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Friday, May 27  6PM- 9PM

Open Studio with Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos

Please join us for an open studio with visiting artists,  Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos (currently living and working in Berlin). Vincenzo  & Tana  will present a large body of work installed around the Popps compound and beyond that focuses on the relationship between symbols, ethics and public spaces.

This works is part of a larger project titled, “The Sea After Crisis: Reality is amorphous. Ethics is graphics”.

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From Pre-Hellenic cultures until today humans have been determining a number of ethical geometries that survived and strengthened over the most significant epochal changes, above all the accession of monotheism. Those geometries also represent the basis of a social model which imposed its will worldwide over the past centuries.

“The sea after crisis” is a project about the dynamics of moral structures and the role of graphics in society. It is a long trip across etymology and symbology narrated through visual paradoxes, poster campaigns and art interventions to realize in three emblematic cities: Detroit (United States), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Athens (Greece). The experiences made in those cities will be then collected in a single book.

Some of Vincenzos published works can be found at Printed Matter.

GARRETT MACLEAN

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November 6-28

Opening reception, Friday Nov. 6,  7-10pm

Make Way For Progress is a portrait series that focuses on individuals and families being forced from their homes, or their livelihoods, by large institutional forces. In Nicaragua, Chinese billionaire Wang Jing (with the support of the Nicaraguan President) is building a canal that bisects the country. Over 100,000 people will be forced from their homes and land to allow the world’s largest infrastructure project, one which disproportionately benefits the Chinese interests.
In Detroit, Wayne County Treasurer has foreclosed on a record 8,000 occupied properties. Foreclosed properties are sold at auction to the highest bidder, and while some of these families grasped the opportunity to become owners of the home they already lived in, many more lost out due to the increased desirability of Detroit as a commodity, with auction prices far outreaching those of previous years. These images from come from an ongoing work-in-progress.
These are the faces of people who will be displaced by the all mighty Progress.

Garrett MacLean is a photographer living and working in Detroit. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Creative Writing. He has exhibited his photos in NYC, San Francisco, Oakland, and Detroit, with an outdoor exhibition in Guatemala this winter. He has shot for TIME, VICE UK, Under the Influence, Hyphen, and Yes Magazine, amongst others.
www.garrettmaclean.com

CLOSING RECEPTION FOR “IT’S EXERCISE TIME!: AN AEROBIC WORKOUT ART SHOW

Sunday, November 1st,  4PM

JESSICA FRELINGHUYSEN:”ITS EXERCISE TIME!” AN AEROBIC WORKOUT ART SHOW 

Closing Reception with a final “JESSERCISE” performance workout and Artist Talk

This is your last chance see the show and sweat delicately along with Jessica when she holds her FINAL participatory class-performance “Jessercise!” on Sunday November 1st at 4PM!!

Using a remarkable and oblique approach based on her past experience with the persistence of exercise in the face of delicious Detroit food, Jessica Frelinghuysen takes you on a journey to a better you! 

Bring your exercise mat for a post workout artist talk and conversation with Jessica in the gallery.

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Read a great review of the show by Clara DeGalan here 

http://paperhelmets.com/home.html

Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival

Saturday, October 10

“It’s completely organic. It’s homegrown. It’s 100% Hamtramck.”- Steve Hughes of Public Pool art space. 

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The 6th annual Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival (HNAF) kicks off Friday, October 9th at Popps Packing with the opening reception by Hamtramcks own, Jessica Frelinghuysen & resumes Saturday, October 10 at 12pm with a heroic bloody mary brunch at BUMBOS.  From there the festival takes over the city as artists open their home studios and music rises from backyards and empty lots.

Festival maps will be available at the kick off event at Popps Packing on October 9th and at other participating venues including 9338 Campau Gallery and Public Pool. A link to the map will be available on the HNAF FB page. 

HNAF HAPPENINGS at POPPS!!

Popps_Swap_062-6PM- BARTER BAZZAR,  A community exchange and sharing event! Located on the Cactus Lot across the street from Popps. Everyone has something to offer!!!

4PM – Participatory performance “JESSERCISE”, by Jessica Frelinghuysen at Popps Packing, 12138 St. Aubin

5PM- Live performance by James Cornish on the Popps Shop Stage, 12138 St. Aubin

 

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6-8PM- Snake Church, a one night exhibition by Kathy Leisen at Popps Emporium, 2025 Carpenter

 

 

 

THINKING COLON: New works by KYLIE LOCKWOOD

 

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, February 7
7PM-10PM
Show runs through February 28th

Two round solid forms, one on top of the other, not touching but inherently linked.

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These forms draw attention to a division, a gap, a space in between two separate but connected things. They are a joint. They join. A passage from inside to outside. A phase in which material is broken and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation. A state like that of the soft setting stage of concrete. The pliable period that is only momentary, where you can take your hand and make an imprint in the surface. The state before it is solidified into rock and after the liquidity that runs through your fingers. The liminal space in between.

 

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kylie Lockwood received her MFA from Hunter College and BFA from the College for Creative Studies. She has exhibited internationally in Berlin, London, Madrid, New York, Philadelphia, Miami and Detroit. Kylie has participated in a number of residencies, including Skowhegan, the Hambidge Creative Residency Program and the Contemporary Artists Center. Her work has been written about in the Metro Times, Infinite Mile and the New York Times. Kylie currently teaches in the Fine Art Department at the College for Creative Studies and is the co-director of Cave Gallery.