Join the David Barnett Gallery for an Evening With The Rogues on December 4th! Doors open at 4:30 and the talk will start at 5. This artist talk will feature four Rogues Artist Group members Gwen Granzow, Lee Grantham, Tree Lind, and Jan Smith. Come explore the process and thoughts behind these fantastic and mindful painters and sculptors. The Rogues is an artist collective formed in 2018 with a mission to provide a dynamic vehicle for the sharing of creative ideas, techniques and resources of our members through social gatherings, meetings, critiques, competitions and exhibitions. They put on several shows a year in the attic of The David Barnett Gallery on 1024 State Street. Enjoy complimentary wine and a truly edifying experience meeting the wisdom and work these artist have to share. This event will be standing room only unless a chair is requested. Please email or call the David Barnett Gallery to RSVP a chair if you need one. We look forward to seeing you there!

Gwen Granzow has spent decades refining her sense of color, texture, and composition. She’s explored printmaking, collage, fused glass, textiles, metal sculpture and furniture making. She is driven to attempt nearly anything creative, which is evident in her work. Gwen combines the influences from her many experiments, and professional experience as a graphic designer, to create unique and varied works, currently focusing on acrylics, mixed media and metals.

Jan Smith in her own words: As an artist, I am passionate about impact. I want my work to resonate with a viewer as something that is evocative, serving as a call to action and a catalyst for change. In examining the impact of climate change, I use the threatening appearance of landscapes to signal alarm and warning, or the serene bucolic reference for landscape that may be threatened. The pleasant fleeting scene is only that, fleeting and if not cared for, it may be gone.

Tree Lind in her own words: My love for metal casting started in my Sculpture 1 class at UW-Oshkosh in 1997. After graduating with a Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture degree, I moved to Florence, Italy to study for a short time. When I returned, I enrolled in UW-Milwaukee’s graduate program in Sculpture and continued casting metal. Since then, I’ve participated in several artist residencies including two in Italy and one in India, have shown my worked locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally and have conducted iron and aluminum pours all over Wisconsin. I taught Sculpture at UW-Oshkosh from 2007-2012 and UW-Whitewater from 2012-2025. My studio is in Chilton, WI where I have a small foundry and have hosted metal pours attended by artists from all over the United States.

Lee Grantham in his own words: I work in a reverse painting technique with acrylic on plexiglass. My paintings are very much influenced by the Chicago Imagist group known as the Hairy Who. I liked their use of color, patterns, imagery and subject matter. My paintings are about color, patterns, imagery and subject matter. The title is very important in my work and drives the creative process in developing the work of art. Once I have a title, I will begin with a line drawing the size of the plexiglass. I then decide what the border, background, and main figure are going to be. I do color studies because once the painting is started, I do not get to see the painting until it is finished. Painting in reverse presents its own challenges and allows me to tap into some of my personal idiosyncrasies. My art is not based upon some ideological or philosophical meaning; my art is an expression of what I love to do and love to share with others.