Marlee Hoffman’s “Of the Water” finds this local watercolorist consolidating the effectiveness she last showed us back in July 2009 in the WSG Gallery’s “An Invitation to the Moment.” Hoffman’s technique is getting stronger. I wrote at the time of “An Invitation to the Moment” that there’s an attention to ...
"Zebra" Dee Ann Segula’s “Retrospective” at the WSG Gallery gives us the full range of this local artist’s career. Among the media on display are clothing; purses; jewelry; oil paintings in a variety of mixed-media; bird houses; puppetry; art boxes; as well as pen, ink, and gouache. This restless exploration ...
"Passing" by Dirk Bakker “Photography in Black and White: Three Visions” at Ann Arbor’s WSG Gallery reminds us we may see the world in color, but black and white are the colors of our emotions. This show is one of those fascinating exhibitions illustrating a single artform’s ability to speak ...
WSG Gallery's "Faces" finds 16 of Ann Arbor's most prominent artists exploring a common fact of life that should be the closest part of us - yet is often, paradoxically, further away than we think.
Connie Cronenwett's billboard Public art has found an unlikely new venue in Washtenaw County: freeway billboards. A new effort by Adams Outdoor Advertising, called "Art in the Sky," offers local artists space on the company's signs to display their work. The program debuted recently with three billboards on I-94 and ...
"Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Alvey Jones What started as a lighthearted holiday gesture is now an intriguing series of paintings. As the gallery statement for Alvey Jones’ “Vermeer Studies” at WSG Gallery tells us, “A tongue-in-cheek Christmas wish from Jones’ wife, Domenica, led him to embark on the ...
"Do You Remember the Shape of the Trees... No. 1" by Michelle Hegyi Michelle Hegyi’s “Do You Remember the Shape of Trees…” at the WSG Gallery continues this local artist’s consolidation of the digital signature she’s been crafting through the last decade. Hegyi’s work lies in mid-20th century post-painterly abstraction, ...
Ann Arbor artist Alvey Jones got into drawing and building model airplanes as a youth. He went on to have a long career in commercial illustration and design while simultaneously creating and exhibiting fine artworks along the way. Now, as a retiree from the design world, Jones is a full-time ...
After 15 years of making art books, Ann Arbor artist Barbara Brown is still carving out new edges in her work — literally. While some of her artworks take the shape of conventional books, many of them push the boundary of what people consider a book to be. Some of ...
The last time we saw Francesc Burgos’ sculpture was in November 2008 with Lynda Cole at the Ann Arbor District Library’s Malletts Creek Branch. His contribution to that display consisted of a group of site-specific unnamed wood dowel and porcelain creations that essentially soared about the library’s shelves, turning the ...
Karin Wagner Coron’s “Natural Landscapes” at the WSG Gallery finds this local landscape painter exploring the airier elements of the landscape genre with an imaginative passion that’s akin to seeing the world anew. Granted, some of Coron’s pieces in this compact 7-work exhibit are reasonably conventional landscape painting. But others ...
"Spaces No. 1" oil on linen painting by Nora Venturelli. On view in "Nora Venturelli: Figures & Spaces" at WSG Gallery through December 6. Nora Venturelli’s latest exhibit shows us this local arts educator has reached the point where she's not content to just polish her talent. Through a continual ...
This year’s “Beyond Words: A Celebration of Book Arts” at the WSG Gallery is the fourth installment of this sophisticated art form wrestling with the definition of book and art. “Artists’ books are not as we in the western tradition might think,” says WSG gallery member and exhibit curator Barbara ...
Middy Potter’s “Art and Math” at Ann Arbor’s WSG Gallery offers brainy insights hidden in art’s plain view.Merrily working in a variety of materials, Potter, a local mixed-media specialist, uses mathematics as the basis of his creativity.
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