Alyssa Krause

STATEMENT 

"I am questioning the intersection between describing and un-describing as a means to exploring what you see visually. My interest lies in how much information is needed to respond to something representational derived from the real. The space is manipulated by flipping and varying applications of paint, distancing associations from the original image. The responsive matrimony between the real and not real guide my practice—can one remove the connection to the original image while still creating around its initial attributes?." - Alyssa Krause 

EDUCATION 

2019, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2019-20, Gallery Assistant at The Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2021 Beginnings: Three Early Career Wisconsin Artists, UW-Parkside Fine Arts Gallery, Kenosha WI

2021 From Deep Within, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay WI

2020, We Might Have Been Born Yesterday...But We Stayed Up All Night, Between Two Galleries, Milwaukee WI

2019, BFA Exhibition, Kenilworth Square East, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2019, 47th Annual Juried Show, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2018, Crossing Over, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2018, Kenilworth Open Studios, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2017, Woven Images, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2017, Crossing Over, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

PUBLICATIONS 

2021 Artist Talk: Alyssa Krause, UW-Parkside

2021 Panel Discussion: Post-Graduation Career Building, UW-Parkside

2020, Under the Gum Tree, Spring issue cover

2020, Large, Confident, Superbly Composed Exhibit by Recent UW-Milwaukee Grads, Shane McAdams

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS 

2018, Mary E Van Deven Memorial Scholarship Recipient

2017, Mary E Van Deven Memorial Scholarship Recipient

About Alyssa Krause

Alyssa Krause is a painter living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting & Drawing at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2019. Krause’s work focuses around generating a response of familiarity in an unfamiliar form as a way to question the parameters of perception. Through predetermined rules set up before making a painting, Krause creates a border between herself and the painting. Her work is driven by the desire to understand the core of perception in painting—it’s always an alteration, an assumption, a second landing. Krause’s work has been shown locally in Milwaukee and across the Midwest, as well as in publications such as Under the Gum Tree.