[msb-alumni] Re: George Wurtzel Art Exhibit
- From: Lucy Edmonds <lucyjean11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:06:23 -0400
Wow, that is awesome! Way to go George! Lucy Edmonds, class of 73
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> On Aug 17, 2014, at 4:35 PM, "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> George’s exhibit will open September 12.
> The museum is located at:
> ABOUT MOCAD
> MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT
> 4454 Woodward Ave Detroit MI, 48201
> phone 313.832.6622
> detroitmidtown.com/
> Museum Hours
> Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday: 11AM - 5PM
> Thursday & Friday: 11AM - 8PM
> Closed Monday & Tuesday
>
> The show description from the web page:
>
>
> OPENING SEPTEMBER 12
> DETROIT CITY
> Detroit Affinities
> Detroit Affinities
> will present ten sequential solo exhibitions representing five pairings: five
> Detroit
> artists and five artists from elsewhere. The pairings are intended to reveal
> correspondences,
> similarities and differences in the artists’ respective practices. The
> dialogues
> between the artists will serve to position Detroit artists in the larger
> global conversation
> on contemporary art.
> The first Detroit Affinities
> exhibition will showcase the work of the Detroit artist John Maggie
> (September 12,
> 2014–January 4, 2015). It will be followed by an exhibition featuring the New
> York
> artist Jamian Juliano-Villani (February 6–March 29, 2015).
> John Maggie
> John Maggie, Cowboy, 2013, Courtesy of MOCAD, 30x40in, Oil on Canvas
> About the Artists
> Ann Arbor–born painter, sculptor, bookmaker and animator John Maggie (b.
> 1978) earned
> a BFA with a concentration in printmaking from Eastern Michigan University in
> 2004.
> Upon graduation, Maggie studied assemblage with Detroit Industrial Gallery's
> Tim
> Burke and traditional oil painting with Nanjing University Art Academy's
> Mingshi
> Huang. He works out of his studio in Hamtramck. Maggie's exclusively
> figurative paintings
> often depict grotesque studies of the male physique, incorporating visual
> realism
> strewn with abstracted impasto. Maggie has recently exhibited in Detroit, Ann
> Arbor
> and New York. The third installment of his Wizard flipbook series, Remarkable
> Wizard
> (2013), is in the permanent collection of the library of the Museum of Modern
> Art
> in New York.
> Jamian Juliano-Villani was born in Newark, New Jersey, and received her BFA
> from
> Rutgers University in 2011; she received the Giza Daniels-Endesha Award. She
> currently
> lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
> Detroit Affinities
> is generously supported by Quicken Loans. Exhibition programming support is
> provided
> by the Taubman Foundation. Additional funding for programming and educational
> initiatives
> is provided by the Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation. Support
> for MOCAD
> is also provided by The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and
> the National
> Endowment for the Arts.
> Quicken Loans
> MCACA
> People's Biennial
> September 12, 2014 - January 4, 2015
> Co-Curated by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher
> People's Biennial
> Photograph of Xav Leplae, courtesy of the artist
> People's Biennial
> is an exhibition series conceived by artist Harrell Fletcher and curator Jens
> Hoffmann
> in 2009. It examines the work of artists and other creative individuals, who
> operate
> outside the conventional art world. As such it recognizes a wide array of
> artistic
> expression present in many communities across the United States. In covering
> the
> little known, the overlooked, the marginalized, and the excluded, the project
> offers
> a view into a diverse range of creative practices in America today. The
> People’s
> Biennial also proposes an alternative to the standard contemporary art
> biennial,
> which mostly focuses on art from a few select cities (New York, Los Angeles,
> occasionally
> Chicago, Miami or San Francisco). It questions the often exclusionary and
> insular
> process of selecting art that has at times turned the spaces where art is
> exhibited
> into privileged havens seemingly detached from the realities of everyday life.
> Following the People’s Biennial 2010
> , which focused attention on underrepresented artists from five diverse
> non-art center
> geographical regions in the United States (Portland, Oregon; Rapid City,
> South Dakota;
> Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Haverford,
> Pennsylvania),
> the
> People’s Biennial 2014
> will attempt again to showcase artwork that might otherwise not be shown in a
> museum
> context.
> For the second iteration of this exhibition series the curators have asked 17
> recognized
> artists based in a wide set of locations around the United States to connect
> and
> collaborate with creative individuals they personally know who are not part
> of the
> art world in any way. These solo presentations will each be displayed in
> free-standing
> structures within the refurbished Woodward Gallery of the Museum of
> Contemporary
> Art Detroit creating a creative community of the unknown, overlooked
> surprising.
> About the curators:
> Harrell Fletcher has produced a variety of socially engaged, participatory
> projects
> since the early 1990s for institutions, museums and exhibitions around the
> world.
> He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the
> California
> College of the Arts. He studied organic farming at the University of
> California,
> Santa Cruz. He went on to work on a variety of small farms, which impacted
> his work
> as an artist. He participated in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is the 2005
> recipient
> of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. In 2002 Fletcher created Learning To Love
> You
> More with Miranda July, a participatory website now in the collection of the
> San
> Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Art and
> Social
> Practice at Portland State University.
> Jens Hoffmann is the Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions and Public
> Programs
> of The Jewish Museum, New York and guest curator at the Museum of
> Contemporary Art
> Detroit. He has curated more than 50 exhibitions internationally since the
> late 1990s,
> including the 2nd San Juan Triennial (2009), the 12th Istanbul Biennial
> (2011) and
> the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012). He was the Director of the CCA Wattis
> Institute
> for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2007–12) and Director of Exhibitions
> at the
> Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2003–7).
> Participating Collaborations:
> Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla and Robert Rabin
> Carson Ellis and Hank Meloy
> Dara Friedman and Ishmael Golden Eagle
> Wendy Ewald and Denise Dixon
> Lee Walton & Harriet Hoover and Mr. Coopers
> Colter Jacobsen and Lance Rivers
> Liz Magic Laser and Wendy Osserman
> Sharon Lockhart and Fearless Fred
> Cary Loren and Jimbo Easter
> Rick Lowe and Jonathan the Plant Man
> Ken Lum and Orkan Telhan
> Jeffry Mitchell and Vic Oblas
> Scott Reeder and Xav Leplae
> Alec Soth and George Wurtzel
> Hank Willis Thomas and Baz Dreisinger
> Transformazium and James Kidd
> Steven Yazzie and Jonathan Bond
> The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is a non-profit, tax-exempt
> organization
> supported through invaluable contributions from individuals and members. The
> Richard
> and Jane Manoogian Foundation provides leading support for the Museum of
> Contemporary
> Art Detroit since 2006. General operating support for MOCAD is generously
> provided
> by Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, General Motors Foundation,
> The
> Kresge Foundation, Masco Corporation Foundation and The Taubman Foundation.
> Additional
> funding for programming and educational initiatives is provided by Edith S.
> Briskin/Shirley
> K. Schlafer Foundation. Valuable in-kind support is provided by Dykema.
> Museum of
> Contemporary Art Detroit is also supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol
> Foundation
> For the Arts, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Leveraging Investments in
> Creativity
> in partnership with the Ford Foundation, and ArtPlace, a collaboration of
> top national
> foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and various federal
> agencies to
> accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
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