Current Tendencies
Ten Artists from Wisconsin

Jennifer Angus, Peter Bardy, Anne Kingsbury, Colin Matthes, Shana McCaw, Brent Budsberg,
 T. L. Solien, Sonja Thomsen, George Williams Jr., Xiaohong Zhang

March 12 – June 14, 2009
winners circleCurrent Tendencies will present works in diverse mediums by emerging, mid-career and established Wisconsin artists. The featured artists include; Jennifer Angus, Peter Bardy, Anne Kingsbury, Colin Matthes, Shana McCaw, Brent Budsberg, T. L. Solien, Sonja Thomsen, George Williams Jr., and Xiaohong Zhang. For this exhibition, the lower level of the Haggerty Museum will be divided into 10 separate galleries, giving each artist (or pair of artists in the case of McCaw and Budsberg) his/her own space. Site-specific installations will be created for Current Tendencies by McCaw and Budsberg, Matthes and Angus. Never before seen large-scale stainless steel sculpture by self-taught artist Peter Bardy will also be featured. In addition, the exhibition will showcase photography by Thomsen; paper-cuttings by Zhang; fibre/bead work by Kingsbury; and paintings by Solien and Williams.


Colin Matthes
Proposal for Winners Circle, 2009
Ink and paint on paper
Courtesy of the artist

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Whatever is There is a Truth
Robert Rauschenberg’s Prints

December 12, 2008 - October 4, 2009
museum closed for maintenance June 15 - July 15. 2009


2008.17.8 The Haggerty is hosting an exhibition of prints by revolutionary postwar American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) in tribute to his life and legacy as a printmaker.

Central to the American art scene from 1950 until his death earlier this year, Rauschenberg was widely regarded as a principal bridge between Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and Pop art in the 1960s, but he did not subscribe to any narrow doctrine. Rauschenberg worked in a variety of disciplines and mediums including printmaking, painting, sculpture, photography, dance, technology and performance art that has influenced generations of artists. His deep and abiding interest in printmaking facilitated a major revival in the medium, and his achievements in lithography were instrumental in the creation of a contemporary market for prints.

Rauschenberg expressed social, cultural and political ideas through his art. The Stoned Moon series of 1969-1970, featured in this exhibition, reflects his artistic response to witnessing the lift-off of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center in 1969 at the invitation of NASA. Rauschenberg began to silkscreen paintings in 1962. In 1963 at the age of 37, he was given his first career retrospective by the Jewish Museum, New York, and was awarded the Grand Prize for Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale. He spent much of the remainder of the 1960s dedicated to more collaborative projects including printmaking, performance, choreography, set design, and art-and-technology works.





ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, American (1925-2008)
Eagle Eye (Ruminations), 1999, intaglio in 5 colors with etching on Arches En Tout Cas
49 ¾ x 38”
Edition of 46
Gift of Robert Luta, 2008.12.3


more images from the exhibition


Guest lecturer Robert S. Mattison, Ph.D. will speak on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Dr. Mattison is the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of art history at Lafayette College. Author of four books, including Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries (2003), Dr. Mattison has also written over fifty articles and exhibition catalogs about modern art. He is the recipient of the Sears-Roebuck Award for teaching and scholarship and the Jones Lecture Award.