Reception for Current Exhibitions: Rina Yoon & John Schuerman; Rebecca Kautz; Jon Horvath

A reception for all of the current exhibitions at Arts + Literature Laboratory will be held on Friday, July 19 from 6:00pm–8:00pm, with remarks from Rina Yoon & John Shuerman and Rebecca Kautz around 7:00pm. (Jon Horvath will have an artist talk in August, details forthcoming.)

Homologies is a collaborative project by Rina Yoon (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and John Schuerman (Minneapolis, Minnesota) that showcases work they created from 2020 through 2022. In this project, the artists honor the simple beauty of fallen tree sticks found on their walks in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Korea. The complete set of Homologies provides a view into the origin of sticks and the bond between the artists.

Jumping from Trains is an exhibition of the interdisciplinary artworks of Rebecca Kautz (Sun Prairie) which incorporates durational site specific performance, painting, and sculptural practices. In her work, the artist explores the multiple approaches to reckoning with issues of the heart and mind.

This Is Bliss is a multimedia narrative project by Jon Horvath (Milwaukee) which investigates the vanishing roadside geography and culture of a rural Idaho town named Bliss. The project is philosophically rooted in a broad consideration of how entrenched mythologies of place and traditional mythologies of happiness collide (and are frequently confounded) in a location that bears a complex narrative of booms and busts and reflects the complicated history of American Idealism and Manifest Destiny.

Rina Yoon

Rina Yoon is a Korean born visual artist and a professor of Fine Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Yoon received BFA in Fine Art from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis. Yoon focuses on non-traditional printmaking methods including large scale prints, paper installations, multi-media work combining video and sculptural elements with printmaking. Driven by curiosity and sensitivity to materials, Yoon often embraces slow processes to allow time for reflection and meditation. Yoon’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States as well as South Korea, China, India, Italy and Poland. Yoon’s work is part of permanent collections at Museum of Wisconsin Art, Alverno College, Warehouse Museum, Gyodong Art Center, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Daeseung Hanji Gallery in South Korea, Murray State University, and Southern Graphics International.

John Schuerman

John Schuerman is a self-taught artist and independent curator. From 2013 to 2016 he was the Gallery Director for Instinct Art Gallery. Instinct was a contemporary gallery with an emphasis on art that honors the natural world. His deep interest in nature and human nature are visible in both his art and his curatorial work which consists of group exhibitions focused on sociological themes. His aesthetic style and social consciousness formed as he grew up on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin, coming of age during the cultural revolution of the late 60’s and early 70’s. He has produced exhibits on topics such as Money, Gender Perspectives, Identity, Environmentalism, Our Medicated Lives, and Human Overpopulation.

Rebecca Kautz

Rebecca Kautz (b.1978 Princeton, IL) is a Sun Prairie, Wisconsin based artist and Lecturer of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from UW-Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Kautz has been an artist for three decades, coming of age as an artist at the turn of the 21st Century in Chicago. Kautz works in a variety of media with an International and National exhibition record. Her work is held in both public and private collections throughout the United States and Canada. Her awards include Award of Distinction: 10th Annual International Drawing Exhibition, The Social Art Award, The Larry S. Tempkin Exhibition Award, First Honorable Mention: Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize, and a two-time Finalist for the Forward Art Prize. Kautz’s influences are varied and include Feminist Performance Art, Modern movements such Surrealism and German Expressionism, as well as Folk Art. Her imagery is gleaned... Read More

Jon Horvath

Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist and writer that routinely utilizes systems-based strategies within multimedia narrative projects. Horvath entered the visual arts principally through the photographic medium and was influenced by his varied early formal education in creative fiction writing, philosophy, and composing music. His practice has expanded into the mixed use of photography, video, performance, sculptural objects, and other mediums, placed into a combined space to shape bodies of work reflecting his interest in open-ended, poetic narratives rooted in the exploration of how we build personal and cultural mythologies as a way to better understand the world around us.

Horvath’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows at venues including: The Print Center (Philadelphia), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) FIESP Cultural Centre (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Gyeonggi Art Center (Suwon, South Korea), OFF Piotrkowska (Lodz, Poland... Read More

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

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