{"id":5708,"date":"2017-11-10T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2017-11-11T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:42:20","slug":"review-the-shape-of-things-to-come-karin-haas-nyc-harvey-opgenorth-la-and-keith-nelson-mke-at-galerie-kenilworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/10\/review-the-shape-of-things-to-come-karin-haas-nyc-harvey-opgenorth-la-and-keith-nelson-mke-at-galerie-kenilworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Shape of Things to Come, Karin Haas, Harvey Opgenorth, and Keith Nelson at Galerie Kenilworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nine Sages of Images<\/em>, Harvey Opgenorth<\/p>\n

Though I missed the inaugural show at Galerie Kenilworth<\/a>, I was quite pleased to make it to their second exhibition,\u00c2\u00a0The Shape of Things to Come. The gallery itself is a cool story.\u00c2\u00a0Amy Brengel owns the building, lives in the flat above, and had Village Bazaar – selling interesting multicultural jewelry and gifts – in the space below for years. But, with the East Side (my neighborhood!) changing, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153growing up a bit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she decided that it might be time to fill it with an exhibition space. And Brengel signed on none other than Jessica Steeber to manage it. A veteran of the art world (who gave me my first ever Milwaukee exhibition!), Jessica was half of the Armoury Gallery<\/a> \/ Fine Line Magazine<\/a> team (with Cassandra Smith) in the late 2000s and early 20-teens, and the main reason I wanted to make it out tonight – and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad I did.<\/p>\n

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Nine Sages of Images (detail), Harvey Opgenorth<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The Shape of Things to Come is a beautiful exploration of, well, matter – and why it matters. It is a minimalist show, to be sure, in that it invokes non-representational shapes (Haas, below), and textures (Ogpenorth,\u00c2\u00a0above), and materials (Nelson), asking us to focus in on in how we perceive (and thus act), when there are no recognizable “signs” to “read.” This exhibition has us, rather, think-with process, and relation, and bodies in space (both human and non-human).<\/p>\n

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But, The Shape of Things to Come is also a more contemporary revisiting of Minimalism, in that it is not only about phenomenology – a human perception or experience. Here, shelves, or concrete, or wood, for example, are themselves<\/em> uncomfortable. They are twinned yet their own. They are mean or light, funny or jarring; they tell their own stories, whether or not we are listening.<\/p>\n

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Untitled (Shelving), Keith Nelson<\/p><\/div>\n

What is that sphere thinking<\/em>? Why is that shelf holding on<\/em>? Where are those fibers going<\/em>? Idle, weird, rhetorical questions, maybe… but also worth asking. What does<\/em> our world want, and are we doing right by it?<\/p>\n

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Untitled (Diptych) and Untitled (Diptych) by Keith Nelson<\/p><\/div>\n

My two favorite pieces on show are both called\u00c2\u00a0Untitled (Diptych),<\/em> and by Keith Nelson. Gray concrete and gray concrete. Natural, shellacked wood and natural, shellacked wood. Each half is, described that way, identical. But even the image above shows how different the twins are. Minor shifts in color and shape, in space and shadow, are… annoyingly jarring. A diptych is always meant to be inherently in tension. I feel<\/em> this tension more and more, the more time I spend staring at how off-kilter, and unshapely, and simply distracting<\/em> these “same-things” are in their difference.<\/p>\n

What else can concrete and earth, wood and trees, tell us in their sameness and difference? It is worth sincere consideration.<\/p>\n

Galerie Kenilworth is at\u00c2\u00a02201 N Farwell Ave Milwaukee, and open\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Friday 3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 7pm,\u00c2\u00a0Saturdays 12 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4pm.\u00c2\u00a0The Shape of Things to Come is on show until the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine Sages of Images, Harvey Opgenorth Though I missed the inaugural show at Galerie Kenilworth, I was quite pleased to make it to their second exhibition,\u00c2\u00a0The Shape of Things to Come. The gallery itself is a cool story.\u00c2\u00a0Amy Brengel owns the building, lives in the flat above, and had Village Bazaar – selling interesting multicultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,40,38,25],"tags":[63,52,68,62,140],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-exhibition","category-milwaukee-art","category-reviews","tag-aesthetics","tag-art","tag-concern","tag-ecology","tag-milwaukee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1u4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1695,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/gallery-night-and-day-in-milwaukee-fall-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":5708,"position":0},"title":"Gallery Night (and Day) in Milwaukee, Fall 2008","author":"nathaniel","date":"28 October 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I managed to make it to Kenilworth Studios, UWM's Union Gallery, Spackle Gallery and the Armoury Gallery for this Fall's Gallery Night (and Day) in Milwaukee. 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