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  • GlobalAllstars.CamilaGb
  • GLOBAL ALLSTARS: Camila Gb in Mexico City
  • Camila Gb is an interdisciplinary artist. She works within her intimate imagination to explore the contrast between the soft and the threatening. This creative space evokes the tensions commonly found when contemplating the power of desire and vulnerability...

    Ashley Cook

    February 3, 2025

  • TheSoothsayingsOfIris.GlobalAllstars
  • GLOBAL ALLSTARS: Maria Guta and Lauren Huret
  • The Soothsayings of Iris, created in 2020 by artists Lauren Huret and Maria Guta, is a film that examines the topic of influence in the digital age. Through the employment of Vogue’s “73 Questions” rapid-fire interview format, the fictional character Iris, who is a mystical influencer living in Switzerland, gives a tour of her home while answering questions ranging from basic interests to esoteric craft...

    Ashley Cook interviews Maria Guta and Lauren Huret

    December 16, 2024

  • FamiliarFaces.DavarizBroaden
  • Familiar Faces: Davariz Broaden
  • In a sunlit studio in Little Village, Davaris Broaden, a self-taught, Detroit-born and based artist, stands before a canvas, brush in hand. Known for his muted color approach, Davariz’s paintings beautifully distill the profound love and nuanced beauty within the Black community...

    Wes and Chukwuma Ezeanya

    December 9, 2024

  • FinalityCouldBeSeenAsSettling.WyattThiry.NolanYoungAtRussellIndustrialCenter.JacksonGifford
  • Finality Could Be Seen As Settling: Wyatt Thiry & Nolan Young at the Russell Industrial Center
  • For the third show hosted by the recently-formed Site Works collective, Wyatt Thiry and Nolan Young conjure up a variety of structures which feel loosely related, yet intensely connected. Methods of sculpting, drawing, painting, and digitization are used to amalgamate a concoction of materials which become trapped together inside stoic gray walls...

    Jackson Gifford

    November 1, 2024

  • ItCreepsIn.Agius.Lerner.GalleryMouse
  • An Interview with Mary-Ann Monforton
  • Mary-Ann Monforton is back in Detroit after living in New York City for 48 years. Here she offers a glimpse of her NYC life and what she is doing since her return...

    Ashley Cook

    October 17, 2024

  • ArtClvb.ArtFairDetroit
  • Art Clvb: A Conversation with the Team
  • Art Clvb is a Detroit-based Market Network created in 2022 by Steve and Dorota Coy with the intention of facilitating connections between artists, collectors, curators, galleries, and individuals involved in the local art ecosystem...

    Ashley Cook

    September 23, 2024

  • OliviaGuterson.LouisBuhlCo
  • Shell of the Fairytale
  • Raised in Bavaria, Hanna Maria Schmutterer recognizes this dress, called the dirndl, as a symbol of a preserved tradition that is still worn in Bavaria today. The creative process itself is performative, and she engages directly in women’s history of labor and childhood fantasy exploration...

    A conversation with Hannah Maria Schmutterer and Isabella Nimmo

    September 13, 2024

  • OliviaGuterson.LouisBuhlCo
  • In the Wild Beyond: Olivia Guterson at Louis Buhl & Co.
  • July 27th marked the opening of Olivia Guterson’s inaugural exhibition with Louis Buhl & Co. As a recent graduate from Cranbrook Academy of Art, the work in this show represents her transition from student to professional, starting this new chapter with an adventurous use of material and form...

    Ashley Cook

    September 2, 2024

  • Petrichor.LisaWaud
  • Petrichor
  • From Friday, May 31st through Sunday, June 2nd, The Boyer Campbell building in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood was the host of a surreal exhibition by botanical artist Lisa Waud...

    A Conversation with Lisa Waud

    June 6, 2024

  • HandwovenDrawings.LynnBennettCarpenter
  • Handwoven Drawings: Lynn Bennett-Carpenter at Matéria Cass Corridor
  • Handwoven drawings have populated Lynn Bennett-Carpenter’s practice since 2015. Over the years, her dedicated exploration of concept, image, form, and presentation have culminated in the exhibition now on view at Matéria Cass Corridor...

