Grove Gallery

Thank you to everyone who joined us for “Nocturnal Sunshine,” the new exhibition of prints by C e l e s t e Co n t r e r a s

Grove Gallery will be open again on Saturday, October 3rd, from 12-4. We hope to see you next weekend!

Join us today for Doors Open! The Lamers Building, home to Grove Gallery, Team Nerd Press, the Lunney Garden, and the sculpture studio of Celine Farrell, is open Saturday and Sunday from 10 am - 5 pm. We’re now showing Nocturnal Sunshine by Celeste Contreras. We hope you’ll join us!

Opening Friday, September 25, 2026 from 5-9 pm and viewable during Doors Open Milwaukee, September 26-27th, 10-5 both days.

Artist Celeste Contreras is pairing up with Grove Gallery to unveil a collection of carvings and relief prints. This body of work began in 2021 and explores the idea of “nocturnal sunshine,” a moment when night itself provides inspiration for an individual spirit’s creativity to grow. The collection of relief prints will encompass wood, linoleum and rubber and raw unprinted wood cuts.

An eagerness to wade through the long, unknown darkness of night in exchange for an awakening belies the artist’s creative process. When Contreras carves away the black ink from the woodblock, it is a physical embodiment of exposing the starlight of the nocturnal sunshine. When nocturnal darkness transforms into visionary light, anything becomes possible.

“I have complete loyalty to the solitude of night for fostering ideas and dreams into matter,” said Contreras. “These are drawings made through carving different, specific points of my printing journey that share nocturnal sunshine.”

Opens on Friday, September 25, 2026 from 5-9 pm, part of Doors Open Milwaukee, September 26-27, both days. 10-5 both days.

Also open for Gallery Night, October 16 (5-9 pm) and 17 (12-5)

Closes Saturday October 24, 12-4 pm

Celeste Contreras is a Xicana-Indigenous artist who shares stories through print, book arts, fiber arts and animation. Contreras is a lecturer at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts where she earned a Master of Fine Art (MFA). She has served as Artist-in-Resident with the Milwaukee Public Library, been Community Ambassador for the Milwaukee Women’s Art Library (MWAL), and serves as board member at Anchor Press, Paper and Print and The CR8TV House. Currently, Contreras is a resident artist at The House of RAD, and manages Studio Tlacuilo + Library, an artist’s book library.

https://www.celestecontreras.com

Join us for the last day of COSMOS by Holly Harnischfeger. Open Today till 5pm.

Join us for COSMOS, Holly Harnischfeger’s pop-up show this weekend! Saturday, Sept 12th and Sunday Sept 13th, 11-5 each day!

Grove Gallery Presents…
Holly Harnischfeger: Cosmos
A special one-weekend-only exhibit.
The drop cloths of a painter follow the movements, moods, and decisions of an artist. In this series, Harnischfeger reflects on the delicate passage of time by working in collaboration with truly accidental drips and smudges. Upon completion, her intentional floral blooms reflect endless intuitive cosmos.
Saturday and Sunday, September 12th & 13th
11-5pm, 832 S 5th St
Milwaukee WI

Open Today 12-4: The Bird and The Hand, Benjamin Po***ck and Carey Watters

Open Today! 12-4 pm. “Benjamin Po***ck and Carey Waters: The Bird and the Hand.”

The Bird & The Hand: The Art of Benjamin Po***ck & Carey Watters

Grove Gallery in Walker’s Point will present “The Bird & the Hand” on July 17, 2026 from 5-9pm, a show that brings together the work of artists Benjamin Po***ck and Carey Watters who share a fascination in the search for meaning in the natural world. Po***ck’s drawings combine precise geometric structures with birds, hinting at hidden forces and questioning the arbitrary boundaries between humanity and nature. Watters’ intricate cut-paper works result from years of photographing hands as sites for humans to create meaning through ritual, belief, symbolism, and folklore.

Benjamin Po***ck has a formal training in chemical physics plus a fascination with ornithology. His work combines symmetry, straight lines, and perfect circles alongside the delicate form of birds, revealing the invisible framework of forces shaping reality. Of his work, Pollack says, “Here is a continuous picture of reality where all things, living and not, are connected through a framework of forces interacting in delicate order.”

Carey Watters is an artist and professor who creates layered paper installations or “cabinets of curiosities” that blur the boundaries between artifact (human-made) and specimen (nature-made). Influences include Byzantine iconography, religious reliquaries, and vernacular traditions from her travels to southern Italy, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Watters describes the work as “Hands, eyes, and other familiar objects removed from their original context and presented as fragments of larger narratives—evidence of humanity’s enduring desire to classify, interpret, and assign meaning to the world around us.”

Opening Reception: Gallery Night & Day!
Friday, July 17th 5-9pm & Saturday, July 18th 12-5 pm
Gallery Open Hours: Open on Saturdays, 12-4pm, through August 15th, 2026