Christine Tarkowski

Molten Drawing

Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of mediums, formats, and collaborative conditions. Her work ranges in scale from the pedestrian to the monumental. Equally variable is the scope of production, incorporating the making of permanent public structures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, textile yardage, temporary printed ephemera, and musical choirs. Recently Tarkowskis practice has focused on modes of abstraction; drawing on history, craft tectonics, and archetypes associated with form making, she evolves narrative elements that refer to dissolution of order through the employment of a quasi-alchemical process. Molten Drawings are produced with the use of hot glass interspersed with molten copper, poured by hand over steel armatures, forming minimal, if incomplete, geometries.

Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of mediums, formats, and collaborative conditions. Her work ranges in scale from the pedestrian to the monumental. Equally variable is the scope of production, incorporating the making of permanent public structures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, textile yardage, temporary printed ephemera, and musical choirs. Recently Tarkowskis practice has focused on modes of abstraction; drawing on history, craft tectonics, and archetypes associated with form making, she evolves narrative elements that refer to dissolution of order through the employment of a quasi-alchemical process. Molten Drawings are produced with the use of hot glass interspersed with molten copper, poured by hand over steel armatures, forming minimal, if incomplete, geometries.

Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of mediums, formats, and collaborative conditions. Her work ranges in scale from the pedestrian to the monumental. Equally variable is the scope of production, incorporating the making of permanent public structures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, textile yardage, temporary printed ephemera, and musical choirs. Recently Tarkowskis practice has focused on modes of abstraction; drawing on history, craft tectonics, and archetypes associated with form making, she evolves narrative elements that refer to dissolution of order through the employment of a quasi-alchemical process. Molten Drawings are produced with the use of hot glass interspersed with molten copper, poured by hand over steel armatures, forming minimal, if incomplete, geometries.

Christine Tarkowski

Christine Tarkowski

Molten Drawing

Exhibition

Exhibition

Materials & Dimensions

Materials & Dimensions

Glass, copper, steel

Dimensions variable

Year

Year

2018

Site

Site

Bradley Symphony Center 212 W Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53203

Credits

Credits

Courtesy of the artist.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*
Lacey Sadoff Foundation

presenting

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Good Karma Brands

leader

Anonymous
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Exhibition Partner

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

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BMO
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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Herb Kohl Philanthropies
Herzfeld Foundation
Hoke Family Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mandel Groups*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*
Lacey Sadoff Foundation

presenting

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Good Karma Brands

leader

Anonymous
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Exhibition Partner

Visionary

Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Hawks Landscaping
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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