, from the AIDS Memorial Foundation. Meet in Room 116, or join virtually
Tuesday, 28 Feb
- 11am, Room 116 - Marc Manke talk, "Fighting an Epidemic of Silence: Giving Voice to the AIDS Epidemic with Graphic Design"
- 6:00pm, Annett Hall - AIDS Memorial Quilt panel discussion
- 7:00pm, UWL Art Gallery – exhibition opening reception
Art Talk 16 February, 5:30PM
Annett Recital Hall
Roald Gundersen: The Art of Climate Restoration
Architect Roald Gundersen discusses work from his thirty-year relationship with forests. Hear how forests have become Gundersen’s studio, muse, and hope for the future.
https://wholetrees.com/roald-gundersen-on-slow-architecture/
UWL All Student Juried Art Exhibition
3 February - 22 February
Reception & Awards: 3 February, 5-7 PM
Jurors: Nicole Havekost & Chris Rackley
Close Observation: Art & Science in the Anthropocene
15 September-16 October 2022
Artist Talk: Dr. Jasmine Pradissitto, Thursday, 15 September, 6:30 PM, Annett Recital Hall
Reception: Thursday, 15 September, 7:30-8:30 PM, UWL Art Gallery
Working across ‘disciplines’ in a variety of modes and materials, 5 researcher/artists express the hope that visual communication can point the way to a more ecologically sustainable future. From scientific illustration, to interpreting nature and even using new materials that literally detoxify, this exhibition asks us to take a close look at living in the Anthropocene.
Art in the exhibition by:
Pat Hidson, Barrett Klein, Bethann Moran-Handzlik, Jasmine Pradissitto, Jennifer Williams
Luke Achterberg: Convolutions
21 October-22 November
Artist Talk: 4:15 PM Thursday, 27 October, Annett Recital Hall
Reception: Thursday, 27 October, 5:15-7:00 PM, UWL Art Gallery
Luke Achterberg, Quirk, automotive paint on Stainless Steel
Senior Art Student Exhibition
2 December—18 December
Reception: Friday, 2 December, 5-7 PM, UWL Art Gallery
3rd Congressional High School Art Competition
14-24 April 2022
Reception: Sunday, 24 April, 1:30-3pm
Each spring, a nation-wide high school arts competition is sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Artistic Discovery Contest is an opportunity to recognize and encourage the artistic talent in the nation, as well as our congressional district.
The submissions from students within Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District are currently exhibited in the UWL Art Gallery. The first-place entry will be displayed for a year in the U.S. Capitol alongside the other contest winners from across the country. The second-place entry will be displayed in the 3rd Congressional District Washington, D.C. office and the third and fourth place pieces will be displayed in 3rd Congressional district offices.
SPRING 2022 Senior Art Exhibition
29 April-16 May 2022
Reception: Friday, 29 April, 5-6:30pm
Winter's Spring: An Altere Garten / An installation by Leslie Iwai
2022 All Student Juried Art Exhibition
Bill Fiorini Award, Emily Dillon, Framed Photo of a Natural Landscape
Ruth Ann Knapp Award, Carson Kreger, Hat in the Wind
All-Student Art Exhibition Award, Olivia Hartig, flower-queen
Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Painting, Mattie Blanck, Pink Fashion Portrait
Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Drawing, Molly Kalous, Too Much?
Catherine Crail Art Award, MacKenzie Steelhammer, Identity Twins
Louise Drumm Art Award, Alyssa Bronk, The Head
Carol Hutchins Winther Art Award, Josh Wolfe, When is Something Resolved?
