Framed Thoughts | 28″ x 38″ | Acrylic on paper, charcoal, graphite, and coffee | 2019 Artist Statement Ackeem Salmon (b. 1998) is originally from Kingston, Jamaica and now resides in Detroit, MI. He is a multimedia artist who explores photography with traditional painting and drawing techniques. Ackeem received his BFA from the College for…

Bush & Boots | 40″ x 50″ | Archival Giclee print | 2019 Artist Statement  If I had to summarize my photography in one word, it would be BRAVERY. I always seek to photograph people who catch my interest and inspire me. When creating work, I give my subjects a space to present their uniqueness…

Untitled | 7″x 9″ x 3″ | Cast bronze | 1984 Artist Statement I have been working with found objects since I was a young kid. I am especially drawn to toys, architectural fragments, and parts of old machines. My work is greatly influenced by Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. These bronzes represent the zenith…

Nasty #2 | 6″ x 5″ x 10″ | Bronze | 2016 Artist Statement Feeling dissatisfied with life, I thought to myself, you didn’t study art to sit behind a desk and push paper!I was angry.  Angry at myself. Angry knowing that as a woman I would always be judged by my appearance.   Angry…

Amore, Costume Design by Andrew Jordan for Christopher Williams’ Il Giardino d’Amore, Dancer : Gentry George| Photograph © Andrew Jordan, 24″ x 36″ | Archival Pigment Print | printed 2022 Artist Statement Andrew Jordan is a Detroit-based artist and designer exploring relationships between sculpture, installation, puppetry, and the moving form of the human body. Often…

Exploration 2 (Leap) | 13.33″ x 20″ | Archival print | 2020 Artist Statement Andrew is a photographer, videographer, and creator with a lifelong interest in social and environmental justice. Currently living in Waawiyaatanong, they aspire to challenge hierarchy, inspire thoughtfulness, and nurture healing through their creative work and interpersonal relationships.    Artwork/s at the…

Voracity | 19″ x 19″ | gouache, marker, pen and ink on paper | 2022 Artist Statement I chose the name Andromeda after receiving it through meditation. I had a vision of the Andromeda Galaxy that would not leave my mind. This also applies to my work, as it is not abstract, but also best…

Body Memory | 7″ x 5″ x 9″ | Alder | 2019 Artist Statement My practice is a proposal for nonbinary objecthood. I interrogate how human bodies are oriented and physically altered through interactions with the built world. How the objects we shape, in turn, shape us. How we are, by extension, arranged by the…

The Incomparable Yhana Evonne No. 1 | 25″ x 25″ | Mixed media | 2022 Artist Statement I make artwork that’s filled with rich dense spaces. These spaces coalesce into vibrant worlds where I often play out moral, political, or philosophical fantasies using calligraphic gestures. I often layer and then erase work I’ve spent hours…

Burl | 7″ x 11″ | Ceramic with encaustic | 2019 Artist Statement  The process of creating is spontaneous and intuitive for me. I’m inspired by nature; the night sky, a tree swaying in the wind, or layers of earth speak to me from the depths of nature’s spirit. My work uses ceramic materials and encaustic…

We Are The Banks | 36″ x 24″ | Black and White digital print | 2020 Artist Statement Audrey Banks is best known for her wedding photography. She enjoys shooting 35 mm black and white photos and processing them in the darkroom in her spare time, thinking out of the box when creating her images.…

The Virtues in a Soul Run Circles | 38″ x 30″ | Acrylic on paper | 2015 Artist Statement Austė (b. 1950) grew up in Ann Arbor, the child of Lithuanian refugees. She lives in Weston, Connecticut, and works in her studio in New Haven. She attended the Philadelphia College of Art and received her…

Four You | 24″ x 20″ | 2021 Artist Statement I grew up in Flint, Michigan and the neighborhood where I spent nearly all of my childhood was bulldozed and is since a grassy field. That event was the erasure of an early life of disenfranchisement and resistance to gender norms but still those shaky…

Self Portrait: Yield to Change | 24″ x 24″ | Oil on wood panel | 2019 Artist Statement Durden’s work revolves around their lived experience, one that is shaped by race, gender, mental and physical health. As a painter, muralist, illustrator and photographer, they express complex emotions and elements of their identity that escape definition…

Nerve | 36″ x 46″ | Oil on Linen | 2020 Artist Statement I was born in Lebanon and grew up under military occupation, war, and terrorist attacks. It was only with my family’s departure in 2014 that we escaped decades of acute and shocking episodic violence. My displacement and immigration to the USA created…

Greeting Cards 77 | 6″ x 9″ | Mix-media | 2021 Artist Statement Billy Miller is a Detroit native – NYC-based multidisciplinary artist. He studied at C.C.S. Detroit and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artwork has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, The Center for Book Arts, Printed Matter, Jeffrey Deitch Projects,…

French Kiss | 35″ x 52″ | Giclée Artist Statement Boswell is influenced by the history of fashion and art but always keeps a keen eye on the future. “I’m a futurist at heart, I love the idea of what comes next.” Often exploring gender and identity in his work, this dynamic “gray-space” has always been fertile…

