What's new
Carcasses (from the Meat Locker) now showing in NYC.
New Prints 2011/Autumn is up Nov. 4, 2011 - Jan 7, 2012, then travels on to Austin, Texas. More info here, and you can also read the curatorial essay
CLUCK: From Jungle Fowl to City Chicks...
...is available. I'm hoping to set up an online store with small prints, cards, tees (and this book) soon, but in the meantime, to order paperback, send $25 (check or money order) to:
S.V. Medaris
123 Drammen Valley Rd
Mount Horeb, WI 53572
Or send $35 for hardcover (cloth bound with foil stamp, covered with book jacket).
In the news:
2011 “Eyeworthy” feature - Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
2010 “Birds
in Art 2010” exhibit catalog (WI)
2009, '07, '05: Wisconsin Biennial - Exhibition catalogue
2008 "Year of the Landscape" – Madison Magazine(WI)
2007 "Fitchburg's pigs:
Mostly gone but still fondly remembered," – Fitchburg
Star (WI)
2007 Featured Artist, – Art in Wisconsin, March/April issue
2006 "Animal
Farm” by Kent Williams – Isthmus (WI)
2005 "Wisconsin
Artist Paints Farm Dogs” by Kelli Gunderson – Agri-View
(WI)
2005 “Come!
Look! Stay! ...Show Explores The Life Of Farm Dogs” by Susan Troller/Capital Times(WI)
2005 “Winged
Migration ...To Wausau”– Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
2005 “Birds
in Art 2005” exhibit catalog (WI)
2005 “Poultry
Portraitist” by Laura Kearney – Wisconsin Trails,
July/August issue
2004 “Instead
of counting her chickens,...” , by Susan Lampert Smith
– Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
2004 “The
Chicken Show” – Mary Janes Farm magazine (USA)
S.V. (Sue) Medaris
For the past thirteen years Sue has lived on a farm in the Driftless area of Southern Wisconsin with her family, and raised chickens, dogs, cats, peafowl, turkeys, and pigs from which she draws inspiration for life and art.
After ten successful solo exhibitions in seven years, each of them focused on domestic animal husbandry (A One Chick Show, The Lives of Farm Dogs, The Whole Hog, Corn-Fed), Sue is currently investigating historical changes in livestock rearing and rural life. With various printmaking techniques—at both a very large and very small scale (in prints and Artist's Books)—the artwork explores breed genetics, feed consumption, processing animals for meat, and how it affects our lives and the food we eat.
The artwork also explores our relationship with the animals we raise for consumption as well as those we care for in companionship.
You can see her work at upcoming shows, and at Artisan Gallery in Paoli, WI. More info at shows.
Sue also works half-time as web designer and illustrator for The Why Files.
