David Hendren @ EGHQ

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David Hendren
December 1 - January 5, 2011
EGHQ
emma gray hq

Let's travel to Michigan now: 2009 Cranbrook Degree Show

All images © by Kelly Kennedy
2009 Cranbrook Degree Show
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Good to see these photos from the Cranbrook Degree Show. Looks much more performance art driven this year, good to see. Lately I have been yearning and curious about what's happening in the Detroit art scene at the moment. I see there are some new galleries opening (Cave and ORG) but all in all it kinda looks the same. MOCAD got a new director, Mitch is still a spokesman and the city is still the most beautiful decay ever.

Erik Oost: Pine Barrens @ Kinkead Contemporary

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(sorry about the weird glare on some works)

Erik Oost: Pine Barrens
April 4 - May 9, 2009
PR:
"Erik Oost's newest body of work reflects his unique obsession with encountering, imagining, and interpreting natural phenomena. In these lush and layered abstract paintings, Oost takes cues from naturalists Tom Brown, Jr. and Dick Proenneke, who have both relied on their natural surroundings to survive. Brown, whose controversial story is undocumented, claims to have wandered years at a time in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, subsisting on foraging and hunting. Proenneke spent thirty years alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Brown credits his survival to a patient, peripheral awareness, through which he observes subtle, often useful events and casual connections. Oost links this mode of observation to his own practice of abstract image making..."
Kinkead Contemporary