CoPA 2025 Juried Exhibition | Atmosphere
CoPA + Nadiana Art Gallery 2025 Juried Exhibition | Atmosphere
Nadiana Art Gallery | 4818 South 76th Street #6, Greenfield, WI 53220
October 31 – December 19
Opening Reception: Friday, October 31 | 5:00 PM
Comments and awards | 7 PM
The theme for this exhibition is Atmosphere. Artists explored the space around them, whether it’s visible to the eye or only discernible as a mood, a vibe or an emotion strongly expressed or engendered.
CoPA exhibitions encourage new work to keep us fresh and engaged.
Jurors
Debra Brehmer is the owner and director of the Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art, in Milwaukee. She is also a curator and writer who contributes regularly to the international art publication, Hyperallergic. She was also the publisher of Art Muscle Magazine and taught art history at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Don Mendenhall integrates fine art photography into his work in human resource development, life coaching, art exhibitions, and contemplative writing. His images explore themes such as shadow and light, falling and failing, questions and answers, barriers and pathways, fear and courage—elements that resonate deeply in both photography and life. Through the practice of patient observation, waiting for the essence of the subject to reveal itself, his work takes on a meditative, introspective quality. This approach shapes the type of work and publications shown and listed in donmendenhallphotographs.
Mark Brautigam attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps for four years. He has exhibited at the Haggerty Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and the Newspace Center for Photography. His work is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Racine Art Museum, as well as numerous private collections.
Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. – Alfred Stieglitz
ACCEPTED ENTRIES FOR Atmosphere
This exhibition features 77 works by 30 artists. Thank you to everyone who submitted work, and congratulations to those selected for this show:
- Barbara Budish – MKE South Shore View
- Carl Hartt – Clyde’s Corner, Foul, Harmonic Reflection, Morning Mist
- Carol Seline – Left, Nighttime in the Sunshine Café, Pine Island, Two Dogs
- Carol Starr – Ice Cold, Still in Port
- Caroll A. Pearson – Lake Shore Drive 2, Window Clouds, Cocktails
- Celia Amantea Schulz – Padermal, Seal Beach, Shelf, Left
- Cindy Hansen – Sedimentary Insanity, Moon Flight, Trapped
- Coleen Gunderson – Elemental, Other Kingdoms
- Kris Gould – Solidity
- Dennis Darmek – Lt. Justice Nettles, 29 Palms Marine Combat Center, Mojave Desert; Fire Team, 29 Palms Marine Combat Center, Mojave Desert; Nightwatch, Marine Combat Center. Mojave Desert; Sgt. Paige Lewis, 29 Palms Marine Combat Center, Mojave Desert
- Daniel Wilson – Cheer, Dead Inside, File Cabinet, Flowers
- Guntis Lauzums – America Reduced, Roe Overturned, Tacos
- Helene Fischman – Late Spring, Summer
- Jack Kleinman – Foggy Day on the Hudson; Heavy Weather near Citadel Pueblo, AZ
- Jenna Hoard – Rapture, Aura Beach, Metro 1
- Joe Gay – Douro Dawn, Venezi Nuvola
- John Jones – Enflamed, Film Noir, Incandescent Tree, Reflection
- Kay Cucinello – Skyward, Market Fresh
- Kevin Hansen – Clouds; Oaxaca Street, Night; Pierce the Veil
- Kristine Hinrichs – Diffusion
- Marcia Staum – Cold Morning, Calm after the Storm, Somber Morning
- Mark Wyss – Lambeau Tableau
- Martin Keey – Foggy Path
- Michael Nowotny – Silos
- Michael J. Havice – Water Reeds Portal; Spray, NZ
- Phyllis Deicher-Ladwig – After the Storm, Barcelona Rain, Cherry Blossoms
- Roy Schmidt – Poas Volcano, Costa Rica
- Sandra Wyss – A Little Off the Top, Slow Train Coming, Jokulsarlon Lagoon
- Susan Schramm – Shadowed, Suspended, Tangle
- Vicki Reed – Prairie Fog, Emerging Light, Ephemeral, Fall Reflections, Here Comes the Sun
