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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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A Barbara Kruger Retrospective Mixes Capitalism and its Critique

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Tender, Yet Monumental Figures Crafted From the Tides

by Debra Brehmer November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

In Soles of My People, Khari Turner channels elements of Midwestern waterways into figures awash with global histories of triumph and struggle.

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The Last Tourist in Assisi

by Debra Brehmer April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

A writer reflects on Giotto, St. Francis, and what it means to have faith amid a pandemic.

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The Transcendent, Spiritual Fiber Art of Lenore Tawney

by Debra Brehmer December 27, 2019December 18, 2019

More than 40 textile works dating from the 1950s to her death in 2007, at age 100, float in the artist’s retrospective at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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