SCOTT JOHNSON

WALKTHROUGH:
Video stills courtesy of Scott Johnson.

Gallery Night
Friday April 15 2011
5-9 pm

Safi Studios
Marshall Building
Suite LL8
207 East Buffalo Street
Milwaukee WI 53202

Dieu Donne

Michele Oka Doner
Neuration: Dionysa
2005 [detail]*

*Organic material embedded in handmade abaca leaves.
Photo courtesy of Dieu Donne Papermill: New York, NY.

What are abaca leaves?

SAFI living

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Photo courtesy of Dianne Soffa.

Forget the paintings; studio floor shows something better.

Still Life

Racine Art Museum: Main Street
Ok, I liked this heap at one time; before the skid-loader took it away.

INSIDE

















Susie Krasnican
[title of this piece not known]
Image courtesy of RAM.
Fired enamel on sanded glass.
*my usually polite and composed navigator for the day felt an urge to shatter this piece with a hammer. I agree.
















Matt Eskuche
Agristocracy 2010 [detail]
Image courtesy of RAM.

More on Agristocracy by Judith Ann Moriarty, ThirdCoast Digest.

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[diptych detail]
2011 Mixed Media

Safi Studios

Dianne Soffa
Thumbelina Turbo Orange
Oil

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Friday, March 4, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Safi Studios joins the Marshall Building's group of art galleries, studios, designers, and other creative professionals. Many other venues will also be open Saturday, March 5, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

New work by Jane Gates, Tom Kovacich, and Dianne Soffa;
Special guest Sheila Jones' used metal alloy, Swingline 1;
Robert Jones presents small-scale ceramic studies.

Safi Studios
Marshall Building
Suite LL8
207 E Buffalo Street
Milwaukee WI 53202

SOLAR SOFFA

Dianne Soffa
w/ co-artist Emily Erickson
Solar Yellow
2010 Acrylic

Safi Studios
Milwaukee WI














Milwaukee, WI—1947
Photo courtesy of WMSE-Milwaukee School of Engineering

Anonymous response to: Swingline I

Yours truly~
a.) Hugo Chavez
b.) Katherine Hepburn
c.) Michele Bachmann
d.) Geico lizard

Did you know:
A pint of room-temperature beer chills to 43 degrees in a snow bank within 6 minutes. Presto!

NEW WORK

Curtains
2011 Enamel
15" x 24"

ART AND SCIENCE DUAL EXHIBITION

Visual Analogies and Inquiries: The Work of Michiko Itatani and Birgitta Weimer

TINY: Art from Microscopes at UW-Madison
—Tandem Press

Jan 21, 2011 — Mar 5, 2011
Layton Gallery
MIAD
*Image courtesy of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design



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Swingline I

Sheila Jones
Swingline I
2008-2010 used staples
15" x 15" x 8"
$125.

Sheila Jones interview by Judith Moriarty, ThirdCoast Digest.

Safi Studios
Milwaukee WI

KITTENZILLA

San Francisco street mural: Kittenzilla (a.k.a. Laser Kittens), by Garrison Buxton, Ezra Li Eismont, and Bunnie Reiss.

2010: Best Domestic Orange Tabby Lasers
Details follow at: Ad Hoc Art, & here too.

Note: Unfortunately [very], the mural was painted over before the artists had a chance to remove the panels and relocate it.

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Black Mountain
AZ

2614

Happy 2011

SAFI

Bottom Photo:
I-94 West

GATES

Jane Gates
Rain
2010 Acrylic and collage

















Jane Gates
Baba Yaga's Garden
2010 Acrylic and collage


There are so many reasons why I like Jane's work, but the one aspect I find most important is she strives to present new ways in which to make marks upon a surface. This quality not only speaks volumes about an artists progression, but it also shows Jane's process of reinventing by introducing a new means. Keep doing what you are doing, Jane.

Safi Studios
Milwaukee WI

Happy B-day Felix!

Felix, 2010.
[In deep discussion with Jerry & Miss Wild West (Karen) about bull riding survival statistics at the rodeo bar. Jeanne's packin' spurs, so look out.]

