Mister Moyer & Baxter Montgomery
Present
IRLmfg
A sound and visual collection celebrating the poignant, weird, and vulnerable of the analog human condition. Part painting exhibition, concert, dance, immersive experience and garage sale.
August 23-24
6:00 – 10 p.m.
Common Wealth Gallery
100 S. Baldwin Street
Madison, WI
ARTISTS
Bethany Alwa & Marina Kelly | Madison, WI
Bethany Alwa is an educator and mover with a commitment to creating inclusive and expressive spaces.
Marina Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist who designs situations that bring people together.
Laura Annis | Madison, WI
Inspired by nature and mythology, Laura Annis’ work explores emotion in an illustrative manner. Utilizing a varied skill set, she creates dimensional work that is both unique and dynamic.
BC Grimm | Madison, WI
Brian Grimm is a multi-instrumentalist composer, performer, and sound designer who performs experimental electro-acoustic music on ancient Chinese instruments and his homemade electric cello, “frankencello” under the moniker BC Grimm. Utilizing both traditional and extended techniques on instruments such as the seven string guqin zither, the four string pipa lute, & 21 string guzheng zither; Grimm then sculpts these sounds through pedalboards and Ableton Live. Grimm is known for his work over the years in the improvised, experimental, and jazz scenes playing in bands like Lovely Socialite, Brennan Connors & Stray Passage, The Five Points Jazz Collective, Vardo, The Brothers Grimm, Watercourse Quartet, Sisters Three, & Sound Out Loud. Most recently, Grimm has carved out a niche with his creative integration of sound design and original music for Theater productions around the Midwest.
Dolly Joseph | Charlottesville, VA
Dolly Joseph loves stuff, ritual, and color. In her art this manifests as multi-layered paintings on canvas or random blocks of wood. Dolly’s work explores jarring and soothing color combos, basic geometric shapes, and symbols that are past and future. They are meant to be anti-precious and perhaps disposable. You should go make some artwork now, too.
Paulina King | Madison, WI
Paulina King (b. 1996, Utah) is an installation artist based in the Midwest, interested in the relationship between our society and the world we inhabit. Her pieces work in tandem with natural forces, establishing aesthetic, symbiotic relationships that highlight overlooked phenomena. These interactions ground the viewer in the physical world, encouraging a reconsideration of our engagement with our surroundings, and more broadly, the environment. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Madison, Wisconsin and received her BA in Practice of Art from Princeton University.
Erin Liljegren | Madison, Wisconsin
Erin Liljegren is a Madison-based mixed-media artist who received her BFA from UW-Madison. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with most recent shows at the Overture Center for the Arts, Rockford Art Museum, and the Center for Visual Arts in Wausau, WI.
The works selected for “Analog” are hand-made creations that were created during 2000s-2010s, when the digital world was less present in everyday life.
Sharon Lomasney | Chicago, Illinois
Sharon Lomasney is a Chicago-based artist who works mostly in paints, though she studied photography, painting and ceramics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She further honed her painting skills at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. As a social artist, Lomasney’s work delves into the complexities of our interconnected world, addressing issues that prompt introspection and dialogue. She uses her creative expression as a tool for societal reflection and engagement. Her work goes beyond the canvas, delving into the intricate intersections of art and society. Sharon Lomasney looks to leave a mark on the contemporary art scene, challenging conventional boundaries and fostering a deeper understanding of the symbiotic relationship between art and society.
Raven Mack | Schuyler, Virginia
Raven Mack is an American mongrel mystic poet-philosopher of the Greater Appalachian Unorthodox tradition. Working as a multi-media writer, poet, rapper, and folk artist, born and raised in Southside Virginia, and now residing in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Schuyler, VA, he self-publishes extensively in zine, print, and digital formats to create a labyrinth of concepts, themes, and characters that blend everyday “reality” with the esoteric and the absurd to create a SOUTHERN GOTHICC FUTURISM philosophy and aesthetic. This is combined with creating word-based physical art using wild harvested railroad spikes and old bottles, as magical folk art. He also holds space as emcee of Southern Gothicc Futurist Haiku Slams wherever possible. Also known as Dirtgod, his life’s artistic work has been to heal broken patterns, both inherited and environmental, through therapeutic acts of creation in a multitude of ways.
Baxter Montgomery | Middle West
axter Montgomery came into awareness in the fall of 2023 in the mountains of Colorado. He makes his home in the American Middle West. His work is rooted in the emerging practice of Compositional Physics—the study of how an individual expression of art (the composition) affects the emotional state of the witness bearer, especially on the subconscious, unconscious, and infinite conscious levels.
Mister Moyer | Wisconsin
David Mueller | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Based in Milwaukee, I’m a typical Wisconsin kid raised in the 80s. I love my family, I have a strong work ethic and I credit most of my values and inspirations to Jim Henson, the USA Cartoon Express and of course the realization that “Knowing,” is indeed, “Half the Battle.”
I received my BFA from the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. It was here that I found painting to be my medium of choice, at first oil on canvas, but now primarily acrylic on wood.
Amy Regutti | Madison, Wisconsin
Amy Regutti is a painter. Her paintings explore artificial intelligence, body adornment, enchantment and the loss/beauty of nature as we know it. Amy has been published in Pikchur Magazine and exhibits nationally. Her paintings have shown in both Surreal Salon 11 and 12 at the Baton Rouge Gallery.
Amy graduated with a BFA from Northern Illinois University and a MSOM from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine. She lives and works in Madison Wisconsin with her husband Roger.
Tim Russell | Madison, Wisconsin
Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin Dance Program. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances.
Liz Sexe | Madison, Wisconsin
Liz Sexe is a dance educator, choreographer, and movement artist. Sexe believes that performance is a mode of sharing perspective through a shared embodied experience. In her processes, tasks inspire poetic movement, game theory finds logical, yet often unexpected phrasing, and athletic dancing is paired with deep intentionality. As a performer, she is described in The Isthmus as a “clean and efficient mover,” and having “toughness under her grace.” Within the improvisation space, Liz Sexe likes to challenge the expected and draw attention to the smallest details that exist within the moments.
She grew up dancing at Dance Studio 3-D in Deerfield, WI and fell in love with the practice of movement. She went on to receive a BA from St. Olaf College in Dance and Biology and continued on to receive a MFA from Mills College focusing on Performance and Choreography. Most recently, Sexe is teaching at UW Madison as a Teaching Faculty and working on movement projects with various groups of dancers in the Madison Area.
Def Sonic | Madison, Wisconsin
Recording artist Def Sonic (DS) started because of insomnia which you can kind of hear in the music. All of DS’s stuff lives in “The Land Of Nod”. It’s like yacht rock heard faintly through the walls of a sensory deprivation tank. Like his music, DS is warm, inviting and something of a mystery. Don’t bother trying to solve it. The mystery is the answer.
IRLmfg
IRLmfg is a collaborative art and expression dedicated to the analog human experience.