Richard Koehler Art Award, Trinity Lee, Sunset in Key West
Milton and Margaret Kosbab Art Award, Sidney Scherwinski, Zoom Noodles
James Quillin Art Award, Andie Saterbak, Women in Art History
Ray Sherin Art Award, Sidney Scherwinski, Mansplain, Manipulate, Manifest
Rakha/Ewert Art Award, Shealyn McMahon, Excess of Identities
FALL 2021 Senior Art Exhibition: The Eleventh House
Friday, Dec. 3 through Sunday, Dec. 19. The exhibit included art by Nicole Goodwin, Aaron Ickler, Nicholas Kielman, Jessie Solberg, Tekla Nimmow, Kacey Mortenson, Addy Johnson, Holden Schafer, Stephen Schostak, Emily Bonovetz, and Samantha Annen.
2021 UWL Art Faculty Exhibition
Flowage 1, Zachary Stensen, collage with relief-printed fabric
Prints, drawings, metalwork, photography, ceramics, digital art, paintings and mixed media.
Faculty artists exhibiting: Joshua Doster, Kate Hawkes, Lisa Lenarz, Linda Levinson, Deborah-Eve Lombard, Marc Manke, Brad Nichols, Jarred Pfeiffer, Randy Reeves, Sierra Rooney, Allison Schneider, Zachary Stensen, Jennifer Williams and Sangjun Yoo.
This exhibition exemplified current research and creative endeavors by the members of the department. In conjunction with this exhibition, pairs of art faculty led Gallery Talks on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon, Oct. 5, 7, 12, 14, 19 and 21.
Brad Nichols: SATIRICAL STEEL
Exhibit is a commentary on technology, social media
A virtual gallery exhibit at UW-La Crosse provides a satirical view of today’s prevailing social media impact and technology use. Please view Brad's commentary on his work in the video at the top of the page.
Art Department Chair Professor Brad Nichols says his idea for the forged and fabricated steel pieces featured in the show was born in about 2005 when his then 6-year-old son asked him to draw a picture. While his son wasn’t impressed and crumpled up the drawing, Nichols got an idea from his work — that it would transfer well into steel.
Nichols experimented with that idea with his work, eventually culminating during a sabbatical in fall 2019. Please watch Brad's commentary video above. See more of the story...
Spring 2021 Senior Art Exhibition: Inertia // Momentum
VIEW THE INERTIA // MOMENTUM EXHIBIT
Due to Covid-19 gathering restrictions on the UWL campus, the Senior Art students (Amber Boesel, Sarah Conley, Athena Gates, Katheryn Horne, Kyra Litwin, Ellie Schaap, Keegs Sturdevant) will be having an online exhibit of their artwork May 1 - November 1, 2021 (link will be available soon). They will also be having a physical exhibit their artwork at Grounded Patio Cafe in downtown La Crosse, 308 Main Street, May 2nd - May 31st. Be sure to check it out! More of the story...
2021 UWL ALL-STUDENT JURIED ONLINE EXHIBITION
VIEW THE ONLINE EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION ARTISTS
| Amber Boesel | Megan Borgmeyer | Maiya Brandt | Bevan Breaux |
| Kyra Bruesewitz | Ellie Burbach | Sarah Conley | Emily Dillon |
| Gretchen Fischer | Marlis Green | Katheryn Horne | Aaron Ickler |
| Abby Johnson | Alyssa Johnson | Emilee A. Kress | Colin Lake |
| Caden Lien | Kyra Litwin | Shealyn McMahon | Tekla Nimmow |
| Jessica Plienis | Ryan Rateike | Ellie Schaap | Jessica Solberg |
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Keegs Sturdevant |
Cora Uidl | Amanda Wciorka | Josh Wolfe |
EXHIBITION AWARDS
Bill Fiorini Award for Metals - Ellie Schaap, Gear
Ruth Ann Knapp Award for Metals - Emily Dillon, Life and Death
All Student Art Exhibition Award - Ryan Rateike, Twisted Nature
Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Painting - Keegs Sturdevant, Side Effects
Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Drawing - Marlis Green, Candid of Sarah
Catherine Crail Art Award - Bevan Breaux, “Boat Party”
Louise Drumm Art Award - Alyssa Johnson, Golden Gateway
Carol Hutchins Winther Art Award - Cora Uidl, Befallen creature
Richard Koehler Art Award - Amber Boesel, Sick of Myself
Milton and Margaret Kosbab Art Award - Aaron Ickler, Rime Ice
James Quillin Art Award - Kyra Litwin, A True Wisconsin Landscape
Ray Sherin Art Award - Colin Lake, Maybe This is It
Rakha/Ewert Art Award - Tekla Nimmow, The Straw Reef
BLIND DATE
We are excited to announce the Fall 2020 Senior Art Student Exhibition, Blind Date. The five Senior artists, Cassidy Herman, Maria Landgraf, Grace Hintze, Elizabeth Leeck, and Bailey Burgard, will showcase their artwork online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Please go to https://sway.office.com/O3gkFpUYhHPlOlIP?ref=Link to view the virtual exhibit. Your feedback to the artists is greatly appreciated!
OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE! - Virtual Exhibition
UW-Eau Claire's Foster Gallery is showcasing sustainability and resiliency themed student artwork in a virtual exhibition, Our House is on Fire! Artwork was submitted by University of Wisconsin System students, and it addresses social, environmental, or economic issues related to the climate crisis.
Our House is On Fire! coincides with the Foster Gallery's current exhibition, The Nature of Our Disposition. Through both exhibits, student curator, Caleb Carr, is working to address the active threat of climate change. The virtual exhibition will be on view through December 4, 2020. - Amanda Bulger, UW-Eau Claire
Six of our UW-La Crosse art students have work in this virtual exhibition: Kyra Litwin, Bailey Burgard, Abby Johnson, Maria Landgraf, Chelsea Markland, and Maggie Armbrust.
HIGHLY IMPROBABLE: Senior Art Student Exhibit
Covid-19 may have forced us to separate, but it hasn’t stopped students from making art!
Join us for the first ever online Senior Art Exhibition! You are invited to view the exhibition, share your reactions, and help our seniors celebrate their graduation in Spring 2020.
Click on the link below to view the exhibit:
http://www.uwlax.edu/go/HighlyImprobable
Even though we weren’t able to exhibit in the campus gallery, you are an important part of the Department of Art community.
All-Student Juried Art Exhibition
Congratulations to all of the artists who submitted their work and those chosen for display in the 2020 All-Student Juried Exhibition.
Artwork consisting of sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, metals/jewelry, ceramics, drawing, illustration, textile and mixed media work will be displayed. A total of 167 works were submitted by 74 student artists, with all majors allowed to participate. The judges selected 75 works of art to include, representing 60 student artists.
The jurors for this year's exhibit were John Engelbrecht and Kalmia Strong from Public Space One in Iowa City, IA. Read more of their story here.
2020 Award Winners:
Mitch Bunting - Louise Drumm Art Award
Keegs Sturdevant - All-Student Art Exhibition Art Award
Ben Christensen - Carol Hutchins Winther Art Award
Jessica Hubley - Ray Sherin Art Award
Alex Keller - Catherine Crail Art Award
Rachel Alderton - Milton and Margaret Kosbab Art Award
Katie Olson - James Quillin Art Award
Sophie Fox - Richard Koehler Art Award
Bevan Breaux - Bill Kader Art Award
Molly Korinek - Dan and Ruth Devitt Award
Elyse Weber - Dan and Ruth Devitt Award
Teresa Smith - Bil Fiorini Award
Abe Packard - Ruth Ann Knapp Award
Victoria Campbell - Rakha/Ewert Art Award
Changing Currents: The Art of Truman Lowe
31January-21 February 2020
Internationally-acclaimed artist Truman Lowe’s work returned to UW-La Crosse for exhibition
Artist Truman Lowe had a love for water — whether floating out on it in a canoe or using his artistic talent to replicate its quiet stillness or rushing movement.
