Summer 2023 Exhibitions
Overture Center Gallery 1
Unnatural Surroundings
The "Captive Splendor" catalogue of 31 works is on exhibit.
Tue. June 13 - Sun. August 20, 2023
Hours: Mon. - Sat., 11-6; Sun., 12-6
Reception and artists talk on Fri., July 14, 5-8PM
Overture Center, 201 State St., Madison, WI
Penland John and Robyn Horn Gallery
wild and precious life
With Kim Cridler, sculptor and Nancy Blum, painter
June 20 - Sept. 2, 2023
Penland School of Craft, NC
Gallery Hours: Tues. - Sat., 11-5
Trout Museum of At
Made to Order
Three commissions will be exhibited!
Aug. 25 - Dec. 31, 2023
Trout Museum of Art
111 W College Ave, Appleton, WI 54911
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Bringing Nature Indoors
“It is not the moon, I tell you. It is these flowers.” -Louise Gluck
TO BE IN ANY FORM Portfolio
"Singing over shrubs and vines..." Ralph Waldo Emerson
TAPESTRIES portfolio
Peonies Breaking Pattern
NATURE OF PATTERN Portfolio
"These, I, Singing in Spring Collect..." -Walt Whitman
TAPESTRIES Portfolio
Left: Troutlily Diorama; Right: Dutchman's Breeches with Fiddleheads
CABINET OF CURIOSITY Portfolio
"To cast aside the weight of facts..." -Mary Oliver
TO BE IN ANY FORM Portfolio
About Lisa
Lisa A. Frank is a fine art photographer who explores the natural world, searching for oddly decorative and darkly mysterious subjects that can be digitally fractured and ornamentally rejoined, creating intricate artworks with a lively story of their own. Because...why not?
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Beginning in November 2020 I traveled to 15 zoos to photograph animals in captivity with the intention of staging them inside the Thorne Miniature Rooms as updated natural history dioramas. The animals are depicted interacting with the domestic verisimilitude of Mrs. Thorne’s miniatures like a cast of characters in a one-room drama. Part dollhouse, part theatrical set, part tableaux, the reimagined rooms juxtapose the wild with the cultivated using digital taxidermy and contemporary discomfort.
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