LaNia Sproles, Lindsey Rothrock, 46 Artists for America's First Ladies

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Detail from "Kinesis," part of the exhibit "¿Te Ubicas?" at Arts + Literature Laboratory.

The Arts + Lit Lab welcomes everyone to its spacious galleries across Main Street from The Sylvee for an artist reception for its current shows. Playing Fine for Now from Milwaukee-based artist LaNia Sproles includes painting, printmaking and collage that explores the personal and the political. In ¿Te Ubicas? Lindsey Rothrock's photographs explore aspects of place, history, memory and the body. 46 Artists for America’s First Ladies features 46 new works inspired by the lives of the women who have served as America’s first ladies (launched virtually in May in conjunction with Forward Theatre's play of the almost-same name). All three exhibits are on display through Sept. 18; the gallery is open noon-5 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

media release: From July 22 to September 18, 2021:

Madison-based photographer Lindsey Rothrock shared her series ¿Te Ubicas?  on the mezzanine at ALL.

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Playing Fine for Now, an exhibition by Milwaukee-based artist LaNia Sproles. Playing Fine for Now, explores what subconscious efforts have been made to hold on to our deepest pleasures. Sproles’ subjects alternate between interactions with loved ones and the self in various intimate settings. Sceneries are filled with personal, and pop cultural iconography that hint at the performative action behind a Black femme’s access to comfort. Sproles’ primarily references Black femme bodies and utilizes them to display her own complex connection to intermittent bouts of bliss. By constructing flamboyant dreamscapes, Sproles’ reveals that pleasure, more accurately, can be comprehended as a measure of liberation that exceed past proximities to whiteness.

Join us on Friday, September 10, 2021, 7-9pm for an artist reception, which also includes an in-person exhibit for the 46 Artists for America's First Ladies exhibit.