WAUKESHA – How often does an art exhibit elicit a chuckle? The current show at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha does that in addition to provoking aesthetic, political and philosophical thinking.
Recent work by Tom Uebelherr and Ray Hernandez, both on the art faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, is on display in the UW-Waukesha Fine Arts Center Gallery through April 30. Gallery hours are 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. It also is open during special events and by special arrangement. Phone University Relations (262) 521-5445 to make viewing arrangements.
Uebelherr joined the faculty at UW-Sheboygan in 2001 and formerly taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in his native Milwaukee. He mixes found objects with traditional media, comments on home life with scenes in dollhouse-like settings surrounded with ferns and other foliage, and integrates sculpted frames as part of the work. The picture-in-a-picture images remove viewers from the work making them observers of the human quirks. Both his wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures exude “off-the-wall” whimsy.
He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art from UW-Milwaukee and currently lives in Port Washington with his wife and young son.
Hernandez, the dean at UW-Sheboygan, came to the Wisconsin campus in 2000 from his native Texas. In his art, he draws on his Texas roots, depicting symbols of the state – a star, a horse, an oil logo. He employs geometric shapes, filling them with colored pencil in his drawings and with charcoal in his sculpture.
He studied at San Antonio Junior College before earning his BFA from the University of Texas-San Antonio in 1978 and an MFA from UW-Milwaukee in 1981. During this past year, he underwent experimental, life-saving treatment at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Texas for neck cancer and just returned to his duties at UW-Sheboygan March 1.
UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 freshman-sophomore UW Colleges campuses. For information about programs, admission, or financial aid, contact the Student Services office, (262) 521-5200, or visit the Web at waukesha.uwc.edu. |
