Opening Celebration and Out There Music Performances: November 2, 2025 – 2-6 pm
Join us for A Harvest of the Ghosts and, at sundown, a Ghost Illumination while the Out There series enlivens the proceedings with spooky outdoor performances. Enjoy hot cider, smores, and bonfires as the sun goes down and the GHOST GARDEN comes alive.
About the Exhibition
For ten years, Zack Pieper has “haunted” public and private spaces across Milwaukee and beyond, creating large-scale mosaics and site-specific installations out of thousands of ghosts drawn on post-it notes that are then affixed to shopfront or gallery windows. This yearly marathon drawing ritual serves simultaneously as a miniature gallery, a pop-up cathedral, a seasonal decoration, and an ongoing, portable, public lifework.
This year, Pieper is spending a two-week residency at Lynden filling Lynden’s front windows with a mosaic of thousands of post-its—or “ghost-its.” Produced during night-time drawing sessions, the ghost-its are carefully arranged in our windows by day. Viewable every day (except Thursdays) from 10 am to 5 pm starting November 2, GHOST GARDEN will be at its spookiest as the sun goes down and the site-specific installation is illuminated by light within the house.
Previous hauntings have included locations such as Cotyledon Arts, and Current Space Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland; Botan Floral Shop in Buffalo, New York; The Green Gallery, Real Tinsel, and Lion’s Tooth Bookstore in Milwaukee. During the busy 2025 Ghost Season, Pieper has been concurrently creating a collaborative ghost mosaic with art students, children, and library patrons at the Shorewood Public Library, 3920 N Murray Ave, Shorewood, WI 53211. That installation is now on view.
About the Artists
Zack Pieper is a Milwaukee artist whose work spans poetry, performance, essays, songs, radio plays, and visual art. His writing and images have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Milwaukee Anthology, and various small press publications and ephemera. In 2019, Adjunct Press released SAME HERE, selections from a decade of poems. He is the co-founder of Activities Archive, an audio archive of experimental pop, performance and sound art, spanning several decades of Milwaukee-affiliated multimedia artists. Each year, Pieper draws thousands of ghosts on post-it notes, ceremoniously placing them in the windows of various public sites.
The Out There series is a Milwaukee-based performance series, providing an ongoing opportunity for Midwest poets, musicians, and performance artists to share their unique experiences of sound in outdoor spaces such as parks, green spaces, and other distinct locations. This is Out There’s second appearance at Lynden.
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