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Join Us THIS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, for Midtown's
44th ANNUAL NOEL NIGHT
5 pm - 10 pm

Tyanna Buie, Heirloom (2016)
Tyanna Buie, Heirloom (2016) Screen-print, hand applied ink, nickel on paper, 95 x 75 inches

EDITION 2016 - PRINT
Group Exhibition
November 26 - December 24, 2016

If you missed the opening for EDITION 16 on November 26, join us this Saturday, December 3, 5-10 pm, for Midtown's 44th Annual Noel Night. Over 100 participating venues, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan Science Center, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Public Library, will open their doors to the public free of charge during this Cultural Center-wide holiday open house.

The gallery’s annual holiday limited edition exhibition this year focuses on print works by sixteen artists in the gallery space, plus three-dimensional and multi-media works by local and international artists and designers in our new EDITION space, including functional and conceptual ceramic works, sculpture, jewelry, concept furniture, drawing, video, and book publications.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS and DESIGNERS

Gallery Space | PRINT: Lynne Avadenka, Tyanna Buie, Zero Craft Corp. (with Alexander Buzzalini), Tim Eads, Andrea Eckert, Dennis Hayes IV, Barbara Kendrick, Brian Kritzman, Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, Melanie Manos, Mark Newport, Ryan Standfest, Wesley Taylor, Rachel Reynolds Z.

EDITION Space | THREE-DIMENSIONAL and OTHER: Aaron Blendowski, Kristine Bolhuis, Laura Bombach, Mark Dineen, Ani Garabedian, Elizabeth Boyd Hartmann, Megan Heeres, Susan Hoge, Andy Kem, Ruth Koelewyn, Alissa Lamarre, Katie MacDonald, Chris Mayse, Sarah Rose Sharp, Adam Shirley, Karianne Spens-Hanna, Sharon Que, Victoria Shaheen, Cedric Tai, Timothy van Laar.

 
EDITION 2016 [MIXED-MEDIA] HIGHLIGHTS
 

MEGAN HEERES - Ode to Lucia Moholy - RED

MEGAN HEERES - Ode to Lucia Moholy - YELLOW

MEGAN HEERES - Ode to Lucia Moholy
(2016) Edition of 4

Ode to Lucia Moholy (Red)
Ode to Lucia Moholy (Yellow)
Ode to Lucia Moholy (Silver)
Ode to Lucia Moholy (Teal)

Handmade Siberian Iris and Abaca paper with tape
20.5 x 16.5 inches
$300.00 ea.

Through interactive sculpture, installation, and papermaking, Megan Heeres explores the physical capacity of materials, mechanisms, and processes, seeking “to reveal something unintended—something that grows and moves and reacts to the world around it.” Heeres’ work is essentially driven by her interest “in the tenuous nature of things, the delicate cusp between decay and health, function and non-function, inside and outside, between natural and human-made.”

In her investigation of forms, materials, and relationships, Heeres lures the viewer to become part of her exploration, through helping to make the sculptures operate, observing the works’ fragile relationship with gravity and inertia, and experiencing their unpredictable movement and their potential failure.

A native Michigander, Megan Heeres returned home from the West Coast in 2007 to study at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has maintained an active studio art practice in the city. She participates in projects locally and nationally, most recently at Bravin Lee Programs and at PARMER in New York City, and her Invasive Paper Project throughout Detroit. Heeres is actively involved in the greater arts community in SE Michigan, as a visiting critic to area universities, as well as working in different neighborhoods on a range of projects. She works as a project manager for a participatory design studio called The Work Department. Megan continually presents her work in numerous forms in group exhibitions, as a panelist and speaker at conferences, artist residencies and workshops all over the states and abroad.

 

 

SARAH ROSE SHARP - The Disease Cycle - Red

SARAH ROSE SHARP - The Disease Cycle - Black

SARAH ROSE SHARP - The Disease Cycle
(2016) Edition of 4

Red - Disease Cycle: Metastatic
Green - Disease Cycle: Opportunistic
Blue - Disease Cycle: Communicable
Black - Disease Cycle: Degenerative

Wool, ink, thread, beads, binding, specimen mount, pins, label tape.
16 X 12 inches
$300 ea. (Framed)

The Disease Cycle is an evolution of Sarah Rose Sharp's 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.

Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer and multimedia artist. She has shown work in Seattle, New York, and Detroit, most recently in a group show at the Grosse Pointe Art Center, A: House B: Home, and participated in the local artist’s portion of this year’s Culture Lab Detroit at Nora. She believes that art is for everyone, and to this end, writes about art and culture in Detroit for Art in America, Hyperallergic, KnightArts, ZIPR Magazine, and others. She was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Arts Criticism.

 

 

 

 

 

 
JOIN US FOR THE 44th NOEL NIGHT
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
5-10 PM
 
Noel Night in Detroit
 
Celebrating the Holidays with a Contemporary Art + Design Gift
 
EDITION space

Need a special Art + Design gift for a special friend or yourself? Stop by our newly launched EDITION space and mention #ShopMidtown to receive 10% off any of the exciting collectible, limited edition PRINTS on display during the months of November and December! Art + Design gift cards also available during the Holiday sale months! #MidtownDetroit

 
 

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