    Ashley Cook

    March 21, 2024

  • shadowworking.SPIRITUALSatMOCAD
  • shadowworking: SPIRITUALS at The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  • Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye, also known as SPIRITUALS, is a Detroit-based architectural designer, artist, curator, music producer and performer. He was born on the East Coast, raised on the West Coast and currently teaches architecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His exhibition shadowworking on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit applies methods from his various creative backgrounds to deliver an encompassing experience that can satisfy both a passive and active viewership...

    Ashley Cook

    December 18, 2023

  • GlobalAllstars.JuanDiegoCovarrubias
  • GLOBAL ALLSTARS: Juan Diego Covarrubias at Sucesiva
  • On September 1, 2023, Celma Project Space + Sucesiva in Mexico City hosted a conference to discuss their most recent exhibition FICTIONAL DYNAMICS: Microtubular web castles of poiesi by Juan Diego Covarrubias...

    Ashley Cook and Juan Diego Covarrubias

    December 15, 2023

  • GlobalAllstars.LindaVoorwinde.AustellungsraumFriedengasse
  • GLOBAL ALLSTARS: Linda Voorwinde at Austellungsraum Friedengasse
  • Exhibition review and interview with Switzerland-based Dutch artist Linda Voorwinde about her most recent show Kakophonie Der Diskrepanz at Austellungsraum Friedengasse in Zurich...

    Ashley Cook and Linda Voorwinde

    November 13, 2023

  • FigureClub.HeatherAnger.RichRiquist
  • Figure Club
  • The Figure Club of Detroit provides the opportunity to sculpt from life...

    An interview with Heather Anger and Rich Wiquist

    January 30, 2023

  • PsychedelicFuturismNow.MorganMcPeak
  • Psychedelic Futurism Now
  • The work of Morgan McPeak realizes a combination of two stylistic genres, 1960's psychedelic art and futurism, reviving and bringing the two into the current day to participate in an evolving aesthetic that a number of artists are also currently developing through their own practices....

    A conversation with Morgan McPeak

    September 5, 2022

  • FirstLoveParadise:G.E.LiuAtLouisBuhl&Co
  • First Love Paradise: G.E. Liu at Louis Buhl & Co.
  • For her first physical solo exhibition in Detroit, Liu merges Eastern and Western culture in her continuous exploration of the female figure, imbuing silk and paper alike with intricate, layered imagery. A handful of the featured works are elevated by the employment of color-changing light, which is a common use in her practice and represents Taiwan's position as the global leader in LED manufacturing. Liu splits her time between Taiwan and Detroit and received her MFA in 2020 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art...

    Conversation between G.E. Liu and gallery director Sara Nickleson

    June 27, 2022

  • TruthEmergingFromHerWellToConductAnInterview.Runner2022
  • Truth Emerging from Her Well to Conduct an Interview
  • Maddie Kuzak’s work has been shown across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York City, granting a glimpse into internet-laden aesthetics alongside horror tropes, melding into a singular, one-of-a-kind practice that transcends the current zeitgeist of Millennial and Gen Z art, piercing through the online and the in-person.

    Kellen MacGregor

    January 17, 2022

  • ConversationWithAnAnonymousMediaTheorist
  • A Conversation on Cultural Theory and Complexity During a Pandemic Between Palm Treat and an Anonymous Media Theorist
  • “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” I kinda think like people are a wrapper around the animalistic void. At certain times the wrapper gets thin or goes away. And hence the human instrumentality initiative seeks to unify the void inside all of us lmao

    Palm Treat and an Anonymous Media Theorist

    May 10, 2021

  • An
  • An Interview with Nolan Simon
  • Nolan Simon (b. 1980) lives and works in Hamtramck, Michigan. His work has been included in exhibitions across the US and Europe, including solo shows at 47 Canal in New York City, Lars Friedrich in Berlin, Rieseburo Galerie Christian Nagel in Cologne, Green Gallery in Milwaukee and at What Pipeline in Detroit. Nolan and I met in his studio at CAVE, a collective art studio located in the Russell Industrial Center...

    Virginia Torrence

    May 11, 2020