“Front Window” by Lois Bielefeld. Submitted.
Lois Bielefeld is the next artist featured in the Miller Art Museum’s 12 x 12 Project. Photo by Alayna Pernell.
The newest exhibit in the Miller Art Museum’s 12 x 12 Project features Milwaukee-based multimedia artist Lois Bielefeld.
The exhibit will be on view from Aug. 1 through 31 at the Miller Art Museum, 107 S. 4th Ave. in Sturgeon Bay.
The public is invited to attend a free artist talk on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 4 pm. A public reception will follow the talk.
Featured in Lois Bielefeld | 12 x 12 Project is a portion of the artist’s ongoing series, To Commit to Memory. Developed over the past several years, the work centers on Bielefeld’s parents and the home that shaped their shared history.
Through portraits and house studies on view in the exhibition, along with video works accessible via QR codes, Bielefeld approaches family not as autobiography but as a site of investigation. Domestic artifacts and lived spaces function as interconnected forms of evidence, raising questions about how photographs participate in constructing memory rather than simply preserving it.
“Mom’s Birthday” by Lois Bielefeld. Submitted.
Bielefeld’s artistic practice examines the social and psychological structures embedded within everyday life. Working through extended, research-driven projects, the artist employs photography, moving image, sound, installation and publication to investigate how identity is constructed through ritual, labor, place, memory and interpersonal exchange.