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| Current Exhibition: The Cuckoo Then, In Every Tree Three Artists Celebrate Spring: Michael Kasun, Keiler Sensenbrenner, Slobodan Markovic Join us for the opening reception Friday, May 16, 5-9pm The exhibition continues through June 28, 2008. |
| Portrait Society Gallery 207 E. Buffalo Street, Suite 526. Gallery hours Fri. & Sat., 1-4pm and by appt. Copyright 2008 Art History Chicks LLC |
This exhibition is a celebration of spring, featuring three artists: Michael Kasun,
Milwaukee; Slobodan Markovic, Racine; and Keiler Sensenbrenner, Evanston, IL. Michael
Kasun paints small-scale gouache images of birds. Bob Markovic creates portraits of trees
and Keiler Sensenbrenner, for this show, has done a series of 5 x 7 inch acrylic paintings
of animals. A catalog will accompany the show, in which the issue of where
representational art fits within contemporary art practice is explored.
Call 414.870.9930 for more information. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays, from 1
to 4 p.m. A catalog and essay will be available at the gallery.
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. Click here for more images.
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.
Click here for more images.
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. Click here for more images.
Please call Gallery Director Debra Brehmer at 414.870.9930 for additional information.
Portrait Society is open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Milwaukee; Slobodan Markovic, Racine; and Keiler Sensenbrenner, Evanston, IL. Michael
Kasun paints small-scale gouache images of birds. Bob Markovic creates portraits of trees
and Keiler Sensenbrenner, for this show, has done a series of 5 x 7 inch acrylic paintings
of animals. A catalog will accompany the show, in which the issue of where
representational art fits within contemporary art practice is explored.
Call 414.870.9930 for more information. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays, from 1
to 4 p.m. A catalog and essay will be available at the gallery.
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. Click here for more images.
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.
Click here for more images.
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. Click here for more images.
Please call Gallery Director Debra Brehmer at 414.870.9930 for additional information.
Portrait Society is open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
