“It never occurred to me that we would ever have an audience,” said painter Nancy Mitchnick, in a curator’s statement that accompanied a series of three exhibitions presented at Simone DeSousa Gallery in 2017. Mitchnick is referring to the Cass Corridor art movement, which took place roughly between 1960 and […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – EDITION time! I’ll be debuting some of my newest work, a series called Detroit Patchworks. Getting it all figured out! For our last exhibition of the year, Simone DeSousa Gallery is pleased to present EDITION 18, a group show celebration bringing […]
EDITION /15 is the first installment of a new holiday exhibition tradition at Simone DeSousa Gallery, inviting represented artists, as well as local artists and designers, to create unique, small volume, collectible edition works. The exhibition furthers the gallery’s mission to engage and nurture a new audience of contemporary art […]
Simone DeSousa Gallery‘s annual holiday limited edition exhibition this year focuses on print works by seventeen artists in the gallery space, plus three-dimensional and multi-media works by local and international artists and designers in the new EDITION space, including functional and conceptual ceramic works, sculpture, jewelry, concept furniture, drawing, video, and […]
“Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love—from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter—to monstrously remote points in the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such […]
Through Line to Q-Line – Cass Corridor: Connecting Times “Detroit is a place of simultaneous truths, layers of social strata, unity and divisions. If you’re new to the area, you probably refer to the rapidly-developing commercial strip between Wayne State University and the Masonic Temple as “Midtown,” but anyone who […]
Can’t wait to get my hands on this publication by Simone DeSousa Gallery, which catalogues and reflects upon the excellent trio of shows curated by Nancy Mitchnick this summer, featuring Cass Corridor artists. I personally have learned a ton about artists with a long history in the city, but a […]
I’m utterly chuffed to share my first piece as a contributing writer for the Detroit Free Press. Hooray for art! Hooray for circulation! Hooray for the Cass Corridor! Read and enjoy! Within the recent history of Detroit’s relationship to the wider world of contemporary art, there is only one major […]
There’s a lot going on this weekend, and beyond! On Saturday, February 18th at 4:00pm, I’m moderating an artist talk with Gina Reichert & Mitch Cope, at David Klein Gallery’s downtown location. Organizational Strategies for the After Life is a collaborative project by Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope, the husband […]
Thanks to all that came out on Saturday for the opening at Simone DeSousa Gallery – it meant a lot for me to see your faces and talk to you for approximately 1.5 minutes each before being distracted. Truly. If you didn’t make it to the opening, never fear – […]