by JoAnna Poehlmann, Lee Weiss | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
As women artists who came of age in the 1950s and ’60s, both JoAnna Poehlmann and Lee Weiss persevered against great odds to achieve recognition and success. Having devoted themselves to naturalistic drawing and watercolor landscapes, they have also had to...
by Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When Bernard Gilardi died in 2008 at the age of 88 he had made nearly four hundred oil paintings. The fruits of a more than forty-year effort, these works were tucked away in the basement studio of his Milwaukee home, neatly stacked amongst files of preliminary...
by Reginald Baylor, Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
It’s cold. The kind of cold where you breathe in gasps. I’m in Milwaukee to meet and take photos of up-and-coming painter Reginald Baylor, and all I can think is, I should have worn a warmer coat. Clouds of exhalation form cartoon-like thought bubbles over Baylor’s...
by Jason Smith, JoAnna Poehlmann, Lee Weiss | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
They had never met, these two grande dames of Wisconsin art. Though they are scheduled to have a joint exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery this fall (see below), Milwaukee artist JoAnna Poehlmann and Madison artist Lee Weiss didn’t know much at all about...
by David Lenz | Sep 27, 2007 | Videos
The paintings of Shorewood, Wisconsin, artist David Lenz reveal the inherent beauty of everyday people—from central city children to rural dairy farmers to people with developmental disabilities. How does the artist tell their story? Who is regarded as...
