Discover Detroit Art

Art Night
2024-01-10 20:00 - 2024-01-11 01:00, 2024-01-17 20:00 - 2024-01-18 01:00, 2024-01-24 20:00 - 2024-01-25 01:00, 2024-01-31 20:00 - 2024-02-01 01:00, 2024-02-07 20:00 - 2024-02-08 01:00, 2024-02-14 20:00 - 2024-02-15 01:00, 2024-02-21 20:00 - 2024-02-22 01:00, 2024-02-28 20:00 - 2024-02-29 01:00 (America/Detroit) and 18 more dates | Russell Industrial Center, 1600 Clay St, Detroit, MI, United States

Interpersonal – Artist Talk
2024-01-27 03:30 - 18:00 | M Contemporary Art, 205 E 9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI, 48220
Join us, Saturday, January 27th for a conversation with 5 artists from the “Interpersonal” exhibition. The talk will begin promptly at 3:30 with a reception to follow until 6 PM.
The exhibition runs through February 10th.
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6 PM

Yoga Class: Deep Relaxation with Lauren J. Williams
2024-02-25 10:00 - 11:00 | PLAYGROUND DETROIT Gallery, 2845 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48207, United States
Attend a foundational slow yoga experience led by Lauren J. Williams and view Brando Altman’s solo exhibition, “Stripped.”

Join us for a restorative yoga experience led by Lauren J. Williams, and view Brandon Altman’s solo exhibition, Stripped on Sunday, February 25th at 10am at 2845 Gratiot Avenue.
RSVP to attend. Capacity is limited.
This yoga class is fully guided with an emphasis on breath work, meditation, and slow movement. This is your invitation to offer yourself a moment of peace as you connect with your mind, body, and spirit. Whether you are a new or seasoned practitioner, this class is perfect for you!
B ring your own yoga mat, and bring something cozy for meditation.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Lauren J. Williams is a yoga guide and professional ice skater with over a decade of experience who is passionate about social justice, inspiring creativity, and healing. She has spent years practicing yoga instruction in the Detroit community throughout various recreation centers, studios, and college campuses.

A BOUT THE EXHIBITION
Stripped is Brandon Altman’s solo exhibition (February 10-March 9) of his mixed-media series, “Stripped,” explores the concept of fragmentation leading to wholeness. As an outsider artist, his practice utilizes painting, collage and assemblage, often including using vintage source images from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Utilizing thrift store ephemera, he collages and paints multiple small works. Then, he tears apart these completed pieces, intuitively reassembling them onto a larger piece, often using horizontal, layered linework. This creates an infinite field of spontaneous compositions, some harmonious and some disparate.
Altman’s practice often includes using vintage source images from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. “It’s an era that elicits Anemoia, or the nostalgia for a time one never experienced. It was the first time that the tears in the American fabric started to show, including civil unrest and creative exploration that awakened popular youth culture. We never reckoned with it, thus are still feeling the effects today. This disillusionment of the American Dream remains a consistent theme in my work which can be seen in both the figurative paintings and abstraction.”

THE REDD EXPERIENCE
2024-05-17 19:00 - 22:00 | PLAYGROUND DETROIT Gallery, 2845 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48207, United States
Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant hues, creative energy, and sensory delight at The Redd Experience to inspire & tantalize your senses.

A One-Night Art Experience and Exhibition by REDD Q

Explore a stunning collection of photographs of the visual artist, REDD Q. Known for his bold use of color and striking compositions, REDD Q.’s creations captivate and inspire.
AI conceptualization of a surreal REDD fantasy world comes to life accompanied by these larger than life framed photographs. Limited edition print photographs will be available for purchase, allowing you to take home a piece of The Redd Experience.

DRESS CODE (Strictly Enforced)

Wear Red: Join in the fun by dressing in your most eye-catching red attire! Guests are encouraged to wear red from head to toe, embracing the theme of the event and adding to the vibrant atmosphere. You are a piece of the immersive experience once you walk through the door.
Best Dressed Contest: The guest with the best red outfit voted on by attendees will receive a special gift.

Sensory Experience by Sophiyah Elizabeth:
Prepare to be transported to a state of bliss with a sensory experience led by Sophiyah Elizabeth. This immersive journey will incorporate sound bowls, energy clearing techniques, and other sensory elements designed to promote relaxation, balance, and inner harmony. Allow yourself to be fully present and open to the healing energies of the Redd Experience.

