Spackle Gallery Opening: August 1st

Spackle Gallery proudly presents Redefining Pattern, an exhibition featuring fashion, prints and paintings by Milwaukee based artists Alexander Kain, Daniel David Kaiser and Steve
Sorrentino. This show opens Friday, August 1st with an artists' reception from 6-10 pm featuring hair designs by Lara Haefele and music by DJ Macabre. Show runs through August 31st. Spackle Gallery is located at 2674 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue, Milwaukee in the Bay View neighborhood.


Fashion is dominated by different forms of pattern. Surface pattern, pattern in construction, the pattern of trends and pattern in display. Within these patterns of fashion, society has created a standard of beauty and design unique to our time, place, and modern culture. To push these standards, these artists have deviated from and redefined the idea of fashion and pattern to create new, fresh and progressive designs and concepts. Kain creates unique and custom fashions for dolls pushing ideas of design and collection on both an intimate and tangible scale. Kaiser and Sorrentino mirror themes of fashion, pattern, model, and beauty in their work to celebrate and criticize the contemporary fashion industry and to comment on the relationship between the pattern and the model by integrating and dissolving them into each other. These artists demonstrate both how art influences fashion and how fashion influences art.