An Evening with LaNia Sproles and Phoenix S. Brown
Fri, Mar 07
|Hawthorn Contemporary
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Time & Location
Mar 07, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Hawthorn Contemporary , 706 S 5th St, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA
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About the event
5:00-6:00: Pre-reception at Portrait Society Gallery, viewing of LaNia Sproles' exhibition "King for a Day"
Chicago-based artist LaNia Sproles is known for contemplative and saucy explorations of self-perception, female empowerment, racial and sexual dynamics — seen through queer and feminist perspectives.
Sproles' practice involves drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage. For their first solo exhibition at Portrait Society titled "King for a Day," they have created several new bodies of work anchored by a series small-scale, expressively rendered portraits of friends. Other more elaborate figurative works are staged in imaginary landscapes, or harken to the pictorial language of Baroque painter Caravaggio. Fascinated by the terms of kinship, Sproles’ expands the range of emotional resonance within these richly detailed compositions that are infused with fantasy, sexual assertiveness, power, femininity, and carnal cravings. "There is mischief in this work," Sproles says.
More Information: https://www.portraitsocietygallery.com/lania-and-margaret-2025
6:30-7:30: Artist talk and viewing of Phoenix S.…