Made in Detroit, with Love

I‘ve decided to devote the entire blog this month to one of my passions, art. I want to tell you about some of my favorite exhibits, artists, curators, educators, lectures and venues that I’ve discovered over the past month.

Love Talk: I’ll begin with a timely and thoughtful project Let’s Talk About Love, Baby by artist [...]

Unusual “Tapestries” and New Artists at Plymouth Township Gallery

Translucent hanging artworks connect the “micro” world to our own
Reception Saturday, March 6, 2010 – 7-11
Art & Ideas Contemporary Art Gallery & Studio, a recently opened art gallery and teaching studio located just north of Plymouth, is showing new artwork in March that has never been displayed in Michigan. The exhibition, called “Macro-Biology [...]

MOCAD and Green Brain Comics: Improv Comic Jam/Drawing Party

Friday, March 5, 2010 from 4PM to 7PM
“Comic Jam” is an event held regularly by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, in which participants are encouraged to partake in the creation of spontaneous, improvised comics and free form drawings with other artists and illustrators. For one night only the Comic Jam will move to MOCAD, where [...]

Cranbrook Academy of Art Lecture Series: Hernan Bas

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 -6 pm
“An Evening with Hernan Bas”

Bas continues to indulge his fascination with the history of painting, fantastical tales of the supernatural and Neo-Gothic romanticism to form a new series of paintings.  He has moved away from the decadent dandies of earlier series towards fertile landscapes populated with exotic creatures and waifish [...]

Castagnacci Artist Talk at River Gallery Fine Art

Notes From A Quarry
Sunday February 21, 2pm. Refreshments

This Sunday, the artist Vince Castagnacci will be on board for a River Gallery informal artist talk. Join us as Vince shares his passion, his choice of medium, his point of view, his intellect, his humor and details about work on display.
River Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat [...]

Climate Change and Darwin’s Birthday at Cranbrook Institute of Science

February events at Cranbrook Institute of Science include a lecture by University of Michigan Professor Henry Pollack and a Celebration of Darwin’s Birthday.
Henry Pollack Ph. D., U of M Professor and co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize will discuss his most current research on climate change and his book, A World Without Ice, [...]

CCS Toyota Lecture Series Features Film Designer Kyle Cooper

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 6 p.m

Kyle Cooper
The College for Creative Studies will host a Toyota Lecture on Design by Kyle Cooper, founder of Prologue Films and co-founder of Imaginary Forces on Wednesday, February 17 at 6 p.m.
Emmy Award winner Kyle Cooper has directed and produced over 150 main title sequences and founded two internationally [...]

“False Flat” New Works by Adam Shirley at Re:View

[ February 13, 2010 10:00 pm to March 27, 2010 10:00 pm. ] February 13 – March 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 20, 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

“Untitled”, 2009, Steele, by Adam Shirley
False Flat, Adam Shirley’s first solo exhibit in Detroit, presents the artist’s latest investigations into the relationships that exist between two and three dimensional objects, material [...]

Chido Johnson’s  “Let’s Talk About Love, Baby”

The Art of the Artist’s Book at the Oakland University Art Gallery through April 4, 2010
Valentine’s Day Event! Special informal talk with collaborating artists, Sunday, Feb. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Fahrenheit 450 (Homage to Bradbury and Orwell), 2000-2010
by IAIN BAXTER&
Not one of those touchy-feely people? Don’t like to talk about love? Well, JUST [...]

North American Début: “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change”

[ February 1, 2010 3:00 pm to June 13, 2010 3:00 pm. ] Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook
January 31- June, 13, 2010
“Cape Farewell – Art & Climate Change” — the second exhibition in the series Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook –explores the most challenging environmental issue of this century and is making its North American début at Cranbrook [...]