Observation and inquiry

Sight Lines: Contemporary Photography in Wisconsin brings together the work of four artists whose practices demonstrate the breadth, complexity and vitality of artists across the state.

Though each artist approaches the medium through distinctly different conceptual, aesthetic, and material concerns, their work shares a sustained commitment to observation, inquiry and the transformative possibilities of photographic seeing.

For Sarah Detweiler (Green Bay/Elderon), photography becomes a site of experimentation and embodied investigation.

Using the body — and references to it — as both subject and metaphor, her work examines the layered realities of physical existence, politics, vulnerability and identity.

Through collaboration and exploration, Detweiler’s images challenge fixed understandings of the body while opening space for intimacy, tension, and reinterpretation.

Jon Horvath (Waukesha) approaches photography as a practice of wandering and accumulation.

Rooted in the everyday, his work traces fleeting encounters, visual coincidences and quiet revelations discovered through movement across physical and psychological landscapes.

The resulting images operate as an evolving archive of meditations and observations — fragments that connect disparate moments into larger reflections on contemporary life and perception.

In the work of Morgan Barrie (Menomonie) the familiar world is rendered strange.

Barrie interrogates the constructed relationship between consumer culture and the idea of “nature,” revealing the artificial systems through which beauty, authenticity, and connection are often mediated.

By focusing on objects and experiences frequently taken for granted, the work exposes the uneasy intersections of desire, commodification and the longing for environmental and spiritual connection.

For Tomiko Jones (Madison), photography emerges from questions of belonging, care and spiritual presence.

Her work considers what it means to belong not only to a place or community, but to the larger world itself.

Guided by practices of attentiveness and love, Jones creates images that invite reflection on interconnectedness, memory and the ethical dimensions of inhabiting both land and relationship.

The title ‘Sight Lines’ suggests multiple forms of connection: visual pathways, conceptual trajectories, geographic proximity and shared modes of inquiry.

Together, their work offers a compelling survey of contemporary photographic practice in Wisconsin today.

The exhibition opens with a meet the artists reception for Art Nite in Downtown De Pere on Friday, June 12, from 5-8 p.m.

Visiting the galleries at newARTSpace at 124 N. Broadway, Ste. A, in De Pere is always free and open to everybody.

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