We are beyond excited to announce our next exhibition, WEEPING WOMEN by Lillian Supanich which will be on view September 26 - November 1, 2025. We will be having an opening reception on Friday, September 26 from 5-8PM.

In Weeping Women, subjects are not simply given, they are constructed and taken apart all at once. They’re revealed to us in pieces. Lillian Supanich approaches painting knowing it can hold ambivalence or outright contradiction; knowing it can embrace messiness. Messy oppositions between legibility and illegibility, construction and decay, and surface and depth each compete in her work. Central to Weeping Women is another uncertainty: the rule of a strict naturalistic order vs a slippage of such rigid representative methods into a delirious ‘dumbness’ (as artist and educator Adolph Rosenblatt might have put it).

The title, Weeping Women, is lifted from the Modernist trope of broken-down, fractured and failing women but offers a contemporary, queer reading of this embodiment. The painted figures, denied a stable self, have no unified inner essence to reveal. Through painterly executions she returns to ideas of subject formation from a queer and psychoanalytic lens guided by the work of Julia Kristeva and Lee Edelman.

Supanich’s women are painted from still lifes staged in torn and glued paper--out of parts-- further reassembled (re-presented) in paint. The drips of color begin another process of decay: a loosening of representative order that points back to the indeterminacy of the paint.

Painted with suggestive marks and hazy, layered atmospheres, borrowing historical methods of paint application, the models come in and out of wholeness. One cannot always distinguish how shapes relate, how they’re grouped or where objects begin and end. Wherever distinctions and groupings fail, abjection bleeds into us. Supanich approaches these moments, in her own words, “as an opportunity to luxuriate in both surface texture and illusionistic depth, each lush in their painterly application.”

Lillian Supanich is a Milwaukee based painter, fabricator, toymaker and taxidermist. She holds an BFA from MIAD, as part of the first “New Studio Practice” class. She approaches her work with interdisciplinary concerns, which tend to revolve around painting and taxidermy. Professionally, she’s a costume fabricator. She’s recently shown works at Some Fools Gallery, Grey Area, and Charles Allis Museum. She’s appeared on Riverwest Radio and in queer zines around both Madison and Milwaukee.

You can learn more about the artist and her work here.

EVENTS:

Opening Reception: Friday, SEPT 26: 5-8PM

Draw & Cry with the Artist: Thursday, OCT 30: 6-8PM

Exhibition runs through Saturday, November 1, 2025

Open hours: Fridays 11-4PM or by appointment.