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Drawing You In Curated by Narine Kchikian
There is no way to make a drawing - there is only drawing. Anything you can project as expressive in terms of drawing - ideas, metaphors, emotions, language structures - results from the act of doing. Drawing is a verb.
- Richard Serra
featuring:
Mike Andrews Japeth Mennes Abigail Newbold Mikolaj Szoska Gregory Tom Rebecca Tufts
ARTISTS' RECEPTION: Saturday, December 10th 7 to 10pm
November 26 - December 30 regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac tel: 248-210-7560 web: detroitmona.com email: detroitmona@aol.com
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received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005. While at Cranbrook she was nominated for several awards including Daimler Chrysler’s Emerging Artist Award. Following graduation she has worked as studio assistant to former professor Jane Lackey, head of the Fiber Department as well as Assistant Preparator at the Cranbrook Art Museum. She will commence teaching fiber as an adjunct teacher in the Craft department at College for Creative Studies this coming January. Home, more of a concept rather than a static place, always defining itself in relation to its inhabitant/s. We create our homes with an aim to shelter, sustain and perpetuate ourselves. But it is the relationship between the inhabitant and their belongings that seems to reveal a vital element of comfort. What would home be without our favorite things? I am interested in both the universals of these domestic belongings and their unique applications. At once an examination and a containment of these domestic activities and comforts; I am seeking to create and make portable, my icons of domesticity.
is an artist and musician currently living in Chicago. His experiments in drawing include both the traditional (ink on paper) and expanded forms of drawing into video, sculpture, and installation. His work has been shown throughout the Midwest in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Kansas City. He received his M.F.A. in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004 and his B.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2001. I regard each one of my drawings as a document or residue of a quasi-scientific experiment. With each piece I begin with basic modular components, such as a mark or material, which I filter through my hand to create a more complex and unfamiliar structure. It is with this investigational approach that I work away from the everyday towards the uncanny. I would also like each drawing to exist as a model for continual progression and construction beyond my own hand. Like an apparatus that takes over, I feel that each piece has the potential for perpetual chaotic growth beyond my intentions and its present form. Having said that, I want the viewer to able to simultaneously visualize the potential construction and de-construction of each piece. Throughout this process I negotiate intuitive and logical processes in hopes that ultimately I will make discoveries on both a personal and social level.
received her M.F.A degree in Ceramics from The Cranbrook Academy of Art and her B.F.A from The University of Evansville. She spent one year as a special status student at the Kansas City Art Institute and spent two years at Detroit’s own historic Pewabic Pottery. Tufts had the unique opportunity to live and go to school at Cranbrook from kindergarten through graduate school, which had a profound influence on her work. Currently she is working at the Lemberg Gallery in Ferndale. Her work is included in private collections around the country as well as the permanent collection at The Cranbrook Museum of Art. I am investigating non-conventional drawing by exploring the boundaries between two and three dimensions using light, shadow and reflection. The three dimensional objects create a drawing in space while the projection of light allows their shadows to create two dimensional drawings on the wall. In these personal landscapes the conscious and the unconscious work together and consider issues of beauty, fragility, line, form, unity, tension, control, and simplicity with an underlying complexity. The objects suggest function but leave the content open for interpretation. I work deliberately, and make conscious decisions, but I rely on my intuitive sense as well.
Mikolaj Szoska grew up in Krakow, Poland. Throughout his life he has made numerous approaches at art making. Most formal ones (slightly misconceived) include his peripheral but occasionally serious engagement with architecture and collaboration with New York based multi-disciplinary theater company Waxfactory. Currently his is occupied with mediating his life experience through video installations. Combining sculptural objects with moving image he hopes to present preferably entertaining and engaging reflections on life.
received his MFA from
Cranbrook Academy of Arts in May, 2005. Previous to that he lived in
New York, receiving a BA in Geography and Anthropology from Vassar
College in 1996 and a BA (Post-Baccalaureate) in Ceramics from Hunter
College in 2003. While in New York, he worked as a studio assistant at
Greenwich House Pottery and had work available through Perimeter Gallery
(New York). Currently, Tom currently lives in Bloomfield Hills, and
works in the Development Office at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His
approach to art has been strongly influenced by an interest in
minimalism and post-minimalism, with a focus on the repeated unit or
action. More recently he has taken an interest in phenomenology in art
and its "viewer-centered" approach.
Drawing for me is not so
much about a final "work-on-paper" as it is about working through a
series of ideas and exploring a concept. The action of drawing (verb)
for me is therefore inherently a preface or examination of an idea yet
to take form. As such, the drawing (noun) holds both the expectations
of the artist and the unlimited potential of an object-idea not yet
fully realized or materialized.
lives and works in Chicago
and is a graduate of the Sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of
Art. He teaches in the Fiber and Materials Studies Department at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also the co-owner of the
curatorial venture know as [Im]perfect Articles.
www.imperfectarticles.com
I am playing the role of
an tech-savvy home crafter who dreams of being an architect. These
sculptures and drawings exploit the formal potential of hand-woven forms
and computer guided sewing. I am proposing forms and interiors made out
of yarn that take cues from embroidered blueprints.
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