It may seem like a mind-melting oxymoron that your wise and cryptic yoga guru would throw at ya when ya least expect it--say, when you're in the middle of Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog pose)--but temporary art does indeed have history. In evidence of that, native Miltown artist Roy Staab is receiving his due kudos at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Peck School of the Arts’ Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) with an exhibition surveying his 30 years working in temporary geometric earthworks.
As a master of the fine and often hard to grasp discipline of environmental art, Staab has created minimalist pieces all over the planet that combine free-flowing naturalistic forms and controlled geometric lines, demonstrating both the tension and ease existent between. All his installations have utilized on-site material and have followed the serene principal of unisex nature itself: Everything is temporary. Whoa, I think I just threw a synapse.
The opening reception for Roy Staab: Four Seasons/Four Corners is this Friday, July 10, from 6 to 9PM at Inova, 2155 N. Prospect Avenue, on Milwaukee's East Side. As an added bonus, there'll be a new indoor installation and an outdoor work sited near the gallery, so get on over there on Friday or whenever your stars happen to align on or before September 27, 2009.
Link (Thanks, Polly!)
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