dPOP! Art Hop June 2013

JUNE 21, 2013

RE:VIEW CONTEMPORARYGALLERY 444 W. Willis #112, Detroit, MI 48201 1:00PM

PIONEERBUILDING 8544 McGraw St, Detroit, MI 48211 1:30PM

RUSSELLINDUSTRIAL CENTER 1600 Clay St. Detroit, MI 48211 2:20PM

THEFORTRESS 7332 Oakland St. Detroit, MI 48211 3:10PM

PEWABICPOTTERY 10125 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI 48214 3:45PM

RE:VIEW CONTEMPORARYGALLERY reviewcontemporary.com Opening in October 2008 in Cass Corridor, Midtown Detroit, Re:View Contemporary Gallery was born as a physical reminder of art’s connectivity to community and social transformation, a space designed to channel inspiration in the form of some of the best manifestations of contemporary art today, and cultivate a new culture of art collecting in Detroit.

PIONEERBUILDING thepioneerbuilding Gerhard Woberman bought the building in 1960, using it for his Pioneer Office Products business. In 1985, due to age and illness, he cut back and rented unused space to artists. In 1994, artist Anne Fracassa and her six offspring renovated the building and then bought it forming Fracassa Ventures Inc. They have been renting out studio spaces in The Pioneer Building since.

CLINTONSNIDER clintonsnider.com This work builds a new representational order literally upon the debris Snider has collected and adds narrative content to its visual form. In these pieces, which are basically paintings executed on junk substrates, the material aspect of art work is always evident. Painted on top of retrieved strips of lumber, the conventional “window� view is interrupted by the different lengths of board that have been hammered together.

JOSEPHFERRARO joseph-ferraro.com My exploration of culture, landscape, and science are highly personal, even spiritual. My goal is to draw the viewer into the moments I hold precious by deconstructing imagery, only to meticulously reconstruct it including all of the minute details, and thereby control the viewers’ attention by defining and sometimes adding details that would go unnoticed without intervention

ANNEFRACASSA annefracassa.com Anne Fracassa is a Detroit resident whose drawings and paintings reflect her love of Detroit and its rich history. The city is a source of endless and fascinating subject matter. From humble frame homes crowded into old neighborhoods to elegant Victorian mansions on broad boulevards, Detroit’s architecture is a reminder of its rich social history.

BARBARADORCHEN barbaradorchen.com My work is an ongoing exploration of imagery, inspired by remnants of past and present cultures. The process involves combining or layering a variety of media, including pages from old books, transfer images, paint, tar, wax, found objects, photographs on paper, wood and installation.

My intention is to express a tactile manisfestation of form and surface in works that evoke a sense of timeless mystery.

BIRGITHUTTEMAN-HOLZ brightstroke.com I use fire and razorblades to attack and challenge my paintings, pushing me to the limits of my abilities. Where creativity and failure dance, I approach the truth. Wax and powdered dry pigments have been the consistent medium in my paintings. Encaustic tends to be very visceral, luminous, and deep. When I succeed I transcend tragedy and see the genesis of beauty and the ephemeral.

CAROLEKABRIN carolekabrin.com Being an Emmy Award Winning Courtroom artist for television news... I have a love for emotion and action.

I call it gesture. Whether I am capturing a horse jumping, a racehorse crossing the finish line, a basktball player reaching for the ball, or children playing, the movement, the emotion, and the energy of the figure or a still life (yes a still life too), captures my imagination. The gesture is the spark of life... this is my work.

CLAUDIASHEPARD claudiashepard.com/ The motifs I have chosen to paint are almost always about the human figure. I make feelings and emotions visible through image as metaphor and through the physicality and color of pigment. The process is about pushing an exploration of relationships, both formal and psychological.

JOANFARAGO joanfargoartist.com Joan Farago is an accomplished artist and teacher in drawing, painting, and printmaking. She draws inspiration from emotional and spiritual life experience blending eastern and western philosophy into her art. Her emotional landscapes capture a unique visual drama and dimension that is characteristic of her art.

JOHNHEGARTY Although trained as an abstract artist, in the late 60’s I started to work in color using line instead of paint. I saw the act of drawing as a performance and I began to work with the figure, becasue of the special challenges it presented.

While I have continued to also paint the figure for the last 47 years, drawing with colored line has been my main passion.

MARCIAFREEDMAN marciafreedman.com My paintings are brought to life by critical observation, personal experience, memory and reactions to events. They become a metaphor for personal emotions and external perceptions, but on a broader level integrate the personal with wider questions, political and social.

The resultant images are mostly abstract, but in fact, based on the constant inquiry into the reality of life experience.

