Blog Posts and Press Releases

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...

Carnelian Art Gallery's digital self will soon have a new look. What does that mean? Not only will we have a stylish new website with e-commerce capabilities, our weekly newsletter will look different and more aesthetically pleasing, too. None of the current services...

I first wrote about Madison artist Matthew Braunginn when I started as marketing director at Carnelian Art Gallery last fall. Since then, Braunginn has been making some moves. And so earlier this week, I caught up with the artist to see how he has propelled his career...

He's been a jack-of-all-trades most of his life, but being a full-time artist is what Middleton abstract expressionist James Ackerman ultimately chose when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. Ackerman's triptych, "Prelude 2," a series of three acrylic paintings on...