Jason Pickleman

Hand Heart

Jason Pickleman is an artist and designer, known for producing graphic material for a wide-ranging cultural clientele through his studio JNL. Picklemans Icons series, which includes works across painting and sculpture, examines the universal qualities shared by enduring cultural symbology and the visual language of civic communication. Hand Heart directly addresses the continuity that exists across the history of visual form makingfrom cave drawings to the pictograms of contemporary international wayfinding signageto form a symbol of compassionate empathy that supersedes language to become universally communicative across lines of age, race, gender, and culture.

Jason Pickleman is an artist and designer, known for producing graphic material for a wide-ranging cultural clientele through his studio JNL. Picklemans Icons series, which includes works across painting and sculpture, examines the universal qualities shared by enduring cultural symbology and the visual language of civic communication. Hand Heart directly addresses the continuity that exists across the history of visual form makingfrom cave drawings to the pictograms of contemporary international wayfinding signageto form a symbol of compassionate empathy that supersedes language to become universally communicative across lines of age, race, gender, and culture.

Jason Pickleman is an artist and designer, known for producing graphic material for a wide-ranging cultural clientele through his studio JNL. Picklemans Icons series, which includes works across painting and sculpture, examines the universal qualities shared by enduring cultural symbology and the visual language of civic communication. Hand Heart directly addresses the continuity that exists across the history of visual form makingfrom cave drawings to the pictograms of contemporary international wayfinding signageto form a symbol of compassionate empathy that supersedes language to become universally communicative across lines of age, race, gender, and culture.

Jason Pickleman

Jason Pickleman

Hand Heart

Exhibition

Exhibition

Materials & Dimensions

Materials & Dimensions

Fiberglass

54 x 70 x 17 inches

Year

Year

2021

Site

Site

Catalano Sqaure 138 N Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202

Credits

Credits

Courtesy of the artist.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

After Harry

Christine Tarkowski

Molten Drawing

Christine Tarkowski

Molten Drawing

Christine Tarkowski

Molten Drawing

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

Lauren Yaeger

Cooler Tower, Dish Rack Tower, Booster Seat Tower, Cooler with Vessels

thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

presenting

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
GRAEF
Guardian Fine Art Services
Hawks Landscaping
Mark Jungers
New Land Enterprises
Raymond & Barbara Krueger
ManpowerGroup
National Endowment for the Arts
Nonprofit Management Fund
Austin Ramirez
Syslogic Inc
Wisconsin Arts Board

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Foley & Lardner
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Milwaukee Magazine
Open Pantry
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Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
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Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation

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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

presenting

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
GRAEF
Guardian Fine Art Services
Hawks Landscaping
Mark Jungers
New Land Enterprises
Raymond & Barbara Krueger
ManpowerGroup
National Endowment for the Arts
Nonprofit Management Fund
Austin Ramirez
Syslogic Inc
Wisconsin Arts Board

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Imagine MKE
MajicPro
Milwaukee Magazine
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup
Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

presenting

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
GRAEF
Guardian Fine Art Services
Hawks Landscaping
Mark Jungers
New Land Enterprises
Raymond & Barbara Krueger
ManpowerGroup
National Endowment for the Arts
Nonprofit Management Fund
Austin Ramirez
Syslogic Inc
Wisconsin Arts Board

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Imagine MKE
MajicPro
Milwaukee Magazine
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup
Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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