Dean Jensen Gallery

      The gallery I picked was the Dean Jensen Gallery in  Milwaukee, it was very nice little gallery. It is located near the third ward, which for those of you who don't know Milwaukee, is the "artsy" part of town. So the gallery was defiantly in a proper location, and the gallery itself was set up nicely to show art, the architecture had buttress-like dividers in the wall that made it easy to group the paintings by the artist or style. The show they have up right now is surprisingly good for a small Milwaukee art gallery. It consisted of all prints from various artist such as Kiki Smith, Bruce Nauman, Ed Paschke, Julian Schnabel, Claes Oldenberg, Roger Brown, Ed Rusche, and others. Most of these artists aren't extremely contemporary, since most were working in 80's and early 90's, but their work was defiantly still following conventions that are used today. The show was titled "Great Impressions III," and at first I was very confused because I thought there was going to be impressionist work their, but after viewing show I think it was named that because they are prints, thus making an impression on the paper. The gallery unfortunately did not have any catalogs or press releases on this particular exhibition, and the gallery operator was not very helpful, but on the positive side he was very friendly and not intimidating.

The gallery website did not allow me to pull the images of the show, but you can just go to the exhibition website and they have a few of the images.

Great Impressions III