Shadowbox Holding Glaze, Paint and Stone | 15.5″ x 14″ x 4″ | Glazed stoneware, metal, wood, and other found materials | 2020 Artist Statement Brett Evans is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of belief systems, identity,material obsolescence, and quotidian poetry. Evans employs the use of shadow box-like containers often built out of…

MLK, c. 1984 | 30″ x 48″ | Acrylic on Canvas Artist Statement Brian Buczak 1954-1987Brian Buczak was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated fromwhat was then called The Society of Arts and Crafts. Along with close friends from art school, he moved to New York City in 1976. He had already…

Levitation | 32″ x 48″ | Archival pigment print | 2012 Artist Statement Brian Carpenter is an artist, curator and Assistant Professor based in Toledo, Ohio. Utilizing a range of media through 2D and 3D methods, his work explores the pathological constructs of affliction and its relationship to history and cultural identity. His current research…

A Letter to My Mother 2 | 16″ x 20″ | Archival print | 2017 Artist Statement Since 2017 Brian has been exploring his queerness through the lens of photography. Growing up in the Midwest made it hard for him to connect with other people in the community so he started his first project photographing…

Not Hidden Behind Masks | Mirrored plexiglass | 2021 Artist Statement My art practice deals with color through abstraction, process, and chance operations. Through inspiration from artists like Josef Albers, Jack Whitten, Yayoi Kusama, Peter Halley, and Anne Truitt I started to develop my own art making style. While artists and their artwork have influenced…

Sudarium – Enough Already | 48″ x 48″ | Acrylic on wood | 2020 Artist Statement Bryan Hoffman is a self taught artist living in Michigan. While he started drawing at an early age the period that compelled him to paint was 1980 – 2000 while living in New York City. The HIV/Aids epidemic/plague years…

Detail of Evensong | 4″ x 6″ opened case, image 3″ x 2.5″ | oil on panel, velvet, brass, wood case | 1995 Artist Statement As a gay man, I’ve sought to give my history the sanctity usually denied it.  Conflicts arising from history, religion, sexuality, race, and prejudice are issues I’ve continued to address…

La Belle Fleur Pink (Film still from the Super-8 film La Belle Fleur) | 16″ x 20″ | Archival inkjet print | 2020 Artist Statement Carl George is an artist working in experimental film, painting, and collage. He has curated exhibitions at The Armand Hammer Museum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York…

Translucent Path | 36″ x 42″ | Transparent Print and Typed Print | 2019 Artist Statement Carmichael Jones works in installation, sculpture, film, photography and performative objects to upend parameters of the encounter and orientation. Often playful and slightly irreverent, their work addresses political concerns of communication and what it means to be a body…

Graffiti 101: Zyklon B | 14″ x 17″ | Ink on paper and glass | 2009 Artist Statement Charles Alexander, who currently has over 900 images of his art on FaceBook, has been averaging one piece of art monthly for the past year. His art has been featured in the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News,…

Enslaved Servitude | 16″ x 20″ | Archival print | 2005 Artist Statement Charzette is a photographer, mixed media artist, and educator of photography. Raised in Detroit MI. Her powerful artwork is about social justice that changes our community and impacts the world. Torrence graduated from the Center for Creative Studies with a B.F.A. in…

Serenatas | Performance art | 4″ x 6″ | Photography by Camera Noctua @camera.noctua | Film processing by NIMM FILM @nimmfilm | Artist in residency at TAKT Leipzig @taktleipzig | Project founded by The Canada Council for the Arts. @canada.council Artist Statement Cherry Wood is an artist and notary public using self-created puns, photography, sculpture, and performance art. Currently,…

Victor with Red Flower | 12″ x 18″ | Archival print | 2020 Artist Statement Christopher Cushman’s work responds to the inequities and inequalities that have been accepted by other white photographers: their desire to transform the black male into a numbed art object. In a world where whites are being asked to shed their…

Letter to Patrick Burton | 8.5″ x 11″ | Pencil | 1995 Artwork/s at the following locations:Scarab Club

100,00 prayers ( losing faith) installation | 8′ x 12′ | charcoal | 2019 Artist Statement Cyrah Dardas (b.1990) is a Queer, Ecosexual artist and care worker living in Detroit /Waawiyaatanong MI. Dardas uses her art practice as a tool in remembering the forgotten networks between humans and the earth for the purpose of regulation…

Shadows in the Water | 25″ x 40″ | Archival paper, ink, watercolor | 2021 Artwork/s at the following locations:Anton Art CenterCass CafeHatch Art

Karma | 10″ x 12″ | pigment print | 2021 Artist Statement I’ve been taking photographs for over 25 years. My resume includes most of the LGBTQ+ media outlets in Southwest Detroit. (Cruise, Outpost, Flame, Between the Lines…)  My photography interests are broad, including both candid and formal portraits, events, architecture, city-life, and nature (plants are the…

