One of Nick Ringelstetter’s most devoted patrons has collected at least six of the artist’s original paintings. Not one or two, but six.
Artist Nick Ringelstetter walks past the black-backed artwork he created at his Atomic7 Studio in Spring Green. Ringelstetter is one of nearly 500 artists who will present themselves at the Art Fair on the Square in 2022 on July 9-10.
“One day I finally said,” Man, what do you do in your life? ” The Ringelstetter asked the art merchant.
“He said,“ I’m a neurosurgeon. I just love the way your brain works. “
It is a phenomenon that has provided Ringelstetter with a coveted spot seven times at the annual Art Fair on the Square. On July 9-10, he will be among the nearly 500 artists exhibiting at this year’s exhibition, which is expected to attract thousands of art lovers to Capitol Square. The adjacent Off the Square Art Fair, also in Downtown, will showcase the work of some 140 Wisconsin artists and artisans on the same weekend.
Artists Jared Breyfogle on the back and Nick Ringelstetter smooth resin on the surface of the artwork by Ringelstetter at Atomic7 Studio in Spring Green.
About a quarter of the artists at this year’s Square Art Fair are from Wisconsin. And 6% is from Madison. Ringelstetter, who calls his genre of multimedia images “pop psychedelic”, is one of the party’s many original, edgy stylists.
“It’s really in itself,” he said of his work, which combines dream-like images with pop culture references and layers and layers of color. Created with spray paints, watercolors, acrylic paints and even black oil-based Sharpie, each of its originals is a visually crazy adventure.
While the Square Art Fair in 2022 will also showcase everything from realistic landscape paintings to functional ceramics and wearable art and jewelry, “A small part of what you will see at the Square Art Fair are the works of young artists building for Neo-expressionist works of art. artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, ”said Annik Dupaty, events director at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, where the fair is taking place.
Artist Jared Breyfogle, a longtime friend of Nick Ringelstetter, wanders around a former garage that Ringelstetter turned into his Atomic7 Studio.
In these works, as Dupaty explained in the email, viewers will find “the hard-to-miss influence of digital technology, popular urban culture, and other contemporary visual stimuli such as anime, graphic design, and murals.
“You didn’t see the Jordanians appearing in graphics, for example before the 1980s, because they didn’t exist,” said Dupaty. “And the younger generations are less involved in the hierarchy of art and less restrictive about what can be included in the compositions hanging on their walls.”
As for Ringelstetter, “A lot of people who buy my stuff are in the medical industry and the reason they find my stuff is because it makes them think,” said the artist. “They can see how my brain works.”
“I think I have a very active brain. It never turns off. He always crosses the line. He always says, “Why stop there? Go on, go on ”.
