Gary Warren Niebuhr -- Found Object Mixed Media Assemblage Art
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2010
WordPlay exhibit, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Haz Matt," "Hulk Mail," & "With a Good Joke You Are Golden."
2010
Art From Found Objects exhibit, Monmouth Museum of Art, Monmouth, NJ
"Das Boot."
2011
Cover to Cover Book Exhibit, Fond du Lac Public Library & the Fond du Lac (WI) Visual Art cooperative
"Maid in China" (sold during this exhibition)
2011
Memories: Recycling the Past to Repurpose the Future, the ARTgarage, Green Bay, WI
"Horse Flies" (awarded best in show)
2011
Hometown Heritage: the Racine (WI) and Vicinity Show: An All Media Juried Competition, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
"Wylie Dreams of His Future While on Life Support."
2011
Member's Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"The Protector," "Discharge, the God of Virility," & "Free Fall."
2011
RAM's Community Art Exhibition, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
"Route 66"
2011
Winter White show, Arts Mill, Grafton, WI
"The Commission" (a commission and is now in a private collection)
2012
All Things Big and Small Exhibition, Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, WI
"The Protector" and "Six Degrees of Life"
2012
Wisconsin Visual Artist Juried Exhibition, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI
"Horse Flies" (won the Merchandise Award)
2012
Creature Comforts: RAM Community Art Exhibition, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
"Violinosaurus Rex."
2012
Impress and Astonish!: the 2012 Annual Member Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“The Protector."
2013
Wisconsin Visual Artists Southeast Chapter, Alverno College Gallery Exhibit, Milwaukee, WI
"Free Fall" and "Cyclop's Mother Always Made Him Wear His Safety Glasses When He Rode His Unicycle" (sold)
2013
Through Mia's Eyes, Gallery & Frame Shop, Fond du Lac, WI
"Through Mia's Eyes 1," "Through Mia's Eyes 2," and "I Can C (not pictured)"
2013
Wisconsin Visual Artists Southeast Membership Exhibition. Kenosha Public Museum. Kenosha, WI
"Woman with Issues and Piercings"
2013
Member's Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"Por Fortuna" and "Six Degrees of Life"
2013
21st Annual Dia de Los Muertos Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"Oaxaca Quadriptych: Numero Uno;" "Oaxaca Quadriptych: Numero Dos;"
"Oaxaca Quadriptych: Numero Tres;" "Oaxaca Quadriptych: Numero Cuatro." (not pictured)
2013
Fond du Lac Public Library Langdon Divers Gallery exhibition, A Dog's Life, Fond du Lac, WI
"Oaxaca Dog Uno";" "Oaxaca Dog Dos;" "Oaxaca Dog Tres;" "Oaxaca Dog Cuatro." (not pictured)
2014
Wisconsin Visual Artists Exhibition, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, WI
"Mr. Happy Flaps His Wings" and "Mirroscope" ( selected as one of four Best in Show entries)
2014
Wisconsin Artists: Art by Leaders in the Wisconsin Regional Art Program.
Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters, Steenbock Gallery, 1922 University Avenue, Madison WI.
“Rediscovering God” and “They Woke to the Possibility of Desire Instead of Duty.”
2014
Racine and Vicinity Show: an All Media Juried Competition. Racine Art Museum’s Wustum Museum of Fine Arts. Racine, WI.
“The Lord of the Tusk,” “Demon in My View” and “Totem” (not pictured)
2014
2014 Annual Members Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
“They Woke To The Possibility Of Desire Instead Of Duty,” and “Mr. Happy Flaps His Wings.”
2014
22nd Annual Dia de Los Muertos Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
“I Was a Camera with My Shudder Wide Open Recording (sold);” “About Alice;” “Mictlantecuhtli Lord of the Dead (sold);”
“A Sublime Man;” “Pat July 15 1862 (sold);” “Kingsley (sold)”
2014
The 2014 Super MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“Lapidary Dance” (sold)
2015
23rd Annual Dia de Los Muertos Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
“Ofrenda #1”; “Ofrenda #2”; Ofrenda #3” (sold)
2015
Museum of Wisconsin Art Members' Show: An Art Odyssey, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“Denice” (NFS)
2015
Family, Next Act Theatre (accompanied their production of Motherhood Out Loud), Milwaukee, WI
“I am the Same Boy My Mother Used to Kiss.”
2016
Altered States: New Found Passions, Two Fish Gallery, Elkhart Lake, WI
“Possibly Time Will Revise This Disappointment.” Piece retained for sale in the gallery until October, 2016.
2016
Wisconsin Visual Artists Exhibition, a Juried Show Featuring the Works of WVA Southeast Chapter Members.
Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
“Chairish (sold),” and “Only to Herself was Her Soul Revealed”
2016
Annual Members Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"I'm Just a Very Bad Wizard," "Don't Ask For That Love Again," and "Cold in the Earth"
2016
24th Annual Dia de Los Muertos Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
“I Have Promised;" "The Graveyard Where You Wept;"
and "Where is the Sensual Laughter of Nymphs”
2016
Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Milwaukee, WI.