Obey No 1 Luv Your Laundre | 18″ x 22″ | Giclee archival print | 1995 Artist Statement Darrin Marzorati (aka) Dag is an graphic designer, art director, musician and founder of “Tha Digital Laundre Mat” who emerged from the Detroit techno scene in 1995. He is best known for his “1 Space G” campaign…

B00-Yaw! | 60″ x 60″ | Jacquard | 2019 Artist Statement  Worldbuilding is a major part of my practice, I think about the journey to the worlds I envision, within I prioritize the black queer black femme perspective, I prioritize a type of black liberation that is void in this present space, I Prioritize a…

Target | 33″ x 44″ | Archival print | 2018 Artwork/s at the following locations:N’Namdi Center For Contemporary Art

The Name of the Father | 23″ x 29″ | Graphite on gesso | 1996 Artist Statement Deborah Rockman taught undergraduate and graduate drawing at Kendall College of Art and Design for 35 years before retiring from teaching. During this time, she created bodies of work that revolved around her ongoing concern for the struggle…

voyage_to_motherfuckin_freedom_SBWC.mp3 | 50″ x 96″ | Digital Illustration on Flag | 2021 Artist Statement Demario Dotson is a multidisciplinary artist who explores glitchy and queerness heroic narratives of blackness and worldbuilding via 3D animation, art, tech, gaming and music composition. Their practice provides a refreshing yet daring take on combating racism and culture through comic…

Fran’s House detailed view | 40″ x28″ | Tin, steel, wood | 2020   Artist Statement  Ellen Wieske is an artist who works in many materials.  Primarily a metalsmith she worked in the Detroit jewelry industry for 18 years as a jeweler/stone setter/designer. Ellen shows her work and teaches internationally. She received an MFA from…

Strong Man: Jón Pall | 60″ x 84″ | Mixed Media on Canvas | 2020 Artist Statement Elliot Avis B. 1995 is a multimedia artist working through the lens of contemporary painting. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he is currently working out of the greater Detroit area as he finishes his MFA at the Cranbrook…

On Love | 21″ x 39 1/4″ | Silkscreen on paper | 2016 Artist Statement Emmy Bright makes drawings, writings, prints, textiles and performances to understand the problems of identity, the problems of empathy and the problems of boundaries.  Their practice is about undoing, using circular reasoning, traditional craft processes, and flawed logic as ways…

Tracing Horizons| 48″ x 35″ | Acrylic on canvas | 2021 Artist Statement These painted landscapes represent a detailed map of my experiences in nature. I use paint and color to investigate the nuances that exist in daily life and depict these energies, emotions, moments, and occurrences with paint. I incorporate symbols and patterns that…

Slowly Incorporated Into the Second Best | 30″ x 25″ | Crayon, Blanket, Gromets| 2021 Artist Statement Feather Chiaverini  is an artist who makes costumes, props, and performances that explore issues related to poverty, skill, and Queer theory. Feather’s work is informed by the theatrical trades and material-vocabularies of their ancestry; Feather’s mother was an…

Body Map (Arms) | 21.25″ x 21.25″ | Mixed media collage on paper | Courtesy Gordon Robichaux, NY   Artist Statement  Frederick Weston (1946-2020) was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Detroit, Michigan where he participated in the club scene before moving to New York City in the mid-1970s. He was a graduate of…

What Would Carl Say | 29.5″ x 20″ | Watercolor/collage on paper | 2019/20 Artist Statement My work consists of painted constructions, works on paper, collages, watercolor and encaustic. Themes evolving over the years have elements of abstraction and geometric imagery, often combined with realistic imagery.References appear with subject matter that alludes to the botannical…

Deconstructed | 30″ x 30″ | Lokta (handmade/dyed paper), OSB substrate, decoupage medium | 2022 Artist Statement I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it! Pablo Picasso, 1883-1973.  Art is to life, as the pieces I create speak to the contradictions that filled my…

Eastern Market | 45″ x 40″ | Acrylic on newspaper mounted on board | 2019 Artist Statement Gordon Price’s lifelong obsession with origami has served a creative journey with painting. The basics of origami involve forming insignificant bits of scrap paper discards (i.e.fliers and newsprint), into objects. The basics of painting has a similar format as origami,…

Safetypins No.7 | 15″ x 25″ | Zip ties, wire, wood, nylon, plastic, safety pins | 2016 Artist Statement Gregory Sobieraj constructs assemblages that are often manifestations of his long-rooted cross fixations. Each piece evolves without an assigned meaning and becomes an amalgamation of his feelings at completion. It represents a glimpse at the nuances…

Lady of the Animals | Bronze | 1990 Artist Statement We carry within us our deepest memories of life’s protean procession from amoebic slime to our aboriginal future. Cell, flower, fish, reptile, bird , mammal, godhead, and beyond. When we recognize ourselves in all forms of consciousness, from cellular organization to divine intelligence, we have…

