Detroit Lens: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow at Detroit Artists Market
‘Got any sexier ones?’ Featured at Detroit Artists Market in exhibition curated by Jeff Cancelosi
“Her eyes show most defiance in the large, unfuckable soft sculptures that begin to inhabit our space. The soft, pillowy self-portrait shown in gallery requires that we move around it. We can’t just put it away and forget it. It is a lumpy, undeniable fact that we must adjust to, not the other way around […] This is one strategy for her reclamation of agency- to use her sex appeal as the bait to her trap. Very much biting the hand that used to feed her.”
Materials: Digital image printed on coated fabric, thread, shredded foam
Size: 55” x 50” x 24”
Year: 2016
Title Origin: ‘Got any sexier ones?’ was a question asked of me by a man online looking for something more than a traditional headshot portrait of me.
August 23 - September 21, 2024 | Detroit Artists Market
Exhibition Statement:
Join us as we explore the incredible world of Detroit photographers past, present and future. Through the eyes of these artists, our own eyes are opened to the extraordinary. Detroit has a rich history in art and documentary photography to which new makers are continually adding. This show brings together works from a wide range of remarkably gifted photographers in our community, including some who have left us. We are privileged to have the world illuminated by these individuals and their insights.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Suraj Bhamra, Sarah C. Blanchette, Brittanie Bondie, Elonte Davis, Brian Day, Carlos Diaz, Jon Dones, Andrea Eis, Walter Farynk, Misha Gordin, Hugh Grannum, Cynthia Greig, David Griffith, Don Hudson, Lonnell Hurst, Jaclyn Iskow, Bill Jackson, Takeisha Jefferson, Ralph Jones, Shanna Merola, James Charles Morris, Eleanor Oakes, Jimel Primm, Bill Rauhauser, Barry Roth, Amy Sacka, Bill Sanders, Christopher Schneider, Donita Simpson, Leni Sinclair, Thomas Stoye, Rachel Elise Thomas, Millee Tibbs, Carl Toth, Martin Venezky, Noah Waldeck, Asha Walidah, Niki Williams, Cherry Wood, S. Kay Young