It is fitting that the next exhibition of Lowe’s art is at a place where the waters of three rivers meet — in La Crosse. The city is also home to Lowe’s alma mater, UW-La Crosse, a place close to his heart, according to family and friends. Lowe, an internationally-acclaimed artist, died in March 2019 at age 75.
The exhibition celebrating his life and work runs Jan. 31-Feb. 21 at UWL. Jo Ortel, professor of Art & Art History at Beloit College, and author of "Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe", will be giving a talk about the artist on Thursday, January 30th, at 6PM in the Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts, with refreshments to follow.
An opening reception will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at the University Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, 333 N. 16th St.
Senior Art Student Exhibit
Graduating senior art students present their capstone artwork. Participating senior artists include: Sam Ayers, Hannah Ottevaere, Amelia Sutherland, Marin Bernhagen, Lyndsey Siebers, Lillian Myhre, and Kaylie Hanson. Click here for more details.
Drawing the Future: November 1-15, 2019
UWL ALUMNI INVITATIONAL: OCT 4 - 26, 2019
UWL Alumnus Harold Lee is a New York-based artist who was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He works across printmaking, photography and experimental media. He earned a degree in studio art from UWL in 2017.
UW-La Crosse Alumnus Harold Lee’s artwork is so large — with the average piece spanning 40 inches by 60 inches — it can easily fill a wall. It explores the complexity of people’s inner emotions and his own struggles in life. He hopes viewers take a long and hard look at that complexity and how he creatively represents it during UWL’s upcoming Art Alumni Exhibition. Click here for full story.
Participating artists:
- Jenn Bushman, ’06
- Jim Dunn, ’13
- Ellie East, ’16
- Eric Hansen, ’14
- Joseph Keenan, ’10
- Harold Lee, ’17
- Kat Liu, ’13
- Sam Posso, ’14
- Joel Starkey, ’03
- Elizabeth West, ’17
Equilibrium
September 6-26, 2019
Equilibrium was an exhibition highlighting work from Wisconsin artists who are also art educators. Media represented, included printmaking, metalsmithing, encaustic painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and photography.
Participating artists:
Quenten Brown (West Salem High School, West Salem, WI)
Tim Znidarsich (Jack Young Middle School, Baraboo, WI)
Angie Szabo (Fort Atkinson High School, Fort Atkinson, WI)
Carissa Brudos (Summit Environmental Elementary School, La Crosse, WI)
Frank Juarez (Sheboygan North High School, Sheboygan, WI)
Maria Mason (American School of Doha, Qatar - on extended leave from teaching at North Woods International Elementary)
Tim Brunn (Freedom High School, Freedom, WI)
Senior Art Student Exhibition - CLARITY
April 19-May 12, 2019
Graduating Senior Art students display their work.
Opening ceremony: Friday, April 19, 4:00-6:00PM
WI 3rd Congressional District High School Exhibit
March 25-April 14, 2019
Closing ceremony: Sunday, April 14, 1:30 - 3:00PM
64 high school artists from Central and Western Wisconsin competed in the 23rd Annual Third Congressional District Art Competition. The 1st place entry will be displayed for one year in the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. The 2nd place entry will be displayed in Congressman Ron Kind's office in Washington D.C. The 3rd and 4th place entries will be displayed in Ron Kind's district offices in La Crosse and Eau Claire.
Congressman Ron Kind and his wife Tawni Kind were present at the closing ceremony on Sunday, April 14, to announce the winners. Ben Labuzzetta from Holmen High School won 1st place for his piece, "Golden Hour" (shown below).
2nd Place - Cheyanne Mattie, Logan High School, Untitled; 3rd Place - Xia Moua, Logan High School, Mixed Feelings; 4th Place - Nola Bantle-Felt, Central High School, Melancholy
Honorable Mention: Jordan Giles - Cadott High School; Abbey Jacobs - La Farge High School; Lewis Bingol - Central High School; Natalie Nordmann - La Farge High School; McKenzie Bell - Hillsboro High School; Grace Widner - La Farge High School; Nidhi Shenoy - Holmen High School; Ace Glise - 7 Rivers Community High School.
