- A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article entitled "She's planning a day at the parking place" by Crocker Stephenson describes the Rosheen Styczinski's project.
JS Online Article
Harvey Opgenorth
“Topographic Map”
September 22 - March 2007
5911 W. Vliet Street
Milwaukee, WI
Harvey Opgenorth's painting "Topographic Map" stares out from a storefront. The painting is three and a half feet high and eight feet long and made in the same way as a topographic map.
Harvey Opgenorth
“Subliminal”
September 22 - November 30, 2006
4920 W. Vliet Street
Milwaukee, WI
Harvey Opgenorth's neon piece titled "Subliminal" glows inside a storefront from about 6:30-10:30 every night. Behind it are mounted "Super Subconscious" panels by Opgenorth and Nate Page.
Harvey Opgenorth and Nate Page
“Super Subconscious”
September 1 - 28, 2006
“Vliet Street Commons” at 50th and Vliet
Milwaukee, WI
Harvey Opgenorth and Nate Page suspended a seven-foot high and fifty-foot long mural, titled “Super Subconscious.” In the mural, Page and Opgenorth layer advertising icons “to question the relationship between commercial billboard advertising space and the subconscious mind.”
The mural is attached to a structure Jill Sebastian installed at 50th and Vliet in 2002 when she created the pocket park “Vliet Street Commons.” Milwaukee’s Sebastian, nationally recognized for her public art, is “ecstatic” that Opgenorth and Page will be the first visual artists to complete a temporary piece in the “Commons.” “From the outset,” Sebastian explains, “I envisioned it as a space for the community, block clubs, musicians, performers and other artists to use. The project was about creating a place that could be a real part of people's lives.”
Rosheen Styczinski
Temporary Urban Park
From 10:00 am - 4:00 am on Saturday, September 23, 2006
5409 W. Vliet Street
Milwaukee, WI
Environmental artist Rosheen Styczinski created a temporary urban park within one parking space in front of her landscape architecture business, New Eden, at 5409 for September 23. Styczinski’s project is Wisconsin’s first contribution to a two-year-old national movement originating in San Francisco, called PARK(ing). PARK(ing) briefly transforms “private vehicular space” into a “spot for public recreational activity.” Styczinski approached IN:SITE to do the project because, “it highlights the importance of green space in our neighborhoods."
