Blog Posts and Press Releases

Madison artist Karen Laudon refers to her paintings as visual poems. Lately, the poems are about her garden. "Paintings that I have been working on recently have been a little more directly related to work in my gardens and some of those forms," Laudon said during a...

Ray Zovar has never been the kind of person to lock himself into a single medium as an artist. Ever since being a young child in Milwaukee, Zovar has been an experimenter. He is entirely self-taught as an artist, and has spent the majority of his life working to...

 Her sculptures start with a basic form with ridges that she molds into a shape representative of what someone might find on a sandy beach, or at the bottom of the ocean. All of Susan Kayes works incorporate some kind of spiral pattern. This is the math that is found...

Growing up, Madison artist Erin Liljigren witnessed how her hometown near Chicago underwent urban development. Once barren country roads became bustling business thoroughfares, and Liljigren found that "devestating." She thus became passionate about the preservation...

Art has always been Hanna Bruer's way of making sense of her emotions, particularly those surrounding her complicated childhood. Bruer is a participating artist in Carnelian Art Gallery's current exhibition, "Dreams In the Undergrowth," which is a show focused on...

I first got to know Madison artist Jen Dunlop last fall when she began renting one of our three private art studios. Dunlop's staple is her ability to create organic forms on canvases using tissue paper, glue and iridescent acrylic paints to "transmute" her darkness...

If the art world is going to change, it's going to start with Evan Bradbury, both my boss (head curator of Carnelian Art Gallery) and exhibiting artist in the gallery's current show, "Finding Color In the Chaos," which is on display until April 30. Bradbury brought...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MADISON, Wisconsin, April 8 - Carnelian Art Gallery, located at 221 King St., Suite 102, in downtown Madison, is pleased to announce its second art exhibition of the year, titled "Dreams In the Undergrowth." The show, which starts...

Nastia Craig picks up one of her many brushes in her Madison basement art studio and starts applying white acrylic paint to a transparent piece of paper. She later adds a tinge of light peach, as well as turquoise. Craig also uses a brush tool to create a stripe-like...