Mark Brautigam

Five years in the making, Mark Brautigam's personal quest to document the unconventional side of Wisconsin is completed. Brautigam highlights an idiosyncratic character that has become such a part of our immediate environment it is often disregarded. It is envisioning true beauty in otherwise overlooked settings that the artist has accomplished in this series of photographs. Brautigam has produced a limited edition twenty-five print box set of this work as well as a catalog with all the images from the series. A selection of Brautigam's On Wisconsin prints are on exhibit at the Haggerty Museum of Art through 2011. Click here to read an interview with Mark Brautigam.

Artist's Statement
I never set out with a specific theme or destination, only with the goal of fabricating a unique and personal portrait of Wisconsin, and uncovering some of its muted histories. The resulting photographs are ripe with beauty, isolation, humor, irony, melancholy, and destruction. Ultimately, they are a product of the hunger and boredom that is the natural rhythm of everyday life.

LAURA LAKE, LAONA, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

AURORA, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

BARTON, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

MILWAUKEE 2, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

GOTHAM, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

DUDLEY LAKE, GLEASON,Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

SUPERIOR, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

DEVIL'S LAKE, BARABOO, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

BAY VIEW, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

ACKLEY, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

WISCONSIN RIVER, ST. GERMAIN, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

GILE, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

DELEVAN, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

HURLEY, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

ALVIN, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

BELGIUM, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

EAU CLAIRE RIVER, WAUSAU, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

BOAZ, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

GLEASON, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

LUCK, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

PHILLIPS, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

SAUK CITY, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

STURTEVANT, Pigment Print, Ed. 1/15, Image Size: 16 x 20"

Mark Brautigam's photographs are also available in image sizes of 24 x 30" and 35 x 44."

CURRENTLY ON VIEW
January 7 -
February 4

Fred Stonehouse

Marschmeister

Andrew Burgess

Collages/Urban Landscapes

LOOKING AHEAD
February 11 -
March 10

Charles Munch

Playing with Fire

Stephanie Trenchard &
Jeremy Popelka

New Work 2012

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