While popular cliché is that young artists are often baristas, bartenders, or waiters, if not trust-fund babies, a lot of them do actually manage to find employment within the art world, and the luckiest art-school grads find jobs as assistants in the studios of more established artists. These apprenticeships—in which the up-and-comer lays down the ground of an art star’s abstractions, buffs the chrome of multimillion-dollar sculptures, does finger-cramping filigree work, or… fetches coffee—can often yield key introductions to curators and future collectors, providing a step up for one’s career. Most intriguingly, though, they also generate something else: a shadow family tree of the art world, where artistic influence can be seen transferring from one generation to the next.
June 9th 2018 – African American Art Alliance “AAAA”
June 9th 2018
African American Art Alliance “AAAA”
Sponsored by The Milwaukee Art Museum
Artist studio tour of artist Lon Michels and artist Todd Olson
700 North Art Museum Dr. Milwaukee, WI 53202
Contact: Aryn Kresol – MAM curatorial assistant
“A Winters Dream” at Overture Center for the Arts Jan. 30th
One of my dreams is to create an Opera set. Well this event for the 30th anniversary for Overture is going to be my installation with over 17 people participating in many different venues a cast of hundreds for frostiball for this evening. My dream of winter is to transform this amazing huge room into a surreal dream like state which the viewer will become part of the dream. Infused with vibrant color and moving people this room will come alive. Please stay tuned for images of my newest and largest installation to date. All happens at www.overturecenter.org Jan. 30th 2016. See you there where Wisconsin’s largest non profit to the arts is the envy of the world!
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Having been an artist for over 40 years, I feel that the act of painting is my first language. I paint from life and use color and repetition of pattern to create my detailed canvases. I try to capture the essence or personality of each individual or subject I paint.
The work questions the history of religion and the objectification of women and men in society, examining the role of male and female beauty. I also believe in the importance of visual pleasure in painting including the status of paintings as object or image.
Integrity, passion, beauty and love are essential components in creating my work. Artists bring magic, hope, love and fresh thinking into what can be a stagnant and predictable world.
I reside in Lodi WI, in USA, with my husband Todd Olson, and 1 wonderful sweet dog named Bazzy. My beautiful studio/gallery overlooks the magnificent Baraboo mountain range close to Lake Wisconsin. I paint to live and live to paint, my gratitude overflows.
Lon Michels
Lon Michels
The paintings of Lon Michels are suffused with light and energy. His subjects vary from still-life, landscape and portraiture all guided by perceptions that are visionary-like. Saturated with invigorating colors and blanketed in fantastic patterning, each canvas offers an overflow of a life lived large.
With his unique vision, Michels challenges the viewer to search each work for many hidden visual treasures. The artist received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was nominated for a Joan Mitchell grant in 2007.