
Alyssa Krause
Painting
b. 1996, Green Bay, WI
Works and lives in Milwaukee, WI
One of the youngest artists in The Miller Museum’s 2021 exhibition on abstraction, Krause’s large colorful paintings focus on generating a response of familiarity in an unfamiliar form as a way to question the parameters of perception.
STATEMENT
"I am questioning the intersection between describing and un-describing as a means to exploring what you see visually. My interest lies in how much information is needed to respond to something representational derived from the real. The space is manipulated by flipping and varying applications of paint, distancing associations from the original image. The responsive matrimony between the real and not real guide my practice—can one remove the connection to the original image while still creating around its initial attributes?." - Alyssa Krause
EDUCATION
2019, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2019-20, Gallery Assistant at The Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Show of Support, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles CA
2024 Ground Below, Sky Above, and the Air in Between Us, Collect Bean Digital Curation
2024 TMA Contemporary, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton WI
2022 Continuum 2022: Site Lines 42, Kenilworth Square East Gallery, Milwaukee WI
2021 Beginnings: Three Early Career Wisconsin Artists, UW-Parkside Fine Arts Gallery, Kenosha WI
2021 From Deep Within, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay WI
2020, We Might Have Been Born Yesterday...But We Stayed Up All Night, Between Two Galleries, Milwaukee WI
2019, BFA Exhibition, Kenilworth Square East, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2019, 47th Annual Juried Show, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2018, Crossing Over, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2018, Kenilworth Open Studios, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2017, Woven Images, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2017, Crossing Over, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Sweetgreen restaurant chain, commission of 4 paintings, The Corners of Brookfield
2021 Artist Talk: Alyssa Krause, UW-Parkside
2021 Panel Discussion: Post-Graduation Career Building, UW-Parkside
2020, Under the Gum Tree, Spring issue cover
2020, Large, Confident, Superbly Composed Exhibit by Recent UW-Milwaukee Grads, Shane McAdams
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2018, Mary E Van Deven Memorial Scholarship Recipient
2017, Mary E Van Deven Memorial Scholarship Recipient
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