New Hygienic Dress League Spotting

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Four Questions with Matt Eaton

Matt Eaton’s latest work, showing at 323East until December 2, continues his process-heavy journey into abstraction. Much more than just pretty colors and shapes, the work is deeply reflective of its creator and provides a better glimpse of the artist than a photograph or written description could. Each piece is spray painted on wood (yes, spray paint, a connection to his graffiti past) layer upon layer of floral motif, typography, and abstract shaping, and then those layers are sanded, new layers added, more sanding, more layers… such that each composition is comprised of soft-edged, unreproducible windows into the past, into his own preoccupations, into the patterns of his own human story. The pieces are

Remembering Woody Miller

Our faithful readers have surely noticed the decrease in material flowing across TheDetroiter.com these past few weeks. It is with a very heavy heart that we share that Managing Editor Woody Miller, the heart and soul of the site for the last several years since founders Nick and John Sousanis handed Y-Arts Detroit the keys in 2008, passed away after a mercifully swift battle with cancer. His passing on not only leaves a great hole in the capacity of TheDetroiter.com to deliver arts news, but also, our city has lost a strident advocate for healthy, positive living and the building of the creative class in Detroit.

We would like to invite you to share in a celebration of his life on Belle Isle Beach on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 9:30 am. Cyclists are invited to share in one last lap around

Detroit Artist Invited to Take Part in Inaugural Events

The imagery of the Barack Obama campaign for presidency will undoubtedly be seen for years to come. From the beautiful “O” logo found on official campaign swag to Shepard Fairey’s iconic portrait in red and blue, the art of the campaign was of a level far beyond what is usually seen in American politics. Galleries around the country are celebrating with special exhibitions of the hundreds of works that sprung from the art world spontaneously, and the campaign itself is preparing…