Gallery Exhibitions

January 17th 2025 - February 28th 2025

Triple Vision is an exciting new exhibit featuring Pat Bishop, Colleen Ansbaugh, and Jean Sredl. These artists showcase their personal vision of abstract realism with widely varying interpretations. This trio of award-winning artists from Northern Wisconsin have come together through their love of art and involvement in the ever-changing world.The public is invited to the opening reception for “TRIPLE VISION” Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 from 5 to 7pm. Free Admission.

About Pat Bishop: Pat is an artist who works with fabric, thread and a sewing machine and often watercolor and acrylic paints. Her artwork is an expression of her view and appreciation of nature. She is predominantly self-taught with the help of lots of workshops and classes from watercolors to rosemaling and other painting and textile classes.

As a midwestern descendant of farmers she is an inherent problem solver, with the need to use it up, fix it, make it work or repurpose it. Currently she is pursuing simplification in her work. Subjects she gravitates toward are trees, birds and broken down buildings, but with an abstracted view.

Her artwork is in private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally and won numerous awards in fine art venues and prestigious fiber art exhibits. She teaches and lectures about her work.

Affiliations: Studio Art Quilt Associates, Women Who Run With Scissors, Wisconsin Visual Artists

ARTIST STATEMENT In one way or another I love to create, if I’m not doing it I’m thinking about it. I don’t cook much because to me it is a waste of time, you make it and then its gone. With my art I feel like I am saving memories. My art is based on a memory of things that means a lot to me. I strive for abstraction by simplification.

I have been working with cloth since I was a small child and it hasn’t lost its luster, actually probably my passion for it has increased. I have brought fabric and paint together, either by dyeing the cloth or painting it and then stitching.

Colleen Ansbaugh,
Wabeno, WI
Email: ArtAnsbaugh@gmail.com Website: www.colleenansbaugh.com

BIO Colleen Ansbaugh is an active mixed media artist creating with both fiber and paint. Life in the Up North Woods of Wisconsin inspires her organic forms and delightful waves of color. Formal training at the University of Minnesota in Textiles and Clothing, provided the basis for technical sewing skills.

While sewing continues to be a lifelong passion, her work has shifted from initially tailoring garments to fiber as an art form. Most days include hours of studio time focusing on stitching, photography and applying color to cloth or canvas.

Our thought process and use of words is the basis for her current work. Pondering why we think or how words are formed has captured Colleen’s imagination. She stitches together repurposed materials in a tangle of lines, encouraging the viewer for a closer look.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with featured art in numerous publications. She pens occasional news stand magazine articles and is involved in local community art venues.

Affiliations: Studio Art Quilt Associates, Women Who Run With Scissors

ARTIST STATEMENT Every day is a new beginning, searching for beauty. Seeking to examine how light and color work together, I play with cloth and stitch away.

I strive to share my inner thoughts and views with sensitive textures. One creation leads to another. While some ideas are discarded, others develop and evolve. Letting go of negative vibes and pursuing the pleasure of creation is an art form all of its own.

Jean Sredl Shawano, Wisconsin Email: Jean@Sredl.com Website: WWW.Sredl.com

Artist Statement The tug of the needle, the hum of a sewing machine, and the aroma of freshly dyed linen just out of the dryer, all combine to make fiber art my passion. I create unique materials by deconstructing, dying, spinning, or repurposing. I listen to the fibers; and they speak to me sometimes loudly, often in a small voice. Fiber to thread, to yarn, to cloth, and back. It’s the texture of life and the practice of my art.

Biography A two-time Quilt National winner and Textile Talks speaker, Jean has exhibited globally since 2013 and earned numerous awards. Her artwork primarily uses materials she creates by upcycling fibers and exploiting unusual materials. She sends an evocative environmental message. As a teenager, she frequently designed her own clothes. Experimentation is a big part of her process. Assembling units built from scraps, she taught herself to weave and spin to produce exactly the color and textures required. Nature and abstraction heavily influence her artwork. Her unique fabrics, fibers, felts and flourishes and her technical skill must truly be experienced in person.