Last week I had the opportunity to see a show presenting the work of UW Madison students at the Commonwealth Gallery in Madison. Oh, for the days of unrestrained creativity and freedom from the buffered marketplace! There were heraldic wooden shields, large cartoon style drawings, and mixed-media constructions surrounded with barbed wire. This was not a show for sales, but a show of creative expression, and a large crowd was there to see it. When was the last time you saw three-dimensional barbed-wire mixed-media art for sale in a gallery?
The artists were Roger Allan Cleaves, Josh Nemec, and Chinn Wang.
