Joyce Brienza's "Floating Points" exhibit explores dichotomous realities

Tue, 03/13/2018 - 8:00am by christopherporter

Dalia Reyes' "Rainbow Body" exhibit explores cosmic lightness

Tue, 03/13/2018 - 7:45am by christopherporter

Dalia Reyes is a Detroit-based artist and arts administrator with an undergraduate degree from the College for Creative Studies. In her artist statement for the exhibition Rainbow Body at the Connections Gallery in U-M's North Campus Research Complex, Reyes suggests her work “focuses on pushing fantasy into everyday scenery; where plants have names and all that glitters is definitely gold.”

Ann Arbor Art Center's "Art Now: Drawing" leaps off the page

Tue, 02/27/2018 - 1:00pm by christopherporter

What is drawing now?

Causing Moments: WSG Gallery's “Lynda Cole: Recent Places and Themes”

Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:00am by christopherporter

Local artist Lynda Cole is back at the WSG Gallery with another adventure in abstraction that’s as much about her sense of self as it is an exploration of art itself.

UMMA's "Aftermath: Landscapes of Devastation" ponders our relationship to disaster images

Thu, 02/15/2018 - 10:30am by christopherporter

Aftermath: Landscapes of Devastation is a small, excellently curated photo exhibition at UMMA that addresses the relationship between disasters, their images, and viewers. Chronicling an immense range of historical disasters, the exhibit is comprised of shots from the beginning days of photography that have captured remnants of destruction.

"Border Crossers" asks viewers to consider a boundaries-free world in the tech age

Wed, 02/14/2018 - 4:45pm by christopherporter

Border walls are only as strong as the robot overlords who can smash them to rubble allow them to be.

Two Stamps exhibitions explore the intersection of the political and the personal

Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:45am by christopherporter

Two complementary exhibitions at Stamps Gallery engage in themes of social and political progress through photography and graphic design.

Celebrate People’s History posters, a project organized by Josh MacPhee since 1998, is “rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda,” according to the Stamps website. Furthermore, “in dark times, it’s rare that a political poster is celebratory, and when it is, it almost always focuses on a small canon of male individuals: MLK, Gandhi, Che, or Mandela.”

"Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist" exhibit celebrates the brilliant trailblazer

Fri, 02/02/2018 - 12:30pm by christopherporter

In her 105 years on the planet, Ruth Gruber didn't half step anything. 

Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Gruber earned a Ph.D. at age 20 from the University of Cologne in German Philosophy, Modern English Literature, and Art History -- the youngest person in the world at that time to complete a doctorate.

Black Lives Matter: Ebony G. Patterson's "Of 72" & "...and babies too..."

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 4:30pm by christopherporter

On May 23, 2010, Jamaican police and military entered the impoverished Kingston neighborhood Tivoli Gardens, a stronghold of drug lord Christopher Coke, leader of the infamous Shower Posse. The United States had ordered the extradition of the now-convicted Coke, and at least 73 civilians were killed by security forces as they searched for the man more commonly known as Dudus. (He wasn’t captured until June 23.)

WSG's "Sixteen Plus Sixteen" pairs gallery members & their selected artists

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:00am by christopherporter

The annual Sixteen Plus Sixteen features the work of WSG gallery members and their chosen guests. The 16 invited artists’ works are then shown alongside the works of WSG’s 16 represented artists.