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Tory Folliard and MIAD’s Senior Thesis Show (Gallery Night)
233 N. Milwaukee St.
273-7311
Once a year, Tory Folliard gallery pokes around the Milwaukee Institute of Art
and Design or UWM’s art department and picks one artist for a mini-show. It
provides a great opportunity for the young artist selected. This year’s choice was
Boris Ostrerov from MIAD (Folliard alternates the school selection every other
year). His show closed on March 29, but is worth a mention. Ostrerov drips ink
on white paper and the resulting compositions represent the relationship between
the random flow of the ink and the interfering hand of the artist who tips the paper
and offers some direction to the overall patterns. This sounds like a rather dumb
gimmick for making art, but surprisingly, the finished works are both striking and
elegant. The stark white paper, often in large format, and the purity of the black
ink offer a pared down aesthetic that gives the project a nice, crisp clarity. Each
dripped work is very different. In one a looping strand of ink stands alone. In
another, spidery skeins of ink weave into a downward momentum that ends in a
dense pooled mark. Clever, yes, but visually punchy. These works have an
irresistible draw.
Although the show has closed at Tory Folliard Gallery, MIAD’s senior thesis
exhibition at the school on Erie Street in the Third Ward will include a project by
Boris Ostrerov as well as work by more than 100 other students. Much of the
work will be for sale.
Reviewed by Debra Brehmer.
233 N. Milwaukee St.
273-7311
Once a year, Tory Folliard gallery pokes around the Milwaukee Institute of Art
and Design or UWM’s art department and picks one artist for a mini-show. It
provides a great opportunity for the young artist selected. This year’s choice was
Boris Ostrerov from MIAD (Folliard alternates the school selection every other
year). His show closed on March 29, but is worth a mention. Ostrerov drips ink
on white paper and the resulting compositions represent the relationship between
the random flow of the ink and the interfering hand of the artist who tips the paper
and offers some direction to the overall patterns. This sounds like a rather dumb
gimmick for making art, but surprisingly, the finished works are both striking and
elegant. The stark white paper, often in large format, and the purity of the black
ink offer a pared down aesthetic that gives the project a nice, crisp clarity. Each
dripped work is very different. In one a looping strand of ink stands alone. In
another, spidery skeins of ink weave into a downward momentum that ends in a
dense pooled mark. Clever, yes, but visually punchy. These works have an
irresistible draw.
Although the show has closed at Tory Folliard Gallery, MIAD’s senior thesis
exhibition at the school on Erie Street in the Third Ward will include a project by
Boris Ostrerov as well as work by more than 100 other students. Much of the
work will be for sale.
Reviewed by Debra Brehmer.
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| Boris Ostrerov, Untitled (Os), ink on board. |