IN THE ATRIUM
MAX BRUNNER
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Creating artwork by the use of photography is a way of life for me and by adjoining the stories of others, they teach us about ourselves and the world around us. I strive to show all parts of humanity that many individuals do not care to think about or often notice at first glance. As a society, we choose what we want to see and through these photographs and written word, the viewer is confronted with a marginalized community whose stories often go untold.
By meeting people where they are at in life, their truths are captured, even if their truths are not socially accepted. These stories that you read are from the perspective of that person, shared through their lens.
We are our stories.
IN THE RESTAURANT
STERLING RATHSACK
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
A Midwesterner by birth, Sterling Rathsack grew up in a military family, traveled extensively as a boy, and joined the United States Air Force at the age of eighteen. After spending seven years abroad in military service, he returned to Wisconsin, studied psychology, and pursued various related employment before completing BFA and MA degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
For more than forty years Sterling worked in the same Superior, Wisconsin studio producing a series of narrative paintings in oil and sculptural works in various mediums. Exhibitions regionally and abroad have included comprehensive, autobiographical collections of two-dimensional work and mixed-media sculpture.
He is represented in a number of Midwestern museum collections, has paintings and sculptures in permanent collections in Japan and Sweden, and has created commissioned public sculptures for Canal Park, Duluth, MN and Gooseberry Falls State Park on Lake Superior’s north shore. Additional public artworks include murals and wood sculptures for the Minnesota DNR at Tower and a bronze memorial to Jack Briggs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Cloquet, Minnesota.
Sterling has taught sculpture, drawing and design at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, design at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and drawing at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth. In 2023, after eighteen years of teaching art full time at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College he retired and continues to reside in Superior, Wisconsin.
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