Tom Uttech: One With Nature

Inspired by his countless pilgrimages deep into the woods of northern Minnesota and the Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, renowned Wisconsin artist Tom Uttech’s paintings have been described as Magic Realism, depicting a world where real and imaginary flora and fauna exist in a fantastical universe.

Tom Uttech: One With Nature presents more than two dozen photographs and a selection of his paintings, including Uttech’s large-scale masterwork, Nin Gassinsibingwe (I Wipe My Tears). The photographs and paintings come from the collection of the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, the leading institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the work of the state’s artists.

About the Exhibition

One of the most widely admired landscape painters working in America today, Tom Uttech weaves a mystical world of imagined and real elements that are loosely based on his beloved North Woods. One With Nature presents a selection of paintings along with more than thirty photographs by Uttech. A highlight of the exhibition is his recent, large-scale masterwork Nin Gassinsibingwe (I Wipe My Tears).

Inspired by countless pilgrimages deep into the remote wilderness of Minnesota, southern Canada, and his native Wisconsin, Uttech’s paintings have been described as Magic Realism, depicting fantastical realms rooted in the artist’s life-long connection with nature. Separate yet parallel to his paintings, Uttech’s early photographic pursuits reveal how the medium informed his ways of absorbing and conveying the North Woods.

The paintings and photographs come from the collection of the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, the leading institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the work of the state’s artists.