“Pause/Connect: Photography in the WAM Collection” Opens at Warehouse Art Museum on Aug. 11

Milwaukee, Wisconsin – (June 27, 2023) – The Warehouse Art Museum presents “Pause/Connect: Photography in the WAM Collection,” running from Aug. 11 – Nov. 10, 2023, including works by Uta Barth, Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems and many others, most drawn from the museum’s collection.

With over 80 photographs and two videos, the exhibition is a select overview of how photographs shape our relationships — to ourselves, to each other and to the world around us. Photographs forge links to history and memory, connecting us to people and places that may no longer be directly accessible.

The camera’s ability to arrest the passage of time by extracting a single moment from the flux of daily life creates new perspectives on familiar sights. It also introduces unique visual phenomena, such as X-rays, objects suspended in mid-air and incomplete gestures or facial expressions.

To that end, “Pause/Connect” is arranged in thematic groups that encompass a variety of approaches. The pictures create vibrant conversations across history, geography and sensibility.

This exhibition and all programming events are free of charge and open to the public.

WAM will be offering a series of programs in conjunction with “Pause/Connect,” including an opening reception from 4 p.m. -7 p.m. Aug. 11 featuring a conversation with the curator.

A list of select artists from “Pause/Connect” is included at the end of this news release.

To keep up to date with WAM for all events and details, please visit us at WAMmke.org.

“Pause/Connect” is guest curated by Lisa Hostetler, PhD, an independent curator and art historian specializing in photography and modern/contemporary art. She previously served as curator in charge of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum, the McEvoy Family Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She earned her PhD from Princeton University with a dissertation on photographer Louis Faurer while working as a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Dates

“Pause/Connect: Photography in the WAM Collection”

Aug. 10 – Nov. 11, 2023

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Warehouse Art Museum | WAM – Background and Visitor Information

WAM is a private art museum that opened to the public in 2018 and specializes in modern and contemporary art. The permanent collection of over 7,000 works is international in scope while remaining personal at the same time, based on the vision of collectors Jan Serr and John Shannon. Dominant themes include figurative works, self-portraits, photography, monotypes, contemporary studio craft, and modern and contemporary Japanese art.

1635 W St Paul Ave | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Free and open to the public M-F | 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Phone:  414.252.0677 x110

Email: info@thewarehousemke.org

Website: WAMmke.org

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Select Artists in “Pause/Connect” 

Barth, Uta (German-American, b. 1958)

Bey, Dawoud (American, b. 1953)

Bielefeld, Lois (American, b. 1978)

Bourke-White, Margaret (American, 1904 – 1971)

Callahan, Harry (American, 1912-1999)

Coplans, John (British, 1920 – 2003)

Cypriano, Andre (Brazilian, b. 1964)

DuBois, Doug (American, b. 1960)

Erwitt, Elliott (American, born France, b. 1928)

Fraser, Ney Tait (American, born Zimbabwe, b. 1942)

Fuss, Adam (British, b. 1961)

Goldin, Nan (American, b. 1953)

Gowin, Emmet (American, b. 1941)

Hamilton, Ann (American, b. 1956)

Hardy, Bert (British, 1913 – 1995)

Hido, Todd (American, b. 1968)

Hine, Lewis (American, 1874 – 1950)

Ho, Fan (Chinese, 1931 – 2016)

Iturbide, Graciela (Mexican, b. 1942)

Kahn & Selesnick (American & British; Kahn, b. 1964, Selesnick, b. 1964)

Krupa-Vahdani, Frankie (American, b. 1991)

Leiter, Saul (American, 1923 – 2013)

Levitt, Helen (American, 1913 – 2009)

Mann, Sally (American, b. 1951)

McConnell, Andrew (Irish, b. 1977)

Meatyard, Ralph Eugene (American, 1925 – 1972)

Miyazaki, Kevin (American)

Morgan, Barbara (American, 1900-1992)

Oppenheim, Kristin (American, b. 1959)

Parks, Gordon (American, 1912 – 2006)

Parr, Martin (British, b. 1952)

Pickering, Sarah (British, b. 1952)

Raja, Nirmal (American, born India)

Renaldi, Richard (American, b. 1968)

Riboud, Marc (French, 1923 – 2016)

Ruff, Thomas (German, b. 1958)

Sammallahti, Pentti (Finnish, b. 1950)

Sawada, Tomoko (Japanese, b. 1977)

Searles, Charles (American, 1937-2004)

Serr, Jan (American, b. 1943)

Sherman, Cindy (American, b. 1954)

Shimon & Lindemann (American; John Shimon, b. 1961, Julie Lindemann, 1957 – 2015)

Sohier, Sage (American, b. 1954)

Terada, Mayumi (Japanese, b. 1958)

Thomas, Hank Willis (American, b. 1976)

Thomsen, Sonja (American, b. 1978)

Vassilev, Jacko (Bulgarian, b. 1951)

Weems, Carrie Mae (American, b. 1953)

Wegman, William (American, b. 1943)

Winogrand, Garry (American, 1928 – 1984)

Woodman, Francesca (American, 1958 – 1981)

Worsham, Susan (American, b. 1969)

Yamamoto, Masao (Japanese, b. 1957)

Yoon, Rina (Korean American, b. 1965)

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. It has not been verified for its accuracy or completeness.