| WAUKESHA –A lover of art, Sally Duback also creates it. Some of her monotypes, puppets, and other work are on display in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha through March 1. The gallery is open to the public 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and during special events, and there is no admission charge. To arrange a free private viewing, phone University Relations at (262) 521-5445.
Duback will present a lecture on her art and methods at noon on Monday, January 29, in the Commons Conference Room 101. A part of the campus Visions & Expressions series, the talk is sponsored the University Convocations Committee and is open to the public at no charge.
A studio artist who discovered the depth of her love for art after completing a degree in English at the University of Michigan, Duback actually began printmaking when she was a freshman in high school. Her college minor in art history, along with her studio experience, gained her a teaching position at University School. After five years, she felt the tug to return to her studio. In her Spectrum 305 Fine Art Studio in Grafton, WI, she makes monoprints on hand-made paper, works on theatrical design, and conducts classes for children and adults.
Duback studied art at UW-Milwaukee, learning new techniques, and has found cross-fertilization among them. Her puppets and other three-dimensional work have been used in retail store installations and theater productions, her hand-painted textiles by clothing manufacturers. Most recently, she designed and built 48 puppets for Marquette University’s year 2000 production of Calderon’s Life is a Dream, which played at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City last June. Yet she continues to research art’s meaning to her.
“My monotypes usually develop as an exploration of many permutations of a single image,” she explains. “I am interested in getting at the true meaning of an image through the exploration of depth of field, color and texture,” which she achieves through many passes through the press. “It is my belief that the layers of ink and their relative nuances in any given print bear a direct metaphorical relationship to the layers of my life. Unexpected and hidden truths bare themselves in this printmaking process, and that rewards me with a constant source of surprise and wonder at the power of art.”
She has exhibited her work throughout the area as well as in northern Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, and Buffalo, NY. It is represented in the collections of corporations, organizations, individuals, doctors and architects. Both the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Wustum Museum in Racine hold works by Duback. |
