Selections:
Abstractions
January
9 - February 20, 2004
Does cold, gray January leave you craving light and color? Satisfy your craving and enter a world where line, shape and pattern indulge your eyes and mind.
SPACES presents Selections: Abstraction featuring six artists working in a variety of media. Selections: Abstraction opens January 9 and runs through February 20, 2004. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 9 from 5 to 9pm. As always, the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Free parking is available on the Superior Viaduct.
Sharing an affinity for the natural and organic, these six artists from across the United States create painting, sculpture and installation. Less can be more when three painters say a lot in a little space. Painters Cammi Climaco (Brooklyn, NY), Megan Greene (Brooklyn, NY), and Erik Neff of Cleveland use less than a square foot to create vignettes inspired by architecture, environmental issues and digital media. Materials and process are celebrated in the three-dimensional work of Carole Loeffler (Carbondale. IL), Ashley Thorner (Seattle, WA), and April Hannah (New York, NY.) Hannah's paintings and sculpture begin with random tracings of irregular geometric forms until a satisfying pattern results. The bright colors and iridescent surfaces of Thorner's installations reflect an excessive, synthetic existence with undercurrents of menace. Loeffler senses what materials like taffeta, sweaters and metal ramps want to become. Then the "Binks" a "species of beings in different stages of evolution" emerge.
The result? Your craving is gone.
Selections: Abstraction is the latest in a series of exhibitions focusing on the work of emerging and experimenting artists from across the US. Selections exhibitions are chosen from artists' applications to the gallery by a committee of area curators and contemporary artists.
SPACES is a non-profit, artist-run, alternative space gallery. Since 1978, SPACES has given over 7,500 artists in the visual and performing arts an arena in which to present challenging new ideas. SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct on the West side of the Flats. Superior Viaduct runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West 25th Street.
