New Exhibit! Lisa Frank: THE PATTERN THAT CONNECTS

The newest Steenbock Gallery exhibit opens this week! "The Pattern that Connects" features photographs by Lisa Frank.

“My artwork is influenced by my professional background as a textile designer,” says Frank.  “The activity of taking pictures almost daily in the woods makes for a visual diary – it illuminates my relationship with the natural world, and documents changing evidence of the ordinary and the astonishing.  Season after season I rely on nature’s comforting repetition – the familiarity and security that comes from knowing – seeing! – that soon after the appearance of the jack-in-the-pulpit comes the anticipated morel and the resulting mushroom risotto.  This creates the true ‘pattern’ of my work: the inter-relationships between all of nature’s corresponding parts, where one thing begets another, one day becomes a year and then two... This personal, arbitrary, asymmetrical time chart is deeply resonant for me and key to my understanding of what it means to be alive and of this world.  My patterns are constructed using Photoshop from these daily snapshots, and from scanographs composed in my studio.”

To view the artist’s work, visit www.lisafrankphotography.com

  

Join us on Friday, May 27, for an opening reception from 6-9PM.

This exhibition will run until from May 23 until July 1.  

2011 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

January 17- February 25 

Amy Mietzel's Cherokee Middle School Students TAKE SOMETHING ORDINARY

February 28-April 8

NATIONAL EXHIBITION, juried by Andy Adams of Flak Photo

April 11-May 20 

UW-Madison PHOTO STUDENT SHOW 

May 23-July 1 

Lisa Frank THE NATURE OF PATTERN  

July 4- August 12 

Tyler Robbins SUBURBAN

August 15-September 23 

Samantha VanDeman LOST SCHOOLS

September 26-November 4 

Kendall McMinimy SUMMER ECLIPSED

November 7- December 30
People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942
sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society

More information about each exhibit is always available at our Facebook page...just click the logo to the right! Be sure to visit the artists' websites, and to come back during exhibits for interviews with the artists and reviews! It's going to be a gorgeous exhibition season!