Nadiana Art Gallery will host its next exhibit “Texture” as an anniversary celebration for Wisconsin’s first and only Muslim owned art gallery June 6.
The gallery will feature work from 25 artists around Wisconsin with highly texture oriented pieces. A new theme for exhibits is chosen every 6-8 weeks by Nadiana Art Gallery. Its owner, Nadia Al-Khun, wanted to have something that has a large appeal for a lot of people while capturing more contemporary art trends that implement physical texture into work.
Al-Khun takes a community approach to exhibits by granting free access to the gallery and has no submission fee for artists.
“It’s always free for people to make it easy for artists. It’s challenging out there, and most of the calls to artists, when they want to submit their art, there’s always a submission fee. They feel this kind of barrier,” Al-Khun said. “I wanted to make it easy for them to show their art in a gallery space.”
As an artist herself, Al-Khun empathizes with the high barriers towards art. She wants to get artists in touch with the community through removal of one of the key cost barriers to art.
Art has already been set up for the exhibit where community members were able to get a preview during Nadiana Art Gallery’s first Eid Bazaar.
Al-Khun wanted to bank on more contemporary art trends with the new exhibit. The pieces pop out at you with a visual and physical texture to invite you to look more deeply at works.
“I like to have texture in art, although this isn’t how it was like in the past. It was not something they used in traditional art — like art in the past from all these giants,” Al-Khun said.
“Texture” will debut tonight with a reception at Nadiana Art Gallery, 4818 South 76th St., Greenfield, from 6-8 p.m. The reception is free to attend.
The exhibit will remain up until July 11. Visiting the gallery to see the exhibit is free.
