Andrew Thompson, Megan Heeres, Michael Nagara, and Sarah Rose Sharp respond to the conundrum of iteration. Or was it “reiteration”? Iterating through repetitions of marks, materials, or even scales, we utter over-and-over again: ‘We are artists.’ ‘This is art.’

‘Preserving Identity’ is a community curated art exhibition, exploring Muslim American identity–however that looks like–through found objects. As part of this project, we’ve asked local Muslim American youth in the Detroit and surrounding communities to find a jar and place objects that resonate with elements of their identity. The focal point of this gallery is thus a collection of these jars, situated on an open-frame black cube, representative of a broad number of Muslim Americans with different interests, intersecting identities (e.g. race, class, gender, ethnicity), and varied personalities. In this way, the personal narratives of what it means to be uniquely Muslim and American is quite literally centralized.

Simone DeSousa Gallery‘s annual holiday limited edition exhibition furthers the gallery’s mission to engage and nurture a new audience of contemporary art collectors, as well as explore the various dialogues occurring between art and design today. The Disease Cycle (EDITION/16) is an evolution of my ongoing EDITION/15 series of “time logs,” which deal with abstractions of time and the accrual of lived experience. Just as life grows from the smallest points of origin, so disease may build from the smallest variation, flaw or intervention. How these things play out over time is beautiful, terrible, and exponential in its process.