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got beer art?
Here's a cool poster that features Tim's art on faux craft beer labels. Click on the poster to order online in any size you desire - perfect decor for your home pub!
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and a review on Stumble Upon
Slight name change to draw in more customers. We've gotten the feeling that in Sturgeon Bay, some of the tourists and local shoppers may be a bit intimidated by the word "gallery" - so we've switched it up a bit. We'll still be Gallery 42 - but are chaning our branding to "g42" in an effort to bring in customers that may be missing the scope of what we have in the way of greeting cards, inexpensive gift prints, mugs, garden flags and other artful gifts.
Paint to Jazz videos posted
Tim was honored to be asked once again by the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI, to paint during the jazz ensemble recital in February. You can watch two videos of Tim creating three paintings to three jazz tunes at this YouTube link.
Story Starters Exhibit to Reprise at The Flying Pig
We are delighted to announce that the Story Starters exhibit will happen again at The Flying Pig in Algoma, WI August 14th (opening with author readings) through September 11th. Authors who wish to write stories or poems to accompany the eleven paintings that will appear in the show may preview the paintings here. Submissions are due (
) by Friday, July 23rd. Include the NUMBER of the PAINTING with your submission. Stories will be selected by the artist and the owners of the Flying Pig. Selected authors will be invited to read their writings at the opening night event.
Gallery Opening captured by Photographer Tess Haun
Take a peak at some really nice (and delightfully unusual) photo documentation of the Gallery's Sturgeon Bay grand opening reception as captured by Tess Haun.
Click here.
"Beet It" painting serves as inspiration for Chef's creation.
Tim's painting, "Beet it" was chosen (along with art by Monet, Chagall, Van Gogh and Picasso), as inspiration for an art-inspired dish in Calgary, Alberta. Chaine des Rotisseurs hosted a dinner at the Calgary Petroleum Club on September 19th. The theme of the dinner was "Under the Influences" food inspired by art, music and literature. They let Tim know that his painting inspired a palate cleanser dish: iced beet puree, orange seville droplets.
The painting, Beet It was created to live jazz at a Gallery 42's art and music jam.
Remember! We're in a new location! We are open again beginning January 15th - Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 5p. We'll also be open by appointment by calling 920-785-1123 - since we are located only five minutes from the gallery, we hope that we can accomodate any visitor's desire to )peruse our gallery.
We love our new space!
Our new gallery at the Fairfield in Sturgeon Bay is about one quarter the size of Juddville location, but it will force us to be more selective in what we hang - and do more style-specific shows and more openings. For instance, our first show was "What's with the Faces, our second, "Avian and Abstracts."
People seem to be finding us despite the move. Our sandwich board brings in people meandering the streets of Sturgeon Bay, while our mailing list keeps our previous and repeat customers informed. So far, the start of the fall season at the new location has been quite satisfying in terms of customers and sales of artwork.
Here are more photos of the new space:
below: We have a painting platfom which doubles as a stage for our visiting musicians during openings. A fountain will greet you as you enter the gallery.
Read the fresh art blog
Tim has started blog about his fine art experiences. Click here to read the blog - and feel free to
your thoughts and questions.
Painted Violin benefits String Academy
Tim recently completed a painting of a violin for the Door County String Academy fundraiser auction. The violin was painted to represent all genre of music that the violin is used for - from classical to bluegrass, jazz to alternative rock. Tim listed to a variety of this music while painting the instrument and attempted to pick up the variety of colors, textures and moods that the instrument can create. For information about bidding on the original, click here. If you would rather own a print of the violin with the "Jazz Violin" graphic, you can order one in any size and matting/framing that you desire here.
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allery Forty Two on YouTube
We just posted a YouTube page that will feature videos by Tim Nyberg. The frist two are video samplers of Tim's paintings and photography. You can click on the YouTube icon on the left to watch the videos. In the future we will post videos of Tim's art and music jams, "TIM Talks" - informal artist talks about new works, and other materials that is benefits from video support. Stay tuned!
The Art of Music - Tim recently completed a painted violin to be auctioned for the Door County String Academy. The art on the violin was created to represent the various music genre that use violin - from classical to jazz, bluegrass to alternative. Tim listened the various genre listed while painting the violin to capture the various moods, colors and textures that the instrument is used to create. You can purchase a poster print of the violin by clicking on my print gallery link on the left.
TinyBudget Artwërks: Our own economic stimulus package.
