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Debra Brehmer

Debra Brehmer is a writer and art historian who runs a contemporary gallery called Portrait Society in Milwaukee, WI. She is especially interested in how portraits convey meaning.

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Anatomy of a Disputed Emancipation Monument

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer May 23, 2023May 23, 2023

The Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin didn’t quite know what to do with a controversial emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln in its collection until Sanford Biggers stepped in with an idea.

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For William Kentridge, Art and Life Animate One Another

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer December 6, 2022December 7, 2022

In an exhibition that consists of mostly small-scale black and white works on paper, viewer engagement almost magically awakens the sleepy room.

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The Joyous Kitsch and Lingering Simmer of Nick Cave’s Art

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer September 29, 2022November 9, 2022

With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.

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A Barbara Kruger Retrospective Mixes Capitalism and its Critique

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer January 6, 2022January 5, 2022

Kruger never seemed to mind that the very world she critiqued co-opted her style and spit it back into advertising.

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Adventure and Spirituality Collide in Joseph E. Yoakum’s Visionary Art

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

Yoakum had said repeatedly that the drawings were “spiritual unfoldments,” meaning that faith guided his patterns and passages.

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The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer August 5, 2021August 10, 2021

In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female.

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Alice Neel’s Haunting Portrait of Domestic Abuse

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer July 24, 2021July 23, 2021

Alice Neel: People Come First yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee.

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A New Home for Immersive Artists’ Environments at the Kohler Art Preserve

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer June 24, 2021June 25, 2021

Part of the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the new institution celebrates the ingenuity of a long undervalued form of art making.

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Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer May 8, 2021October 21, 2021

Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask.

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Avedon’s Father, My Mother, and Processing Death

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer April 17, 2021April 16, 2021

People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.

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Beverly Pepper’s Monumental Legacy

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

I had questions for Pepper, but I arrived too late.

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Raphaël Barontini’s Slick and Stylish Historic Inversions

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

Interjecting the power poses of Western art history with heroic Black revolutionary figures from the Caribbean, Barontini’s work manages to be seductive yet also ceremonial.

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Featuring projects by 30 graduate students, this multidisciplinary exhibition is on view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 25.

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