The Pfister Hotel - Artist in Residence

Albin Erhart "My passion is talking with paint. I love bright colors, spontaneous compositions, throwing paint, but also coloring book and stained glass style work. My work is at times abstract and at times representational, it has contour and contnet, it is real and surreal, it expresses thoughts and feelings, it has a message and carries emotions, it has form and filling, it works with lines and planes, and it is composed and improvised. I am from southern Germany and live now in Wisconsin. My professional background is in marketing communications and graphic design." Albin Erhart	Brandon Minga "Most of my current artwork is finished using digital media tools, but I always go back to my passion, assemblage. I layer natural wood, paint, graphite, found objects, paper and giclee print to illustrate mechanical structures and human environment as one. I reuse and recycle bits and pieces of discarded life giving them new significance and dimension. I'm constantly gathering vibrating puzzle pieces: I find them when riding around town; I'll stop and take a photo. While walking, I randomly find small rusted, broken or colorful bits on the street. They're in clipped images from magazines and newspapers, rough sketches. I marry them all inot representational drawings and splashes of paint." Brandon Minga
Hal Koenig "I'm in my sixth year as a painter, working about 75 percent of the time in oil and most of the rest in acrylic, with some exploration in charcoal, pastels and latex house paint. My experience in architecture and rendering in watercolor markers and pastels make studies on paper and one-hour pen-and-ink sketches favorite pastimes. When practical, I start paintings plein-air on canvas, with size adjusted inversely to the strength of the wind. ” Hal Koenig	Matt Duckett "I am a figurative artist inspired by idiosyncrasy and character. I use the instinctive visual language of the figure, one of the most fundamental methods of communication and learning, to relate to the viewer. My paintings are realistic yet painterly, and I always try to find a balance of representation and expressive brushwork that both captures the personality of the subject, and imitates the act of viewing over rote description. The painting process is a conversation between the subject and the artist, and the resultant work should be more than just a narration, in much the same way a story inspires the listener through their identification with the hero.” Matt Duckett
Pamela Anderson "I love to create work in bright, bold strokes in the Abstract Expressionist style continually experimenting with technique and media. I love to explore and play with color in strong statements engaging the viewer and stimulating a response in each individual's reaction. My work is spontaneous and yet comes from a complicated process as I work with each piece. It is this unexpected process that my patrons, and visitors to my studio, enjoy watching as the work unfolds and develops." Pamela Anderson	Timothy Westbrook "Currently, my costume work pulls visual and philosophical inspiration from the Victorian period and more specifically from Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau focused on the importance of design and consideration for the decorative elements of practicality. Rebelling in the face of the industrial revolution, the artists and designers of Art Nouveau refused to create basic manufactured repetitive objects void of thoughtful design. I will be weaving the magnetic casette tape with organic cotton. This will be woven on a floor loom then sewn into Victorian style garments with Art Nouveau style of fashion. My sustainability minded work is a revolt against the mass production markets and has a focus on a low environmental impact." Timothy Westbrook