"ERSATZ" Reception Tonight, 6-9 PM at the Steenbock!

Come to join your Steenbock Friends in celebrating "ERSATZ," by Nate Mathews! Nate is our 2011 Steenbock Juried Exhibition winner.

6-9 PM tonight at the Steenbock. Hope to see you there!

Steenbock Gallery is Pleased to Open "Ersatz," an Exhibition by 2011 National Juried Exhibition Winner, Nate Mathews

Steenbock Gallery to Open Nate Mathews Exhibit

“Ersatz” exhibition explores the influence

 of architecture on those who inhabit it.

“Ersatz,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Nate Mathews, will be on display May 21, 2012 to June 22, 2012 in the Steenbock Gallery.  An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, May 25, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

“Ersatz is a photographic exploration about how architecture influences those who inhabit it,” says Mathews. “Architecture plays an important part in how people interact, where and whether they interact, and how they feel about the activity that happens in the space. People recognize when they do not like a space or if it is lacking something and shown in this work is the attempts to rectify the flaws in the design… This work examines artificial features that are incorporated into publicly accessible spaces: commercial, corporate, and institutional, constructed environments in an attempt to mitigate or lessen the effect of structures that, while functional, are essentially cold flat featureless boxes. This collection seeks to draw the viewer’s attention to the presence of these ersatz elements in modern architectural spaces.”

To view the artist’s work, please visit http://www.natemathews.com/

Call for Entries: 2012 Center for Photography at Madison National Juried Exhibition

APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 1, 2012

The Center for Photography at Madison is pleased to issue the call for our second juried national exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery.  As Madison's primary photographic arts organization, we are pleased to partner with Graeme Reid, Assistant Director at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, in presenting an exhibition of contemporary photography that will offer chosen photographers an opportunity to exhibit in Madison’s first gallery exclusively dedicated to the photographic arts.  Specifically designed to allow participation by all working photographers this exhibit will provide a dialogue between emerging photographers, students, professionals, educators and artists in Madison and across the country. In addition to cash prizes, the winning photographer will be awarded a future solo exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery.

Download the 2012 application forms

Questions? Contact the Steenbock Gallery!

"SEE THE LIGHT" at the Steenbock Gallery

Check out the newest exhibition at the Steenbock Gallery, featuring work by the Madison College Associate Degree Photography Students!

SEEING RED Reception Tonight, 5-9 PM at the Steenbock!

Come to see new works by UW-Madison Photography Students! 5-9 PM tonight at the Steenbock!

Reception for "Another Look at Southwest Wisconsin" Tonight!

Opening Reception tonight at the Steenbock, 6-9 PM! Come check out our "Another Look at Southwest Wisconsin" and congratulate photographer Tyler S. Ensrude! Refreshments, friends, and a beautiful new show. Hope to see you there!

The Steenbock Gallery Takes "Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin"!

Steenbock Gallery to Open Tyler S. Ensrude Exhibit

“Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin” exhibition inspires another look at familiar scenes of Americana.

“Another Look At Southwest Wisconsin,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Tyler S. Ensrude, will be on display February 6, 2012 to March 9, 2012 in the Steenbock Gallery.  An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, February 10, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

            “Southwest Wisconsin is my home,” says Ensrude, “Everything I see here reminds me of that. I was born and raised here, but I also had a second home for nearly a decade during the second Bush Administration, in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan… Around the time I returned to the Midwest is when I started to notice trends and patterns in the landscape that I couldn’t remember seeing while I was growing up here or on my short visits home over the years… The once familiar landscape had assumed a strange veneer, a curious overlay fraught with juxtaposition and contradiction… In my photographs, I try to capture a piece of something unique to inspire another look, and a different way of seeing something familiar.”

To view the artist’s work, please visit http://tylerensrude.com/

Reception for "Decomposing" Tonight!

Opening Reception tonight at the Steenbock, 6-9 PM! Come check out our first exhibit of 2012, "Decomposing" by Ting-Li Lin! Refreshments, friends, and a beautiful new show. Hope to see you there!

Check out the "Decomposing" event page on Facebook!

New Year, New Steenbock Exhibition! "Decomposing" by Ting-Li Lin

 

Steenbock Gallery to Open Ting-Li Lin Exhibit

“Decomposing” exhibition breaks down complex architecture

through black and white photography.

“Decomposing,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Ting-Li Lin, will be on display January 4, 2012 to February 3, 2012 in the Steenbock Gallery.  An artist’s reception will take place on Friday, January 13, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

“The purpose of decomposition, in general, is to break a complex idea into small, easy-understood concepts,” says Ting-Li Lin. Instead of perceiving the world as a whole, I find it fascinating to just look at the elements of it, and thus the creation of the Decomposing series. In this series, I applied the idea of decomposition to architecture photography. Not only do I pay attention to the forms and shapes of the interior of buildings, I also choose the light sources carefully so that the interior is luminous in a certain way.”

To view the artist’s work, please visit http://tinglilin.com

Check Out Our Final Exhibition of 2011! "People of the Big Voice"

Steenbock Gallery to Open “People of the Big Voice" 

  

“People of the Big Voice” exhibition highlights Charles Van Schaick's photographs of the Ho-Chunk

“People of the Big Voice,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Charles Van Schaick from the Wisconsin State Historical Society collection, will be on display November 7 to December 30 in the Steenbock Gallery.  A reception will be held on Saturday, November 12, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.  The Steenbock Gallery is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1922 University Ave., and is open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

This unique and rich collection from the Wisconsin State Historical Society highlights Charles Van Schaick's photographs of the Ho-Chunk. Van Schaick was a portrait photographer in Black River Falls, Wisconsin who documented the town and its citizens for over sixty years. The photographs taken by Van Schaick are an invaluable visual legacy of the Ho-Chunk people. These commissioned photographs by the Ho-Chunk were intended for private use for their family, community, and home lives. This exhibition will provide an understanding of how the Ho-Chunk shaped the way they are perceived through the power of self-representation.

This exhibit coincides with the release of "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942" by Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree and George Greendeer published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.