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John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI
Phone: 920 458 6144
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Statement of Purpose:
The John
Michael Kohler
Arts Center
is a 40-year-old, nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts
complex in Sheboygan
devoted to
innovative exploration in contemporary American art.
Highlights:
Its
exhibitions, all
created by its three curators and exhibition staff, focus on a wide
range of
art forms, with particular emphasis on sculpture, photography, crafts,
new
genres, installation art, ongoing folk traditions and the work of
self-taught
artists.
The
performing arts emphasize dance, music and theatre performances
from around the world.
Programming
also includes a renowned Arts/Industry
residency program, a Connecting Communities commissioning program,
classes and
special events.
The
100,000-sq.-ft. Arts Center is comprised of twelve
galleries, an intimate theatre, a flexible interdisciplinary
performance space,
studio-classrooms, meeting space, the ARTspace shop and the ARTcafe.
The
Arts
Center programs two adjunct sites: ARTspace, an exhibition space and
shop in
the Village of Kohler and the James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden in
the
town of Wilson.
EXHIBITIONS CALENDAR
JUNE 24, 2007
----JANUARY 6, 2008
SUBLIME
SPACES
& VISIONARY WORLDS: Built
Environments of Vernacular Artists
Emery
Blagdon’s rarely
seen “Healing Machine” from the plains of Nebraska debuts in the collection
with some
400 individual, awe-inspiring wire, foil, wood and painted components.
More
than 100 glass- and ceramic-inlaid concrete figures by Nek Chand, maker
of the
“Rock Garden of Chandigarh” in India,
are presented in an evocative and poignant installation. A three-wall
section
of Stella Waitzkin’s Lost Library, formerly located in New York City’s
Hotel Chelsea, also debuts.
And the largest exhibition of ceramics, paintings, bone-sculptures and
photography by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein of Milwaukee, Wisconsin—including
many color photographs never presented before—reveals his quiet
brilliance.
“In the hands
of these little-known
artists, patches of wasteland became transcendent kingdoms; empty lots
and
sheds were gateways to healing and the heavens; and homes and yards
simultaneously became museum and masterpiece,” said Arts Center
Director Ruth
DeYoung Kohler. “Visitors will enjoy mysterious machines, concrete
menageries,
thrones of bone and towers of steel, and two complete installations,
recreated
exactly as the artists, or ‘environment builders’ as they are sometimes
called,
initially envisioned them.
Since
the 1970s, the John
Michael Kohler Arts
Center
has worked to preserve the art of “artist-environment builders,” and
has since
become the world’s leading center for the research and presentation of
works by
these artists. As the Arts
Center worked
extensively
to preserve these environments, the curators realized many of them
could not be
retained on their original sites. As such, the Arts Center
made caring for large bodies of inter-related objects from dismantled
art-environments the primary focus of its collecting efforts. The
artworks on
view in this exhibition offer expansive views into the lives of the
artists,
including the time, era and place in which each artist lived and worked.
Admission
to the
exhibition is free. For more information, call (920) 458-6144, or visit
www.jmkac.org.
ART BY DR. CHARLES SMITH
Dr.
Charles Smith, Horn Players: Louis Armstrong Series, c.
1985–1999;
concrete, paint, mixed media; 32 ¾ x 9 ½
x 13 ½ in. and 35 x 10 ½ x 15 in.; John Michael
Kohler Arts Center
Collection.
ART BY NEK CHAND
Nek Chand,
untitled (seated saddhu). c.1975–1999; concrete, glass, ceramic shards,
metal;
28 ¾ x 27 ¼ x 10 ¾ in.; John Michael Kohler Arts
Center Collection.
ART BY TOM EVERY
Tom Every,
The Forevertron, North Freedom, WI. photo: Ron Byers.
ART BY EUGENE
VON BRUENCHENHEIN
Eugene Von
Bruenchenhein, Han Imperalis, No. 626, 1957; oil on Masonite;
25 ½ x 25
in.; John
Michael Kohler Arts
Center
Collection.
ART BY EMERY BLAGDON
Emery Blagdon
inside The Healing Machine, Garfield Table, NE. photo: 1979,
Sally and
Richard Greenhill.
ART BY NEK CHAND
Nek Chand,
Rock Garden of Chandigarh (site view, Chandigarh, India),
1958–present. photo: c. 2004–2006, Iain Jackson.
ART BY FRED SMITH
Fred
Smith, untitled (white man), c. 1948–1964; concrete, glass, paint,
mixed media;
76 x 40 x 32 5/8 in.; long-term loan to the John Michael Kohler Arts
Center
from the Price County Forestry Department and The Friends of Fred Smith.
Fred
Smith, Wisconsin
Concrete Park
(site view, Deer Fight, Phillips, Wisc.), 1948–1964. photo: 1995, Ron
Byers
ART BY JAMES TELLEN
James
Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden (site detail, Native American family
tableau,
Black River, Town of Wilson, WI), c. 1942–1957; John Michael Kohler
Arts Center
Collection. photo: 1997, Ron Byers.
SPRING 2008
CONSTRUCTED
REALITIES
Throughout
this series
of four exhibitions, the featured artists conflate fantasy and
actuality in
works of art that call into question what is genuine. Constructing
alternative
versions of reality with both sincerity and a sense of humor, the
artists
transport viewers into another realm or confront beliefs and
perceptions.
Everything Changes: Abandon
by David Meanix (color photograph; 30 x
40”)
Stretching
the Truth—Group Exhibition
February
10 through May 3, 2008
Focusing on
photography, this exhibition will feature works by artists who
demonstrate this
medium’s rapidly expanding boundaries.
With a basis in models or sets of constructed images, or with
the
employment of innovative processes including multiple exposures,
repeated or
layered negatives, digital augmentation, or collaged prints in both
two-dimensional and sculptural form, the works manipulate the medium to
present
a new reality that questions the “truthfulness” generally associated
with
photographic representation.
Underwater
Garden
by Didier Massard (chromogenic print; 37 x 47").
Carlos Ferguson
February
17 through May 31, 2008
Interested
in the relationship between vision and psychology, Carlos Ferguson
creates
interactive dioramas and viewing apparatuses that use photography and
digital
technology to suggest other realities or ways of seeing. Little World, for
example,
allows a viewer to guide a small remote control car/camera through a
constructed space of disparate environments (suburbs, city streets, an
empty
beach), allowing for a slow journey that is a "mars-rover-strange way
of
seeing."
LITTLE WORLD, detail, by Carlos
Ferguson (mixed media) Loaned by
the artist.
Valerie Hegarty
February
24 through June 7, 2008
Valerie
Hegarty creates installations of foamcore, paper, paint, glue, and gel
medium
that challenge notions of time and space and play with perception and
reality. Overseas
(Fireplace with Harpoons) is simultaneously the construction of a
domestic
space with a painting and fireplace and a “re-imagining of the sea as a
transformative force that is unleashed.” With a seascape as its central
focus,
this installation combines elements of history, anthropology, and
fantasy into a dramatic metaphor for turbulence and change.
Overseas (Fireplace with Harpoons)
by Valerie Hegarty (Foamcore, paper, paint, glue, gel medium;
approx.
10' x 8' x 8').
Chris
Sauter: Domestic Archaeology
March 30
through June
14, 2008
San
Antonio, TX
sculptor Chris Sauter deconstructs walls and objects and recycles the
materials
in order to construct something new. Addressing the contrasting
relationships
between nature and
culture and the body and architecture, Sauter
instills
each original object with multiple meanings by constructing
visual metaphors.
The Known Universe,
detail, by Chris Sauter (telescope fabricated from constructed
bedroom,
144 x 144 x 144")
Hours:
The
Arts Center
is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Tuesday and
Thursday 10
a.m.–8 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Admission:
ADMISSION IS FREE.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Call
(920) 458-6144 or visit www.jmkac.org.
for
more information, including staff, classes, performing arts events,
workshops,
our world-famous Arts/Industry residency program, annual outdoor Arts
Festival,
and more!
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