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Winter Exhibitions
This season’s exhibitions examine how personal, family and cultural histories shape the ways we live and create. This season’s artists translate memory and identity into a variety of visual art forms. Each exhibition invites reflection on resilience, revealing that cultural heritage is continually renewed through art, storytelling and shared experience. Together, these works illuminate how creativity helps to shape belonging across generations and cultures.
Join us for these events
Winter Galleries Reception
Friday, January 9, 2026 | 5:30-8:30pm
Rotunda Stage | Artist Talks start at 6pm
Indiana Green Invitational Artist Panel
Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm
Wisconsin Studio, third floor of Overture Center for the Arts
Overture Galleries are always free and open to the public, with most artworks available for purchase.
Gallery I: Entre Memorias y Nepantla
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Sunday, March 8, 2026
This exhibition explores identity, migration and cultural memory through painting and printmaking. Gutierrez reflects on biracial existence and Nepantla—a space of in-betweenness—through self-portraiture and material experimentation. Tirado’s relief prints draw from familial histories, revealing how migration and memory shape identity. Together, their work weaves stories of heritage, belonging and self within the Mexican diaspora.
Gallery II: Manifest Black
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Sunday, March 8, 2026
Visual storytelling of Black presence, power and becoming unites Bjyrd's intimate reflections on Black womanhood and cultural legacy with Howard Banks' homage to diaspora folktale traditions, symbolic realism and his self-defined style, “Forward & Black.”
Gallery III: Where Do You Wander?
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Sunday, March 8, 2026
A walk through two lives that find themselves alienated in unfamiliar territory, both within the body and out. Yu and Kafri showcase a reflection of their pasts and current lives, utilizing tenderness as a means to find belonging and healing in the turbulence.
Playhouse Gallery
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026
Curated by Artdose Magazine 2025 Indiana Green Invitational
Liala Amin, Amal Azzam, Geornica Daniels, Nehemiah R. Edwards, Gabriela Marván, Fernando Rico, Sonia Vasquez
The Indiana Green Invitational is an annual group exhibition featuring two-dimensional and three-dimensional works by artists living and working in the Midwest. This exhibition features significant contemporary works being created in today’s contemporary art landscape.
Rotunda Gallery
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026
Portraits as Jazz/Improvisation in Sound; Improvisation in Form
Martel Chapman
Chapman’s work is a tribute to the creators of jazz music who have shaped and inspired him. Drawing from a culture that continues to influence art across the globe—from Africa to the wider world—his work explores improvisation in sound and improvisation in form.
Artist Spotlights
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Artist Spotlight - Mark Weller
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Artist Spotlight - Sarah McRae
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Artist Spotlight - Ruth Vander Horck
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Beth Racette: Combining community and creativity in Overture Galleries
Celebrating 20 years of Overture Center!
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Artist Spotlight - Aaron Laux
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Artist Spotlight - Matthew Braunginn (Higgs)
Additional Galleries
James Watrous Gallery
The James Watrous Gallery is dedicated to Wisconsin artists. Solo exhibits present a significant body of work by a single artist, while our curated shows often draw connections between art and other disciplines. We strive to create a welcoming environment that encourages engagement and inquiry.
MMoCA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is an independent organization that exhibits, collects, and preserves modern and contemporary art to provide transformative experiences that educate, reflect, and inspire us as individuals and a community.
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Director of Overture Galleries
Stephanie Barenz
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Sponsors
Overture Galleries are supported by Associated Housewrights, Wealthspire, The Arts Access Fund, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation, and by contributions to Overture Center for the Arts.
