Thursday, June 3 · 12:30-1 pm
Triennial Artist / Marc Tasman
Literally “a work ten years in the making” Marc Tasman’s series, Ten Years and One Day Every Day on Polaroids, July 24, 1999-July 24, 2009, comprises over 4,600 unique self-portraits and is installed in its entirety for the Wisconsin Triennial. In addition to making art, Marc Tasman is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Memory informs much of what we do on an everyday basis whether we are aware of this or not. For his piece Old Hickory Lane, Erik Gunneson reconstructed rooms from his childhood home. By building a version of something he knew intimately but can longer experience, Gunneson begins a fantasy that most of us have: to access and relive moments from our childhood. View full article »
Marc Tasman installing over 4600 Polaroid self-portraits taken on 3,654 consecutive days (Ten Years and One Day) at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) for the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial.
Jason Yi was born in Korea but moved to the United States when he was eleven. Much of his work stems from his inquiry into Asian and American cultures. Recently, after a series of residencies in China, Yi has explored Chinese folklore and its influence over other Asian cultures.
Claire Stigliani was born and raised in Austria to American parents. Because of this, it is no wonder that she is fascinated with the French Queen Marie Antoinette who was the fifteenth child of Marie Therese, the Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. To contemporary eyes, Marie Antoinette is a controversial and enigmatic figure—known for her court excesses, she is has also been the subject of revisionist history. View full article »
When explaining her work, Sarah Pearl Detweiler often refers to Oscar Wilde’s claim that laughter is the convergence of two conflicting emotions. She sees her current series, Sometimes we just don’t feel like ourselves, as an exploration of those emotions and, in part, as an exploration of the emotional states we navigate in modern life. View full article »
Kitty Huffman was born and raised in Communist Romania to Hungarian parents. She moved to the United States in her early twenties and managed to find a community in rural Wisconsin. Although Huffman had already been a theater student in Romania, she started from scratch with her education in this country, studying both the history of art and video technique to create her profound cross-cultural meditations.
John Shimon and Julie Lindemann met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s and began working collaboratively. They formed a band called Hollywood Autopsy. They moved to New York shortly after, and then returned to Manitowoc to focus their figurative lens on the people and places of Wisconsin.
When MMoCA opened its new space in 2004, we commissioned local and national artists to create works that comment on Madison. At that time, Madison artist Nancy Mladenoff was recording the flora and fauna of the seasons. Observing the birds and flowers from Madison’s natural environment, Mladenoff stenciled and painted these images as cartoonlike figures. View full article »
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