I just got back from a day trip up to Milwaukee to visit two of my former NYSP studio mates. Milwaukee is only an hour and a half away and although it is very accessible via Amtrak I was lucky enough to have Lauren drive me up there. We met up with Chris and Boris at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and walked over to the Milwaukee Museum of art. On our drive up I kept telling Lauren about how I was pretty impressed with the museum's permanent collection. Last time I was up there was to see the Gregor Schneider show, Currents 33, which I must was very disturbing. But while I was there I was really taken with Robert Gober's Untitled suitcase piece and Tony Oursler's MMPI (Self-Portrait in Yellow).

This time around I saw their Kehinde Wiley piece, which it appears every museum must have one at the moment. I enjoyed the piece but it definantley did not knock my socks off. The piece however was next to a painting by Jose Lerma. (Unfortunately I don't remember the name of this piece) If your not familiar with his glob like paintings you should take a look. I missed his lecture last year when he came to SAIC but Bad At Sports interviewed him around the same week and I was able to catch that interview.