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What do you do when the power goes out? Steal wireless internet from your neighbor...and look up artists while sweating to death in an fanless, airconditionless house! Here are a few artists that I am into at the moment...or is it the heat?

WESTON TERUYA

MICHELE CARLSON

Jonathan Meese

Martin Eder

Elizabeth Neel

Daniel Richter

Christoph Schmidberger

ann arbor art center submission

Artists - looking for a show?

The Annual: All Media Exhibition, October 13 – November 11, 2006

Details for submission here.

NEXT STEP GALLERY

Artist and gallery/studio owner Kaiser Suidan has a wonderful thing going for him and the artist community. I have to admit that I was unfamiliar with the space and the man behind it, so I was expecting a typical gallery opening or maybe even a little less attended because of the irregularity of shows. Driving up to the building on the dark Ferndale street I could see that this was the place to be! Art-lovers, artists and collectors filled the gallery creating a lot of hot bodies (no air conditioning that night) all anxious to see great art. By the end of the evening everyone spewed into the parking lot to catch a cool breeze. The showing artists were diverse from established detroit artists to young up-and-comers. Along with the helpful curation of MIA director John Cynar, Kaiser had his metal cubes and other wall pieces on display mixed between paintings, drawing, photography and sculpture. And the best part: rumor is that the show made some where around nine grand by the end of the evening. Not bad for this seemingly slow art economy! The next show is predicted to be in October, which if all goes to plan should be a great time to coincide with the mocad opening.

Kaiser Suidan's wall pieces

john cynar

john azoni

jef bourgeau

judy eliyas

lester johnson

stephanie sarris

craig paul nowak

laurie tennent

RichRichRich: final installment

So you have missed the first three shows at RICHRICHRICH - well now is your time to make it up! The final show will be Saturday July 29, 8-12pm - music at 10. The show consists of four larger pieces by Rene Zeh and additional works will be
provided by the Friends of RRR. See you there!


Rene Zeh's show card


Rene Zeh

davin brainard

Davin Brainard brought some new ideas to art night with his live drawing and raffle! All the paintings were well priced and they were going like hotcakes! What's next...buy this painting...and get a free car? Well, we're probably not there yet but motor city keeps getting bigger and bigger. You know they are booked for a year!

josh smith review

Don't miss Chris Hill's review in the metro times on the josh smith show at hilberry.

meet the DAM box show selected artists

These are the selected artists for the DAM Box Show:

Ian Swanson

Matt Lewis

Dylan Spaysky

Scott Northrup

Cooper Holoweski

Thanks to all who submitted - it was a tough call!

TATE MODERN

TATE MODERN has a really great website! While on my lunch break I was able to explore the rooms of the museum! You just click on a wing or a room and then a page of the artists' works comes up, where you can then click on any artist to see the image larger. I like this easy search because so many museums make their collections impossible to view. They also have a feature called "history" that you click on and can choose a time period on a timeline and a whole assortment of images from that year pop up.

last call...

Detroit artists - don't forget today is the last day to send jpeg submissions for the DAM Box Show. See all the details here.

Uli Aigner

Uli Aigner - Born 1965 in Austria, lives and works in Munich, Germany. I found this artist while looking at links from this ny site's list of top 10's for artists, galleries and shows. I enjoy the color patterns, finished vs. unfinished areas and disorienting compositions. They remind me of a looser version of philip pearlstein.

Get to know your mocad artists...

Mocad will be opening before you even know it...so let's take a look at the artists in the first show. First up, Mark Bradford -more images here and here.