Paper Boat mentioned in the LA Times & the launch of MIGA!

Kim & I are making our second Paper Boat trip together this summer! First it was out to Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn to promote my documentary Handmade Nation and to scout for new awesome merch to bring back to the boat in Milwaukee for you!

Tomorrow, we fly West for a silent art auction fundraiser to help raise finishing costs for Handmade Nation. What is super exciting is the documentary as well as the event were written about in the LA Times this week and Paper Boat was given a shout out! Read the article HERE.

The gallery will be open 7 days a week as usual in our absence thanks to our super staff!


In other news Paper Boat is pleased to be a part of MIGA, the Milwaukee Independent Gallery Association organized by Cassie and Jessie of the Armoury Gallery. Now, you have no excuse to not knowing where all the best innovative, underground and independent artwork is happening around the city! The website has a great map and there is a blog that will be updated frequently with events and happenings around the Milwaukee area!

Catherine Ryan & Eduardo Villanueva Press Release

For immediate release
May 28, 2008

Paper Boat presents:
New work by Catherine Ryan (San Francisco, CA) & Eduardo Villanueva (Milwaukee, WI)
June 6- 30th, 2008
Curated by Faythe Levine

Gallery Reception Friday June 20th 7-10pm
Additional images HERE


Catherine Ryan, Purple Mountain, 2008

Show highlights: This June is the three year anniversary of Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery. We will be welcoming two talented artists Catherine Ryan who hail's from San Francisco showing her haunting watercolor and charcoal works on paper. Ryan will also be selling limited edition archival prints along with her artwork.Showing along with Ryan will be local emerging artist Eduardo Villanueva. Eduardo will be painting a permanent site specific mural to commemorate our three years of bringing innovative and creative new work to the Milwaukee public. Villanueva will also have a new body of work in the gallery.

Catherine Ryan Artist Statement:
This series of drawings is an examination of "canned" hunting preserves; plots of private, fenced-in land that are stocked with a wide array of domestically-raised "wild game". A commodified and sanitized version of something that was once an instinctual means of survival, canned hunts are stripped of the inconvenience, danger and uncertainty of an actual hunt. Like fast food, canned hunts are a perverse version of something real; devoid of substance, but packaged for easy consumption.

Eduardo Villanueva Artist Statement
Eduardo Villanueva's work is introspective in nature, combining personally iconic images to emit stories and emotions that are intrinsically personal and altogether universal. Physically his work ranges from the very small to the monumental. As of late he has been exploring mural painting in an attempt to ensnare the viewer with the power of his wild imagery. Movement is a key element to the development of Eduardo's painting style. Shapes knead into one another in an almost churning motion creating undulating compositions that mimic the kneading of the artists thoughts.

Media Contact: Faythe Levine (414) 483-8462
paperboatboutique@gmail.com

Paper Boat Gallery 2375 S. Howell Ave Milwaukee, WI 53207 www.paperboatboutique.com

Milwaukee International Art Fair

Paper Boat will be representing artist, designer and illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt of Obsessiveconsumption.com at the 2008 Milwaukee International Art Fair
Kate Bingaman-Burt, Plastic Forks , 2008

Kate Bingaman-Burt, Chase Bill , 2007

Milwaukee International art fair
Polish Falcons Beer Hall
801 E. Clarke St.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USAFriday, May 16, 5-9 pm
Saturday, May 17, Noon-9 pm
FREE!

*****
The second Milwaukee International art fair arrives to the Polish
Falcons beer hall, May 16-17, 2008. This location puts amazing contemporary art from around the world against a backdrop of real
old-world charm, in the midst of the quaint working-class Riverwest neighborhood. Stroll through the aisles to get a glimpse of new
drawing, painting, video and sculpture while the sweet sounds of the Falcon Bowl rumble up from the basement. The Falcon Bowl sports the
4th-oldest bowling alley in America, and for two days, possibly the coziest art fair you'll ever visit.


This year, the Milwaukee International team (Elysia Borowy-Reeder,
Nicholas Frank, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder and John Riepenhoff) is
pleased to announce that Joey Chang Art will join the art fair line-up
all the way from Beijing, along with Cuban gallery project Espacio
Provisional (Havana/Miami). From Puerto Rico, Milwaukee International
veteran Luis Agosto-Leduc brings his new gallery, Mano Izquierda, and
the artists' project Repuesto from San Juan will visit for the first
time. Additional first-timer (and former Milwaukeean) Hiromi Yoshii is
coming from Tokyo. This year we also feature a special fair t-shirt
designed by David Shrigley of Glasgow.

Other M.I. veterans from our first successful fair making their return
are: Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York), Canada (NY), The Suburban
(Chicago), Swiss Institute (NY), Locust Projects (Miami), Western
Exhibitions (Chicago), Other (Winnipeg), Zieher Smith (NY) and
Angstrom (Dallas/LA).

We are pleased to welcome the esteemed non-profit Midway Contemporary
Art (Minneapolis), along with galleries Daniel Hug (LA), Marianne
Boesky (NY), Small A Projects (Portland), Leo Koenig (NY), Rowley
Kennerk (Chicago), Golden Age (Chicago) and Shane Campbell (Chicago),
and a special project by new Chicago gallery Old Gold. Milwaukee
galleries and non-profits joining the line-up are: Paper Boat, Borg
Ward, Green Gallery, General Store, and Inova.

Please join these 28 art spaces in celebrating Milwaukee culture.
Delicious local beer will be flowing, there will be polka dancing in
the aisles (with the welcome return of Vern and the Originals!), and
unexpected art around every corner (including work by current Whitney
Biennial artist Amanda Ross-Ho, and Milwaukee Art Museum collection
veteran Michelle Grabner, among many choice offerings), and a big Mad
Planet dance party to wrap things up Saturday night, featuring DJs
from New York and Milwaukee. For the extra-adventurous, local legend
Paul Finger will lead bus tours of area treasures during the fair.

For more info:
http://www.milwaukeeinternational.tk

Please feel free to pass this message along to any interested friends.
See you there!