Set of 4: Top left: Drip Dry, ceramics,10 ¼” in diameter, 1969 Top right: title unknown  Bottom left: Exhausted Glory,10 ¼” in diameter, 1969  Bottom right: Made in America, 10 ¼” in diameter, 1969    Artist Statement In the late 1960’s influential ceramist Howard Kottler (1930-1989) began to experiment with commercial decals and store-bought plates.…

peekaboo dog | 8.5″ x 8.5″ | English plate, acrylic, yarn | 2020 Artist Statement In consideration of human suffering and joy, my work is a requiem and celebration of humanity. A dichotomy, that I refer to as Love-shit derived from the German slang term I once heard, “liebe scheiße.”Recently I’ve started using imagery of…

Heimat | 96″ x 48″ | Wool, Steel frame | 2017 Artist Statement Iris Eichenberg’s works present a unique mode of disconcerting beauty.  Mixing high-tech procedures with traditional forms of craft, some of her work explores the interdependence of the senses, blurring the boundaries between body and adornment, to foreground the object as experience.  Other…

Mandala | collage | 2012 Artist Statement Jack O. Summers (1938-2019)Jack O. Summers was an artist, educator, mentor, friend, and a loved and respected voice in the Detroit arts community. He worked primarily in photography, collage, and mixed media, often incorporating his signature sly and wicked satire of social and political topics. He spent more…

Horse | 48″ x 48″ | Oil on canvas  Artist Statement  In the last 10 years of photographer Jack Whitehead’s life he put aside his cameras and devoted himself to producing over 350 paintings on 4 x 4’ sheets of Masonite. Utilizing his memories, vast imagination , And the lush Floridian landscape for inspiration, he…

External/Internal/Stone (view 1) | 17″ x 31″ x 18″ | Oil on panels | 2019 Artist Statement James Stephens is known for his paintings of invented landscapes and interiors and also mixed media sculptures. He develops his imagery through a process of improvisation and accretion. Beginning from imagination, memories or everyday observation, each element of…

“Memory is the only place where no one ever dies” | 48″ x 168″ | Acrylic, 7 panels| 2015 Artist Statement In 2010 Jan Brown began to explore abstract expressionism.  (Prior to this she was mostly representative in her work.)  She found she loved creating paintings where she wasn’t limited to just “reproducing” a likeness.…

Jocundite | 30″ x 30″ | acrylic and resin on wood panel | 2019 Artwork/s at the following locations:Anton Art CenterCollected DetroitDetroit Artist MarketScarab Club

Unconditional Joy | 71.5″ x 27.5″ x 2″ | Mixed media on antique door | 2019 Artist Statement Piping, weaving, and constructivism are some techniques Javier González employs to create futuristic sculptural tapestries. His creative objective is to find freedom through healing. He chooses to portray patterns to indicate that part of his healing involves…

Still Lives: Three Flowers from My Garden, Alive Then Lost, but with Me, Still | 9” x 12” each | Pastel pencil on tan paper. Five drawings | 2020 Artist Statement I work in music, theater, literature and film, diverse forms that offer performative contributions to the visual arts. Visual art is a lifelong tonic.…

THIS! | 22″ x 16″ | Fine art print on canvas with markers | 2022 Artist Statement Jefre Harwoods is exhibiting 2 of what he calls his HCPs-Headline Collage Poems, hybrid creations using words,collage,drawing, photos, chance & mood to achieve this final incarnation on canvas. Most people no longer read physical newspapers , Jefre still…

Drawing With Parts | 51″ x 26″ x 5″ | Fabric, wire, sublimation print | 2021 Artist Statement My earliest memory exploring drawing was with the use of Crayons, to express myself within the boundary of the paper, and sometimes on the wall or various objects. The act of drawing has allowed me to create…

Oak Leaf Lovers | 24″ x 30″ | Photographic collage| 2019  Artist Statement  Born and raised in New Zealand, Jeremy Tacon-Heaslip has lived in multiple countries and traveled the planet extensively in his young adulthood. While working closely with people in his primary career, he prefers to keep much of his photographic work free of…

Triptych 2 | 68.75″ x 29.75 | Silver and gold inks on charcoal grey silk paper | 2021 Artist Statement Paper constructions and drawings, paper is the first choice, working with something that is flat, common, and ubiquitous. A surface for ink, paint, pencil and bare expositions of the qualities of paper itself in a…

Manifestations of Ipseity Version 3 | Video Still | 2022 Artist Statement Through photography, videography, sound, and performance, I explore how bodies activate a space and how they are perceived in a social, political, and spiritual environment. I am interested in awkward, surreal, unnatural and unorganized bodily states by objectifying the body and the space…

Coming Out The Closet 2 | 34″ x 33″ | Reversible Pants, black eyelet/pink jacquard | 2022 Artist Statement For a gay person embarking on a journey of self-discovery, our true identity is an unknown, frightening terra incognito. The process of coming to grips, accepting and inhabiting that; of coming out of our self-imposed closet;…

