can I borrow your spaceship?
If I borrow your spaceship will it take me to cranbrook?? Probably - that said, there is an excellent show of cranbrook artists at CAID curated by laith karmo, also a cranny alum. Despite my cranbrook cynicism, a couple of my favorite detroit artists are in this show and I even have a Ballen of my own at home! Detroit has its art cliques and each has there own style whether it is cranbrook's fluorescent conceptual design or wayne's past figurative/wilbert style or ccs' current installation works or the gritty detroit recycled objects...it is only so apparent in this city because it is so small - every group can be catalogued and stereotyped.
ivin ballen...love, love his work and am glad he is still experimenting with taking new materials. this time deceiving the viewer with painted hydrocal with an inflated bag appearance.
Britton Tolliver - geez, how can this only be acrylic on panel? This piece is amazing in person...I wanted to lick all the colorful layers before they dripped off!
Chris Williams
sara blakeman - I was pleasantly surprised to see blakeman experimenting with drawing and mixing traditional materials with her usual puff-painted creations. I love the idea of having a drawing become a sculpture and move off the wall.
This drawing is taking a sculpture for a walk....
...but I think the sculpture made an accident ;)
ivin ballen...love, love his work and am glad he is still experimenting with taking new materials. this time deceiving the viewer with painted hydrocal with an inflated bag appearance.
Britton Tolliver - geez, how can this only be acrylic on panel? This piece is amazing in person...I wanted to lick all the colorful layers before they dripped off!
Chris Williams
sara blakeman - I was pleasantly surprised to see blakeman experimenting with drawing and mixing traditional materials with her usual puff-painted creations. I love the idea of having a drawing become a sculpture and move off the wall.
This drawing is taking a sculpture for a walk....
...but I think the sculpture made an accident ;)
In conclusion: Riding in spaceships is fun unless you forget your helmet....and by helmet I mean art imagination.
posted by art blogs are fun at 9:58 PM
9 Comments:
cliques, not clicks.
you have a reputation of being cynical about a lot of things, why is that?
How Dare Cranbrook people know and collaborate with people they went to school with!!!! They should be ashamed.
goodness, I love when people miss the point...I was only pointing out that there are cliques and styles between those groups. I was not saying it was bad...in fact didn't I say I really liked this show???
speaking of cliques ... anyone hear about a break-in at hilberry gallery?
no. what did you hear about this?
I heard they were having some window glass panes hastily replaced this morning - maintenance or break-in repair?
cliques is a loaded term and you know it ann!
Thanks for the great post. I just heard about this exibit, and was so happy to see pictures. Great article , keep it up !
Christopher Chouinard
www.fotogink.com
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