Images captured by photographer Bill Lemke are on display at the Alfons Gallery as part of the “Egypt: A Personal View” exhibit.
Visual Arts exhibits opening this week are profiled in the Shepherd Express’ “Openings” column.
“The 730 Projection: 300 Images from Photographer Dick Blau’s The 730 Project”
Beginning at sundown on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 300 images from photographer Dick’s Blau’s “The 730 Project” will be projected onto an empty storefront window on Wisconsin Avenue—immediately west of Mo’s Irish Pub, 142 W. Wisconsin Ave. The dusk-to-dawn show will run in a continuous hour-long loop accompanied by a soundtrack recorded and composed by Morgan Jones. The final track is a collage that features the keyboard work of house pianist Jerry Weitzer, mixed with sounds of the surrounding streets.
“Embedded Language” Aug. 15 Pfister Hotel 424 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Performance artist and former Pfister Hotel narrator Dasha Kelly will present “Embedded Language”—a discussion on perspective, projection and the impact of personal story as they relate to Sanford Biggers’ BAM (Seated Warrior), 2017. The piece is part of a series in which Biggers marks and mutilates wooden African “power” figures, created for the tourist trade, then casts them in bronze to both hide and exaggerate the violence done to the original. Biggers’ work refers to waves of violence against citizens of color. The discussion commences at 6 p.m. Please register in advance on the Sculpture Milwaukee website.
“Egypt: A Personal View” Aug. 19-Oct. 14 Alfons Gallery 1501 S. Layton Blvd.
“I worked to tell the stories of people whose lives ran parallel to my own life, while contrasting with it greatly in so many ways,” Waukesha’s award-winning photographer Bill Lemke explains. “Throughout these travels, I sought to capture the emotions of the people I met; their joy and pride as well as their sorrows.” An exhibit featuring images captured by Lemke during his 1985-1992 excursion to Egypt opens at the Alfons Gallery. As the gallery’s director and curator, Valerie J. Christell says, “Through photographs of people and places that he encountered throughout Egypt, Lemke provides us with an extensive dose of the Egyptian culture of that era. He is able to open our minds to aspects of ourselves and connections to our world through his distinctive lens.” For more information, call 414-385-5273 or visit alfonsgallery.org.
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