The Public Art Project Call for Artists! Currently up: “Everything at Once” (Krieger, McGillis, Snider)

Do you ever wonder what your work would look like if you could blow it up in scale and make it public? The billboard on Woodward Avenue and Maplehurst in Ferndale has a beautiful new collaboration piece and your work could be next! It’s a street level venue that is seen probably by thousands of [...]

“Barely There – MOCAD’s mission accomplished” : by Colin Darke

For a college final exam, I worked with a group of students to conceive of and participate in a performance art piece. We clashed on every idea. Our final idea frustrated me, because I thought it was devoid of any conceptual or artistic merit.
The day of the final we were in the [...]

Camilo Pardo, June 11th, ‘Fuel Injected’

323EAST GALLERY PRESENTS CAMILO PARDO’S “FUEL INJECTED”
AN ENTIRELY NEW COLLECTION OF WORK
ROYAL Oak, Mich., May 31, 2011 —
323East Gallery present a solo exhibition entitled “Fuel Injected” featuring art of Camilo Pardo. The artists reception is on Saturday June 11, from 6 to 11 pm, Camilo invites the public to partake in a uniquely Detroit-flavored cultural [...]

Review of “The Quiet Life” at The Butcher’s Daughter Gallery

Walking into “The Quiet Life,” a solo exhibition of Canadian artist David R. Harper’s multimedia work that opened last week at The Butcher’s Daughter Gallery in Ferndale, feels like entering the home of an eccentric 19th Century biology enthusiast. The color is predominantly white, not cold, antiseptic white, but the white of god-light, the kind [...]

Another DAM good show: Northern LIghts – By Colin Darke

Rich Branstrom – Deer

Rick Kolb – Harbor Town

Rich Branstrom – Duck

In producing a voyage to the unique beauty of Up North, the Detroit Artists Market’s latest show falls short. Perhaps because of its limited scope (a showcase of northern Michigan artists), co-curators John F. Korachis and Rebecca Glotfelty failed to produce (as promised) a coherent [...]

3 Questions Reflecting on Art X Detroit

Art X was focused energy in one week in one part of Detroit. Just like the Kresge Fellowships themselves it felt unprecedented and powerful.
So we asked the same 3 questions to 4 different people: A local artist (Andrew Thompson), someone new and curious about Detroit (Tunde Wey), a teacher at Wayne State University (Mame Jackson) [...]

Memoir of A Rebellious Light : Abstract Photography by Aras Karimi at Northend Studios

Kevin Tobin @ North End Studios

Kevin Tobin @ North End Studios from Cedric Tai on Vimeo.
This video is now private, please message Kevin Tobin for the password! In the meantime, please enjoy Gilda’s video of the same night.

Cranbrook Thesis Show 2011

Cranbrook Thesis Show 2011 from Cedric Tai on Vimeo.

Garage Sessions at Cranbrook Thesis Show 2011 from Cedric Tai on Vimeo.

Ian Swanson : All Visible Objects – Opening Reception

For his multi-media installation “All Visible Objects”, Ian Swanson presents a collection of works informed by his personal experience of home, memory, solitude, fate, and faith. Borrowing liberally from established tropes, he is candid in his seizure of symbolist tradition and openly concedes with an animistic insight into the life of [...]