Jodi Reeb - A Love For Bees Wax
April 1-April 5, 2019
Minnesota artist, Jodi Reeb, arrived on campus for her encaustic art exhibit, April 1 - 5. Thursday, April 4, she gave her artist talk on the grant she received to pursue this project. On Friday, April 5, she did two workshops in which attendees learned how to do an encaustic piece of art work and were given the opportunity to create an encaustic piece.
All Student Juried Art Exhibition
February 22-March 14, 2019
An exhibition of sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, metals/jewelry, ceramics, drawing, illustration, textile and mixed media work. A total of 162 works were submitted by 61 student artists, with all majors allowed to participate. The judges selected 58 works of art to include, representing 42 student artists. Special recognition was given to 14 works.
Jurors were David Wells, Gallery Director at Edgewood College, Madison, and Jeremy Chen, MFA-Assistant Professor at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
2019 Award Winners:
Rachel Alderton - Louise Drumm Art Award
Emiko Wilks - All-Student Art Exhibition Art Award
Louise "Lulu" Zuba - Carol Hutchins Winther Art Award
Emily Dillon - Ray Sherin Art Award
Carolyn Myers - Catherine Crail Art Award
Lydia Reilly - Milton and Margaret Kosbab Art Award
Jenna Arts - James Quillin Art Award
Austin Vanburen - Richard Koehler Art Award
Andrea DeBauche - Bill Kader Art Award
Hunter Hulley - Dan and Ruth Devitt Award
Taylor Finn - Dan and Ruth Devitt Award
Katlyn Buika - Bil Fiorini Award
Erica Ells - Ruth Ann Knapp Award
Kläre Kirchner - Betty Kendrick Art Award
Linda Levinson: Incidents of Light
Artist Linda Levinson: “I have begun a series of traditional black and white and cyanotype photograms (photographs made without the use of a camera) of books when I had access to a massive scholarly library, ranging from 19th century classical texts to contemporary small-press volumes of poetry, with many volumes devoted to philosophy and religion. The thousands of books on the shelves of this library impressed me, realizing that it would be impossible for me to read even a partial portion of them in my lifetime. I began to wonder that if I touched each book, and held it in my hands, I would come to possess another kind of knowledge from that act; a transference of energy that I might feel, or a mystical experience emanating from each book if I made a photogram of it. “I began by selecting books whose titles attracted me, such as: The Writings of Anna Freud, The Sanskrit English Dictionary, the King James Bible, Tristan Tzara’s Selected Poems. I have retained the titles of the books and the order in which I made the prints as my titles for the images; for the very titles of the books I used resonate with the inner source of light I have culled from them. “To make the photograms I placed the book that I had selected on the surface of photo-sensitive paper, exposed it to light and developed it. I called the residual image that appeared after development a ‘pneumatic’ trace, a presence of an absence. “This process results in an image that captures the imagination by transforming the actual object-hood of a book into a visual abstraction in monochrome. When successful, the print is capable of evoking the mystery of the essence of the object itself and at times, even hints at its subject matter. In this process I explore the specificity of photography — as I have done in different modes throughout my career — convinced that its essence is most directly manifested when photography does not primarily or merely represent the way things look.”
Senior Art Student Exhibition
November 30-December 12, 2018
Graduating Senior art students present their current work.
Wisconsin Metal NOW
November 2-November 11, 2018
A Celebration of contemporary Art metal production in Wisconsin.
David Barnhill
Michael Bernard
Jeffrey Clancy
Teresa Faris
Lisa Gralnick
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Erica Meier
Masako Onodera
Vincent Pontillo-Verrastro
Andrew Redington
Aric Verrastro
UWL Art Faculty Exhibition
October 4-October 25, 2018
Pao Houa Her: My Mother's Flower
September 6-September 27, 2018
Photographs that explore the enduring presence and significance of flowers in Hmong culture.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
April 13-May 4, 2018
Graduating senior art students present their current work.
