The Green Gallery is pleased to conclude the exhibition Moreover: 50 Paintings, a survey of fifty paintings by fifty artists curated by Michelle Grabner with the installation of Part 3 opening May 17, 2024. This is the third exhibition of three consecutive presentations. Please join us for a reception with the artists on Saturday, May 18th from 5-7pm. An exhibition catalog will be forthcoming.
Moreover: 50 Paintings is the sister exhibition to the Milwaukee Art Museum’s, 50 Paintings, contemporaneous exhibitions that together feature the work of one-hundred artists. Organized as a ‘survey,’ Moreover too celebrates contemporary painting’s pluralistic leanings while furthering comparative analysis in the visual language.
The curatorial field from which the paintings are selected draw from a concentrated Midwestern geography. While regionality is not on view, the works included in the exhibition esteem painting as a form of visual power: an elaboration of meaning and a force upon the world.
Painting’s many operations are on display: ambiguity, complexity, paradox, unity, emotionality, impressionism, narration, and subjectivity are ceaselessly negotiated with painting’s visual elements and design principles. Histories, styles, genres, and painting’s competencies abound. The exhibition’s openness can be embraced as a celebration of artistic independence and determination but also as a demonstration of painting’s imprudence and cultural influence.
Finally Moreover, like 50 Paintings asks us to consider not just 'what we feel' about paintings, but which painting’s 'we feel with.' A survey of this much material demands slow and repeated evaluation from its viewers. Yet the exhibition's individual paintings must also create attachments in its viewers, bonds that "passionately link us to an array of ethical, political, intellectual or other bonds," as literary critic Rita Felski suggests.
Michelle Grabner, curator
Moreover: 50 Paintings, pt 3
May 17 - June 15, 2024
artist reception 5-7pm, Saturday, May 18
Alex Bradley Cohen
Andrew Falkowski
Brad Killam
Carmon Colangelo
Danny Bredar
Emil Robinson
George Rush
Herman Aguirre
Jay Heikes
John Riepenhoff
Lamar Peterson
Leonardo Kaplan
Maria Tomasula
Richard Galling
Timothy van Laar
Wangari Mathenge