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13/9/2002

2002-03 Season Premiere

Detroit Contemporary, Detroit

An evening of art, music & video

The Event
detroit contemporary presents the premiere of its fifth season with an evening of art, music, and video installation. The event will see the changing of the guards in the sculpture garden with new sculptures and installations to contemplate for the next 12 months. The premiere event will also include the opening of four new art exhibits, and an eclectic program of live musical and visual performance. Celebrating its fourth year of creative expression and exploration, detroit contemporary welcomes the public to this free event. The evening begins at 6pm on September 14, 2001 with the opening receptions for artists Jeanne Bieri, Jason Brougham, Free Multi-Media, Inc., Peter Mallo, and Teresa L. Petersen and the sculpture garden including the works of various local artists (listed below). Music performances will begin promptly at 6PM with the techno beats of d.j. Gnostic and close out at 11PM with the African rhythms of Issa Abramaleem. Pilot Pictures will provide video installation accompaniment after dark.

On The Stage
The outdoor performance stage will provide an evening of eclectic musical expressions including funk, indie rock, urban folk, house/techno and African drumming. The public is invited to B.Y.O.D(rum) and to join in with the drum circle. The artists and stage times are as follows:
6PM Gnostic 9PM Kalieda
7PM Edith Head 10PM Sista Otis and the Wholly Rollers
8PM Detroit Deep Funk 11PM Drum circle led by Issa Abramaleem

In The Sculpture Garden
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of our outdoor sculpture exhibit, new works come to nest. Featuring local artists Gary Andolina, Kathleen A. Arkles, Robert Bielat, Jeffrey Klein, Nolan Simon, and James Stoia.

In The T1 and T2 Galleries
After one year, the T1 and T2 galleries have housed sculptures, paintings and installations large and small and will continue to test exhibition possibilities with this seasons premier.

Exhibiting in the T1 Gallery, Mare L. Costello aka Free Multi-Media, Inc. has created a new body of work entitled Lamination which has developed out of a background in sculpture and the need to have fun. From her time at The Center for Creative Studies, Free approached art from two distinct avenues, these being the world of the fine artist with cast aluminum, wood, and perfectly buffed steel works and the world of advertising for Detroits rave scene. After years of creating within this dichotomy, Frees work has developed into low and high reliefs and sculpture created from her own photography, laminate and plastic.

In the T2 Gallery artists Jeanne R. Bieri and Teresa L. Petersen install their collaborative project; Harvest Gold which approaches fine art from the urban archeologists P.O.V. Both artists have worked in recycled materials and assemblage for years on end. These two artists have traveled similar paths not only with their approach to material, but also with their educational history, both receiving MFAs from Wayne State and both having previously received their Bachelor of Science degrees. This understanding of structure (in Petersens case, biology) is evident in their reconstructed and renewed works. This installation will utilize and reconfigure tossed off items from the streets of Detroit to then be dismantled and distributed to the viewers at the close of the show.

The First Floor Gallery
detroit contemporary introduces Peter Mallo (Rochester, NY) with his first solo exhibition, Place and Placement in the First Floor Gallery. A recent graduate of CCS (Dec 01), Mallos work was showcased in the Center Galleries, Selections IV to represent the Fine Arts Department. He returns to Detroit with paintings expanding well beyond their previous existence, now protruding from the wall yet still retaining subtlety and signs of purposeful and delicate reworking with each layer upon layer. Marks that appear to be compositional scratches reveal themselves as much more upon close inspection.

The Second Floor Gallery
Jason Brougham (Brooklyn, NY) brings us New Form in the Second Floor Gallery, a solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings that discuss mark, form, and the absence of these in the process of examining subject. Brougham struggle(s) to capture the precise point between the emergence of the painting and a death by over-completion, admires Charlotte Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

The Brick Room Gallery
This exhibition christens The Brick Room Gallery anew and sets the pace for site-specific installation in this space, which will be the first of many. Free Multi-Media, Inc. uses color and light to create, Multi-Color Lamination with works installed from the ceiling.

The Gallery
The six-week art exhibitions run from Saturday, September 14 through Sunday, October 22, 2001 with an opening reception to meet the artists on Saturday, September 14, from 6pm to 10pm.

The entire opening night event runs from 6pm to midnight on September 14, 2001.

detroit contemporarys galleries are open Thursday through Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.

You may contact detroit contemporary by phone at 313.898.4ART or via electronic mail

detroit contemporary is located in the Woodbridge Historic District at 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd. This is two blocks north of Warren Avenue, two blocks south of the I94 expressway, and three blocks west of Trumbull. This event is free and open to the public. Free on the street parking available.

detroit contemporary
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd
Detroit MI 48208-1705
313.898.4ART

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