December of 2016 Artist of the Month.
10 year retrospective of assemblage art.
2017
Personal Icons, Two Fish Gallery, Elkhart Lake, WI
“Beethoven’s Performance Issues.”
2017
"Connections." Re:Vision Gallery and Artist Studio, Kenosha, WI
Curated an exhibition of 19 artists (including himself) influenced by Michael deMeng
2017
Annual Members Show. Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"No One at the Home Believed Dot Gale's Wild Stories of Her Youth" and "I Have Hidden My Soul Out of Sight"
2017
The Martini Girls 5th annual show: Steampunk Junque. Art*Bar, 722 E Burleigh St, Milwaukee
"Let The Wind Devise Secrets And Leave Them In Trees." (SOLD)
2017
The Art of Collage and Assemblage at the Arts Mill. The Arts Mill, 1300 14th Avenue, Grafton, WI
“Hawkasian” and “Possibly Time Will Revise This Disappointment.” (Both SOLD)
2017
Anderson Art Museum (Kenosha, WI), 6603 3rd Avenue, Kenosha, WI. Annual Winter Juried Exhibition
"As Light as the Rain Seems, It Still Rains Down on You.” (Award Winner).
2017
2017 Museum Of Wisconsin Art Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“My Flesh is a Grave with Nothing Inside.” (Award Winner—Best Sculpture)
2018
Hip to be Square – Playing inside the Box. Pop! 5706 W. Vliet Street, Milwaukee, WI
“Snake Princess”, “Butterfly Princess”, “Palm Butterfly”, “Blue Man Smokes”, “Asian Frame”, “Big Boy”, and “Flower Girl” (SOLD).
None are pictured.
2018
The 'Opening' Opening. Two Fish Gallery, 244 East Rhine Street, Elkhart Lake, WI
“The Grace of Faded Things”
2019
Fleurishes. The Langdon Divers Community Gallery, Fond du Lac, WI
“Then In My Dreams It Sweetly Comes Again.”
2019
2019 Museum Of Wisconsin Art Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“Louise Nevelson Goes to the Dentist.”
2019
Wisconsin State Fair, Fine Arts Division, Sculpture, Metal or Mixed Media, West Allis, WI
“As Light as the Rain Seems, It Still Rains Down on You” (Won the Blue Ribbon for Sculpture)
2019
Annual Members Show. Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
"Astrology is the Clock of Destiny”, “Then in My Dreams It Sweetly Comes”,
and “This New Strength Whispers of the Darkness of Death.”
2020
From the Heart: Racine Art Museum Virtual Community Art Show. Racine, WI
“This Body I Testify From is a Binoculars Through Which You Watch” (SOLD)
2020
Annual Members Show. Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
“Picture What Happened To Us,” “Rot Washer,” “The Truth of Disguise and the Mask of Falsehood Were Joined Forever.”
2020
The Anderson Arts Center Winter Juried Show. Kenosha, WI
“This Body I Testify From is a Binoculars Through Which You Watch” and “Of Wonder.”
The Juror selected GWN for a solo show in 2021 based on these pieces
2020
2020 Museum of Wisconsin Art Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
“Various Charms for Embellishing Your Youth.”
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2021
“Nailing Crap Together and Calling It Art Solo Show.” The Anderson Arts Center. Kenosha, WI
38 piece solo show--click on image above to take a tour of the exhibition
The following pieces sold at this exhibition: Pallor (2021), All the Blind What Are They Looking For in the Sky (2021), A Rent in the Region of the Heart (2020), Exploring the Aftermath From the Perspective of the Living (2020), A Door to the Cluttered House of Memory (2020), A Slight Slender Physique (2019), Then in My Dreams It Sweetly Comes (2019), This New Strength Whispers of the Darkness of Death (2019), and I Have Hidden My Soul Out of Sight (2017).
2021
Racine and Vicinity Show 2021: All Media Juried Competition, June 16 – August 14, 2021. Racine Art Museum’s Wustum Museum of Fine Arts. Racine, WI. “Correo.”
2021
14th Annual Contemporary Figurative Show, July 2 -- August 25, 2021. Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
"What Is Beautiful In Places Where Others Might Not See Beauty"--SOLD
2021
2021 Members' Show, September 18 – October 17, 2021. Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI.
"I’ll Just Sew Myself Back Together, But Will It Last?"
2021
Gary Warren Niebuhr + Collage Assemblage Encaustic Magical Mythical Mystery Tour
October 2021 Artist of the Month Club
Two Fish Gallery, Elkhard Lake, WI
16 piece exhibition
SOLD--Where My Thoughts Drink Themselves, Fly Ded, I Spend All Day Around the High Branches, Reaching
2022
Abstracted Visions, An Online Exhibition, Wisconsin Visual Artists Southeast Chapter. March, 2022. “But I Know That.”
