What's new

MARCH 2010

Art Zoobilee Coming Soon!!

More animals are showing up at the Vilas Zoo's Zoobilee page (my tiger—Wordly Cat is at the top of the page). And you can see the progression of Worldly Cat here.

New Work: The Stalking of the Great White Pyrenees

A 2-part relief print featuring Zuzu, Dexter and Ivan is finished. More info at blog. Look for the prints at the Wisconsin Public Television Auction in the Spring, and at the Iowa County Humane Society Benefit Auction.

Market Weight Press...

...is now online. Will be back-dating some things (The Chess People — lifesize ceramics from undergraduate senior thesis show), but for now, you can find recent work, experiments, work in progress; favorite online sites and videos from fellow artists; and news, drama and melodrama from the farm.

In the news:

2009, '07, '05: Wisconsin Biennial - Exhibition catalogue
2008 "Year of the Landscape" – Madison Magazine(WI)
2007 "Fitchburg's pigs: Mostly gone but still fondly remembered," – Fitchburg Star (WI)
2007 Featured Artist, – Art in Wisconsin, March/April issue
2006 "Animal Farm” by Kent Williams – Isthmus (WI)
2005 "Wisconsin Artist Paints Farm Dogs” by Kelli Gunderson – Agri-View (WI)
2005 “Come! Look! Stay! ...Show Explores The Life Of Farm Dogs” by Susan Troller/Capital Times(WI)
2005 “Winged Migration ...To Wausau”– Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
2005 “Birds in Art 2005” exhibit catalog (WI)
2005 “Poultry Portraitist” by Laura Kearney – Wisconsin Trails, July/August issue
2004 “Instead of counting her chickens,...” , by Susan Lampert Smith – Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
2004 “The Chicken Show” – Mary Janes Farm magazine (USA)

S.V. Medaris (Sue)

Artist S.V. Medaris with one of her models (Liberace, a buff laced polish rooster)

was born in California in 1962, and grew up in the Midwest. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Fine Art degree, and travelled and lived in various parts of México and Central America. Later, Sue settled down in Wisconsin and graduated from Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin) with a Commercial Art degree. During this latter educational experience, she discovered the world of illustration** and how to communicate with visual art. From there, Sue made the transition back into Fine Art – with oils, pastels and intaglio – portraying the drama of rural life on the farm.

The artist with Liberace (Buff Laced Polish cock).Photo courtesy Kim Keyes

Currently,the artist resides on a farm in Southern Wi sconsin with her family, amidst (many) chickens, dogs, cats, peafowl, turkeys, and pigs from which she draws inspiration for life and art. After 9 successful solo exhibitions in the last 7 years, each of them based on a specific farm or rural theme ("A One Chick Show: Of Cocks and Hens," "The Lives of Farm Dogs," and "The Whole Hog"), Sue continues to create more oils, pastels, and original prints (relief, etc.) of farm life around her. You can see her work at upcoming shows, and at Artisan Gallery in Paoli, WI. More info at shows.

**Past illustration clients include Meriter Health Services, Inc., University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point/WI Lakes Partnership, Pleasant Company for Mattel, The Nature Conservancy, Isthmus weekly newspaper, Henry Vilas Zoo, American Heart Association, Talk Works, Inc., CUNA Service Group, American Family Insurance, Lands’ End, Orlando Weekly, The Geo Group, The PEC Foundation, Grote Publishing, TDS, Ginkgo Press, Berbee Info. Network Corporation.

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