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Debra Brehmer

Milwaukee

Contributor at Freelance

Contributor at Hyperallergic

A contemporary art gallery dedicated to the ideas and social context of the portrait.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements

    Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive.

  • 3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Debra Brehmer

    Outside 101 Spring Street in Soho, pedestrians noisily stream by. But inside this five-story historic space is a different world where the lingering aura of Donald Judd’s quiet presence resides. Judd purchased the building in 1968 and, along with a later residence in Marfa, Texas, it was his home until his death at age 65 in 1994. The building can be toured by appointment, with the ground floor open to the public as an exhibition space on Fridays and Saturdays.

  • 2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements |Alexandra Thomas

    We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman.

  • 2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Debra Brehmer

    We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s woven embroideries are made of commercial, acrylic yarn, an unforgiving medium often associated with grade school weaving kits and resale store afghans. But the artist’s quadros de lã (“wool paintings”) miraculously, almost magically, transcend categories of high and low, craft and painting.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Debra Brehmer

    We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. MILWAUKEE — Benny Andrews was a painter, as well as an activist, an art educator in prisons, and an inspiration to many Black artists. He made figurative paintings utilizing a technique he called “rough collage,” where he selectively built up parts of the composition with paper or fabric.

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Portrait Society Gallery
Portrait Society Gallery @portraitsociety
26 Jan 22

They could and they did - https://t.co/Hgm2ofsOWh

Portrait Society Gallery
Portrait Society Gallery @portraitsociety
31 Oct 21

This writer watched the entire 14-hour video currently on view in Lois Bielefeld's exhibition, To commit to memory. Heroic! https://t.co/0oGwskVe07

Portrait Society Gallery
Portrait Society Gallery @portraitsociety
12 Oct 21

Is this the most boring film ever made? - https://t.co/lvRjZueWBa