LOBBY
Johnny Floyd
Brian Lacey
Michael Luchs
LEASING OFFICE
Doug Cannell
Kelly Golden
Taylor Simone
RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE
Alicia Degener
Paul Johnson
CORRIDOR
Grant Bartlow
Mary Rousseaux
Ellen Rutt
Grant Browlow
Marlo Broughton
Dennis Jones
Mary Rousseaux
Mary Rousseaux
Mary Rousseaux
Kevin Castile
Birgit Huttemann-Holz
Katarina Friday
LAUNDRY 1 & 2 series of black and white sports based photos
image printed on paper mounted to rigid substrate gallery framed
image printed on canvas Stretched over rigid substrate black floater frame
image printed on rag paper square matt black wooden frame
Johnny Floyd Johnny Floyd is a self-taught African American painter in Detroit, MI. He started painting 2 years ago when it became clear that creating was the only thing that made any sense to him. While not restricted to a specific medium, Floyd has found painting in oils to be the most enjoyable His work both examines and reimagines the African American experience through the melding of figurative, surrealistic, and abstracted practices that lend a broad lens through which to view his world.
Brian Lacey Born in Pontiac, Michigan Brian Lacey’s foray into the art world began at a young age and continued to grow through out his youth. Advancing to earn his BFA from The College of Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Lacey became a common name after his residencies at Red Bull House of Art, and Fortress Studios. He has been featured in both digital and print publications such as Mass Appeal, and Huffington Post. Through continued exploration into early American quilt patterns and post-industrial geometry Lacey presents complex relationships between consumerist culture and the modern day ailment of the commodification the artist and his or her work. Lacey's artwork has been exhibited in high end galleries through out the United States and abroad such as, Inner State in Detroit, #Hashtag in Toronto, and SPACEWOMb in Manhattan, NYC. His artwork has been shown along side established artists such as James Marshall, Charles mcGee, Miss Van, and Ron English. Lacey was also selected to exhibit in the Luciano Benetton Collection in Venice, Italy.
Doug Cannell Doug Cannell is a sculptor whose works has been exhibited in museums and art galleries throughout the United States. He was born in Detroit, Michigan USA and now works from his studio in Highland Park, Michigan (an enclave of Detroit.) His sculpture is almost entirely abstract. Cannell begins working predominantly in clay, and then steel, and more recently in wood. His work is distinguished by the use of contrasting materials, textures, and the juxtaposition of the organic and the industrial.
Kelly Golden Kelly Golden is an independent sign painter and muralist based in Detroit, MI. Working professionally in the trade since 2010, she has come to specialize in a wide range of hand-painted signs—from walls, windows and storefronts to gold-leaf, vehicles, showcards and more. Every sign is a one-of-a-kind creation made the old-fashioned way… by hand, with a brush. She prides herselfon offering a unique, authentic product, and really value the relationships formed along the way. In her free time, you'll find her camping, riding motorcycles, working on her pilot’s license, or exploring outside with her pup.
Micheal Luchs Michael Luchs (b. 1938, Portsmouth, OH, USA) was among the celebrated Detroit Cass Corridor painters and sculptors in the 1960s and 1970s. Luchs graduated from Olivet College (Olivet, Michigan) in 1961, and attended the University of Michigan in 1964 before moving to Detroit, where he studied at Wayne State University (1966-68). Luchs’ work was featured in the Detroit Institute of Arts exhibition, Kick Out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor, 1963-1977, which took place in 1980, and also traveled to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and written up in Art in America as part of a major spread on the Detroit’s art scene. Michael Luchs has worked in rural settings for the last several years, and currently lives in Lewiston, Michigan, with his wife artist Kathryn Brackett Luchs. His work is part of several collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University James Duffy Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, as well as several private collections throughout the United States. In the Spring of 2017, Michael Luchs’ work was featured in a solo exhibition at Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, titled “Cass
Alicia Degener Alicia Degener is a native Detroit who studied fine art at Parsons School of Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A longtime Brooklyn resident Alicia paints the landscapeof NYC but continues to revisit Detroit where she discovered her love of representing the patterns and details found in great, perhaps crumbling architecture and intricate ironwork found in bridges. Architectural details such as corinthian columns, cornices, friezes and anything kitschy Americana like roadside signs are often explored in Alicia’s work. Degener combines literal representation with abstract elements to focus on what she wants people to see she finds interesting about a place. Brilliant and vibrant color combined with a wonky sense of perspective bring movement to her paintings and a fresh view on city landscapes. Unusual cropping and framing of images add to the overall look of Alicia’s artwork. Degener often incorporate text and imagery she finds in street signs to give a narrative sometimes ironic or humorous to her artwork.
