“The Art of the Artist’s Book” Exhibit Closes, Panel Discussion

A Panel Discussion
at Oakland University Art Gallery
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 2PM
Artists’ Books: Initiating Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art Making
A panel discussion featuring participating artists:
Lynne Avadenka
Susan Goethel Campbell
Ed Fraga
Chido Johnson
Dennis Michael Jones
David Lambert
Moderated by Dick Goody
Sunday, March 28, 2010
2PM in the gallery
exhibition closes April 4

The Art of the Artists’ Book features:
Lynne Avadenka
Matthew Barney
IAIN BAXTER&
Christian Boltanski
Susan Goethel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“The Art of the Artist’s Book” at Oakland University Art Gallery

[ February 8, 2010 7:00 pm to April 4, 2010 7:00 pm. ] Opening Reception Friday, January 8, 2010, 5PM to 8PM

Ronald Allen Leax
Ontological Fragment (Tsunami), 1990
Collection of Cranbrook Art MuseumThe Art of the Artist’s Book is a survey, chiefly of one-of-a-kind books, featuring works from the last two decades, a time when the artist’s book has come of age. The book form, as a work of [...]

MODALITY – A CCS Student Collaborative

[ December 18, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] December 18th 6-9pm, 2009 (One night only)
Russell Industrial Center: 3rd floor building 1,

The show consists of work by students from four classes at the College for Creative Studies. Soft Sculpture: focusing on the use of “soft” ideas, materials and processes, taught by Mira Burack; Carving: focused on techniques and methods of carving [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground Exhibit Lives On In Print and Video

Michael McGillis, “Grommet”
Politely curious about why I have been redefining my base in Detroit, my son asked, “what are things like in Detroit?” After he has been living and working for ten years on a bucolic campus in Alexandria Virginia and now living on a boat in Seattle for three years I knew [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground – A discussion on sculpture

Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 4pm
within the social landscape at the Museum of New Art
Abigail Newbold
On Sunday November 1st at 4pm the Museum of New Art (MONA) will host a panel discussion and the release of the exhibition catalogue for its current show – Detroit: Breeding Ground.
This panel focuses on the state of [...]