TCD’s Guide to Gallery Night

Just when you thought Milwaukee couldn’t get any hotter this summer, Gallery Night and Day is upon us, and the arts scene is on fire. As usual, TCD offers a few hand-picked suggestions for your artful viewing this weekend — from performance to urban installations, there’s no reason to stay indoors this Friday night.

Walker’s Point/ Third Ward

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts
Quiet
839 N. 5th St.
Friday: 5- 9 p.m.; Saturday 12 – 5 p.m.

Quiet is a group exhibition featuring work that addresses quietude and solace in our day to day lives. Artists Melanie Pankau, Kevin Giese and Tyler Meuninck will be displaying work that offers an antidote to the noise and seeming chaos of the fast-paced world that surrounds us.

Astrix Gallery
The Eating of Burning Brimstone is a Fake Performance
524 W. National Ave.
July 29, 6 – 10 p.m.

Portland artist Allison Halter returns to Milwaukee, recent video work and a new performance in tow. Halter’s multi-disciplinary work spans performance, video, film, sound, and photography. Halter seeks opportunities to confront and confound the expectations of the audience and highlight the daily performativity we all assume.

The summer Gallery Night show showcases new work created by Kagel School students in collaboration with local artists inspired by Aztec culture, including a dance performance by students featuring authentic Aztec Headdresses by De Riah Boutique Salon.

Studio 420b
As It Happens
420 S. First St.
Friday: 5 – 9:30 p.m.; Saturday: 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Drawings, paintings, urban art and expressions of daily life and stories from the community of artists at Studio 420b, featuring work by Sean Bodley, Mark David Gray, Fred Kaems, Lindsay Marx, Ryan Parks and LeeAnn Wacker.

Gallery 326
Neon Zebra House Party
217 N. Broadway, 2nd Floor (above Swig)
July 29, 5 – 10 p.m.

Flux Design teams up with artists David Najib Kasir, Kyle Sartorelli and Elliott Flaws to feature selected prints from Redline’s “Art with a Steamroller” event, plus an interactive video installation by Jason Belmonti. Dance the night away with sweet jams from a special guest DJ, or kick it old school with a few beloved arcade games by The Three Joes — only two bits a game!

Downtown

Roger Cleaves “Loud Mouth” at Dean Jensen Gallery

Dean Jensen Gallery
A Dozen or Something Twenty-Somethings
759 N. Water St.
Friday: 6 – 9 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

A sprawling and visually schizophrenic exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography and installations by younger talents. Among the artists will be some whose work may already be familiar, including Joseph Bolstad, Huey Crowley, Mayuko Kono, Max Senesac and Claire Stigliani. They will be joined by several artists who will be making their first appearances in the space, including Dane Haman, Arnold Martin and Josh Nemec.

Haggerty Museum of Art
Crossroads: Art on 27th and Wells
753 N. 27th St. [Off-Campus Installation/Tower Theater]
Friday: 5 – 9 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Crossroads features window installations by Wisconsin artists Hans Gindlesberger, Rafael Francisco Salas, Michael Velliquette and Rina Yoon. The themes of the window installations reflect the exhibition’s urban location and focus on neighborhood reinvention and revitalization. Read Kat Murrell’s take on the project here.

Gallerie M
Whistle in the Dark
139 E. Kilbourn Ave.
July 29, 5 – 9 p.m.

Raychael Stine’s precarious paintings with displaced trash bags, fabric strips and regal portraits are unsettling in their enticement. Building gummy waves of paint into allegory, Stine places dogs at the fulcrum of beguiling, tenuous narratives. Stine writes: “Relationships are consequential, unfinished, at stake, and multiform.”

*Lead image: Food for the Moon by Raychael Stine. 

Danceworks
Steamroller Rolls On! 
1661 N. Water St.
July 29, 6 – 9 p.m.

Danceworks offers an interdisciplinary art experience this Gallery Night, with steamroller prints by Milwaukee artists (created as part of a collaboration with Redline in June), a dance by Danceworks’ Pre-Professional Dancers, musical score by Dave Collins and performances by the Steamroller Musicians.

The Pfister Hotel
Artist in Residence: Shelby Keefe
424 E. Wisconsin Ave.
July 29, 5-9 p.m.

Join Shelby Keefe in her working studio and watch as she paints to her own high energy music and dance the night away with live music or a DJ.

East Side/Riverwest

Work by Gregory Klassen now on view at INOVA/Kenilworth

INOVA/Kenilworth
Work by Gregory Klassen and Martha Glowacki
2155 N. Prospect Ave.
Friday: 12 – 9 p.m., Saturday: 12 – 5 p.m.

Inova’s East Gallery features recent paintings from Milwaukee artist Gregory Klassen. Klassen’s work displays bold color and gesture on a large scale, and the “natural” processes of gravity, evaporation, spillage, liquid pooling and osmosis play a significant role in his images. A student of Gerhard Richter’s Dusseldorf studio in the early 1990s, Klassen shares that seminal postmodern artist’s preoccupation with the peculiarities of abstraction.

In the West Gallery is Martha Glowacki: Private Science. Glowacki focuses on scientific discovery in the Victorian era, with a personalized take on the field. Her finely crafted sculptural work allows an eccentric entry point into various subjects like astronomical observation, bird migration, and the many natural “curiosities” that once commonly populated parlor cabinets.

The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Objects for Objects: Work by Venetia Dale
2220 N. Terrace Avenue
Friday & Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.

Artist Venetia Dale employs traditional metalsmithing techniques to “address issues of production, labor, heritage, and representation.” In Dale’s work “plastic baskets, shower caddies, shopping totes and consumer disposables are sourced, fragmented, abstracted and re-imagined,” resulting in sculptural works that explore themes of handmade value in a global economy.

Peltz Gallery
Remarkable Women
1119 E. Knapp St.
Friday: 6 – 9:30 p.m., Saturday: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

The 21st Annual Remarkable Women show features paintings, collage, original prints, wall hangings, small sculpture, by more than 35 Contemporary Women Artists. View beaded pieces by Anne Kingsbury, 3D work by Lesley Dill, and etchings by Kara Walker. Also featuring new Work by Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Leslie Vanson, Kay Knight, Frances Myers, Carol Pylant, Della Wells, Diane Levesque, Gladys Nilsson, Evelyn Patricia Terry, JoAnna Poehlmann and more.

The Tool Shed
Smitten
2427 N. Murray Ave.
July 29, 5 – 9 p.m.

For Gallery Night, The Tool Shed premieres a collection of raw, untouched 35mm portraits by Matthew Vrabel.