Opening reception: November 11, 6-8pm
(Drawing Gallery) - On view in the Drawing Gallery are new, small-scale cut paper studies by Kako Ueda. In these works, Ueda is experimenting with color, dimension and narrative as well as collage while developing ideas for larger installation-sized projects. This is Ueda’s third show at the gallery since her debut in 2007.
During the past two years, Ueda was included in “Slash: Paper Under the Knife” at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, “Cutters,” at the Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, Drawn to Detail,” at the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Drawn in the Clouds” at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma), Helsinki, and “Flora / Fauna” at the Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin. Her 7’ foot high by 6’ wide installation “Eros and Thanatos,” is currently on view in “Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism”,” a group show organized by the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan.