EXHIBITION SCHEDULES
Fall 2008 EXHIBITIONS
Choose from the following below:
Inova/Kenilworth
Inova/Arts Center
Inova/Zelazo: The Mary L. Nohl Galleries
Additional Exhibitions

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August 8-September 28, 2008
EUGENIO ESPINOZA
Opening: August 8, 2008, 6-9 pm

Inova presents remakes, historical photographs, new work and a participatory picnic project by Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza. The work follows Espinoza's personal tradition of undermining the strict grid geometry of his large-scale sculptural paintings, a comment on the limits of modernist formalism as well as a playful take on the artist's own authority. An important bridge between Latin American modernism and later conceptual efforts, this exhibition welcomes Espinoza to the American Midwest with his first major kunsthalle retrospective. Actually, the more accurate term might be "re-retrospective," as Espinoza makes a practice of re-making his past work, challenging its original precepts and motivations, and his historical photographs are more artworks in themselves than mere documents.

October 10, 2008-January 18, 2009
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION’S MARY L. NOHL FUND FELLOWSHIPS FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS 2007 EXHIBITION Established Artists
Gary John GRESL
Mark KLASSEN
Dan OLLMAN
Emerging Artists
Annie KILLELEA
Faythe LEVINE
Colin MATTHES
Kevin J. MIYAZAKI

Opening reception: October 10, 6:00-9:00 pm Gallery talk: October 10 at 6:30 pm (Additional events will be scheduled for this exhibition.)

October 18, 2008, 10 am-4 pm
KENILWORTH SQUARE EAST OPEN HOUSE

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September 9-November 8, 2008
CONTINUUM 7
DRAWING INFLUENCE: JOSEPH FRIEBERT & HIS STUDENTS
Opening reception: September 19, 5:00-7:00 pm
Joseph Friebert was a beloved and influential teacher in UWM’s Department of Visual Art, and throughout his lengthy career there he taught life drawing. On the occasion of Friebert’s centenary, we display a selection of his drawings and the work of Visual Art alumni who were influenced by him. Participating artists include Marc Jacobson, Arthur Thrall, Richard Haase, Kevin Giese, Carol Rowan, Bill Rades, David Becker, Allen Caucutt, Virgilynn Driscoll, Joe Boblick, Marie LePage, George Mee, Jan Serr, Linda Plotkin, Tim Murphy and others.

November 21-December 13, 2008
MA/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
Opening reception: November 21, 5:00-7:00 pm
Gallery talk: November 25, 4:00-6:00 pm
The annual fall exhibition of work by students receiving their MA and MFA degrees.

December 20, 2008 and January 27-February 5, 2009
BFA THESIS EXHIBITION
Opening reception: December 20, 5-7 pm
(This exhibition will reopen Jan. 27)
An exhibition of work by students receiving their BFA degrees in fall 2008 or UWinterim 2009.

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September 10-November 2, 2008
WOMEN OF THE BOOK: MIRTA KUPFERMINC & SHIRAH RACHEL APPLE
Opening reception: Sunday, September 14, 2-5 pm
Books, especially scripture and scriptural commentary, have always been central to Jewish life and culture; so much so that Jews are often called a “people of the book.”  The book is a powerful medium and a symbolic form, and it is through the conduit of Jewish regard for the book that the centrality of this medium has become integral to the fabric of Western civilization.  Women of the Book explores this centrality by pairing two Jewish artists from opposite ends of the western hemisphere who deal with issues of the book:  Mirta Kupferminc, an internationally-recognized printmaker and book and installation artist from Argentina, and Shirah Rachel Apple, a Milwaukee mixed-media and installation artist who has also worked in the book form.  The exhibition places special emphasis on Kupferminc’s exquisitely produced artist’s book Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word [Borges y la Cábala: senderos del verbo], which includes 29 original etchings and aquatints.  Currently, UWM is the only institution in the U.S. to hold this work. Apple will be represented by work that is informed by books and words; she is also creating site-specific work that responds not only to Kupferminc’s prints and bookwork, but also to the Zelazo Center’s historic function as the long-time home of Milwaukee’s Congregation Emanu-El. Curated by Max Yela, Head of Special Collections, UWM Libraries.

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October 17-November 7, 2008 CROSSING OVER Opening reception, October 17, 5-8 pm UWM Union/UWM Peck School of the Arts UWM Union Art Gallery, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Hours: M-W & F-Sa, 12-5 p.m.; Th 12-7 pm. FREE Information: (414) 229-6310 The annual invitational Scholarship/Fellowship exhibition, featuring the work of graduate and undergraduate students in UWM's Department of Visual Art.