We've added our popular Tiny Budget Artwërks ($19.95 framed prints) to the G42 online store. These are perfect little gifts of art that are easy to buy - easy to ship. Tim will sign each print and include a FREE copy of his video Duct Tape: the Video with every purchase through the end of the year. Click the G42 store icon above or click directly to the Tiny Budget Artwërks page.
It's paint-over time.
I'll often grab a painting off the wall that doesn't interest me any longer and paint over it. The experience often yields are better painting - both becase I've grown in my style, but also because the texture and colors of the previous painting come into play with the new work. I've posted a few of these painting transformations here if you are interested in seeing the results of the process. Hopefully, it wasn't a painting you were interested in purchasing that got the makeover. - Tim
Check out our our online print and photo stores:
We've added bunch of our art reproduction prints and photography (like those shown above) to our custom order stores - click the links on the left. These are matted and framed to order (like those shown above). If you see any originals that are not shown in these galleries that you desire in a framed print, please let us know. We've ordered some for show at the gallery and they look great! This is the perfect way to still get a copy of that painting that you deliberated a bit to long on... Thanks!
profile paintings by tim
If you're one of the many people that have requested commissioned cartoon portraits from Tim, you can finally get them! Tim's art (based on your photos) are now being featured at ProfilePaintings.com. This innovative new concept allows people to have a custom portrait (in either acrylic on canvas or digital photo-treatment montage) created for use as their profile icons on FaceBook, MySpace... If you choose the painting option, you will get the 18" square painting on canvas shipped to you, and digital files emailed to you for use on your email, online communities, etc.. Click to ProfilePaintings.com for complete information.
empty easel (on online arts community) is featuring an article about Tim's painting to music. You can click here to read the Empty Easel article. And, click to our events page to read more about the art and music jams that happen at Gallery Forty Two and other venues around the midwest.
creating "rothko meets hitchcock"
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rothko meets hitchcock" slideshow and the study "birds on a wires"
I thought it might be fun/interesting to document the steps that my paintings go through from white canvas to the final piece. This is a four by six foot painting that is based on a small study (you can see the study on the right above and hanging over the sink in the slideshow). What's not shown is the spraying of various stages of paint with windex and wiping to get smears and/or a pitted look (depending on the dryness of the paint layers), scratching the surface with my finger nails or the other end of the brush. I'm always stepping back, looking, sipping a beverage, reassessing, and trying to achieve a unified look to the design. In some ways, I prefer the study to this larger version, but, that's okay, I can always paint over it. But, in the meantime, the creation of this piece has been documented in the short animated sequence above.
the art of beer
Check out the cool beer labels Tim is shlemping around to various microbrewries. These labels incorporate Tim's paintings, design and even name generation. Next? Wine labels! click here
< Tim just created this poster of his beer labels. These faux labels combine Tim's painting, design and humor into a colorful addition to any pub or rec room. Order it online at by clicking on the print gallery link above left. You can customize the size, matting and framing to suit your personal decorating needs.
this is cool...
When crusing around the internet (no, I haven't found the end yet(), I found a wonderful video by Philip Scott Johnson comprised of 500 years of female portraiture morphing into each other. Make sure you turn on your speakers to enjoy the cello music while you make his journey through art history.
Philip also has other morphing art videos on his YouTube page that you may wish to watch. click here.
guest artists at gallery 42
john turula ceramics/sculpture
John began his work in clay in the early 1970s on an Army base in Virginia. Following the acquisition of an art degree, he paid his dues by making production honey pots for a year. 
Turula moved on to wheel thrown, burnished, salt fired “big round things,” a college and museum school teaching career. He then left the wheel for hand-built figures - ideas that started as doodles - “little trains of thought that I’d try to get to stand upright.” Now, John’s work is human scale sculpture - stacked hand-built components - “unplanned beyond a notion.”
John lives and creates in his Bay City, Wisconsin studio. More of his work may be viewed online at www.nopointink.com.
george ouimette ceramics/sculpture
Gallery Forty Two is delighted to add George Ouimette to its list of guest artists. George teaches art at Southern Door High School. His art reflects his surroundings - usually combining found wood with clay to create one-of-a-kind vessel based pieces. You can see more of George's art online at OuimetteStudio.com.
Creating and naming the paintings.
When I paint, sometimes I have a subject matter in mind, sometimes they just appear as the painting materializes. In this case, the later was true. This painting was a paint-over of another piece - something I do often as an evolving artist (see extreme make-over below) - I love seeing a history to the canvas and purposely let old colors and textures live on in the new painting. Upon turning the canvas during the painting process it resembled a profile of a human head.
