Wednesday Lunch-hour Curator's Tour with Jan Serr

Danielle Paswaters

The Warehouse

About the Event: Artist and Curator Jan Serr will introduce attendees to the exhibition CHINA: Then &amp; Now - Jan Serr. About The Warehouse: The Warehouse is an art museum and research center located at 1635 W. St. Paul Ave, Milwaukee. Exhibitions, performances, and lectures are based on The Warehouse’s permanent collection of over 3,600 modern and contemporary works on paper, paintings, photography and sculpture. The collection is available for scholars, students and art enthusiasts, and works are available for institutional loans. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit thewarehousemke.org or call 414-252-0677.About the speaker: Jan Serr creates paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs, and artist-made books. She generally works on a series of paintings and prints which share a common subject or theme, but which are expressed in different media. In recent years, Serr has explored photography more deeply using the sensibilities she has developed in her other work. Serr is known for her rich use of color and strong composition.Born in Dayton, Ohio, Jan Serr grew up in Arizona and Wisconsin. She earned her BA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee where she studied with John Colt and Schomer Lichtner. Early influences include Matthias Grunewald, El Greco, Frans Hals, and 20th century Expressionists such as Max Beckman, Oskar Kokoschka, and Emil Nolde. Early in her career Serr taught at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point and Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario. In 2014 she returned to teaching, leading a monotype course at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Serr’s work is in major private, public, and corporate collections in the United States and Canada (her first professional exhibition was with Marlborough Godard Galerie, Montreal, Quebec). She has participated in the Art in the Embassy program of the U.S. State Department three times. Serr has gallery representation in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI. For more information, please visit her <a href="http://janserr.com/biography/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a>. About the exhibition: On first look, the sixty-four photographic works in CHINA: Then &amp; Now – Jan Serr are about China. They depict the “Old Town” Hutong neighborhood streets, the restful Scholar’s Garden, and the ultra-contemporary world of Maglev bullet trains traveling 375 miles per hour. On second look, the exhibition is about the passing of time. Mirroring these efforts represented in Serr’s subject matter, this exhibition employs large-scale installations to transport visitors from the modern streets of China (New World City) to its quaint historic neighborhoods (Old Town). As you walk through a full-sized Moon Gate, you will enter our “Humble Administrator’s Garden” adorned with meditative scholar’s stones and an ever-soothing water feature, designating a space for visitors to contemplate the vast to the personal. While she has worked with countless cameras and many types of image-capturing systems, in China Serr chose to be a street photographer with a nimble digital hand-held Nikon. Her operating principle “See it, Shoot it, Be safe, Be gone.” Situating prints of her meticulously curated compositions within this immersive time-traveling exhibition, Serr asks what is remembered and what is forgotten, beckoning visitors to experience China through her. She states “What I saw in China, and how I saw it, is what you see here now. You are standing with me, looking though my camera, looking through my eyes.”In addition to Serr’s photographs, the exhibition includes a painting of the Tiananmen Square massacre, as well as an original video illustrated by her. Other works includes two large figurative ceramics by Pamela Leung-never before exhibited in the U.S., hand-colored brass rubbings, and other Chinese objects. For more information, please visit The Warehouse <a href="https://www.thewarehousemke.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a>. Co-curators, Kate Hawley and Jan Serr. Exhibition Dates: October 15, 2021 – December 29, 2021

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