James May Gallery

A few details from our latest exhibition featuring: Daniel Clauson, Ida Floreak, and Matteo Neivert.

The gallery is open today (Saturday) until 5:30!

Emerging Artists! Yes!

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One of my personal favorites from the Foundations Fair.

Candace Compton Pappas | Dog in the Studio (2024) | Available for Sale | Artsy Available for sale from James May Gallery, Candace Compton Pappas, Dog in the Studio (2024), Acrylic and oil on panel, 42 × 33 in

Clare Doveton
Radiance, 2024
Oil on canvas
60 × 48 × 1 1/2 in
Available

Part of Foundations, the online fair for emerging art, curated by Artsy. Spotlighting rising talents from tastemaking galleries across the globe, Foundations Summer 2024 features presentations from 70+ galleries known for supporting emerging artists. Explore the fair exclusively on Artsy from July 23rd through August 12th.

Clare Doveton studied painting at Parsons School of Art and Design in New York City, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998. After years living in congested urban environments, Doveton moved back to her home of Kansas in 2005. Her paintings are rooted in a deep connection to the land there, and the magic of being solitary and present in nature. Clare has taken pollinator conservation courses through Xerces Society and NRCS, and received Permaculture Design Certification through Kansas Permaculture Collaborative in 2010. She has worked with pollinator ecologists documenting monarch activity on Native Tall Thistle, which often show up in her work along with other plant guides. Meditation practice is central to her work and life, as are solitary retreats out onto the prairie with her dog Suki. Doveton’s work can be found in public and private collections worldwide including KU Medical Center, New School University, Truman Medical Center, and Kansas University.

Megan Magill
Swimming With the Fishes, 2022
Oil on Panel
36 × 48 in

Part of our booth at Summer Foundations Artsy Fair.

Megan Magill creates work that questions the stories we tell ourselves in light of life’s ultimate uncertainty. Her studio practice embraces drawing, printmaking, and photography as stepping stones and conspirators to her whimsical paintings. Through a process that involves found imagery, improvised methods and a reliance on chance her work pays homage to all that is strange and wonderful in our lives. Magill has shown throughout the US and makes her work in Brooksville, Maine.

Absolutely in love with these sculptures!

Come view them today from 10:30-5:30 or check them out on Artsy.

Daniel Clauson
Primavera; in the month of March, 2024
Low fired ceramics. Gold leaf.
7 × 11 × 8 in

These ceramic forms are reflective of the Abject Body - the traumatized body - the Q***r body. They act as monuments of resistance towards the limitations of biopolitical structures in order to create spaces of acceptance. Utilizing amorphous qualities, these artworks relinquish figurative notions of the academically rendered, colonially enforced, and socially/politically elected ideas of Body. Challenging social political binary ideals and histories of the heteronormative Body to evaluate how we simultaneously hold identity, trauma, and desire. —Clauson

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I have work opening today in The Foundations Fair on Artsy and am pleased to have this painting in the curators top pics.

https://www.artsy.net/collection/curators-picks-foundations?metric=in

Foundations officially opens today! Please take the time to check out our booth on

We are very excited to have Candace join JMG for this fair and for an upcoming in-person exhibition in the future!

Candace Compton Pappas
Adrift in Yellow, 2020
Acrylic and inks on board
20 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 2 in | 52.1 × 69.9 × 5.1 cm
Frame included

In much of my work I incorporate a lifelong habit of collecting and gathering. I still hold as precious, the spider that crawled into my grade school book and sadly got flattened between the pages. It is a relic of long-ago and reminds me of how vulnerable we all are. I continue to hold and cherish items I find around me. I navigate through my days often noticing something, picking it up, studying it, and perhaps it will land in my pocket, my studio, in a painting, a vessel, placed on an altar, or photographed along side me in a portrait. These finds keep me company, become part of my home and studio, they invite me into new spaces.

