The new House of RAD in Menomonee Valley is pleased to present the first of “DUO” exhibitions in their new gallery space.
Where:
House of RAD Gallery ~ 324 N. 12th St. at W. St. Paul Ave, Milwaukee, WI
When:
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 5-9 pm
Artists Talks: Saturday, January 17, 1-4 pm (Gallery opens at noon)
Exhibit runs through Friday, March 16
Gallery Hours:
Fridays 5-8 pm & Saturdays noon-4 pm, also by appointment
“TIME’S FORGOTTEN GARDEN”
Presenting works by David Jones and Marilyn Propp, celebrating their 52-year artistic dialogue. The artists bring two distinct but deeply intertwined worlds into focus, shaped by decades of making, questioning, and rebuilding. Together, as co-founders of AP3, their practices converge. Marilyn’s work exists at the edge of warning and wonder. Vivid color pulls you in, only for you to realize you’re staring into microscopic collisions: marine life brushing up against metal scraps, fragments, and the human-made leftovers drifting through our waters. Her pieces carry the tension between ecological harm and nature’s stubborn ability to regenerate and reclaim.
David’s work has evolved from a fascination with and participation in the California Car Culture. His own early experience with building engines, taking and documenting road trips, photographing junkyards, and now, drawing on paper, brings the images and memories full circle. The drawings have been an exploration in relearning the use of traditional mark-making. His source was images from automobile parts schematics. He employed a semi-blind contour method to create pen drawings of machines that neither function nor propel. These drawings were enlarged and hand-printed using the processes of gum transfer and lithography.
“THE NOSTALGIA REBELLION”
This exhibition features works by Brian Hibbard and Hugo Pink, who use nostalgia as a form of quiet rebellion by embracing imperfection and reusing or recycling everyday items, a wild mashup of retro oddities, childhood relics, and the kind of pop-culture fever dream you’d stumble on flipping through an old TV Guide.
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