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Familiar images lead viewers into Skreber's abstraction

Milwaukee Art Museum's series of Currents exhibitions is now in its 31st year and Thursday, Nov. 7, the 36th installment - "Currents 36: Dirk Skreber" - opens at MAM with a 6:15 p.m. exhibition talk by the artist. Skreber, who is best known for his work showing crashed cars, is represented here by an outdoor sculpture to the east of the Calatrava building, but also by a selection of his large-scale paintings in the Contemporary Galleries and by his 30-minute video, "Turgidity," which is making its U.S. premiere here.