Savor the artwork of Elsie Berget, Mary Bero, Rhea Ewing, Melanie Ezra, Dennis Nechvatal & Paula Schuette Kraemer. Also featuring jewelry by Rhea Vedro and Mata Ortiz Pottery for a limited time! Portions of the exhibit’s proceeds supported various non-profit groups designated by the artists and buyers.

Richard Springer’s art career spans over 50 years. This particular collection covers his exploration of his former home, Montana. His artwork tells the story of one of the greatest wild places in the States, but also of Springer’s wanderlust. Showcasing paintings of the region surrounding Yellowstone National Park, Springer will be donating a portion of the sales to a variety of wilderness funds helping to preserve our wild lands: The Wilderness Society/Nature Conservancy/Wilderness Land Trust/Women’s Wilderness & Wetlands Inc./or your choice

A Natural Progression features a variety of paintings, conceptual illustrations, and functional sculptures boasting elements of the natural world. Artists in this group show include Tina Duemler, Leslie Iwai, Linda Koenig, Aaron Laux, Jennifer Falck Linssen, Andy Rubin, Colette Odya Smith, and Barbara Walton. This meditative exhibition is comprised completely of Wisconsin-based artists and overall emphasizes the sense of calm wonder instilled while taking in this great midwest American landscape.

Synergy Coworking and Gallery Marzen are pleased to present this Open Studio event, an evening with Rio-based artist and change-maker Panmela Castro. Castro is a world renowned creative entrepreneur and human rights activist who’s artwork spotlights the female body in dialogue with the urban landscape and questions of otherness and binary gender. Her powerful imagery appears on exteriors in ten countries around the world, from right here in Madison (Willy St Co-op East) to Paris, Israel, Austria, Brazil and more.

Marzen will host a community live painting event and Synergy Coworking will facilitate a silent auction for the benefit of Rede NAMI, Castro’s non-profit women’s/human rights organization. Guests will also have the opportunity to partake in a themed live painting facilitated by Marzen, which will be donated to DAIS of Dane County.

We are pleased to present The Soul of the Upper Midwest: Timestacking by Mark Weller. Each of Weller’s renderings are inspired by movement, some magnificently dramatic and some capturing motion imperceptibly subtle to the eye. This exhibition will feature both his unique landscapes and vibrant abstraction unlike anything seen in Madison before. Though his process starts through the lens of a camera, his aesthetic draws on both the world of traditional painting and highly technical photography. Weller is perpetually exploring new ways to evolve his compositions without the use of post-processing beyond what he needs to time stack the images, which is comprised of many images shot over a short range of time, compressed into a single frame. Using his expert eye and his extensive knowledge, Weller will take thousands of shots in order to capture just the right moment in which the subject is “painted” across the composition.

Mark Weller is a Wisconsin native that has spent roughly 25 years specializing in photography. In his early career, he shot films in Alaska, afterward moving to Madison producing films for WPTV, and in the early 90’s becoming the CEO of a local telecommunications firm catering to rural areas statewide. In his free-time Weller began work as an astrophotographer, fundraising for the benefit of Wisconsin’s beloved Apostle Islands, which led him to discover his unique, cloud-swathed landscapes.

A collection of art exhibiting works of remarkable texture in various media and formats. This exhibition features a wide variety of artists and subjects, from such names as Sam Gilliam to prolific local artists such as Katherine Steichen Rosing and Rhea Ewing.

FROM HERE TO HER Artist Collective’s latest community art project, Mothers of Our Nations: Artworks Honoring Women Leading Positive Change. The project explores the unique role women play in instigating social change by shining a light on groups of women leading the way in their local communities. Sixteen visual artists and poets partnered with women-led groups in Milwaukee and Madison who are taking action to improve the world around them, then created original work to honor them.

Music by DJ Loop
Spoken word by Tiffany Miller, Brit Nicole & Mikey Apollo
& a special serenade from The Raging Grannies of Madison

FROM HERE TO HER Artist Collective is an alliance of female artists based in Milwaukee who share a strong belief in the power of art to create social change and to transform lives – both the life of the artist and the lives of people who are touched by their work.

Marzen presents More Time Than Life, an exhibition spotlighting modern Mexican art grown from long-held, rich traditional folk mediums and imagery. Artists in this exhibition come from various backgrounds yet share a common thread as they relate their craft to their personal and cultural traditions.

The exhibition will feature the original woven art of master weaver Erasto “Tito” Mendoza from Oaxaca, Mexico. His innovative textiles are skillfully woven and push the boundaries of the archetypal Saltillo style serapes. Mendoza has collaborated on multiple occasions with Madison textile and installation artist Carolyn Kallenborn, whose elaborate, ethereal concepts blend beautifully with the more traditional textile forms. Marzen will be exhibiting some of these internationally celebrated collaborative works for the first time ever in Madison as well as a brand new installation piece crafted by Mendoza and Kallenborn.

More Time Than Life also includes the kaleidoscopic paintings of Edgar Salguero, an artist residing in Guanajuato, Mexico. Salguero’s colorful paintings do not betray the uncomplicated freedom of his hand while maintaining a seemingly impeccable control over the uncontrollable. The paintings are blanketed in luscious texture due to the artist’s meticulously painted motif of dots and line-work which tell many stories within the greater narrative of the composition. His work is humbly inspired by literature, music, and aspects of his own life and persona.

Also on display will be an assortment of pottery from Mata Ortiz. Mata Ortiz is a small pueblo that is home to a unique group of potters located along the Palanganas River in northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. The region is rich with history dating back to ancient Paquime, a large city that at its zenith was emblematic of high culture and trade in its time. In the mid-1950’s a man named Juan Quezada, deeply inspired by the prehistoric pottery scattered throughout the region, set out to learn the lost art of the beautiful pottery. Using only the region’s diverse range of clays and minerals and hand-built ovens and tools, Quezada successfully recreated the ancient style of pottery which eventually caught the attention of outsiders. The other families in the village began to learn how to process the clay, hand build the pots and hand-paint the incredibly intricate designs, evolving into its own contemporary art form and becoming the trademark of Mata Ortiz.

Continuing an annual project initiated originally by Edgewood College, Marzen will be the home base for the Remembrance & Celebration shrines this year complimenting the incredible breadth of artwork on display. Memorial shrine making has been a widespread tradition all over the world but most notably in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca’s incredible Dia De Los Muertos celebration is an honored and time-held tradition to commemorate those who have passed on. Marzen invites the community to make their own ofrenda (altar) and display it at the gallery for the extent of this exhibition.