Martha Glowacki’s Natural History,
Observations and Reflections
March 3–May 14, 2017 | Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries In the Light of
Naples: The Art of
Francesco de Mura
In this exhibition Martha Glowacki develops themes and images from the history of January 20–April 2, 2017 |
science and scientific illustration. The artist incorporates scientific illustration and Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries
writing in several ways, ranging from direct appropriation of images into artworks, The first ever retrospective of
to using images and ideas from the history of science as a bridge to developing
visual metaphors. On one hand, she is drawn to the visual richness of many scientific
illustrations, to the qualities of the paper and print techniques used to make them. She
is also fascinated by the unexpected ways that many of these illustrations combine
beauty with morbidity, or by their odd juxtapositions of text with inscrutable processes.
Martha Glowacki (American, b. 1950),
The Psychology of Plants (detail), 2015,
wood, cast and fabricated bronze, glass,
tintype, pigments, 23 x 17 x 3 in.
To complement this exhibition, the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library,
presents Natural History: Natural Philosophy, February 6–June 2, 2017. The exhibit will
Francesco de Mura
(Neopolitan, 1696–1782),
Portrait of Cardinal Antonio
Sersale, 1756, oil on canvas,
34 x 28 in., collection
of Myron Laskin, Jr., on
extended loan to the
Milwaukee Art Museum,
extended loan no. L138.1993
Francesco de Mura features more
than forty-five paintings and
drawings from major museums.
include titles that have informed or inspired Glowacki’s work.
Sets: Printed Variations
Middle Child: Photographs by Alex Orellana
The Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student
April 28–June 25, 2017 Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery
May 26–August 20, 2017
Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
Sets of prints from the Chazen’s permanent collection are on
view as groups of works, as they were originally created.
Alex Orellana is the winner of the 2017 Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding
MFA Student. Orellana is a third-year MFA student in the UW–Madison Art
Department who received a BFA in photography from the University of Georgia.
“For transgender people, there is a prevailing narrative that success entails trading
one binary identity for another to pass as the opposite sex,” says Orellana. “For
this show I’ve made a series of images of myself as different genders to show
that the things we see as inherently masculine or feminine are arbitrary. I can
Alex Orellana (American, b. 1988), Self as
Self, 2016, archival inkjet print, 24 x 16 in.
affect my appearance to look more like a standard man or woman, but what do
these appearances mean if I can occupy all of them from a single body? What
assumptions am I inviting by making particular aesthetic decisions? And what
exactly separates me from my sister and brother, or my mom and dad?”
Laurie Simmons (American, b. 1949), Hot Dog, Walking Glove, and Blue
House from the portfolio Food, Clothing, Shelter, photogravure and
aquatint, 28 5 ⁄ 8 x 18 7 ⁄ 8 in. (each of three), Malcolm K. and Bertha Whyte
Endowment Fund purchase, 1996.21.3, 1996.21.4, and 1996.21.5