The profile reminded me of the 1952 Anacin commercial (no, I'm not quite that old, apparently they ran it for a while) with the banging hammers. I mistakenly thought it was Bayer when I named the piece. But the errant title actually had a deeper meaning for me. While on the train ride from Düsseldorf to Köln, Germany, we passed by the Bayer headquarters and our escort apologetically revealed that the nerve gas used in the concentration camps was manufactured by Bayer. The image reminded me of the Anacin commercial, but was foreboding and/or disturbing enough to work with the Bayer reference as well.
But, sometimes, the images are just simple and playful with no deep meaning. They don't necessarily bring to mind anything immediately, I have to stare at them for a while. 
The painting on the left, "Smilin' Dave's Refrigerator," was so named because it reminded me of the art of a college painting instructor, Dave Johnson, who was always smiling. During Dave's first show at my college, we were struck by the retro refrigerator shapes in all of his paintings and thought it would be a good idea to place a 1950's refrigerator into the show (complete with a "Refrigerator, mixed media, NFS" title next to it). The department chair didn't think much of our prank, but Dave kept smilin' just the same.
Some paintings are cathartic, working out the angst of everyday life. One such painting is "Bush and Cheney Arrive in Hell" (right). Not surprisingly, this is a title that gets a lot of comments from gallery visitors and usually primes the pump for conversation. While painting, I was filled with frustration about the direction our country has taken under the Bush administration - coupled the disturbing thought that our tax money has been used for complicity in killing of well over 100,000 of God's children - so, I named the piece appropriately. It helped a llittle bit.
I guess this reflects life. Sometimes things that plop in front of us are meaningful, deep and worthy of extra thought. And other times they're just a funny little blip that's meant to entertain us and not really meant for anything but pure enjoyment. You'll find both extremes in my art. - Tim
tim nyberg paintings/photography
For the past thirty years, Tim Nyberg has been a graphic designer and illustrator for everyone from Fortune 500 companies to the corner retailer, from McDonald’s to small cafes, for national magazines, bookcovers, web sites, and his own humor books - most notibly the “Duct Tape Books.”
Tim brings his commercial art sensibilities to his fine art and enjoys exploring and blurring the line between the two. If you walk through his gallery and smile or chuckle, it’s payment enough for Tim (although your purchases are certainly appreciated as well). You can see samples of Tim's work at GalleryFortyTwo.com
About the diversity in Tim's painting styles:
I'm constantly exploring in my art - not afraid to try new things - not afraid to fail. Really, what's the worst that can happen? I've wasted a little paint. I just paint over it and the underlying "failed experiment" just adds to the richness of the new image.
I can relate to this quote by Pablo Picasso: "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
gallery shows:
member's exhibition - appleton art center, appleton, wi 2009
avian and abstracts - gallery 42, sturgeon bay, wi 2009
one man show - grand reopening, gallery 42, sturgeon bay, wi 2009
juried show - miller art museum, sturgeon bay, wi, 2009 • JURORS AWARD
hardy gallery 2009 collection invitational, ephraim, wi, 2009
one man show, glas coffeehouse, sturgeon bay, wi, 2009
eau claire jazz festival and art crawl - university of wisconsin, eau claire, heyde center, march/april 2009
member's exhibition, appleton art center, appleton, wi, 2008
mini exhibit - jay's cafe, st. paul, mn, 2008
mini exhibit - bluefront café, sturgeon bay, wi 2008
juried show - miller art center, sturgeon bay, wi, 2008
guest artist - chagall exhibition, appleton art center, wi, 2008
oneman show - Door County Memorial Hospital, 2008
juried show - hardy gallery, ephraim, wi, 2008
one man show - mr. hellsinki, fish creek, wi, 2008
one man show - fairfield center for contemporary art, sturgeon bay, wi, 2007
juried show - hardy gallery, ephraim, wi, 2007
one man show - kick coffee, sturgeon bay, wi, 2006
collections:
(not in any particular order)
Entertainer, Jerry Seinfeld
Comedian, Dana Carvey
Dr. Russell Lucas, University of MN Heart Hospital
Gustavus Adolphus College
Bethel University
General Mills (Corporate)
(Ret.) Air Force General Steve Kelly
General Motors (Corporate)
Lawrence University
Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Sandy Zapffee
Rosewood Corporation
Dr. and Mrs. Lee Tomboulian
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Villasenor