PALLADINO

Matthew Palladino
Lichtenstein Kiss
2010 Acrylic ink on paper
49 x 37 inches


Image courtesy of:
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
San Francisco CA

Ekinomicks

=building better mouse traps.





















Kevin Giese
Immigrant 2010
Temporary hand-carved buckthorn wood, copper and living buckthorn trees.

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bottom photo-

Somewhere To Light [detail]
James Rosenquist
1996 Screenprint
edition of 225

Fall Landscapes

Directions:
The Lynden Sculpture Garden may be reached via I-43, exit Brown Deer Road. Head west on Brown Deer Road (Hwy 100) for approximately 0.8 miles. The sculpture garden is located on the left (south) side of Brown Deer Road. The grounds are surrounded by a weathered tall wooden fence.

Winter hours (November 3 – March 13)
Wednesdays: 10 am – 4 pm*
Sundays: 12 pm – 5 pm

Enter through the west gate. This is the entrance closest to the barn and immediately opposite the westbound left turn lane on Brown Deer Road. There is a small sign hanging from a lamppost at this entrance that says "LYNDEN. Harry L. Bradley."

















Note: The subject matter within these photographs are not part of the Harry L. Bradley Collection. Unfortunately. Special thanks to Judith Moriarty, ThirdCoast Digest, Polly Morris, and the Bradley Foundation.

Credit is due to the creative landscapers who raked and scraped the algae layer from the drainage pond into piles of sticky white slime balls (above photo). Walking among them felt as if I were stepping into another world. Very cool.

SOFFA

Dianne Soffa
Lime Green
2010 Oil
49" x 49"

What I like most about this piece by Dianne is she chose a concept repeated many times over by modern artists--some have been successful, others not. Yet, what makes her work unique is that she chose to fold her own paint handling into the same color studies that came before. It's a luminous piece to say the least, and because of its scale, it's best viewed in person.

Safi Studios
Milwaukee WI

幸運僵硬

SUSHI HUT

Untitled [small b&w]
2007 Enamel on found object

Sushi Hut
505 State St
Madison WI
53703
608 467.7770

Opening Saturday, October 30 - November 20, 2010
Art and sushi lovers unite for an evening of good humor and slick art in celebration of Madison’s Sushi Hut’s swank new cocktail lounge. Discounts on artfully delicious Asian creations and equally sinful libations.

Tom Kovacich's work is cool, smooth, updated postmodernism. Surface, composition, and color form the core elements of his pieces. Often incorporating nontraditional methods, Kovacich mixes house paints, polymers, unusual structural supports, and rich, unbroken areas of color that convey his relationship to urban environments and exteriors.

MARN: Beyond the Canvas Event

Menomonee
2010 Enamel
12" x 12"

JOIN MARN @
Helios
1207 W Canal Street
Milwaukee

October 15th 5-9pm Exhibition and Silent Auction Opens
October 16th 10am-4pm Exhibition and Silent Auction Open
3pm Collecting 101 Talk with MARN's Executive Director Melissa Musante
4pm History of the Valley Talk with MVP Executive Director Laura Bray
4-8pm FREE Closing reception featuring great refreshments and live music by Trio DeJaneiro
Silent Auction Closes at 7:15pm so don't miss your chance to get some great works produced during the duration of this event and based on the heart of Milwaukee, The Valley!

ATWATER PARK

Spillover II
2010 Jaume Plensa

View from Atwater Park: Shorewood WI

SAFI STUDIOS

6 x 6

Safi Studios hosts a Gallery Night/Day Benefit for the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. New contemporary abstract works by Jane Gates, Tom Kovacich, and Dianne Soffa. Guest artists include Jennifer Anne, Eric Hagstrom, Andy Mayhall, Melissa Musante, Robin Schmidt, and Sonia Valle. 6" x 6" works available in exchange for a $100 donation to the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. All donations are welcome.

Music by Janet Schiff, Friday, October 15, 7 p.m.

Friday, October 15, 5-9 p.m.
Saturday, October 16, 12-5 p.m.

Safi Studios@
The Marshall Building
Suite LL8
207 East Buffalo Street
Milwaukee WI


Images:
Mixed Feathers 1
2010 Mixed Feathers