Paul Johnson Born in Detroit, Paul Johnson made his introduction into Detroit's art scene via pictures known by his social experiment called "Pinches". Later traveling to Thailand and later studying in Australia, proceeded to have an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Holding Up// Holding On." After arriving back to the states immediately took off to Brooklyn, New York having a small showing of work featuring a series called "Cloudscaping" Upon arriving back in Detroit was accepted into the Red Bull House of Art Residency producing two series “Rencendence” and “Holding Out”. Now currently working with 1xrun as their Printshop specialist and in between jaunts into Detroit’s ruins to paint in his passion for painting.
Taylor Simone Taylor Simone is a interdisciplinary artist from Metro Detroit.She received her MFA in Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently teaching at Bowling Green State University.
Mary Rousseaux Rousseaux is an artist fluent in different visual medias -- painting, sculpture, the artist book and photography, but remains primarily a painter. Her fluency and versatility has allowed her to expand the language of painting. She has been at the forefront of creating work that pushes the imagination and challenges the traditional definitions and formal concerns of contemporary painting. Working on or altering the two-dimensional surface, continuing to investigate how we see, her work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place that is directly informed by the changing landscape of the city. Her work continues to explore the ideas of memory and how they weave together to create our reality.
Kevin Castile Kevin Castile is an artist living in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. His work incorporates elements of drawing, painting and photography in a disjunctive collage format. He has exhibited at the Detroit Artist’s Market; University of Michigan; Wayne State University; Western Illinois University; A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago; Detroit Focus Gallery and the Willis Gallery. Kevin teaches Color Theory and Design as well as Painting at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He also works as a Management Engineer for the Henry Ford Health System
Ellen Rutt Ellen Rutt is a multidisciplinary-artist and designer whose desire was to steep her identity as an artist in the spirit of Detroit, so she chose to locate her studio within an old warehouse in Milwaukee Junction, just east of New Center. While outsiders might not think of this area as an attractive place to explore, many artists are drawn to its dynamic automotive past and in recent years have transformed the vacant buildings into their own creative enclave.
Dennis Jones Dennis Jones is a visual artist, educator, and licensed practicing architect. He has participated in several one person and group shows, totaling sixty-one exhibitions that include local, national and international venues that span a career of twenty-six years. Jones work was selected to be included in the New American Paintings Midwest Competition Publication due out sometime, in 2019. Jones had a one- person exhibition, Candyland, from September through December of 2018, at The University of Michigan, NCRC Galleries
Marlo Broughton Marlo Broughton (born 1987) known professionally as MARLOBRO, is an American pop artist and designer. Who got his start by working with his cousin and founder of Detroit VS Everybody by Tommey Walker and linking up with members of Finally Famous which ultimatly lead to working on mixtape artworks and branding for Big Sean's early indie career. He began as a graffiti artist, moving on to studying industrial design at WSU (Wayne state university), and now makes acrylic paintings on canvas and large scale mural paintings. He also collaborates commercially, predominantly on promotional materials, and also clothing, music production and other forms of branding. His work is exhibited in galleries, outdoors in local and international environments, you can find his work displayed on 1XRUN, PLAYGROUND DETROIT, MURALS IN THE MARKET and avidly collected by individuals. He lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.
Katerina Friday Katerina Friday is a Russian-born artist with a background in drawing, painting, and animation. She received a BFA at the College for Creative Studies, where she studied traditional animation techniques, illustration, and multi-media. Her work ranges from representational to abstract and conceptual. Having grown up in Russia, she has lived in Detroit area for the last decade, and brings a cross-cultural approach to her art through multiple mediums.
Birgit Huttemann-Holz Birgit’s energetic works show a lush world, where nature is in constant celebration. Verdant gardens, and imaginary spaces become synonym for vulnerability and sanctuaries. She employs a myriad of media, including encaustic, oil, acrylic, encaustic monotype and even throwing and painting ceramics. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in Germany, The Netherlands, and in the US. She was awarded Finalist of the International Portrait Competition, Society for Art of Imagination, UK (2011), Best of Show, Platform Award, OK (2013), Best of Show, NANA 14, FL (2014) and won multiple awards nationwide.
Grant Browlow Grant Browlow is an interdisciplinary Artist working primarily with Relief Printmaking, Mixed Media Collage, and Mixed Media Paintings. Grant was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he was heavily influenced by the industrial landscape of the Midwestern United States. During this time Grant was fully immersed in the culture of automotive track racing and the automotive manufacturing industry. Grant received a Minor in Studio Art from Albion college and is currently living and working in Detroit, Michigan.