DeWoskin Investments
Isuzu Corporate
Small World Market
Hyundai Corporate
Roseville Area Schools
Author, Warren Hanson
BBG Entertainment
Recycled Greetings
Longmeadow Press
Author, Charlene Baumbich
Café Launch
Shea's Salon
Birch Lake Vision Centers
Meckler Music House
Electric Picture Company
Harper Perrenial
Musician, Evan Montgomery
Workman Publishing
Andrews McMeel Publishers
Orchard Supply Hardware
Illustrator, William Ersland
Young Life
Habitat for Humanity
Door County Visitor Bureau
Bistro at Liberty Square
McDonald's Corporate (Minnesota)
LeBistro Restaurants
Artist, Mike McCartney
Bistro at Liberty Square
Triple Espresso Entertainment
Finnegan's
Bozell Advertising
Small World Market
Dr. Jankowski, Mayo Clinic
Kick Coffee
Electric Picture Company
RCL, Aachen, Germany
Primeflex Corporation
Seymour Golf Club, Vancouver, BC
Grammy winner, Joe Locke
and many other private collections
A Secret: Gallery Forty Two
by Lauren Bremer, Peninsula Pulse 9/8/07
It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
The moment you walk into Tim Nyberg’s Gallery Forty Two in Juddville, your senses are snapped into check. The vivid colors, the intense images, the abstract faces of cartoonish people…it all rolls over you at once like a sensational wave. His artwork has been described as non-objective, whimsical, and contemporary, and certainly unique. And that’s just the artwork. The man behind it all is just as complex, just as diverse. In one moment he’s describing the twenty-five “or so” books he’s written, in the next, the years he’s spent doing stand up comedy, and finally to the present, to the opening of an art gallery.
“I became too prolific, so I had to get a gallery,” Nyberg says with a slow, brooding grin spreading across his face. After studying art, theater, and graphic design in college, Tim went on to become an illustrator. He founded “Duct Tape Guys,” a hysterical take on the uses of duct tape that launched a series of related books. And then there was the stand up comedy. Tim is quite unlike the mental image one would usually conjure up for a stand up comedian. He is not in-your-face, or assaulting on the senses; rather, he’s somewhat soft-spoken and modest, but with a sly look on his face that leads you to believe that Tim’s got a secret.
Nyberg first came to the county in 1975 and returned again in 1990. He met his wife Julie at Bethel, who had roots in the county. After spending years in the Twin Cities, they decided to return to Door County in 2005, and Tim began to scheme about opening a gallery. “When we began to remodel in Sturgeon Bay, I had space to make art and began to create. I painted in college, but I wanted to return to it,” he explains. I’m flabbergasted when he tells me that he’s only been back at painting again for merely two years. The quality and quantity of the work in the gallery looks both experienced and fresh.
As we discuss his path to Gallery Forty Two I find myself drawn to a series of paintings on one wall. He explains that these particular pieces were created musically. Over the course of the summer since his opening on June 21, Nyberg has had live music events. Sometimes it’s Celtic music, and other times, jazz. Tim finds a comfortable spot to listen with a bare canvas, and lets the music guide him. “Some strokes represent tempo, some, rhythmic bass. There are no rules. I brush in time with the music,” he describes. Each song or piece has different character, and as I pass by each canvas, I can see the music he was listening to when he painted. It’s moving, beautiful, and evocative.
The scope of Tim’s work is wide and fascinating, that after being engrossed in these musical pieces, I suddenly find myself staring into the 3-D faces of circus people. In particular, there is one of a trapeze artist that is literally coming out of the wall. His trapeze is connected to the ceiling of the gallery, and you can see the motion the piece has, as the trapeze artist is coming out of the painting and “swinging” into the room. There’s an entire series like this, including a tightrope walker.
When asked what he enjoys most about running a gallery, Nyberg says, “I love seeing people walk through the door and smiling when they see something that they’re drawn to. And I like creating the artwork. Each piece is as much of a surprise for me as someone walking around a corner and seeing it for the first time.”
The space that Nyberg has created for himself at Gallery Forty Two seems to match the artist. It is both quirky and moving, hysterical and thought-provoking. The multiplicity of Nyberg’s talents complement the wide range of artwork he creates. Whatever secret Tim Nyberg seems to have undulating and rippling beneath the surface has piqued my curiosity, and if his artwork is any hint, the well has just been tapped.