Joan Jett-Blakk for President: By Any Means Necessary poster | 27 7/16″ x 21″ | Photolithographic offset in black on white matte stock | 1992 | Photograph by Marc Geller Artist Statement Terrence Smith, also known as “Joan Jett Blakk”, is a globally recognized activist, political candidate, and drag queen from Detroit, Michigan. Smith is…

Portrait of Billy Miller | 12″ x 16″ | Photograph | 1979 Artist Statement Joseph Gene Sposita, Native Detroiter (February 16, 1956 – December 11, 2014) Everyone who knew Joe adored Joe. He was not just extraordinarily handsome, he was talented, funny, kind, humble, fun, all the good things you say about someone.  Joe loved…

Your Very Flesh Will Be A Great Poem (From Whitman 200) | 28″ x 20″ | Mixed media monoprint | 2019 Artist Statement My artwork looks critically at & comments upon the personal, political, & social issues affecting the LGBTQ community. I ground a lot of my work in queer theory to shine a spotlight…

Imitation of Imitation of Life – detail | Paper collage | 2021 Artist Statement The title and gem-encrusted visuals of Imitation of Imitation of Life nod to the credit sequence of Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 melodrama Imitation of Life. On their surface, the visuals seem to celebrate the sheer splendor of coveted, near-impossibly expensive jewelry. But…

The Flaming Pearl of Infinite Wisdom, a Silvery Moon and Seven Hidden Dragon’s, Part I | 29.5″ x 41.5″ | Ink painting | 2019 Artist Statement I have been making art for over 56 years, 46 years full time in four different studios in downtown Detroit over that span of time. While I was a…

LOVERS | 6″ x 6″ x 3.5″ | Terra cotta | 1960 Artist Statement My twin sister Joyce Sabit was also an artist.  A pleasant memory is that of our Dad sitting all five of us siblings at the table to draw. We went to the Detroit Institute of Arts for Saturday morning art lessons.…

CHOICE | 25″ x 31″ | Oil on canvas | 2005 Artist Statement With a strong background in figure drawing, I find it exciting to depict the unposed gestures of people relating to each other and their surroundings. I prefer people engaged in leisure activities. Plein-air paint outs, life drawing sessions and live concerts are…

Especially Good | Chainstitch embroidery using a Singer 114 hand cranked machine on car cover material | 2021 Artist Statement Julio Dominguez is an industrial seamster, fabric artist, and electronic musician born in Lima Peru in 1967, who has been making art in Detroit since the early 90s. Julio gathers recycled materials and industrial byproducts…

Grindr Gaze | 14″ x 20″ | Acrylic pain | 2022 Artist Statement Justin Coleman is an African-American Fine Artist, Graphic Designer and Illustrator from Detroit, Michigan. He is attending CCS to explore his illustrative work, and further refine his craft . His practice mostly consists of portraits and figurative work. He’s currently working as…

August 2013: 19 Years | 18″ x 24″ | Scanner Bed, Testosterone Vials, Lace Trim, Self | 2020 Artist Statement Kaiden Dunn is a queer mixed media artist. The majority of his art revolves around scanner art pieces, where he uses a scanner bed, fake flowers, paint, and other textile materials to create intricate pieces.…

Oscillate | 6′ x 5′ | Charcoal on paper | 2012 Artist Statement Moving fluidly between abstraction and realism, my work examines the intricacies of connection, the human body, memory, and our relationship with the environment. By expounding on patterns that are mirrored between nature and our own anatomy, my intention is to create meditative…

SHOW ME LOVE | 48″ x 23″ x 12″ | Plaster, unitard, human hair, metal drain, enamel paint, wood, black spray paint, epoxy, polyurethane foam | 2020 Artist Statement Kasper Ray O’brien (b. 1992, Southgate, MI ; currently lives and works in Detroit, MI) uses both drawing and sculpture to consider the relationship between the…

Tim Gass, Detroit| 13″ x x19″ | Archival pigment print | 1977 Artist Statement In the early and pre Punk years we had a sense of crazy freedom. It was before we were tracked, posted, trolled and shamed. There was limited photographic evidence of our wild times (for which I am grateful). Every photograph takes…

Gestation | 22″ x 30″ | Crayon, Ink on paper | 2021  Artist Statement  No matter the medium, I approach making as an act of finding from a source in unconscious drawing. Ink and water allows the unconscious to spill fast and freely onto a surface, then with a tool such as a crayon I…

Stripped/Striped | 12″ x 12″ | Hand-embroidered cotton on Penelope canvas | 2018 Artist Statement My work is informed by intensive textile processes, particularly embroidery and loom-based handweaving techniques, with concepts drawn from personal experience, Queer Theory, and the histories of fiber arts. I translate these ideas into functional and conceptual objects, bringing art into…

Martini Marti (Self Portrait) | 17″ x 12.5″ | 1945 | Reproduction, inkjet print on archival matte paper, 2022 Artist Statement Leroy Foster was born in 1925, just as Detroit was making a name for itself as the Motor City. His early life experiences were shaped by the Great Depression and World War II –…

