I thought I’d post the press release for the opening of our new gallery, so here it is! And I hope you'll come:
The
Oriental Pharmacy Lunch Counter is back. For several years it visited various museums, galleries, and libraries in the Milwaukee and Chicago area. Now it and other works by Adolph and Suzanne Rosenblatt are on view at the Rosenblatt Gallery above Artasia Gallery and Museum at 181 North Broadway. The grand opening is Friday, May 18, 5:30-9:30 PM, reading by Sarah Rosenblatt at 7 PM.
The present exhibit showcases selected artwork by Adolph and Suzanne done over the past fifty years.
Adolph's sculpture captures the energy and essence of whatever excites him in his everyday life. In New York City it was the potpourri of pedestrians, pavement, and traffic, as in his painted wax sculpture of Herald Square. An early Milwaukee piece turned life lived on the front porch into bronze. When bronze became too expensive, he used clay, forming the moist hunks into restaurants full of eaters, swimming pools with swimmers, front pages of the New York Times, into many of the people and places whose paths crossed his.
Suzanne was Adolph's first student, in 1960, and like him is involved in energy and essence, movement and light. She draws
dancers only when they're in action, people on the beach only when they're being themselves, unaware of the artist eying them. She paints
sunrises although the sky and water change by the second. Since she's also a writer and performance poet, many of her drawings contain embedded poems. Landscapes by Curt Schroeder, who was also one of Adolph's students many years ago, are on view in the guest artist gallery.
The official Grand Opening takes place Friday, May 18, 5:30-9:30 PM with a special feature: at 7 PM
Sarah Rosenblatt will read from her second book, ONE SEASON BEHIND, illustrated by Suzanne and published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. John Ashbery wrote the following blurb for Sarah's book: Sarah Rosenblatt writes about things we all know--sun, light, wind, children, rumpled domestic interiors--in poetry with the brightness and buoyancy of Soutine's landscapes. Though there are shadows, the mood is predominantly joyful in its unquestioning acceptance of the rules we live by.
Sarah's home page: http://www.rosenblattgallery.com/sarah/index.shtml
Here are the details:
GRAND OPENING ROSENBLATT GALLERY
Friday May 18, 5:30-9:30 PM
Sculpture by ADOLPH ROSENBLATT, including the Oriental Pharmacy Lunch Counter
Paintings, Drawings, Prints by SUZANNE ROSENBLATT
Paintings by CURT SCHROEDER
7:00 Reading by SARAH ROSENBLATT on ARTASIA Stage
Live Music by STUMBLESOME
Art and Artifacts from ARTASIA's Latest Container
In the Isabella Ryder Building
181 N. Broadway
In the Historic Third Ward
