Events for Sat November 30, 2019 › Community Events

Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials features contemporary artwork investigating the complex cultural and material nexus that is “Plastic.” Organized around the curatorial concept of entanglement – which describes the literal entanglements of animals and plastic detritus as well as the plasticity of global networks – the exhibition assembles artistic investigations of humanity’s reliance on a […]

Award-winning plein air painter, Diane Washa, captures the varying atmospheres of midwestern landscapes. Often painterly and dreamlike, Washa’s paintings not only depict the formal structure and color of these scenes but manifest the indescribable aura and presence of the spaces. Borrowing her exhibition title from twentieth-century, Wisconsin objectivist poet, Lorine Niedecker, Washa too creates works […]

Continuing an annual tradition, Abel Contemporary Gallery invited our artists to create works on a small scale— ideal for gift giving during the holiday season or an opportunity to add a small piece by your favorite artist to your collection.
Impressive in its range of mediums, styles, and subject matters, this exhibit showcases a unique array […]

Working primarily in sound and sculptural installation, Adam Hutchinson creates complex environments and soundscapes. In Quintet for the Turn, Hutchinson plays five 1960s turn tables, four playing looping excerpts from 1963 John F. Kennedy Memorial record while the fifth plays a 45 single by the Zion Jubilee Singers, “We Have a Story”. The resulting experience […]