Mum | 27″ x 33″ | Black archival ink on paper | 2021 Artist Statement Leslie Ann Pilling’s hometown Detroit garnered her frame of reference. Her maternal and paternal guides were cultural anthropologists. They in-grained the value of people and their vast differences and extraordinary similarities. From a tot to current work Pilling accepted herself…

Double Up (Doubling) | 46″ x 70″ x 8″ | Unclean bed sheets from a Virginian adult penitentiary, tar, found mopstick, other media (freestanding) | 2021   Artist Statement  Levester Williams is a visual artist whose practice shifts through sculptures, installations, performances, moving images and sound to examine the politics and poetics of identity, space/place,…

Acrylic Goth Mermaid Dress with Head Vail | Medium acrylic, stainless steel | 2022 Artist Statement I’m continuously blurring the lines between art and fashion in my work. All my designs are handmade, bespoke pieces constructed with three-dimensional materials. This body of work is a collection of wearable sculptures that meet at the intersection of…

A Breath of Life, Haifa, Palestine | 10″ x 14″ | Watercolor, gouache on paper Artist Statement Early visions of environmental catastrophes and socioeconomic injustices due to climate change struck me at a young age. I knew I wanted to document both the state of the world, how it is now and how I imagined…

Sam Wagstaff | Archival print | 1981 Artist Statement Canadian photographer Marcus Leatherdale captured much of this experimental energy — staging his first exhibitions at Club 57 and Danceteria, and later photographing Keith Haring and Leigh Bowery for his Hidden Identities series. Published in the original Details, Leatherdale’s arresting black-and-white photographs show their subjects with…

Urn 1973, with pillow | 1980 Artist Statement Marcus Mannino (January 9, 1952 – December 1, 1989) Marcus Mannino was a Detroit native artist who studied at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. His work encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and notably, fiber art. Initially involved in the then-nascent gay culture and Detroit art scene…

WFH (Bearsville, NY) | 36″ x 24″ | Archival pigment print | 2020 Artist Statement Desire and the body are often subjects in my work because our ideas around them are rife with conflict. Working with friends, lovers, and strangers, I investigate relationships and open my subjectivity and theirs to new forms of engagement. Examining…

Danae in Poppies With Selfie Stick | 48″ x 36″ | Liquid acrylic, airbrush, canvas | 2021 Artist Statement The goal of the Fellowship of Aesthetic Transcendence (F.A.T.) is to transform aesthetic space into an experience of F.A.T. Space. F.A.T. Space is unapologetically extra. It is lugubrious yet structured. It is maximal, yet spacious. Everyone belongs…

Writhe Twist and Link | 39″ x 32.5″ | Acrylic on canvas | 2020 Artist Statement She stood at the sink and drank the mug of last night’s tepid water. It had lost its fizz, and the boughten perfect ice, now melted, imparted a vaguely fishy taste.Detroit ice, she thought. Was the water from the…

Non-binary Sextoy 2 | 5″ x 13″ x 5″ | Kinetic creature is partly cast & molded with silicone, color pigmenting, epoxy dough, designed with paper engineering, Tyvek, commercial strokers, 3D prints (PLA), servo motor, DC Gearbox, Lippo Battery,jumper wires, slide switch, resistors, micro charger | 2020 Artist Statement My work navigates technology, social design,…

Portrait of a Friend | 61″ x 36″ | Oil on canvas | 1987 Artist Statement Michael Connelly (1965-1992) .Michael Connelly was born and raised in Birmingham, MI. He showed an early affinity for art-making, and after graduating high school, studied for a year at the famous Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It was…

What It Means to Travel VII | 36″ x 48″ | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 2021 Artist Statement My work is generally about two things, (a) exploring our internal dimensions, and (b) mark-making as evidence of the body. I approach painting expressively to make theatrical and dreamlike pictures that often dissolve and…

On The Nineteenth | 40″ x 30″ | Acrylic, marker and glitter on canvas | 2022 Artist Statement I portray heritage and the radiance of Black American pride and joy. My artwork serves as archival portraits rooted in history and how it continuously lingers into our present. Born in Harlem, then moving to the West…

Infinite Data | 36″ x 36″ | Quilt  (machine patched and quilted) | 2020 Artist Statement Lately I have been examining the betrayal of the promise of technology in the Internet age, looking at the way in which art can draw new perspective of living at the whim of fickle invisible wifi connections, engaging “power…

I Think It’s Strange You Never Knew | 11″ x 14″ | Watercolor on paper | 2020 Artist Statement Nathan Rapport is a California and NY based multimedia artist and gallery owner. Guided by formative years in San Francisco, his art celebrates the connection between the queer present and ancestral history. Through his work as…

The Lovers | 7.4″ x 11.67″ | copper, aquamarine gemstones, and black south sea pearls | 2020 Artist Statement Seahorses have been naturally living their lives in non-traditional and at times non-binary relations for centuries. When people argue that certain actions are not normal, the seahorses are proof that nature includes all aspects and roles.…

