[nfbmi-talk] George Wurtzel Art Exhibit

[Fred Wurtzel]

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.