Wisconsin 3rd Congressional District High School Exhibition
March 22-April 8, 2018
Local high school students celebrate art and creativity.
All-Student Juried Exhibition
February 23-March 8, 2018
Students from diverse disciplines exhibit their best new work.
China Changes Everything :: Made in Beijing
January 25-February 10, 2018
Fine art prints explore cultural exchange, technology and East/West links.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
December 1-13, 2017
Karen Terpstra: A Cheval Retrospective
November 3-18, 2017
Art Professor Karen Terpstra’s retrospective in the University Art Gallery included a diverse body of her artwork — pieces dated back 20 years to recently completed ones. The exhibition included sketches, drawings reworked with watercolors or oil crayons, reworked giclee prints, and ceramics.
Terpstra’s lifelong passion has been horses, “The ‘horse’ has always been and always will be a major influence and the subject matter of my utilitarian and conceptual works."
Adrienne Loh: Suis ton coeur (Follow your heart)
Chemistry Professor Adrienne Loh’s photographs were taken on an iPhone 6S and a Fuji X100S and feature elements of equestrian life. Loh hopes viewers of her photography feel a sense of the space — physical and emotional — that those who live with and love horses occupy.
“Maybe they will be inspired to look a little more closely at those things that make up the essence of the places we inhabit and the experiences we have,” she explained.
What a Relief: Traditional to Experimental Printmaking at Tandem Press
Tandem Press studio stands at the forefront of experimentation and new developments in the field of printmaking. Since 1987, Tandem and artists have pushed the boundaries of printmaking, exploring new materials and techniques, and producing highly ambitious projects. This exhibition of prints made since 2001 showcased the collaborations between master printers and established artists including Suzanne Caporael, Robert Cottingham, Lesley Dill, Jim Dine, Sam Gilliam, José Lerma, David Lynch, Judy Pfaff, and Alison Saar.
Laura Moriarty: Pay Dirt
September 7-23, 2017
Sculptural paintings and works on paper explore the processes that shape/reshape the earth.
Senior Art Student Exhibition
April 13-May 5, 2017
Wisconsin 3rd Congressional District High School Exhibition
March 24-April 8, 2017
All-Student Juried Art Exhibition
February 23-March 3, 2017
An exhibition of sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, metals/jewelry, ceramics, drawing, illustration, textile and mixed media work. A total of 128 works were submitted by 57 student artists, with all majors allowed to participate. The judges selected 60 works of art to include, representing 41 student artists. Special recognition was given to 14 works.
Jurors were Heather Delisle, a professor at UW-River Falls, and Jon Swanson, curator at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona.
2017 Awards: Dale and Betty Kendrick All-Student Art Exhibition Award — Grant Broeckel • Carol Hutchins Winther Art Award — Sarah Heyer • Ray Sherin Art Award — Kara VanKirk • Catherine Crail Art Award — Pa M. Yang • Milton and Margaret Kosbab Art Award — Ellie DeMuth and Jeffery DeMuth • James Quillin Art Award — Sofia Kozidis • Richard Koehler Art Award — Liz Alexander • Bill Kader Art Award — Mathew Sigrist • Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Painting — Sylvia Neumann • Dan & Ruth Devitt Award in Drawing — Theresa Kasper • Bil Fiorini Award — Tom Sheely • Ruth Ann Knapp Award — Stewart Stehly • Betty L. Kendrick Award — Gemma Zahradka • Louise Drumm Award — Jacqueline Obst
Other students with art selected for this exhibition: Rachel Ajack, Connor Claus, Alydia Downs, Lauren Follansbee, Rachel Geniesse, Tristen Hayes, Alexa Henson, Hunter Hulley, Brianna Julian, Chynna King, Libbie-Sienna Miller, Lexi Mitchell, Ivy Molls, Hayley Mosson, Baley Murphy, Ryan Naughton, Kasey Pesch, Carolyn Peterson, Chloe Pittelko, Grant Sachs, Emily Sander, Sarah Schultz, Ryan Send, Briannae Theodore, Elizabeth West, Hannah Wise
UWL Alumni Invitational Exhibition Spring 2017
January 27-February 11, 2017
UWL Art graduates exhibit post-graduation work
Senior Exhibition Fall 2016
December 2-December 14, 2016
Graduating senior art students present work from their time at UW-L
The Mississippi: A Sense of Place, Works by Leo Smith
November 4-November 20, 2016
Faculty Exhibition
October 7-October 23, 2016
UWL Art Faculty showcase their work
Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay
September 9-September 25, 2016
A metaphorical retracing of the imprisonment and forced assimilation of American Indian peoples. Re-Riding History website here.
