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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 Homeless Artist Who Staged Glamor Shots in Bus Station Photobooths

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer December 4, 2015October 7, 2016

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Lee Godie’s self-portraits generate warmth, humor, and the stubborn confidence of a woman shaping her own frail destiny.

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The Story of a Pope Portrait Made Out of Condoms

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer July 2, 2015July 5, 2015

MILWAUKEE — It’s not unusual for a work of art to cause outrage, especially if it dips into the tender zones of race, gender, or religion.

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A Single Woman Is a Witch: Battling to Save the Art Environment of Mary Nohl

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer December 12, 2014June 22, 2017

Over a period of 50 years, the artist Mary Nohl transformed her yard as well as the interior and exterior of her cottage into an environment that stands in conversation with the surrounding land, lake, and her childhood memories. Almost immediately after the first cement sculptures materialized in the 1960s, however, she became known as “The Witch.”

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Kandinsky’s Cosmic Consciousness

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer August 18, 2014August 21, 2014

MILWAUKEE — In the foreword to the exhibition catalogue, Bernard Blistene and Alain Seban of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, glue together a new retrospective on Wassily Kandinsky with two words: “intrinsic coherence.”

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