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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