TERESAPETERSON teresapeterson.com Teresa Petersen is an artist living and working in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

She works in several media, specializing in found-object assemblage sculptures, collages made from vintage prints, catalogs, and magazines, and mixed media pieces containing elements of both. The individual objects making up each piece serve to form a cohesive final structure as well as individually relate to the theme of the piece as a whole.

Her work emphasizes and explores the relationships between women’s stereotypes and ideals: in culture, in nature, and in our throw-away society.

RUSSELLINDUSTRIALCENTER russellindustrialcenter.com In 2003, the Dennis Kefallinos group purchased all 7 buildings of the huge complex. He saw potential to utilize its industrial Detroit architecture, developed a large artist community, and attracted small businesses from around Metro-Detroit. In 2008, the Russell Industrial Center had over 140 tenants, most of them professional artists, making it one of the largest artist communities and small business havens in the Midwest. Every weekend, the Russell Trade Center opens its doors to the public as a large trade center between artists from all over Michigan. On January 13, 2013, the automobile event of the year was held at the Exhibition Center in the Russell as Chevrolet revealed the 2014 Stingray Corvette. Dennis has a team of interior designers renovating the old factory, and plans to transform the Russell into a thriving commercial complex. In May of 2013 Dennis plans to open 6 of 7 buildings to the public, one will be able to find a small commercial mall, a historic art gallery and car museum, art studios, dance studios, the market at the Trade Center, an exhibition center for events and a concert hall. The historic facade of each building, combined with the repopulation of new, young artists is a great start to bring Detroit back.

JUSTINMARSHALL The current work is an attempt to fuse these themes with paintings rich historical context, while refining my own skill set as a painter as well as the craft of constructing a canvas, a composition, and a surface quality of the canvas. Figurative art and landscape painting are disciplines that one takes a lifetime to master, and I am on that journey.

MICHAELNAGARA Michael Nagara received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design, in 2003. His bodies of work in painting, calligraphic design, and 3D-generated digital landscape imagery explore traditional nature-oriented East Asian aesthetics and contemporary observations on the environment.

CAVEGALLERY cavedetroit.com Cave is a studio and exhibition space located on the third floor of building four within the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, MI. Seven artists established it in the fall of 2007.

JESSICAFRELINGHUYSEN paperhelmets.com My work is not ment to hang on a wall. It’s meant to be touched and handled and worn. It’s about engaging the viewer to not simply view the work, but to participate and become active within the piece itself. I want them to dress up in it, to wear it, and to see themselves strangely adorned, and realize suddenly that there is a real function to the piece.

THe paper and fabric construction may be fantastical in size and shape for everyday use, but they do work. They perform a job. They correct a problem and, above all, engage people in communal action and conversation in the midst of our increasingly solitary world.

DYLANSPAYSKY dylanspaysky.com Think of merchandise as material. Merchandise is much more compicated than raw material. Someone else ahs always already considered merchandise. Someone from somewhere has consideres what it looks like, what it’s made from, how to machage it, where to sell it, etc...

KURTISGREENE A revolution is not always fought against something; it can be a complete denial/subversion of things. A revolution can be focused inward with intent not to destroy something but to create something so new and powerful that everything that came before will be rendered obsolete.

PHILLIPBIRCH Here is my body and here is my blood, a transubstantiation constructing a modable neo-spiritual awakening. Everything and everyone becomes an actor or an agent in its own right. We set evermore in a Wordless stage.

THEFORTRESSTUDIOS fortressstudiosdetroit.com Fortress Studios is an art center located in the Northend neighborhood of Detroit, MI. Founded in 2010, by Steven Kuypers and Steven McShane, Fortress Studios is dedicated to providing low cost living and studio facilities for emerging and established artists working progressively in their field. Fortress Studios also aims to add to the local community through public art programs and community outreach.

SCOTTHOCKING scotthocking.com His artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the University of Michigan, the Smart Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute Chicago, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, the KunstWerke Institute, the Van Abbemuseum, and the Kunsthalle Wien. He was recently awarded a Kresge Artist Fellowship, and his work will be part of upcoming exhibitions at the Mattress Factory Art Museum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He is represented by Susanne Hilberry Gallery

PEWABICPOTTERY pewabic.com Pewabic Pottery is a living treasure and offers visitors an exciting glimpse of a little known part of American history. It was founded in 1903 by artist Mary Chase Perry Stratton for her studio and pottery.

Today Pewabic is a non-profit ceramic design studio, education center and National Historic Landmark. Welcoming over 40,000 local, U.S. and international visitors annually, Pewabic is open all year long.