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Sign of the Times, Houdini Plaza, Appleton WI /  by Paul Druecke

Paul Druecke: Artist talk and conversation in conjunction with Sign of the Times.
Thursday, April 28, 2022 @ 4:30pm. Lawrence University’s Wriston Auditorium.
Campus Location: 613 East College Avenue, Appleton, WI 5491

Sign of the Times 2021-2022 Houdini Plaza, Appleton WI

Sign of the Times is installed at the Trout Museum overlooking Houdini Plaza, 111 W College Ave, Appleton WI.

Project by Paul Druecke • Featuring: Allison Wiese • Anja Notanjo Sieger • Beth Zinsli • Chuck Stebelton • Claire Readig • Ella deBoer • Frank Juarez • Irene Strohbeen • Ish Klein • Jennifer Johung • Jenny Gropp • Joshua Ballew • Joshua Lambrecht • Kathy Flores • Laura Jones • Laura Solomon • Le’Andra LeSeur • Maeve Jackson • Maria Van Laanen • Matthias Neumann • Maureen Ragalie • Alderperson Maiyoua Thao • Peter Scott • Ruben Verità • Sarah Aziz • Sridevi Buddi • Stacy Blint • Timber Smith • Tyanna Buie • Valaria Tatera • Violet Gray • Willem Dafoe • William Fuller

Sign of the Times is part of Sculpture Valley’s Acre of Art.

Social Photography IX @ carriage trade, NYC /  by Paul Druecke

I am delighted to be in this group exhibition that is thematically dear to my heart and supports carriage trade’s excellent programming! Online or please stop by if you’re in NYC.

Social Photography IX @ carriage trade, NYC
Gallery Exhibition:
August 5 - September 30, 2021
Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image making technology, the emphasis of the project leans toward sensibility and the anecdotal over skill and mastery of the medium of photography.

Social Photography IX Contributors:
Dennis Adams / Peggy Ahwesh / Lucas Ajemian / Graham Anderson / Michele Araujo / Michael Ashkin / Hallie Ayres / Mengfan Bai / Agnes Barley / James Barondess / Madeline Bach / David Baskin / William Beaudoin / Lisa Beck / Philip Bednarski / Peter Bellamy / Catherine Belloy / Amy Ben-Ezra / Theodora Ben-Ezra / Liz Berg / Julien Bismuth / Joi Bittle / Lisa Blas / Ann Bobco Richard Bosman / F.P. Boué / Norman Brosterman / Robert Brush / Christine Burgin / Bibs Carlsen Antoine Catala / Alejandro Cesarco / Danny Chau / Myrel Chernick / Stella Cilman / Mary Clarke / Matt Connors / Eli Coplan / Jeri Coppola / Fred Cray / Jody Culkin / Reilly Davidson / Mira Dayal / David Deutsch / Georgie Devereux / Daniella Dooling / Saskia Draxler / Paul Druecke / Anne-Claire Duprat / Peter Fend / Bernadette Fiscina / Elias Fokine / Andrea Frank / Susan Gamble & Michael Wenyon / Rainer Ganahl / Marc Ganzglass / Victor Esther Garcia / Hunter Gause / Jeff Gibson / Liam Gillick / Andrew Ginzel / Robert Goldman / Jasmine Golestaneh / Kathy Goncharov / Michelle Grabner / Ethan Greenbaum / Barbara Gundlach / Clair Gunther / Cynthia Hawkins-Owen Anthony Hawley / Lorna Hayden / Duy Hoàng / James Hoff / Laura Hunt / Scott Indrisek / E. J. / Bryn Jayes / Neil Jenney / Lulu Jiang / Danielle Johnson / Werner Kaligofsky / Craig Kalpakjian / Simone Kearney / Douglas S. Kehl / Kara Kendall / Mathias Kessler / Anjali Khosla / Anna Kleberg Tham / Essye Klempner / Hilary Kliros / Nicholas Knight / Udomsak Krisanamis / Nina Kuo / Stephen Lack / Justen Ladda / Marc Lafia / Eugenia Lai / Erik LaPrade / Louise Lawler / Elizabeth LeCompte / Mika Lee / Maggie Lee / Simon Leung / Max Levin / Matthew Li / Laura Li / Wenxiao Li / Nora Ligorano / Lysjs Lim Ming Lin / Jeanne Liotta / Hsiang Hsi Lu / Judith Luongo / Stephen Maine / Jiří Makovec / Sakura Maku / Adam Marnie / Vijay Masharani / Esperanza Mayobre / Tom McGlynn / Jessica Mensch / Emilie Meyer Molly Miller / Veronika Molnar / Sojung Moon / Andrew Moore / Lucy Mullican / Real Salvator Mundi / Muntadas / Christian Nagel / Diane Nerwen / Chee Wang Ng / Isabella Norris / Almost Not / John Oakes / Kristin Ordahl / Daylon Orr / Hannah Park Laura Parnes / Stephan Pascher / Gelah Penn / Andreas Petrossiants / Zoe Pettijohn Schade / Michael Poetschko / Jeff Preiss / R.H. Quaytman / Lee Ranaldo / Xander Rapparport / Marshall Reese Calvin Reid / Alejandro Ribadeneira / Walter Robinson / Daniel Roche / Aura Rosenberg / Lorin Roser Betty Roytburd / Ryan Rusiecki / Vicky Sambunaris / Valerie Saputra / Ken Saylor / John Schabel / Jeffrey Schiff / Heidi Schlatter / Diana Schmertz / Nadine Schmied / Kristina Schmidt / Gary Schneider Barry Schwabsky / Michael Scott / Felicity Scott / Anne Katrine Senstad / Jacques Servin / Elaine Sexton Trevor Shimizu / Zhi Shu / Amie Siegel / James Siena / Shelly Silver / Adam Simon / Jason Simon / Day Sinclair / Leah Singer / Janice Sloane / Inna Smolina / Molly Soda / Claudia Sohrens / Andy Steinitz / Gary Stephan / Steel Stillman / Charles Stobbs III / Carol Szymanski / Sikay Tang / Gwenn Thomas / Colin Thomson / Cassidy Toner / Momoyo Torimitsu / Dan Torop / Sophie Tottie / Kristal Uribe / Gail Vachon / Pegi Vail / Kate Valk / Ali Van / Lotte Van den Audenaeren / Liselot van der Heijden / Virginia Inés Vergara / Doris Vila / Julia Wachtel / Chloe Walecki / Max Warsh / William Wegman / Barbara Weissberger / James Welling / Elvia Wilk / Tonero Williams / Scott Williams / Nechama Winston David Winter / B. Wurtz / C. Spencer Yeh / Sun You / H Spencer Young / John Yu / Michael Zansky / Jiajia Zhang

