05/23/2026
This weekend, we are proud to present a retrospective display of gallery artist Ed Lazzeroni's work. His creative and artistic career that spans 7 decades. Ed was born an artist. As a young boy, he was tasked by his small Wisconsin town with decorating all the main street shop windows with paintings for the Christmas holidays.
After a young lifetime of doing every sort of work imaginable and four years in the Airforce, he managed to obtain scholarships for art and design school. He graduated with a four-year degree in Industrial design from Layton School of the Arts, remaining at the school to teach for an additional two years.
In the early 1960’s, he was recruited by J. I. Case Company. He worked there for a few years, shepherding design and graphics for the “new” tractor program. He and a partner from the Case design program founded their own industrial design firm, Prism Design, doing work for many years with large corporations in Wisconsin and internationally. For him, it was clear that design was a process which included art, aesthetics, engineering, ergonomics and manufacturing concerns as needed. In his mind, the applications were limitless. He worked on projects as diverse as architectural scale models, huge mining machines and tiny perfume bottles.
When he retired, he spent a few years in Arizona, and it was there that he began applying his creativity to decorative arts. He flourished, creating custom designed outdoor light sconces, mostly working with copper. He also began producing dimensional wall art and large landscape sculpture, working with copper and other metals. When he returned to Wisconsin, he shifted directions to respond to the midwestern landscape. He continued creating wall art, working mostly with metal, treating the surfaces with etching, grinding, burnishing, torching and acrylic paint. The resulting product has been always evolving and sometimes abstract and sometimes figural. He continues to amaze family and followers as he works into his nineties enjoying time spent in his studio.
We hope you can stop by and visit this visionary artist whose work has been seen by generations. Saturday, May 23, 4-6:30.
