Harley Uddermeyer can no longer really be considered a strictly "local" artist: his fame (or some say "infamy") has spread far beyong our cozy little county. Yet he remains a hometown boy at heart.

We are truly lucky here at the SAM to be able to feature a selection of works inspired by Harley's love for his birthplace, and completed during a recent trip back.

Always prolific, Uddermayer had to put his creativity into overdrive, and produce these twelve monumental works in a single day, in order to be able to avoid certain local merchants who had taken offense to his last local exhibition, "Sheboygan, Sheboygan, nightmare or hallucination?"

And so we present "Sheboygan County Pastorale" in electronic form, with commentary by the artist

A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.	Some call it neo-primitivist naivité, I call it lunch!
"Set the controls for the heart of the sun!"	A commentary on control and regulation in our lives
	Above: The door nobody should ever have to walk through
	Left: Midwestern Monumentalism
The lesson we should take from this is: Don't mess with what works.
	Nothing is ever truly finished
Those with a taste for evil, prefer it impure.	The end that justifies all means.
	Above: Everyone deserves a little fun, but only members and guests have a chance at getting it.
	Left: The observatory of our own inner plumbing