Connect with fellow art enthusiasts, creatives, and supporters of the arts as you explore the Redd Experience together. Share your thoughts and reactions to the artwork, engage in meaningful conversations, and forge new connections with like-minded individuals who share your passion for creativity and expression.

Tickets will be available to purchase at the door.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of art, music, and sensory exploration at The Redd Experience. Come prepared to be encased in a world of red and leave feeling inspired, refreshed, and uplifted.

We can’t wait to see you there!

"The Colour of Ink" Film Screening + "Water & Light" Artist Talk
2024-07-25 18:00 - 20:30 | PLAYGROUND DETROIT Gallery, 2845 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48207, United States
Ink is our primal medium. It has always been with us, inscribing the evolution of humanity. The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery.

You’re invited to a special Film Screening and Artist Talk in celebration of the summer exhibition, “Water & Light: Instruments of Magic,” with artists Marta Abbott and Elizabeth Schmuhl.
Suggested donation: $10 (Film Screening)
Artist Talk to follow.
ABOUT THE FILM:
The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery and power through the eyes of Jason Logan, a visionary Toronto inkmaker. Marta Abbott is also in the film, included in the exhibition.
Working with ingredients foraged in the wild–weeds, berries, bark, flowers, rocks, rust–he makes ink from just about anything.
Jason sends custom-made inks to an eclectic range of artists around the world, from a New Yorker cartoonist to a Japanese calligrapher. As the inks take on a life of their own, his playful alchemy paints a story of color that reconnects us to the earth and returns us to a childlike sense of wonder.

“Water and Light: “Instruments of Magic,” exhibits work by artists Marta Abbott and Elizabeth Schmuhl, serving as proof through deep knowledge and understanding of the visible and invisible works of the natural world, that magic is real.
Using essential elements often unexamined from the natural world that surround us, both artists highlight the importance of Water and Light by conjuring and bringing forth unique properties that reveal them as instruments of magic. As individual artists creating work with natural inks that rely heavily on water and light, they use their mutable properties such as intensity, consistency, shape, and hue to create artwork alchemy, transforming these elements that exist naturally without a single fixed form.
The series of work in “Water & Light: Instruments of Magic,” contains living material which has undergone a moment of transformation or transmutation through its use as an artistic medium. Both artists utilize their gained knowledge and exploration- chaos and control- while working with natural inks.
As a result, each piece is a snapshot of the artists’ choosing to capture this in-between state that echoes the workings of the natural world, revealing its own magic. The artists both credit the result of capturing this third state as evidence of the magic they find within the ingredients they use, the process of creation, and the pieces they create.
Schmuhl (Detroit) and Abbott (Rome) are also influenced by the cities that they reside in. This additionally informs their respective bodies of work, as both urban landscapes both share a history of decay and transformation. Each artist recognizes magic as an abstract concept that exists through both personal experience and belief. The idea of the supernatural is a human construct, after all; it is an attempt to explain the unexplainable.
This belief is what propels Abbott and Schmuhl to work in the ways that they do, using elements that shape shift and are not static. The result of tapping into the magic present in this ink through their collective creative processes is an exhibition that reflects the natural world and its ever-evolving states, emphasizing the power in fragility. Shown together, the paintings created softly but strongly demonstrate the importance of the natural world and our undeniable place within it.
Instruments of Magic: Water and Light (7/12-8/10) is guest curated by Jessie Devereaux.
On view through Saturday, August 10th.
About the Curator
Jessie Devereaux, based in Brooklyn, NY, is an independent curator and creative director. Since 2006, she has curated art exhibitions independently across galleries and pop-up spaces in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit. Her enduring passion for making art accessible and fostering creative collaboration drives her as a facilitator between artists and the realization of thoughtful exhibitions.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Elizabeth Schmuhl is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that explores nature, movement, and memory. Schmuhl deeply investigates the natural world, its cycles, and entropy, all of which inform her work. By documenting her experiences, reactions, and interactions through various media, Schmuhl is able to celebrate and share the wonder and beauty she encounters. Schmuhl resides in Hamtramck, Michigan and has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, Oxbow School of Art, and elsewhere.

Marta Alexandra Abbott is a Czech-American artist based in Rome, Italy. Marta uses organic and botanical materials to extract and to describe that which is essential to the human experience of non-human nature, of awe, and of beauty. Her work combines concept and intuition, control and chaos. She seeks to answer age-old questions in contemporary ways, with eyes scanning earth and sky, seeking that which connects them.
