House Work: Peeling Back the (Tiny) Layers

 

About Shana McCaw + Brent Budsberg
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Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg (McCaw/Budsberg) have collaborated for the past eight years on site-specific sculptural installations and performances. Both are also founding members of the WhiteBoxPainters, a performance art group specializing in public projects. Recent exhibitions include Descendant, a solo exhibition at the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin; Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin, at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Escapisms at Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada; Broken Down at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and New Work/Emerging Artists at Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. They will also be featured in a solo exhibition in August 2010 at the James Watrous Gallery at the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Letters in Madison, WI. McCaw received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Minnesota, in 1999. She currently teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Cardinal Stritch University. Budsberg earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000. He is a 3-D lab supervisor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He has also worked as a finish carpenter and a set designer for the film and theater industries.

 

As part of the MKE-LAX: Importing Milwaukee to Los Angeles initiative, please join us for a visiting artist discussion and spring celebration next Wednesday:

Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg (McCaw/Budsberg)
House Work: Peeling Back the (Tiny) Layers
Wednesday, May 19 2010
7pm
Free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.

Milwaukee-based collaborative artists McCaw/Budsberg construct architectural miniatures and sculptural installations to examine the psychology of space, memory and their ancestral pasts. Using the Midwestern farmhouse vernacular repeatedly in their installations, they create fantastic miniature worlds containing both melancholy and idealistic nostalgia. McCaw/Budsberg examine the origin of the house as an extension of the self and a source of both security and anxiety in relationship to Midwestern definitions of domesticity and culture.

Located at:
Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Center for Community Research and Design, Woodbury University
6518 Hollywood Boulevard (at the intersection with Wilcox next door to the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Los Angeles, California 90028
323-461-6486
www.woodbury.edu