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December 4  Kay Jelinek                                               Mixed Media Painting

Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, December 4, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available December 4 - 24

We couldn't help ourselves! Here is collection of photographs of each of Kay's artworks and a detail. In her artist's statements she speaks of observing deeply,  seeing the forest and the trees and the lichens on the trees, these works deserve deep observation. They provide beauty and wonder up close and from afar.   
​This artwork, like all of the artwork at Two Fish, is for sale. We encourage you to visit in person with your mask on, but artwork can also be packed and shipped to your home.

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​May 1   Dale Knaak                                                           Painting and Drawing

VIRTUAL Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, May 1, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available May 1 - 30
The work is luminous, lovely, surprising, and uplifting.

​June 5  Cynthia Lorenz                                          Photography and Drawing

Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, June 5, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available June 5 - 27

We need and want to celebrate this artwork. It sends our eyes and hearts to the land and water around us with added layers of pattern and secrets revealed.  How to host an opening is these pandemic times? How about masks and social distancing in the gallery. Outside on the porch, under the pergola, and in the gardens - individual servings of treats, beverages in paper cups, and social distancing. This allows us to share the beauty indoors and out, to speak of it to each other, and just enjoy a quiet celebration.

July 3  Denise Presnell                                          Oil and Cold Wax Painting

Artist Statement
My intuitive, introspective paintings embrace change in a precarious balance between chaos and compositional control. To be satisfied with a piece, it must provide surprise. This takes a lot of building up of layers and marks, only to tear it back down. I try to leave at least some areas in my works with a glimpse of each step of the work process as a mapping of my decision making. Balance is achieved through conscious and subconscious efforts. I shift between working with acrylic on canvas or oil, cold wax and mixed media on paper or panel. I use a variety of mark making tools which rarely includes a paintbrush. I like the active involvement my body has with the image construction made by dragging paint across the surface or pouring out paint or solvents onto the surface with movements not unlike a conductor directing a symphony. 
Color is a very important voice in my work. Zones of color are developed – a process inspired by Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse and the emotional impact of Marc Rothko’s color. Intuitively developed composition is unique to each piece. The titles come to me when the works are finished. Nothing about my work is predetermined except a feeling I want to do something with yellow or blue or whatever color seems to be calling that day. My process comes from a place of unapologetic risk taking – it equates to an expression of joy and happiness in the purest of human terms.

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August 7  Erica Jane Huntzinger                                                              Painting

Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, August 7, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available August 7 -29
The color world and color feel - be surrounded by this body of work. Float in it. And may I suggest, take some of this feeling home with you. It will be there when you need it.

How to host an opening is these pandemic times? How about masks and social distancing in the gallery. Outside on the porch, under the pergola, and in the gardens - individual servings of beverages in paper cups. This allows us to share the beauty indoors and out, to speak of it to each other, and just enjoy a quiet celebration.

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September 4  Dale Van Minsel                                                       Photography

HELLO! This is our first completely virtual exhibition. Dale's photographs are the perfect medium for this virtual possibility. A good mix of technology and captured reality. The artistry is dependent on Dale's ability to compose an image - but doesn't stop there - the added colors, textures, and movement have us finding stories.
These images, like all of the art at Two Fish, are for sale. Prints will be made (virtual to physical) upon your order and all of the images are $40. See the captions below for titles and sizes. 

Artist Statement
​My artistic goal is to take familiar things that we see everyday and make them into something unique, causing the viewer to see them in a whole new way.

In the days before digital photography, dramatic alterations of the image could be achieved using Infrared film, specialized darkroom effects or Polaroid films. Today, I use digital photography in conjunction with computer software to dramatically alter color, depth, exposure and texture to achieve a truly unique image.

Most of my current work is created with an iPhone. The iPhone along with photo apps seem like a natural fit for creating these images. The apps allow me to create saturated, glowing color with a "Polaroid-like" quality. I will often push the image even further using multiple apps to create exactly what I want to see. I also enjoy working in conventional photography but the emerging art form of "iPhoneography" allows me to much more freedom to see just how far I can push the boundaries of an iPhone and imaging software to create artistic images.

October 2  Michael Nitsch                                                                 Printmaking

Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, October 2, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available October 2 - 31
We have spent our lives looking at, loving, collecting, and selling art. Most of the time we understand the processes pretty clearly. But prints. Prints are mysterious. Capturing an image in the form of a print takes time, tools, technology. The image is impressed into the paper. This provides a depth and mystery that is different from media that set things on the surface.  This collection of prints by Michael Nitsch is full of mystery. A deep dark softness that takes you to that place and surrounds you with the atmosphere of the time. Autumn introspection, looking at the seasonal changes,  fits well with printmaking and the comfortably quiet dark places.​

Artist's Statement

My drawings & prints reflect my interests in landscape, gardening & wildlife with a twist. I try to present viewers with an image / subject that they can relate to… but, possibly create a few questions as we tell a story.
Years after I was introduced to a class that involved Plein Aire sketching & printmaking in 1984, at the Pigeon Lake Field Station, (North of Hayward, WI.) with professors, Doug DeVinny & David Holmes. I developed a new perspective towards the subjects & media. Going out in the towns & fields to sketch, taking notes, talking with people, then back to the classroom to transform my materials into a print. Having the interaction with that environment, helped complete the story for the print or drawing.
Also, going back to these areas the following year, added to the stories… sometimes in the most negative way. We are told of the lost of the people that you talked with a brief moment or witness a greater loss of the environment through nature or man. But, the stories continue.


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November 6  Barb Hollenback                                                                         Fiber

Opening Celebration/Club Meeting, Friday, November 6, 2020, 5 - 8 pm
Artwork available November 6 - 28
Warm and soft with intense Autumn colors, this work is a comfort needed right now.  It is a reminder to look around and find beauty and treasures. Here is how the artist describes her work.
"My medium of choice is fabric. With nature as my inspiration, I enjoy manipulating fabric with techniques that include painting, mono printing, and ink jet prints. The result is a layered world, created with what was changed and what was accepted, and bringing it all together in a composition based on landscape, while still maintaining the integrity of fiber."
Layered, change and acceptance, together, maintaining integrity - there's a parallel story here.

This artwork, like all of the artwork at Two Fish, is for sale. We encourage you to visit in person with your mask on, but artwork can also be packed and shipped to your home.