Detroit Breakdown..

Lucky to have thwarted this zombie attacker / burglar late Sunday night.
He came back and took a dump the next day.
I know this happens everywhere so
Be Safe!

Back in the City

A Bit Vacation is a Good Thing

Motor City Art Night

Among the most exciting showcases of Detroit Artwork
is notably one of the most humble make shift spaces here. The Motor City Brewery has hosted exhibitions every Wednesday night starting around 6:30pm. Besides having great home brewed beer, awesome ambiance and also a flavorful and vibrant Cass Corridor neighborhood, there is always a great sense of freshness to the art shows.


Graehm White whom began this space while behind the bar slinging drinks and gossip saw this to be a good opportunity for activity. Now the shows have been going a good three years now and they are booked every week for the next two years or so! Graehm has worked behind many bars over the years surrounding Detroit and has been teaching and continuing as a productive Detroit Artist.


Motor City Brewery is located on the corner of Second and Canfield in Detroit. They are set off in the parking lot across from the Traffic Jam Restaurant.

INTERSECTION

Opening last weekend along with Zeitgeist was the inaugural exhibit INTERSECTION at the new Sousanis Gallery in the Detroit Orchestra Hall / Max M. Fischer Center Complex. This space deemed to be a crossroads space with conference centers and gallery are a collaboration effort between Ann Arbor's University of Michigan and Detroit.

Long talked about and desired, a greater sense of connectedness and dialogue between these dual cities seems to be coming to reality.

With the lack of mass transportation besides the Amtrack link, Detroit and Ann Arbor have long experienced a particular segregation from one another on various levels. MOCAD curator Gregory Tom says that

"It has been good to have that separation between the cities as Ann Arbor Artists do not need to know what Detroit Artists are up to." Gregory himself a recent Cranbrook graduate hailing from New York City has been soaking up the area and now mans the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit not far down Woodward from Sousanis Gallery.

INTERSECTION an introspection into the city of Detroit and an attempt to create dialogue about it, will be going on until the end of October.

AZUTUNARASHAREDO

Crowds were in full force for the openings of AZUNTUNARASHAREDO at ZEITGEIST and for Intersection at Nick Sousanis Gallery. Exhibiting at Zeitgeist are Azucena Nava-Moreno, Mary Fortuna, Kathleen Rashid and Mary Laredo Herbeck until October 27th. Mary Fortuna and Nick Sousanis are of the most ambitious sort very busy making sure their hands are involved in plenty around and within the Detroit area Arts.

The Zeitgeist Gallery had evolved 1o years ago from Michigan Gallery. Michigan Gallery existed a good twenty-five years before that by another local organizor Artist Carl Kamulski. Carl left the gallery after old Tiger Stadium just a walk from the gallery was decided to be replaced with the new age mega center stadium. So things have evolved over the years in the way the art process evolves.

Looking forward to what Zeitgeist will do in the future as it seems to be leaving behind the Outsider and pure Surrealist tendecies that it has embraced for so long. For sure there are even further outsides to be found now.

Urbanscapes @ 1923

These works are by Hamtramck Artist Laura Macintyre.
Urban landscapes very much so sprouting from the Hamtramck sceen.
This show hangs at Cafe 1923 as a part of the HATCH Artists grouping.
I believe this is the groups first solo exhibition.

The works range in size from the largest seen here at 24" x 36" on down.

Having lived, played and experienced life here in these locations generally I am left with the sense of this place that I know well in the paintings. I am curious to what fresh eyes have to say. For a good chunk of my gypsy existence I had lived in Lincoln Park that borders Detroit at the South end and from that perspective I also make a lot of connections and see interesting contrasts. Definitely all environments are unique eco-spaces that time, characters and chance play a part in molding the personality of continuously.

From the Private Collection

Adelina Fuentes Connelly is another great Detroit Artist whose Fuentes Gallery is a creative hive for the neighborhood and several Artists that Adelina mentors. Her works range from painting, print, ceramic sculpture and illustrations for poetry.

This Oil Painting is titled "Out of the Woods" is 24"h x 18"w.

From the Private Collection

This Oil Painting is 8.5" x 11" on canvas board by Detroit Artist DMC.

One of my personal favorite painters in all of Detroit. DMC or Jim Puntingham was director of Zeitgeist Gallery for a good four years or more up till recently.

Jim's paintings, drawings, sculptures and castings are highly charged and fertile works. I never cease to empathically relate to his works and feel inspired by their energy.

From the Private Collection

Starting off this blog well, I should show works from my own collection.
Here is Mike Alan's work at approximately 8.5" x 11" mixed drawing media on paper. Mike is a Brooklyn artist whose graffiti inspired works and DRAWATHON events pulse with creative energies.

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