Forbidden Snax | 16″ x 13″ | Ceramic porcelain and wood | 2021 Artist Statement Nickie Gunning plays to process abjection. A collection of gestural forms inspired by their own body’s movement, wandering through, and exploring their environment. By mixing found and personal remnants into their ceramic practice, they build assemblages that address identity, poverty,…

In Memoriam| 3 1/3″ x 7″ | Mixed media, colored paper| 2019 Artist Statement I am a graduate of Wayne State University with a BA with a major in History and Art History.  During my career as a librarian in the Print and Photography Division at New York Public Library and for many years as…

I’ll Keep Your Kiss With Mine | 70″ x 32″ x 2″ | acrylic, papier-mâché, Swarovski crystals on wood | 2014 Artist Statement patrick burton is the Creative Director of MRQD. He grew up in Detroit, and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MLS, with an emphasis on…

Punchinello Before Pan | 28″ x 38″ | Oil on linen | 2012 Artist Statement  Webb’s paintings explore contemporary stories of a queer version of the Italian clown Punchinello. Slimmer, without hump, and driven by his appetites (Grimes), Punch’s experiences parallel those of the artist—an I not I. Initially the figure faces the HIV epidemic…

Why? | Plate 1 ¾” x 11 3/8″ x 10″ ½ , Vase 4 ¼” x 5 ½” x 5″ and Drawing 14″ x 17″ | Glazed stoneware, pencil on cut paper | 2017-2020 Artist Statement Paul Kotula is best known for his ceramic tableware situated at the intersection of art, craft, and design. It…

Havana Blow Dry | 20″ x 24.85″ | Digital silver halide print | 2004 Artist Statement The writer Armistead Maupin said, “We have biological families, and logical families,” a statement that conveys a process painfully familiar to many LGBTQ+ people—that of recognizing and harnessing the love, acceptance, and magic of people we meet while forming…

Organic Form | 17″ x 22″ x 18″ | Polished Black Walnut | 1964 Artist Statement Margaret Elizabeth Sauer aka Peggy Sauer (1925 – 1986).In 1955 Peggy Sauer became a member of Harley Earl’s ‘Damsels of Design’ – a group of women designers the chief General Motors designer hired to design the interiors of GM…

Hommage a Fragonard | 60″ x 120″ | Acrylic on canvas | 2021 Artist Statement A picture of motion is created in the mind’s eye every split second as the eye seeks to comprehend what it sees, what catches its attention. As the pioneer filmmakers knew well, bodies in motion attract our attention, and a…

Souvenirs Of A Common History | 72″ x 96″ | Oil, encaustic, graphite on canvas Artist Statement Rachel Pontious earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from School of Visual Arts. Rachel is one of the two artist curators that form RFCuratorial along with Finn Schult. Currently she teaches at Lawrence…

Untitled mail art piece | 17″ x 14″ | collage | circa 1970s Artist Statement Ray Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995)  was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as “New…

Perspective in blue and white | 7″ x 8″ x 6.5″ | Earthenware, underglaze, low fire glaze | 2021 Artist Statement I often wonder what we hear or why we don’t hear. What happens when you feel unheard for too long? Where do those feelings go? In my work I attempt to create a sculptural…

Flowers In An English Coffee Pot | Oil on Canvas | 1989 Artist Statement Richard Jerzy was a well-known watercolor artist in the Detroit, Michigan area. His signature works were figures and still lives, and many famous Michigan families are collectors. Artwork/s at the following locations:Galerie Camille

Taki (The Boxer) | 48″ x 48″ | Oil on canvas | 2001 Artist Statement Richard Lewis was born in Detroit in 1966. He started drawing when he was four. When he was 10, his godmother told him to study his family and go into the next room and draw. That started him looking at…

10 Flower Paintings | 24″ x 20″ | 2021 Artist Statement Rico was a well-loved member of the Cass Corridor and Detroit community for many decades. He was also a brilliant artist and intellectual. I don’t know all of Rico’s educational history, but he graduated from Cass Tech in 1981, and then went on to…

Empty | 34″ x 41″ | Watercolor on paper Artist Statement I was born going 80 mph in a car on the expressway. This fast-paced, isolated, and energetically strange entrance to the world became a metaphor for my life in the city. Painting is my way of commenting on the tensions between my lived reality…

Toothsome Ladies, #1, #2, #3 | 17″ | Mixed media; polymer clay, silk, angora goat hair, oil paints, crystal eyes | 2021 Artist Statement Robert Craner Finds His Joy.Robert Craner creates one of a kind dolls using polymer clay, fabric made with natural fibers, wire armatures, goat hair, oil paints, and hand painted or hand…

Le Palais Blu | 20″ x 18″ | Alder |1992 Artist Statement Ron Madalinski was one of the most versatile artists I’ve ever known. His creativity knew no bounds. He was an incredible draftsman with a master’s touch. Working with materials as diverse and unexpected as a typewriter, he created towers, skyscrapers and cities, his…

Bloody Run | 13″ x 19″ | Archival Pigment Print | 2018   Artist Statement  S. Kay Young is a Detroit based artist known for her large scale photographs, captured throughout the study of nature. Young’s work is developed through instructions and stories given by Elders while suspended in sleep. Her dreams have been the…