2022
Rustbelt: REDUX, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, PA. March 26 - April 24, 2022
SOLD--"The Things You Made, Discarded, Are Now Art"
2022
15th Annual The Figure In Contemporary Art Show at the Hilliard Gallery in Kansas City, MO. April 1 - May 25, 2022
"He Made War Like A Man Anointing Himself"
This piece disappeared when the gallery closed for business
2022
“But I Know That: Mixed Media Assemblage by Gary Warren Niebuhr.”
June 4 – 26, 2022. Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, WI. 27 piece show.
SOLD--Baba Yaga Birdhouse, Birdland, Bunny Boy, Her Idea of Going to Heaven Probably Did Include Some Wild Storms, I'll Just Sew Myself Back Together But Will It Last, Jerry the Bellboy, Not In This World To Be Liked, Now You Invent the Boat of Your Own Flesh and Set It Upon the Waters, Potpourri-Bot, She Had It Handed To Her, Sister Brother In the Order Received, The Gardner's Daughter, The Giant Who Had No Heart, The Truth of Disguise and the Mask of Falsehood Were Joined Forever, Those Whose Metamorphosis Have Formed My Reason, Tulipa Furca Vos, Where Calmly You Waited Till I Might Return.
2022
Annual Members Show. Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI. September-October, 2022.
“But I Know That,” “More and More I Have Come To Admire Resilience” and “The Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach.”
2022
Winter Juried Show. Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI. October-December, 2022.
"An Old Language Rising Up The Throat Of Wings"--SOLD
2023
Personal Best. Coalition of Photographic Arts & Alverno Arts & Cultures Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. January - February, 2023.
"Please Recycle This Bag" 11"x17" Framed Photograph
2023
Clinton Art Association River Arts Center, Clinton, Iowa, August, 2023
Assemblage: Diane Canfield Bywaters and Gary Warren Niebuhr
36 pieces
"Smitten At Heart By A Kiss With Lips That Time Bled And Trailed Wings"--SOLD
2023
Walker's Point Center for the Arts Annual Member Show, September 9 - October 7, 2023
"Where Does It Go When It Goes Away"
2023
Fall Art Tour. Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, WI., October to December, 2023
"Broken Into Travesties Of Reflections, He Reached The First Of Many Outer Edges To The Sea He Sought, Human Trafficking:
Can't Miss Four Way, Human Trafficking: Press Bait In the Hole, Human Trafficking: Put Bait On Hook, My Picture Drowned In A Transparent Tear, Scraped From the Bone Of Experience, Tell Every Dream That Knocks To Go Away, The Wounded Dear, Where Is the Burning Match That Will Set Me On Fire."
2023
The Splendor of December: Small Works by Gallery Artists. Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, WI., December, 2023
"Broken Into Travesties Of Reflections, He Reached The First Of Many Outer Edges To The Sea He Sought, Human Trafficking:
Can't Miss Four Way, Human Trafficking: Press Bait In the Hole, Human Trafficking: Put Bait On Hook, My Picture Drowned In A Transparent Tear, Scraped From the Bone Of Experience, Tell Every Dream That Knocks To Go Away, The Wounded Dear, Where Is the Burning Match That Will Set Me On Fire."
2024
Go Figure. Wisconsin Visual Artists Southeast Chapter. Plymouth Art Center, Plymouth, WI. March 8 to April 26, 2024.
“She Unburdened Herself of Her Fears For Me.”
2024
Outside the Box. Ludington Center For the Arts Gallery, Ludington Michigan. August 8 to 30, 2024.
"Broken Into Travesties Of Reflections," "The Wounded Dear."
2024
“Portrait Assemblage: Mixed Media Artworks" by Gary Warren Niebuhr.”
September 7 – October 4, 2024. Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, WI. 30 piece show.
SOLD: But What Eyes; Duel Element Fuse; Each Person Has Their Own Secret Map; Evening Amusements and Drawing Room Plays; For a Time We Have Walked the Pilgrimage of Life; Iron Maidens #2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11; Isla de las Muñecas; Manifest Destiny or Genocide Disguised As Popular Culture; This Land Is Your Land
EXHIBITED: A Heart Becomes Its Own Mirror; A Quarantine of Cultivated Silence; Iron Maidens #1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12; Self-Portrait, or The Winter of My Discontent; Some Days I Catch A Rhythm, Almost A Song In My Own Breath; Sparks Carry Within Them the Wish To Be; Relieved Of The Burden Of Brightness; The Dew Of My Eyes Has Dried: I Won’t Weep Again; The Translated Story Of Life They Write Across The Sky; The Version of Me Fading In a Photo; Through The Path Of Echoes That Memory Invents And Erases; We Dance From Memory Because It’s Here On Loan; Where Does It Go When It Goes Away
2024
Anderson Arts Center Annual Winter Juried Show. November 17, 2024—January 5, 2025. Kenosha, WI.
“Your Shadow Is A Land Of Birds The Sun Scatters With A Wave.”
2024
Museum of Wisconsin Art Members' Show. West Bend, WI. December 7, 2024–January 19, 2025.
“We Dance From Memory Because It’s Here On Loan.”