Senior Exhibition Fall 2015
Sabrina Bruehling, Nicole Finch, Scott Jablonski, Natalie Kotnik, Kayla Linde, Rebecca Marks, Danielle Nolden, Kelsey Walsh
Lois Bielefeld: Androgyny
September 18–October 3, 2015
Artist Lecture: Friday, September 18, 3-4 pm, Room 116 CFA
Senior Exhibition Spring 2015
April 17–May 8, 2015
3rd Congressional District High School Exhibition 2015
March 27-April 11, 2015
All Students Juried Art Exhibition 2015
February 13–March 7, 2015
Jurors: Phillip Ahnen and Carolyn Payne
Full list of student artists and award winners is available here.
Senior Art Student Exhibition-MISC.
November 20-December 16, 2015
Reception: November 20, 5-7 pm
Artist Talks: December 4, 9 am
SABRINA BRUEHLING, NICOLE FINCH, SCOTT JABLONSKI, NATALIE KOTNIK, KAYLA LINDE, REBECCA MARKS, DANIELLE NOLDEN, KELSEY WALSH
Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2015
Recent work by the UW-La Crosse Department of Art Faculty
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Abhyasa: Recent Works by Kim Matthews
October 17–November 8
Lovesickness with Trees
September 12–October 4, 2014
Sophia Heymans and Garrett Perry, SooVAC in La Crosse. (Exhibition courtesy of Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN)
Senior Exhibition Spring 2014
April 18-May 9, 2014
3rd Congressional District High School Exhibition
April 10-12, 2014
Hosted by Congressman Ron Kind and Tawni Kind
All-Students Juried Exhibition 2014
March 7-April 5, 2014
Justin Quinn: Tales of space and time
January 31-February 22, 2014
Senior Exhibition WANTED: Artists of Conviction
November 22-December 11, 2013
Erasure
October 25-November 16, 2013
Curated by Roger Boulay
Justin Kimball (Florence, MA)
Hunter Lewis (Chicago, IL)
Colleen Merrill (Lexington, KY)
Adrienne Salinger (Albuquerque, NM)
Tina Tahir (Chicago, IL)
Izel Vargas (Miami, FL)
"Erasure" brings together work from six artists across the United States who use subtraction, erosion or removal to create meaning. The exhibition includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, works on paper, video and installation by both established and emerging artists. Themes pertain to identity, American traditions as well as memory.
Biomorph: Contemporary Metals Invitational
September 20-October 12, 2013
Yuyen Chang (Madison, WI)
Daniel Dicaprio (Richmond VA)
Catherine Grisez (Seattle, WA)
David Huang (Sand Lake MI)
Evan Larson (Detroit, MI)
Ana Lopez (Denton, TX)
Sharon Church (Philadelphia, PA)
Jennifer Williams Terpstra: Transcendence/Immanence: New Encaustic Paintings
June 28-September 14, 2013
Related Activity: Encaustic painting workshop, Saturday, June 29 9 am-4 pm