LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN GALLERY EXHIBITION SCHEDULE INSIDE/OUTSIDE 2010-2011

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Polly Morris, (414) 446-8794
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Inside/Outside is the theme of the Lynden Sculpture Garden’s 2010-2011 gallery exhibition program. This series of temporary exhibitions, which began in the summer of 2010, features pairs of artists working in the gallery and on the grounds of the sculpture garden.

Located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217, the Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a unique experience of art in nature through its collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures sited across 40 acres of park, lake and woodland. The sculpture garden is currently open on Wednesdays from 10 am to dusk and on Sundays from 12 noon to 5 pm. Hours change seasonally, and the garden will move to an expanded schedule in spring 2011. Day membership is $9 for adults and $7 for students, seniors and active military (children under 6 free with an adult). Annual memberships are also available.

By choosing Inside/Outside as an inaugural theme, the Lynden Sculpture Garden hopes to initiate a dialogue between the new indoor gallery and the environment--both sculpture and nature--beyond its walls; to explore Lynden’s transition from a private, domestic space to a public space; and to define Lynden’s new position within the local and regional art community.

The degree of collaboration varies among the pairs of exhibiting artists. Some, like Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg, have an established collaborative practice. Others, like composer Kevin Schlei and visual artist Lynn Tomaszewski, are first time collaborators who are sharing a concept but creating separate works. Eddee Daniel and Philip Krejcarek have known each other as friends and fellow-artists for three decades, but are undertaking their first collaborative project at Lynden. For Amy Cropper and Stuart Morris, Inside/Outside offered an opportunity for “a full collaboration at a conceptual level” for two artists who attended graduate school together in the early ‘90s and have followed each other’s work closely ever since. The series will conclude in late summer 2011 with an exhibition co-curated by Piper Marshall, a writer, and John Riepenhoff, an artist. Marshall and Riepenhoff will be inviting local, national and international artists to create work in response to pieces in Lynden’s indoor and outdoor collections. This final Inside/Outside exhibition—and an accompanying series of mini-residencies--will mark the transition to an expanded exhibition and artist residency program involving artists from near and far.

Each exhibition will be accompanied by ancillary events, including artist-led tours of the sculpture garden. As with the first installment of Inside/Outside, featuring Linda Wervey Vitamvas and Kevin Giese, the exhibition dates refer primarily to the indoor gallery exhibition. Temporary works created on the grounds may be left in place for longer periods, where their alteration in response to the elements and their changing relationship to the immediate environment can be observed from week to week.

The Inside/Outside exhibitions will be interspersed with exhibitions drawn from the Bradley Family Foundation’s collection of small sculptures, paintings and works on paper.

Inside/Outside

2010-2011

Eddee Daniel + Philip Krejcarek
October 24, 2010 - January 5, 2011
Opening reception: Sunday, October 24, 2-4 pm
Artist-Led Tour of the Sculpture Garden: Sunday, November 7, 2:30-4 pm
Eddee Daniel has been observing and photographing construction fences in the landscape for several years, attracted by their obtrusive color and the issues they raise about function, aesthetics--particularly in natural areas--and access. When he exhibited the photographs in 2009, Daniel created a more immediate experience for the viewer by also installing construction fences inside and outside the gallery space. At Lynden, Daniel will continue to explore the fences’ ambiguous functionality, this time among the natural landscaping and permanent artworks of the sculpture garden. He will be joined by Philip Krejcarek, who is constructing sculptures that evoke ladders. Unlike the fences, these ladder-like forms will be defiantly non-functional. The collaborative project will range from the surreal to the whimsical, posing questions about the relationship between artistic creation and functional construction and playing on the very notion of collaborative sculpture. In the gallery, Daniel will present selections from his Accidental Art series—photographs depicting fences erected by construction contractors in natural areas—and Krejcarek will create sculptures using ladders, making a direct connection to the work outside.

Shana McCaw + Brent Budsberg
February 26-April 10, 2011
Opening, Saturday February 26, 4:30-6:30 pm
Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg continue to explore scale, illusion, and the dialogue between interior and exterior space in an exhibition that focuses on combustion. A miniature wooden house, a recurring character in their narrative, will appear on the grounds. At one-quarter scale and pared down to its studs and joists, the charred structure will bear an uneasy resemblance to a series of burned or burning, charred and smoke-stained houses captured in large-scale photographs in the gallery. McCaw and Budsberg exploit the photographic medium to create the illusion that these are images of real houses, but subtle clues---scale conflicts, odd or impossible viewpoints, the miniature house outside—point to their fictional origin.

Kevin Schlei + Lynn Tomaszewski
April 17- June 5, 2011
Opening: Sunday, April 17, 2-4 pm
Composer Kevin Schlei and visual artist Lynn Tomaszewski bring Lynden into the 21st century with a multi-media installation entitled Drams, Whits, Scintillas. Taking Tony Smith’s stark minimalist sculpture, The Wandering Rocks, as their starting point, Schlei and Tomaszewski will collect sound and images that will be reconfigured into a multi-channel sound piece and a projected, generative drawing—or looped animation—that quote from and reconstruct the resonant outdoor experience within the gallery. Schlei will take domestic sound outdoors in an installation located in the vicinity of The Wandering Rocks. The contrast between Smith’s uninflected forms and the language-rich sound piece will enrich both the viewing and listening experiences. As Tomaszewski and Schlei reintroduce often overlooked elements of daily life into the gallery and sculpture garden, they reframe and reanimate these spaces, allowing us to see them anew.

Amy Cropper + Stuart Morris
June 12-July 31, 2011
Opening: Sunday, June 12, 2-4 pm
Amy Cropper and Stuart Morris share an interest in nature and culture and in the role of public art as a link between artist and community. They have both worked with natural materials and processes, and explored the tension between natural and manmade materials; they view each work they create as a portal to engage viewers in a dialogue with the piece and its surroundings. Their installation at Lynden will call attention to the beauty and sculptural significance of the natural objects—trees, rocks--in the sculpture garden. Outdoor objects will be altered in environmentally friendly and reversible ways—using color, for example—to bring them into a conversation with the sculptures. The artists will also deploy the transformative power of the gallery space to re-cast natural objects as works of art: placed in the pristine gallery, the sculptural qualities of these unaltered forms will be heightened. Ultimately, Cropper and Morris will transform the familiar into the unfamiliar, inviting us to think differently about what we see.

Piper Marshall + John Riepenhoff
Late summer/early fall
Writer and curator Piper Marshall and artist and gallerist John Riepenhoff access their curatorial sensibilities to summon a diverse group of local, national and international artists to Lynden to create new work in response to pieces in the permanent collection. Joyfully and simultaneously they celebrate Peg Bradley’s commitment to the contemporary art of her era and open Lynden to a new generation of living artists.