Hear from exhibiting artist Michelle Grabner and Haggerty Museum of Art Director John McKinnon as they discuss Grabner’s newest body of work featured in “Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink,” on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 6 p.m. in the museum. The exhibit is on view through May 24.
Grabner, a Milwaukee-based artist, writer and curator, pays homage to custodial labor through this installation of household sinks and replicated everyday objects. Largely unseen janitorial work is instead foregrounded through the presence of commonplace objects used to keep institutional spaces sanitary. In the traditionally orderly gallery space rests a silver-leafed garbage can, cast bronze broom and cast porcelain buckets, caddies, wash brushes, toilet paper rolls, washcloths, “wet floor” signs and cleaning supplies.
The majority of the work in Grabner’s exhibition is produced in the Kohler MakerSpace, an invitational project space for artists and designers based in Kohler’s Pottery. In addition, the display includes work from Kohler Co.’s commercial production line including single basin wall-mounted sinks.
This talk is free and open to the public.
