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Arrested Motion: “Helen Gotlib: Secret Beaches” at WSG Gallery
Mon, 05/20/2019 - 12:30pm by christopherporter
Ann Arbor printmaker Helen Gotlib is a master of the art of slow motion. It’s there in plain sight in her Secret Beaches exhibit at the WSG Gallery.
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Everything flows at Argus Museum's photography exhibit “Water Is Life”
Mon, 04/01/2019 - 12:00pm by christopherporter
Leave it to a museum in a city nestled in a state surrounded in three directions by water to appreciate that Water Is Life. For water is most definitely the topic in display in this expansive photographic exhibit winding its way through the Washtenaw County Historical Society's Argus Museum gallery space.
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Representation, Now: “Art Now 2019: Painting” at Ann Arbor Art Center
Wed, 03/06/2019 - 12:30pm by christopherporter
Continuing with the fifth installation of its semi-annual exhibition themes, the Ann Arbor Art Center’s Art Now 2019: Painting illustrates the vitality of this perennial art form in our contemporary arts.
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Recombinant Tales: Ruth Crowe’s “Storytelling with Photo Infusion and Encaustic” at Gifts of Art
Mon, 02/18/2019 - 11:45am by christopherporter
Taken separately, photo fusion and encaustic are interestingly differing forms of art. Taken together, they reflect local artist Ruth Crowe’s wry multimedia Storytelling with Photo Fusion and Encaustic exhibit at the Gifts of Art Gallery in the University of Michigan Hospital main corridor.
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Kerrytown Concert House’s “Winter Meditation” offers austere ambiance from Kirsten Lund, Ann and Fred Ringia
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 9:00am by christopherporter
It may initially seem surprising that winter can inspire artists. One would think the nippy climate would discourage creativity.
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Dennis Jones’ “Candyland” is a graffiti-inspired exploration of post-painterly art
Tue, 11/06/2018 - 10:30am by christopherporter
Dennis Jones’ Candyland at the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex Rotunda is for those who like to have a little contact high to go along with their art.
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Local Legends: "One-Shot Stanger: The Photos of Eck Stanger" at AADL
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 11:15am by christopherporter
Local legend says Egbert ("Eck") Stanger, a 1930s copy editor for The Ann Arbor News, was hired as the paper's first staff photographer because he was the only staffer who knew how to read the German instruction manual for the newspaper's only camera.
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Both Sides Now: “See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography” at UMMA
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:21am by christopherporter
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography at the University of Michigan Museum of Art focuses on one of the most thought-provoking conundrums of art photography.
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Patterns in the Process: “Sara Adlerstein: Ecologies, my true colors” at WSG Gallery
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 11:00am by christopherporter
Vivid, biomorphic expressions take imaginative turns in Sara Adlerstein’s Ecologies, my true colors at downtown Ann Arbor’s WSG Gallery.
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Minimalesque: “Deborah Campbell and Lois Kane: Burgeoning” at Kerrytown Concert House
Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:00am by christopherporter
There’s minimalist art and there’s art on the edge of being minimal. This distinction may seem paradoxical, but it is one way of describing the Burgeoning exhibit at Kerrytown Concert House by local artists Deborah Campbell and Lois Kane.