APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 1, 2012
The Center for Photography at Madison is pleased to issue the call for our second juried national exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery. As Madison's primary photographic arts organization, we are pleased to partner with Graeme Reid, Assistant Director at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, in presenting an exhibition of contemporary photography that will offer chosen photographers an opportunity to exhibit in Madison’s first gallery exclusively dedicated to the photographic arts. Specifically designed to allow participation by all working photographers this exhibit will provide a dialogue between emerging photographers, students, professionals, educators and artists in Madison and across the country. In addition to cash prizes, the winning photographer will be awarded a future solo exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery.
Download the 2012 application forms
Questions? Contact the Steenbock Gallery!
Monday, April 16, 2012
"SEE THE LIGHT" at the Steenbock Gallery
Check out the newest exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery, featuring work by the Madison College Associate Degree Photography Students!
Friday, March 16, 2012
SEEING RED Reception Tonight, 5-9 PM at the Steenbock!
Come to see new works by UW-Madison Photography Students! 5-9 PM tonight at the Steenbock!
Friday, February 10, 2012
Reception for "Another Look at Southwest Wisconsin" Tonight!
Opening Reception tonight at the Steenbock, 6-9 PM! Come check out our "Another Look at Southwest Wisconsin" and congratulate photographer Tyler S. Ensrude! Refreshments, friends, and a beautiful new show. Hope to see you there!
Monday, February 6, 2012
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
“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.”
Friday, January 13, 2012
Reception for "Decomposing" Tonight!
Opening Reception tonight at the Steenbock, 6-9 PM! Come check out our first exhibit of 2012, "Decomposing" by Ting-Li Lin! Refreshments, friends, and a beautiful new show. Hope to see you there!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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.”
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Check Out Our Final Exhibition of 2011! "People of the Big Voice"
Steenbock Gallery to Open “People of the Big Voice"
“People of the Big Voice” exhibition highlights Charles Van Schaick's photographs of the Ho-Chunk
“People of the Big Voice,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Charles Van Schaick from the Wisconsin State Historical Society collection, will be on display November 7 to December 30 in the Steenbock Gallery. A reception will be held on Saturday, November 12, from 1:00 to 4:00 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.
This exhibit coincides with the release of "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942" by Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree and George Greendeer published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Steenbock Gallery Announces the Opening of "SUMMER ECLIPSED" by Kendall McMinimy
Steenbock Gallery to Open Kendall McMinimy Exhibit
“Summer Eclipsed” exhibition explores the complex relationship northerners have with Winter,
a struggle that defines the character of the region.
“Summer Eclipsed,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Kendall McMinimy, will be on display September 26 to November 4 in the Steenbock Gallery. An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, September 30, 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.
“These images are intended to draw the viewer into the snowy isolation—to feel the effect of a long winter, and to place a high value on what summer will bring,” says McMinimy. “However chilling the landscape, some viewers will see hope in the vestiges of summer. Others may feel the jeer of summer relics left out by insensitive procrastinators, caught off-guard by an early onslaught. Some may see garish summer monuments demanding our unseasonable attention, tainting the pristine landscape… For those of us who live within the upper-Midwest snow belt, winter can be a long struggle: fighting the snow, fighting the inertia, and fighting the hopeless isolation that comes with the frozen overlay… My course through the snow and ice became my passage through inertia, isolation and confinement I had previously succumbed to in winter. In finding this path, I also found a glimpse of the true character of the region: that winter’s fury strengthens resolve and winter’s stillness affords introspection.”
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Check out the Newest Show at the Steenbock Gallery - "LOST SCHOOLS" by Samantha VanDeman
Steenbock Gallery to Open Samantha VanDeman Exhibit
“Lost Schools” exhibition portrays interiors and objects found in abandoned schools.
“Lost Schools,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Samantha VanDeman, will be on display August 15 to September 23 in the Steenbock Gallery. An artist’s reception will take place on Sunday, August 21, from 1:00 to 5:00 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.
“About a year ago, I started making frequent trips to Gary, Indiana,” says VanDeman. “During that time, I started to photograph the interiors of abandoned structures. I wasn’t sure why I became so fascinated with the buildings: I just knew that I wanted to photograph them before they were gone. Lost Schools is an ongoing photographic series that evolved from my many explorations. I began this project by looking at empty rooms and remnants that remained in the spaces. Looking deeper, I began photographing… [and] examining how these objects provide links to memory, nostalgia and loss. I’m interested in how quickly these schools were forgotten about… as if one day, the teachers walked out and didn’t look back… With the destruction of these schools, any memory of these places will be erased from time. Photographs and artifacts will be all that remain.”
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