I live and work in rural Michigan. Everyday I walk in the woods and experience this environment melt into me. I watch everything continually changing, every season, every moment, and come to feel and experience myself as an integral part of it all. —Pappas

Ida Floreak
Conference, 2021
Oil on wood
8 × 10 in
Available

Part of our latest exhibition: REVERENCE + RITUAL + RENEWAL

Ida Floreak is a painter living in New Orleans, LA. Her work deals with ecological anxieties paired with reverence for the natural world. She explores what it means to be human in a time of ecological disaster, where to find hope and our place in the recovery, as well as the universal human trait of worship. Humanity is an ancient and vital part of the planets ecology - our belief systems and rituals are an integral facet of nature. Drawing from a classical tradition with influences in the Italian Renaissance and medieval reliquaries, she examines the importance of acknowledging a world and systems greater than oneself, and finding the sacred in the smallest artifacts of nature.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ida-floreak-conference

Ida Floreak | Conference (2021) | Available for Sale | Artsy Available for sale from James May Gallery, Ida Floreak, Conference (2021), Oil on wood, 8 × 10 in

Tuesday, July 23, 10 AM EST, our Foundations booth will be live!

We have an incredible lineup of artists including: Clare Doveton, Megan Magill, Daniel Clauson, and Candace Compton Pappas.

Foundations is the online fair for emerging art, curated by Artsy. Spotlighting rising talents from tastemaking galleries across the globe, Foundations Summer 2024 features presentations from 70+ galleries known for supporting emerging artists. Explore the fair exclusively on Artsy from July 23rd through August 12th.

Matteo Neivert
Rebirth, 2024
Acrylic on wooden panel
16 × 40 in

Available on or stop by the gallery!

📍2201 N Farwell Ave, Milwaukee

📱 262.753.3130

🕰️ 10:30-5:30 Saturday

My artwork explores the powerful forces of nature and biology in real and imaginary compositions. A consistent thread in my work is the idea of change and evolution. Nature exists as an ultimate force. These forces can be subtle or overt and exist as both scientific and phenomenological in my work. I attempt to capture the magic of these forces and the relationship of the human condition to these ever changing environments. Many of my subjects are often meant as historical symbols of the eroding relationship between humans and nature.

Fragility and strength act as common themes. Interest in the scientific realms such as evolution, tides, gravity, growth, formation, replication, microbiology, physics, astronomy, and climatology converges in my work with plants, animals, and landscapes. I approach imagery and composition with a keen awareness of historical precedent. Recently my artwork has become more figurative and realistic to emphasize the narrative, theatrical, and beautiful aspects of simple objects and things such as ice, water, rocks, eggs, and shells. I am inspired by the boundless fodder that the earth, the universe, and the microscopic offer as imagery. —Neivert

Please join us for Gallery Night MKE TONIGHT!!

We will be open 5-8 🥂 🖼️

📍 2201 N Farwell Ave, MKE

📱 262.753.3130

📧 [email protected]

JMG is please to present: Reverence + Ritual + Renewal - a group exhibition featuring new paintings by Ida Floreak (New Orleans), and Matteo Neivert (OR), and new sculptures by Daniel Clauson (CA).

Please join us for Gallery Night MKE!

Friday 5-8

REVERENCE + RITUAL + RENEWAL

Daniel Clauson
Matteo Neivert
Ida Floreak

Happy Monday!

Please join us for the opening reception of Reverence + Ritual + Renewal: Ida Floreak, Matteo Neivert, & Daniel Clauson.

July 19 5-8 ( part of gallery night MKE)

The gallery will also have regular hours this week.

One of my favorites from our latest exhibition!

Matteo Neivert
Study of Marie van Oosterwijck’s still life, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
22 × 28 in

Artist Statement

My artwork explores the powerful forces of nature and biology in real and imaginary compositions. A consistent thread in my work is the idea of change and evolution. Nature exists as an ultimate force. These forces can be subtle or overt and exist as both scientific and phenomenological in my work. I attempt to capture the magic of these forces and the relationship of the human condition to these ever changing environments. Many of my subjects are often meant as historical symbols of the eroding relationship between humans and nature.