Pluck | 21.5″ x 34″ | Hand-woven Tapestry Weaving (yarn) | 2018 Artist Statement Sam’s recent work has centered around a form of self-portraiture using objects and items from her day to day life as jumping points for investigation. By translating and reconfiguring these objects into drawings and sculptures she takes seemingly mundane and disparate…

Where the Boys Are | 18″ x 22″ x 10″ | 9-channel video sculpture with appripriated video and found electronics | 2015 Artist Statement I am most interested in questions of love, lust, loss, and desire, especially the feelings that we secretly harbor for one another. My work explores these ideas through personal and collective…

Another Pansy | 40″ x 40″ | Oil on Canvas | 2021   Artist Statement  My work stems from a profound feeling of inadequacy. My insecurity has made me question my identity, self-worth, and authenticity. At times I feel I have no individual choice and only a set of expectations to meet. Despite all of…

So Do I (나도 그래) | 26″ x 10″ 14″ | Glazed stoneware | 2021 Artist Statement Seuil Chung produces ceramic sculptures which explore images of the human body by providing expected and unexpected forms of the body by abstraction and distortion. His goal is to convey an uncanny feeling to the viewer and cause…

Pure Comedy (edition of 4) | 17.5″ x 15″ | Lithography | 2017 Artist Statement Shudi’s work documents her journey as a young immigrant in the United States. Her practice often shifts between different media to fully explore, investigate, and illustrate the “in-betweenness” that she and many other immigrants occupy — the physical and psychological…

Ball Pit | 110″ x 114″ x 18″ | PVC | 2021 Artist Statement  My practice focuses on materiality, performance, sex and sexuality, semiotics, fetishism, and power. Through design, I explore desire, overwhelming scale, voyeurism,and erotica. The objects I make take nods from sexual tropes, toys and furniture, and performance objects. Through specific material and…

Blue and Yellow Still Life 1 | 22″ x 15″ | Watrercolor on paper | 2018 Artist Statement Stephanie Crawford was born in 1942 in Detroit, MI and lives and works in Oakland, CA. She completed her undergraduate studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and pursued a MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,…

Small | 9″ x 12″ | charcoal| 2012 Artwork/s at the following locations:Anton Art CenterCollected DetroitN’Namdi Center For Contemporary Art

Queer Time | 13″round | Snajdare, Acylic | 2021 Artist Statement I construct text-based works and absurdist home furnishings to explore queerness, the act of labeling and the commodification of identity.  I’m thinking about the rainbow crusted shirts, logos, knick-knacks, (or in IKEAs case) couches, that pop up every June as a half-baked, but all…

The Urgent Future/To Roam A Wilderness | Collage assemblage | 1986 Artist Statement Timothy Gass (September 17, 1957 – February 23, 1993)Timothy Gass was a Detroit native and later a New York City based artist whose work took the form of photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, printmaking, mail art, and editions. He began making multiples and…

Behind the Garage | 19″ x 22″ | Oil on canvas | 2020 Artist Statement I grew up in the ’60’s and ’70’s, with great movies, wildly fantastic television, glamour photography and home photography. There was so much home photography, everyone had a camera! I became fascinated by the interplay between light and image.Clowns, Universal…

Various Infatuations | 15′ x 5′ x 2″ | Digital photograph archival print | 2018   Artist Statement  Tony Whitfield’s work begins with the material culture that shapes or details compelling stories of his life and the contexts in which he has lived. Whitfield understands his perceptions of all aspects of his experience, as he…

Janus III: Bayard and Cohn | 48″ x 36″ | Oil on canvas | 2018 Artist Statement My work investigates the landscape of American history to present a new paradigm in the chronicle of African American people living in the United States. My practice queries how American history has been shaped by legacies of African…

Day at the Beach | 60″ x 46″ x 6″ | Wool and linen, carved floss in plexiglass case | 2000 Artist Statement I have been creating fiber works for more than 50 years.  Persistence and endurance are what my work is about.  If you compare a person’s life to a stone wall, the stones…

#YOLO | 22″ x 30″ | acrylic paint, letter-press ink, pencil, and laser-etching on paper | 2020   Artist Statement  Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead is an artist, educator, and academic leader. His art practice encompasses traditional and newer media, community projects, and creative writing that present accidental and forced intersections of personal experiences, histories, current events, geo-locations,…

Untitled #1 | 8″ x 10″ | mixed media on paper | 2019 Artist Statement Virgil Vogel is a horticulturist / painter, inspired from the natural world, and painting his paintings from observation and memory, often using soil as a pigment. Paper is also important to Virgil, liking to fold it in radiating forms representing…

From Apart, Come Together | 20″ x 20″ x 6″ | Porcelain and hardwood | 2021 Artist Statement From Apart, Come Together offers a chosen family of objects that each relates to one another. They share commonalities while also distinguishing themselves as individuals. In these objects, the missing curve is sometimes left visually complete with…