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  • Artists

    • Herman Aguirre
    • Lois Bielefeld
    • Mark Brautigam
    • Steve Burnham
    • Tracy Cirves
    • Bernard Gilardi
    • Skully Gustafson
    • Thomas Haneman
    • Pat Hidson
    • Sharon Kerry-Harlan
    • Norbert Kox
    • Romano Johnson
    • Jerry Jordan
    • Ashley Lusietto
    • David Niec
    • Rosemary Ollison
    • Mark Ottens
    • Nirmal Raja
    • Rafael Francisco Salas
    • J. Shimon & J. Lindemann
    • Della Wells
    • M. Winston
    • Christopher T Wood
    • Shari Urquhart

  • Current Exhibitions

    • RecomposeTodd Mrozinski and Angela Piehl

  • Wisconsin Prison Art Exhibition

  • Past Exhibitions

    • Richard Knight, Lauren press release
    • BALM
    • Mary Nohl, Lucia Stern exhibition
    • Romano Johnson, fall exhibitions
    • Lois Bielefeld: To commit to memory
    • Charly Palmer, exhibition
    • Shari Urquhart exhibition
    • Ashley Lusietto and John Hitchcock
    • what on earth
    • Art + Protest
    • Seams: Contemporary textile artists
    • PSG on Paper
    • Lauren Semivan and John Shimon: Tangency
    • Linger On: Mark Ottens
    • Christopher T Wood, Carri Skoczek
    • 10th Anniversary Fall Exhibition
    • Thomas Haneman, M. Winston
    • Rafael Salas: For God and Country
    • ON THE WING, sketchbooks
    • Unlike My Image/Who Built This Burning H
    • Sharon Kerry Harlan
    • Homely Part Two
    • Homely Part One
    • Dominic Chambers/Skully Gustafson
    • Waste Not II: Wisconsin Self Taught
    • Stacked
    • Husband & Husband
    • NOW Figuration
    • Rosemary Ollison: Learning to Live...
    • Drawn Out
    • McCaw & Budsberg / Ideal State
    • Heads or Tails / Della Wells
    • A Social Forever / Blythe Meier / Empire
    • Young and Erie
    • Agency, Industry, Infinity
    • A Person is a Noun
    • I Made This for You
    • Revealing Nature
    • WIS-CON-SIN
    • Shane Walsh / Rafael Francisco Salas
    • Androgyny
    • Phenomenal Agglomerative / Raw vs Cooked
    • Janet Werner & Ariana Huggett
    • Summer Art Orgy
    • Arrangements/Guest Composers/Rural Utopi
    • 23 Pineapples
    • f(c)
    • Certificates of Presence / Winter Chapel
    • Or So It Would Seem
    • A Modern Hair Study
    • Waste Not
    • The Personal is Political
    • Shane Walsh / Kevin Giese
    • Decay/Natural History/Absence Makes
    • Re-configuration/Destruction/Growth
    • BS @ PS
    • Fred Bell & Livija Patikne
    • Rafael Salas / Chapel / WI Self Taught
    • Giotto's Eyes / Every Day
    • Men of Leisure
    • Tracy Cirves: Lavender Longings
    • More Than Real: The Death of Kodachrome
    • Friends: Riepenhoff, Vahdat, Webb
    • Boris Ostrerov and Winter Chapel
    • 2010
    • Bernard Gilardi: Four Decades
    • Real Photo Postcard Survey
    • Big Star
    • Boris Ostrerov/Winter Chapel (McDonald)
    • 2009
    • The Intimate Page
    • Rafael Francisco Salas/Mike Ringo White
    • Interior, Exterior: Home as Portrait
    • Tender is the Line
    • Nicholas Grider: Men in Suits
    • Todd Mrozinski, Angela Piehl

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    Essays

    A collection of essays written by gallery director and art historian Debra Brehmer who is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic, the international online art publication. 

    Bouguereau at MAM

    Lenore Tawney at Kohler 

    The last Tourist in Assisi

    Nathaniel Mary Quinn at MMOCA

    Dorothea Tanning in Madrid

    Kiki Smith's sculpture of Alice

    William Kentridge

    Saving the home of Mary Nohl

    Lee Godie at JMKAC

    Kerry James Marshall rewrites art history

    A Tale of Two Davids
    Every Portrait Tells a Lie
    A Certificate of Presence
    The Pazzi Chapel & the Biennale
    The Pieta: A Story in Five Parts
    The Selfie and the Art Museum
    Van Gogh's Bedroom
    Welcome to Mambo Land
    La Donna Lives Up to the Hype

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    Milwaukee, WI 53202

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    Debra Brehmer, Director

    (414) 870-9930

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