Aesthetic Afterlife Exhibition - Milwaukee, WI

If you are in the Milwaukee area in the near future, check out this show at the Haggerty Museum! The show was curated by Claudia Mooney of the Chipstone Foundation and features work by wood department alumni Heather McCalla, Hongtao Zhou, and Jason Ramey. 

"Slowly... but it's happening." by Heather McCalla

Aesthetic Afterlife
An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation
Featuring work by UW alumni Heather McCalla, Hongtao Zhou, Jason Ramey, and Niki Johnson.
Show runs January 22 through August 3, 2014

"We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure, and there it was on the street, our ceaselessly erected, ceaselessly broken cenotaphs to ephemera and disconnection and unquenchable want."

-Robin Nagle, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Today’s obsessive materialism occurs without consideration of what happens to things when we no longer need or want them. In An Aesthetic Afterlife, five Wisconsin artists literally address the myriad problems raised by our “throw-away culture.” But they do so somewhat optimistically, using old objects to create beautiful works of art. Secondhand objects are saved from their potential graves, proving that it is possible for them to live an aesthetic and purposeful afterlife.

Haggerty Museum of Art
Marquette University
13th and Clybourn Streets
Milwaukee, WI 53201