WAUKESHA – Artist Bernie Roberts will exhibit both free-standing and wall sculptures in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha January 31-March 6. He will discuss his work in a gallery talk at noon Wednesday, February 2. Both the show and the presentation are open to the public at no charge.
The gallery, in the Fine Arts Center, on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., is open Mondays, Wednesdays Thursdays, and Fridays from 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesdays 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., during special events or by appointment. Phone the University Relations office, (262) 521-5445, to arrange a viewing.
Titled “Past, Present and Raw Future,” the exhibit reaches back into Roberts’ 45 years of “carving, casting, firing, and welding,” mostly using wood and bronze, and looks forward as he experiments with piecing together carved wood and colored resins. Wood remains his basic substance: He carves models and casts them in bronze, creates sculpture from wood, or intertwines the wood carving with resin particles.
Roberts lives on a 15-acre walnut plantation in Oconomowoc and draws inspiration from the water, rocks trees, flowers, insects, wind, waves, people, and animals in his environment. He holds BS, MS, and MFA degrees from UW-Milwaukee.
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