Shorthand @ Woodland Pattern Book Center /  by Paul Druecke

Could brevity be of use to you in the new and improved year? It’s an honor to be leading a virtual workshop at Woodland Pattern starting January 10th.

Shorthand
January 10, 17, and 24
Virtual Workshop coordinated by Woodland Pattern Bookcenter
A few compact lines can have the breadth of a novel. Though often decried as the end of literature, today’s trends toward terse messaging, burgeoning palettes of emojis, shrinking attention spans fueled by distracting handheld computers can all be productive points of reference for understanding and capturing the essence of time and place.

During the workshop we will survey inspiring and infamous examples of spare, highly-concentrated writing that achieve maximum effect with minimum material. For example, Jenny Holzer’s prescient aphorism, “Abuse of power comes as no surprise,” has a nuanced tone that both confronts and commiserates with the reader. We will look to Ms. Holzer, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Mary Oliver, Ron Padgett, Aram Saroyan, Audre Lorde, and Morgan Parker as we mine contemporary media landscapes and/or our phones for inspiration. Through sketches, experiments in brevity, and tweet-length searching, we will explore what can be left out as we create micro-masterpieces for the times.

America Pastime, Day 68, Warp and Woof /  by Paul Druecke

-Dear Dear, I share the afternoon with Dutch Irish Fusion Creamy et. al. Zack Pick whets the appetite, handwritten, at the base of a coffin-sized slab of Basalt that is 1.1 billion years old puff on that

-we have so little time, together

-Warp and Woof—trash sighting that speaks to structure time luck cotton comfort mega omega

more information on America Pastime

New Insights into A Social Event Archive et al. /  by Paul Druecke

Art Historian, Ned Marto did a deep dive into a few Druecke’s projects from the 1990s and early 2000s, The Picture of Community in Paul Druecke's Early Photographic Works, 1997-2004. Druecke responds, “Quite an honor to have Mr. Marto thoroughly sift through this work. I gleaned new insights, found myself disagreeing with some thematic treatments, and also came away inspired to organize thirty-five years of studio production. If you need me, I’ll be dusting off slide sheets of collating clippings.”

Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 11 Kitchen Sync /  by Paul Druecke

It's 5pm on Friday, 2020. We have our routines, plans for the future, calls to action, and hunger.

It's 5pm on Friday, June 2020. We have our routines, plans for the future, calls to action, and hunger. MILWAUKEE KITCHEN Kitchen Sync episode eleven June 20...

Woodland Pattern's Prompts #7: Utopian Compromise /  by Paul Druecke

Trashing is a utopian bounty of color and texture. Dusty salmon is my favorite color for rubbish, the perfect accent for earth-crusted, translucent plastic as well as all manner of practical utensils or decadent habits. It has been an honor and treat to contribute to Woodland Pattern’s series of Prompts. Woodland Pattern offers so much vital programming, brick and mortar and now virtual, it may be the closest we get to ideal.

Day 16, 4.16.20 Utopian Patterns #2

America Pastime Day 21, 4.22.20 /  by Paul Druecke

Earth Day Alchemy: Public Relations
pages of a discarded book still have story

Trashing | Journal notes:
Sensitive displays of other people’s trash documented with an iPhone camera. The compositional ease of bringing together randomly distinct histories, baggie after baggie after baggie each with the lower right corner twisted off. Impossible storylines converge. Shiny inner foil of salty snack bags gently dulled by the elements. The implacable sense, and senselessness, of other people’s trash become pragmatic then precious. A Cheetos bag freshly torn by hands or wind. Bright, cheerful colors that enhance flavor embody a sense of self-determination.

Toward the end of Christopher Alexander’s Timeless Way of building, he writes, “. . . we assume that when we repair something, we are essentially trying to get it back to its original state. This kind of repair is patching, conservative, static. But in this new use of the word repair, we assume, instead, that every entity is changing constantly: and that at every moment we use the defects of the present state as the starting point for the definition of the new state.”