Acrylic and Ink

About this event

Opening Reception Friday November 13th, 5:30pm-7:30pm

Galleries are free and open to the public!

“Acrylic and Ink” features two artists and two mediums: the ekphrastic poetry of Wisconsin poet and author Adrienne S. Wallner in conversation with the acrylic paintings of her grandfather, Wisconsin artist Philip Richard Stock, (1930-1984).

Adrienne S. Wallner holds has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from St. Norbert College and an M.F.A in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine-Stonecoast. She has held a variety of positions including youth advocate, teacher, wilderness instructor, editor, National Park Ranger, marketing writer for a non-profit arts center, and contract grant writer. Adrienne’s first poetry collection “To the 4 a.m. Light” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and can be found in the Aurorean, Straight Forward Poetry, Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living, Minerva Rising, Stoneboat Literary Journal, New Verse News, and elsewhere. Currently she has a series of poems featured in the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration’s Marine Debris Awareness exhibit “Support Superior” at Isle Royale National Park.

Philip Richard Stock was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 16, 1930 into an artistically talented family. His mother, an opera singer, poet, illustrator, and painter greatly influenced and encouraged his artistic development, exposing him to a wide variety of media before he was sixteen. He attended Shorewood High School in Milwaukee, where he received encouragement from faculty to develop his talents and was the only student majoring in art. Stock worked as a tool and die maker for seventeen years and was also a tool designer, product designer, model, draftsman, and renderer. Eventually, he decided to focus his energies full-time on his painting. He operated a small framing shop in Milwaukee with his daughter and where he sold his work, as well as at other area galleries, festivals, and art fairs. In 1977 he moved to Portland Maine with his second wife, artist and illustrator Lois Leonard Stock. The pair operated a successful gallery and studio at 39 Exchange Street in Portland, where they exhibited their work along with that of other Maine artists. They later moved their home and gallery to Gray Main in 1982 where they lived and worked until Stock’s death in 1984. Stock’s work was shown in a retrospective exhibit comprised of 48 paintings at the Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee and at Thos. Cabinet Makers in Portland, Maine in 1987. The showing of Acrylic and Ink at LOLA Gallery in April 2025 is the first time many of the paintings have ever been exhibited to the public.