Artist In Residence
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Katie uses painting as her way of documenting small pockets of the population around her. She attempts to insert herself into places where artists aren’t usually found in order to discover interesting people to paint, as well as to expose the surrounding community to the act of art making. “I’ve painted at the Wilson Commons in South Milwaukee and the St. Ann Center in St. Francis. I’d show up every week and paint a single person for everyone to watch, observe and interact with. My goal is to blur the lines between ‘us’ and ‘them’ by taking regular people and elevating them to a subject worthy of being painted, shown in a gallery or museum, seen by ‘art educated people’ and mixing them together until you can’t tell who is who.”
More information on Katie Musolff can be found at KatieMusolff.com “This exhibit includes examples of Musolff’s drawings and journal entries that further inform the paintings. It is the most excellent display of her work I have seen…” See JS Online article June 23, 2010 See Pfister Artist Painting Portraits of Hotel Staff July 27, 2010 See The AV Club’s Gallery Night guide, Ald. Bob Donovan edt. July 22, 2010 See Pegi Christiansen’s Gallery Night pick July 21, 2010 See Arts Digest by MPTV June 1, 2010 See Press Release announcement February 15, 2010 See Express Milwaukee article March 2, 2010 See Express Milwaukee article March 7, 2010 |
