The Steenbock Gallery Takes "Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin"!

Steenbock Gallery to Open Tyler S. Ensrude Exhibit

“Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin” exhibition inspires another look at familiar scenes of Americana.

“Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Tyler S. Ensrude, will be on display February 6, 2012 to March 9, 2012 in the Steenbock Gallery.  An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, February 10, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

            “Southwest Wisconsin is my home,” says Ensrude, “Everything I see here reminds me of that. I was born and raised here, but I also had a second home for nearly a decade during the second Bush Administration, in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan… Around the time I returned to the Midwest is when I started to notice trends and patterns in the landscape that I couldn’t remember seeing while I was growing up here or on my short visits home over the years… The once familiar landscape had assumed a strange veneer, a curious overlay fraught with juxtaposition and contradiction… In my photographs, I try to capture a piece of something unique to inspire another look, and a different way of seeing something familiar.”

To view the artist’s work, please visit http://tylerensrude.com/

New Year, New Steenbock Exhibition! "Decomposing" by Ting-Li Lin

 

Steenbock Gallery to Open Ting-Li Lin Exhibit

“Decomposing” exhibition breaks down complex architecture

through black and white photography.

“Decomposing,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Ting-Li Lin, will be on display January 4, 2012 to February 3, 2012 in the Steenbock Gallery.  An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, January 13, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

“The purpose of decomposition, in general, is to break a complex idea into small, easy-understood concepts,” says Ting-Li Lin. Instead of perceiving the world as a whole, I find it fascinating to just look at the elements of it, and thus the creation of the Decomposing series. In this series, I applied the idea of decomposition to architecture photography. Not only do I pay attention to the forms and shapes of the interior of buildings, I also choose the light sources carefully so that the interior is luminous in a certain way.”

To view the artist’s work, please visit http://tinglilin.com

New Exhibit! Tyler Robbins: SUBURBAN

Stop by the Steenbock Gallery this week to check out our newest exhibit, "Suburban" by Tyler Robbins.

“Suburban is an identity and a state of mind,” says Robbins. “The suburbanite archetype is not revered, nor is it regularly claimed by those who fit the role. My images are an open-ended narrative. They serve as an allegory for suburban existence . . . [But] if my images fail to become symbols for all that is suburban, they can at least represent what really matters: A well-manicured lawn, beer, grilled meat, and the weekend.”


To view the artists work, please visit http://www.tylerrobbins.net/

Please join us for an artist's reception on Friday, July 8, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

This exhibition will run from July 4 to August 12.