Opening Reception Thursday, August 21 5:00–8:00 pm
August 21-September 19, 2025
Tanner MacArthur New Tactics
Tanner MacArthur is a multidisciplinary Milwaukee-based artist whose work blends painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, he earned a B.A. from Lawrence University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. MacArthur’s practice explores the interplay between urban disorder, collage, and abstraction, building vibrant visual languages that invite ambiguity and layered interpretation. Through the use of line, form, and texture, his work evokes memory, connection, and shifting meaning.
Exhibited widely across the region, MacArthur’s work balances raw, inspired materiality with refined abstraction—creating pieces that are both bold in form and rich in conceptual depth.
NEW TACTICS
A tactic is always on the watch for opportunities that must be seized on the wing. Jaywalkers draw wandering lines through the streets, while scrappers follow the city’s trash like stars, charting routes through what’s left behind.
The system is too vast and too rigid to be our own. So we juke and pivot to create viability and meaning within the confines of technocracy, using unexpected maneuvers to get us there. Playing in the margins births unexpected relationships. Excess material, lost or forgotten, begs us to reconsider its potential. Just like our grocery lists depend on what’s in the fridge, this work relies on what I find during tactical expeditions in the metropolis.
Dinner for Three, 2025