Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity: An Artist Collective

Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity: An Artist Collective What does it mean to be masculine in America today?

This timely exhibition brings together 13 artists exploring identity, vulnerability, and the shifting realities of modern manhood.

11/19/2025

Opening Night of “Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity” is this Friday!

Please join us for the Opening Night of “Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity” on Friday, November 21 from 5pm -...
11/15/2025

Please join us for the Opening Night of “Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity” on Friday, November 21 from 5pm - 8pm.

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Unraveling the Threads of Masculinity brings together thirteen male-identifying artists whose works weave together questions of identity, vulnerability, and strength in an ever-changing world.

🎉Opening Night: November 21, 2025 | 5pm – 8pm
🗓 Exhibition Dates: November 21, 2025 – January 31, 2026
📍 Location: Aquae Nguvu Gallery & Studio – The Marshall Building, 207 E Buffalo St, Suite 130, Milwaukee, WI
🎟 Admission: Free

Artist Feature: Nykoli KoslowToday we’re highlighting one of the thirteen artists featured in Unraveling the Threads of ...
11/12/2025

Artist Feature: Nykoli Koslow

Today we’re highlighting one of the thirteen artists featured in Unraveling the Threads of Masculinity, a group exhibition exploring what it means to be a man in today’s world.

Today’s Featured Artist:
Nykoli Koslow

Nykoli Koslow is a Milwaukee-based artist. While primarily a painter, his practice often extends into drawing, installation, and VR. Fusing figuration with abstraction, Nykoli anchors his innate trans* experience within a q***r mythic cosmology. Pulling from personal experience and reinterpretations of familial and cultural histories, he spins myth, religion, mysticism, and sci-fi–imbedded conspiracies to create worlds rooted in q***r abundance, alien semiotics and psychedelic chromophilia. For Nykoli, the alien becomes a metaphor for otherness and a practice in authentic expression in defiance of dominating hegemonic structures.� �Nykoli earned his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts, in 2013. He has exhibited at the Museum of Wisconsin Art’s 10 at 10 exhibition (2023) and the Wisconsin Artist Biennial (2024). From 2021 to 2022, he was the Artist in Residence at the Pfister Hotel, culminating in his solo show Q***r Mythologies: TransAbstractions at Saint Kate Arts Hotel. His work is in the permanent collections including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union, the Pfister Hotel Legacy Collection, and Northwestern Mutual Art Program. In 2023, he was accepted into the gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix Accelerator fall cohort and is currently represented by Var Gallery, where he exhibited Q***r Cosmology: The Making of a Universe in 2023.

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Unraveling the Threads of Masculinity brings together thirteen male-identifying artists whose works weave together questions of identity, vulnerability, and strength in an ever-changing world.

🎉Opening Night: November 21, 2025 | 5pm – 8pm
🗓 Exhibition Dates: November 21, 2025 – January 31, 2026
📍 Location: Aquae Nguvu Gallery & Studio – The Marshall Building, 207 E Buffalo St, Suite 130, Milwaukee, WI
🎟 Admission: Free

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11/12/2025

We are getting closer to Opening Night of “Unraveling the Threads of Modern Masculinity”!

🎉 Opening Night: November 21, 2025 | 5pm – 8pm⁠
📅 Exhibition Dates: November 21, 2025 – January 31, 2026⁠
📍 Aquae Nguvu Gallery & Studio -- The Marshall Building, 207 E Buffalo St, Suite 130, Milwaukee, WI⁠
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🎟 Admission is free and all are welcome.⁠
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Learn more and see updates here:⁠
👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/1BA1aaNSaW/

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