Friday, November 15, 2013

Fred Stonehouse: Artist, Comedian, Storyteller

As part of the Artist Now! Lecture series, Milwaukee native Ben Stonehouse came to speak about his paintings. However, Ben did little talking about his paintings in specific to materials, content, or process (though I'm sure if someone had asked him he would have talked about those things).

Unpopular Bitch 2009 acrylic on found paper 9” x 6”

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Kohler's bathroom and art and artsy bathrooms

Everyone in Wisconsin and else where has heard all the rage of Kohler bathroom products. I've noticed that Kohler has quite the creative advertising. Probably the most creative advertising they have is at the John Michael Kohler Art Museum in which I had the pleasure of visiting yesterday with the painting organization at UW-Milwaukee.

My favorite artist featured this time around was renounced artist Ray Yoshida. Not so renounced that I knew who he was prior to seeing his work yesterday, but then again I don't know every artist ever. Though that is an impossible goal I keep in mind...