Inova Presents Martha Glowacki and Greg Klassen Exhibit 7/15-9/18
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 15, 2011
Inova presents its first exhibitions of work by Wisconsin-based artists Martha Glowacki and Greg Klassen
About the Exhibitions:
Martha Glowack: Private ScienceGlowacki, Mouse King, detail
Martha Glowacki focuses on scientific discovery in the Victorian era, with a personalized take on the field. Her finely crafted sculptural work allows an eccentric entry point into various subjects like astronomical observation, bird migration, and the many natural "curiosities" that once commonly populated parlor cabinets. Glowacki's skill with fine details and materials garners her inclusion in such exhibitions as "Craft: An Expanding Definition" at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (1983) and "Sculptural Concerns" at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (1993). More recently, her work is on extended view as part of the Chipstone Foundation Collection's "Loca Miraculi" exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Klassen's recent paintings display bold color and gesture on a large scale, and the "natural" processes of gravity, evaporation, spillage, liquid pooling and osmosis play a significant role in his images. A student of Gerhard Richter's Dusseldorf studio in the early 1990s, Klassen shares that seminal postmodern artist's preoccupation with the peculiarities of abstraction. Klassen's invention is to downplay or remove the "hand of the artist" in the construction of his work, and to allow the paintings themselves to be equal collaborators. The Inova gallery's size and scale allows him to explore a scale beyond any he's worked at previously. Klassen showed regularly with the Michael Lord Gallery in Milwaukee, and his work appeared most recently in the Charles Allis Art Museum's "Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now" (2010) and "Afternoon of a Düsseldorf Faun" at the Galerie Andreas Brüning in Germany (2008).
Opening Reception: July 15 from 5-8pm
Location: Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202
Cost: Free
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