Sat 9/12 @ 5-7PM
Yet another area gallery returns to action, with a virtual opening reception and regular hours to see the work in person after that — which seems to be the model for the foreseeable future.
When the Sculpture Center reopened, it will be presenting The Shape of Sculpture, featuring the work of recent graduates of Detroit’s Cranbrook Academy of Art. The juried show includes the work of 2019 and 2020 sculpture graduates Melika Abikenari, Caroline Del Giudice, Tiffany Danielle Elliott, Moira Maloney, Jeff Schofield, Mingdong Sun, Dessislava Terzieva, Luke Warren and Liu Yuan.
The virtual opening takes place Saturday September 12 @ 5-7pm, and will feature a tour, artist comments and a look at how the show was developed, curated and installed under COVID-19 limitations. After that, the gallery will have regular hours, which you can find here.
Curator (and Cranbrook alumnus in fiber, class of 02), Sarah Kabot says, “Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Sculpture department cultivates an environment that prepares students to be translators of their culture by exposing and questioning its values. Students test out work that might disrupt physical, cultural or conceptual systems by creating site-specific installations, temporary performances, and endurance pieces.”
“In reflecting on the works selected, the theme of the shifting ground between beholder and participant emerged,” she adds. “Several pieces in the exhibition share a fragment of information with the audience — a snippet of dialog, a symbol purposefully obscured. These works remind me that in my limited human experience, I most often perceive only a brief moment of another’s lived reality. Other pieces explicitly call me out or call me to right action as a member of an implicated community. At any given moment, we are outside of one story, and inside of another.”
Go here to sign up for the Zoom opening. The show will be on view through Saturday November 7.