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| Portrait Society Gallery 207 E. Buffalo Street, Suite 526. Gallery hours Fri. & Sat., 1-4pm and by appt. Copyright 2008 Art History Chicks LLC |
| Current Exhibition: The Cuckoo Then, In Every Tree Three Artists Celebrate Spring: Michael Kasun, Keiler Sensenbrenner, Slobodan Markovic May 16 - June 28, 2008 |
Slobodan Markovic was born in Serbia and immigrated to Milwaukee when he was nine years old. He studied art at the Milwaukee Institute of
Art and Design’s predecessor, the Milwaukee School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1979. He has been painting ever since. About ten years ago,
for a reason he cannot fully name, he started painting trees. The first ones were elements in the backgrounds of other paintings. But soon, the trees
became the entire subject of his paintings. Markovic will be available, through Portrait Society, for commissioned portraits of trees.
Art and Design’s predecessor, the Milwaukee School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1979. He has been painting ever since. About ten years ago,
for a reason he cannot fully name, he started painting trees. The first ones were elements in the backgrounds of other paintings. But soon, the trees
became the entire subject of his paintings. Markovic will be available, through Portrait Society, for commissioned portraits of trees.
Michael Kasun graduated from the Milwaukee School of Arts in 1978 with Slobodan Markovic. Kasun has always been interested in drawing and
painting and was part of a long-running artist collective called the Flesh Experts. A side career took him into the world of horticulture where he
managed an interior landscape company for 28 years. Kasun is a bird watcher and it is that avocation which generated his series of acrylic and
gouache bird portraits on wood panels. These intimate compositions play with the colors and personalities of many different species of birds. Kasun
keeps the prices of his paintings low to enable a large audience to own one of these works, which seem to function as bright talisman of fleeting beauty
and renewal. Kasun is available for commissions of bird portraits, through Portrait Society.
painting and was part of a long-running artist collective called the Flesh Experts. A side career took him into the world of horticulture where he
managed an interior landscape company for 28 years. Kasun is a bird watcher and it is that avocation which generated his series of acrylic and
gouache bird portraits on wood panels. These intimate compositions play with the colors and personalities of many different species of birds. Kasun
keeps the prices of his paintings low to enable a large audience to own one of these works, which seem to function as bright talisman of fleeting beauty
and renewal. Kasun is available for commissions of bird portraits, through Portrait Society.
Keiler Sensenbrenner earned her undergraduate degree in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 and completed her MFA at
Northwestern University in Chicago in 2002. She currently lives in Evanston and teaches at DePaul University. Born in Milwaukee, she grew up in Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin. This is the first time she has exhibited her work in Milwaukee, however. Sensenbrenner paints small-scale images of animals in a
fluid, painterly style, reminiscent of Courbet or Manet. She says she purposely ignores contemporary trends and fashions in art: “I think about what I
would like to look at, and what I would enjoy making, and that determines what I do. Observation has generally been at the center of my work. I strive
for visual harmony.” In addition to her work in painting, Sensenbrenner is engaged in a longer project of replacing all of her commercially manufactured
clothes with hand-made ones. A record of her progress is available at her blog, http://simplewardrobe.blogspot.com. Sensenbrenner is available for
commissioned portraits of people or animals, through Portrait Society.
Northwestern University in Chicago in 2002. She currently lives in Evanston and teaches at DePaul University. Born in Milwaukee, she grew up in Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin. This is the first time she has exhibited her work in Milwaukee, however. Sensenbrenner paints small-scale images of animals in a
fluid, painterly style, reminiscent of Courbet or Manet. She says she purposely ignores contemporary trends and fashions in art: “I think about what I
would like to look at, and what I would enjoy making, and that determines what I do. Observation has generally been at the center of my work. I strive
for visual harmony.” In addition to her work in painting, Sensenbrenner is engaged in a longer project of replacing all of her commercially manufactured
clothes with hand-made ones. A record of her progress is available at her blog, http://simplewardrobe.blogspot.com. Sensenbrenner is available for
commissioned portraits of people or animals, through Portrait Society.
