I’m super excited about this show, opening one week from today. @nomaxprint will be returning from the Pacific Northwest for a solo exhibition of his new woodcut prints at Grove Gallery and leading a sketchbook workshop the following Saturday. I hope you’ll join us @gallerygrove
Max Went West: An American Tale III - Woodcut Prints by Max Hautala
Wisconsin-raised printmaker Max Hautala is returning from the mean streets of Seattle for his prodigal gallery show “Max Goes West: An American Tale III,” opening Friday, May 22nd at Grove Gallery in Walker’s Point. The exhibition will showcase a series of woodcut prints that reflect Hautala’s wild adventures through the Midwest and West Coast, scenes in which fish embrace warmly, and horses gallop along mountainous landscapes. In this show, you’ll meet old friends, new enemies, see a young mouse who can stand tall and witness a cowardly cat getting a new start as a dog.
These prints demand engagement and deciphering, allowing viewers to contemplate their environment and inner selves through symbols, pictographs, and imagery that function as a visual language. The bold, graphic nature of woodcut printmaking is emphasized by the labor of carving, cranking, repetition, and the transformation of raw materials. While conceptually Hautala’s work fancies a fable, the woodcuts themselves stand fully in the physical world, having been hacked together by chisels and knives.
“Carving and printing blocks the old way resists reliance on the digital world even though printmaking was what brought on digital communication,” said Hautala. “As images are near-unthinkingly reproduced, reposted, and repurposed through algorithmic channels, I present handmade images as a tactile counterpoint to digital overstimulation.”
Opening Reception: Friday, May 22nd 5-9pm
Sketchbook Workshop: Saturday, May 23rd 12-5pm
(Pay what you want, supplies provided)
Gallery Open Hours: Open on Saturdays, 12-4pm, through June 20th, 2026.
Erasure Poem from the June 1953 issue of JUBILEE, A Magazine of the Church & Her People. From the article, “Ding Dong School.” Flip through the pics to zoom in on the text.
“Folk Art on the Astral Plane,” collage. Another piece from “All Colors Match,” a new series of collages by N. Adam Beadel, to be exhibited @goodkindbayview for Bay View Gallery Night ( @bvgn.mke ) on May 29th, 2026.
“Thus Sayeth the Flower-Motifs, Let My Gyraffes Go!” Collage. Part of “All Colors Match,” an exhibition of 21 collages and an art zine of the same name by N. Adam Beadel, opening at Good Kind in Bay View for @bvgn.mke .
I made a new series of collages! “All Colors Match” by N. Adam Beadel, a series of 21 collages and an art zine, opening May 29th, 2026 for Bay View Gallery Night at @goodkindbayview
Pictured here: “Thanks for the Art Farm, Vince,” 11x14, collage on reproduced Van Gogh painting.
INKLINGS - Cynthia Brinich-Langlois
Opening March 20th, 2026 from 5-9 PM
Grove Gallery in Walker’s Point neighborhood will next display Cynthia Brinich-Langlois’ latest solo exhibit, “Inklings.” Opening 5-9pm on March 20th, “Inklings” is a show of lithographic prints and collaged forms that depict fantastical creatures and the places they inhabit. Merging the artist’s autobiographical experiences and ecological research, these works present a dreamlike view of our world, one where rocks, roots, and feathers all have faces. Geese fly in space using starlight to navigate their migration. Time is compressed in a portrait of a caribou with all her antlers, past, present and future.
Brinich-Langlois points out how moments of wonder are created by the contradictions of science, magic, suspicion, conflict, and confusion. Unnamed ideas linger at the edge of consciousness, becoming a force of fear and disruption as faceless entities are formed from folded paper. These floral, winged, many-legged monsters are made of many worlds and meander through the spaces in between. As Brinich-Langlois says of her work, “Universes come together and break apart. Everything is in motion. Everything is alive.”
Gallery Open Hours: Saturdays, 12-4pm, through April 18th, 2026.
About the Artist:
Cynthia Brinich-Langlois grew up in Alaska before studying studio art and environmental biology at Kenyon College. While completing an MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico, she participated in Land Arts of the American West and the Tamarind Institute’s Collaborative Lithography program. She has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Purdue University Galleries, and Creative Research Laboratory in Austin, TX. Residencies include Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, Montello Foundation, Iowa Lakeside Laboratories, and Ucross Foundation. Her work is included in the archives of the University of Iowa, Zuckerman Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Brinich-Langlois instructs printmaking and digital art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