Fragility and strength act as common themes. Interest in the scientific realms such as evolution, tides, gravity, growth, formation, replication, microbiology, physics, astronomy, and climatology converges in my work with plants, animals, and landscapes. I approach imagery and composition with a keen awareness of historical precedent. Recently my artwork has become more figurative and realistic to emphasize the narrative, theatrical, and beautiful aspects of simple objects and things such as ice, water, rocks, eggs, and shells. I am inspired by the boundless fodder that the earth, the universe, and the microscopic offer as imagery.

Value, color, mark making, lighting, texture, and careful compositions merge with my materials. In my drawings I show the charcoal and pencil as a material, and the pentimento, erasures, smudges, and lines are just as integral as the image itself. In my paintings I often use visible brushwork, drips, splatters, texture, impasto, and glazes to enrich the surface. In my ceramic work I use glazes that imitate a surface that looks as if the sculpture was buried or had a crackled painted surface. To achieve this finish I mix various textured glazes and use multiple kiln firings. There is a constant dialogue between my paintings, drawings, and sculptures of ideas, subject matter, and surfaces.

The gallery is open today from 10:30-5:30!

We hope to see you! We will also be open next week during the RNC. Stay tuned for any change in our hours (I’m keeping an open-mind/open-heart and will see how it all goes).

Thank you all for your ongoing support 💗

Don’t forget our opening reception during MKE Gallery Night next Friday from 5-8! 🥂

We are so thrilled to have the amazing Ida Floreak as a part of our latest exhibition: Reverence + Ritual + Renewal.

On view until Aug 26

OPENING RECEPTION: JULY 19. 5-8

At the gallery : 2201 N Farwell Ave, Milwaukee
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Ida Floreak is a painter living in New Orleans, LA. Her work deals with ecological anxieties paired with reverence for the natural world. She explores what it means to be human in a time of ecological disaster, where to find hope and our place in the recovery, as well as the universal human trait of worship. Humanity is an ancient and vital part of the planets ecology - our belief systems and rituals are an integral facet of nature. Drawing from a classical tradition with influences in the Italian Renaissance and medieval reliquaries, she examines the importance of acknowledging a world and systems greater than oneself, and finding the sacred in the smallest artifacts of nature.

In Love with these sculptures by .clauson ❤️

Daniel Clauson
Primavera; in the month of May, 2024
Low fired ceramics, gold leaf.
9 × 8 × 6 in

They are a lovely presence in our window space. Come by and see them in person or check them out on Artsy!

These ceramic forms are reflective of the Abject Body - the traumatized body - the Q***r body. They act as monuments of resistance towards the limitations of biopolitical structures in order to create spaces of acceptance. Utilizing amorphous qualities, these artworks relinquish figurative notions of the academically rendered, colonially enforced, and socially/politically elected ideas of Body. Challenging social political binary ideals and histories of the heteronormative Body to evaluate how we simultaneously hold identity, trauma, and desire.

The movement of these forms evoke touch and intimacy while also possessing sections of fragmentation, loss, and rough textural erosion. An essence of distorted familiarity exists through the physically opened and hollowed forms. A repeating visual language flows through the work created by the layering of clay slabs that fold together torsos and extremities. Ambiguous beginnings and endings dissolve and appear through the thickly applied glazed and mixed media surfaces. The textured surface reveals landscapes reminiscent of those within my childhood in the Pacific Northwest. Using memories of caves carved from the oceans salt water and the rough terrain of the Cascade mountains, these ceramic forms reveal effects of continual wear that is similarly received by erosions within the landscape and traumas upon the human Body. —Clauson

The gallery is open today from 10:30-5:30!

On view : Reverence + Ritual + Renewal
Ida Floreak, Matteo Neivert, & Daniel Clauson.

Come visit!