Baby Wetzel Returns and Remembers
The Green Gallery•Feb 20, 2026 — Apr 04, 2026
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The Green Gallery is proud to announce Baby Wetzel Returns and Remembers, the third solo exhibition by artist Steve “Baby” Wetzel with the gallery. Wetzel has been a longtime fixture of Milwaukee’s conceptual avant-garde through contributions to our experimental film, performance, and music communities. This exhibition marks a return to his training and first passion: an exploration of time and meaning through new oil paintings and drawings.
Baby Wetzel’s exhibition of the private stuff of painting and memory is an exciting surprise considering the prominence of his documentary and non-fiction videos. Though “place” is central to these works, so too is the present tense where each picture—scrubby and wet with an endlessly unmooring surface—bustles with life. In the artist’s words, “I knew what the work would address: an image, a memory, a constellation of experiences in my youth looking to be externalized; I could feel it, have felt it ever since I left the drab suburb of Inver Grove…
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Baby Wetzel Returns and Remembers
The Green Gallery•Feb 20, 2026 — Apr 04, 2026
Press Release
The Green Gallery is proud to announce Baby Wetzel Returns and Remembers, the third solo exhibition by artist Steve “Baby” Wetzel with the gallery. Wetzel has been a longtime fixture of Milwaukee’s conceptual avant-garde through contributions to our experimental film, performance, and music communities. This exhibition marks a return to his training and first passion: an exploration of time and meaning through new oil paintings and drawings.
Baby Wetzel’s exhibition of the private stuff of painting and memory is an exciting surprise considering the prominence of his documentary and non-fiction videos. Though “place” is central to these works, so too is the present tense where each picture—scrubby and wet with an endlessly unmooring surface—bustles with life. In the artist’s words, “I knew what the work would address: an image, a memory, a constellation of experiences in my youth looking to be externalized; I could feel it, have felt it ever since I left the drab suburb of Inver Grove…










































































