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What do you see: abstracting the landscape at The Spot

Submitted 09-24-2012 under OPINION

I used to paint. I used to paint huge color field paintings with layers and depth and I just really, for years on end, loved color and balance. Those two elements, simple and often disregarded as they may be in much artwork, can convey so much just...

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Gaspard Gallery combines poetry and photography

Submitted 09-24-2012 under OPINION

ArtPrize foot traffic tapers off somewhere on South Division between Rumors Nightclub and the Goodwill. Though the area between Fulton and Wealthy Street contain the highest concentration of year-round art galleries, few seem interested or...

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Role/Play at Kendall College shows that sometimes less is more

Submitted 09-22-2012 under OPINION

Exhibition Centers have become the foundations of many people’s ArtPrize experience, often hosting the largest bodies of work, giving folks the ability to see more in less time. This year, one of the those Exhibition Centers, Kendall College...

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What do you see: Plexus No 18 at Kendall College

Submitted 09-22-2012 under OPINION

In a beautifully curated space at Kendall College's new use of the Old Federal Building, in the middle of quality work clamoring for attention, Gabriel Dawe made me stop and get curious with Plexus No 18. Created from brightly colored...

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Redefining Habitats: a juxtaposition between nature and design

Submitted 09-21-2012 under OPINION

New York-based artist Alois Kronschlaeger returns for his second year participating in ArtPrize with his new installation, Habitat. Using the space in the old Grand Rapids Public Museum building, Kronschlaeger put the museum’s abandoned...

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What do you see: Breathing Room at SiTE:LAB

Submitted 09-21-2012 under OPINION

Upstairs in the expansive venue at the old Public Museum curated by SiTE:LAB, one room, seemingly unfinished and filled with boxes, leads to another room with curious little breathing piles of bubbles. The entry is "Breathing Room" by...

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What do you see: Still Point by Gwendolyn Terry at High Five

Submitted 09-20-2012 under OPINION

"I would never want to tell a viewer what to think or to feel about a piece," says Gwen Terry, the artist behind Still Point, a site-specific installation at High Five (55 Campau). Little did she know that I had just been through a...

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What do you see: Amass by Margery Amdur and Art Fitness

Submitted 09-19-2012 under OPINION

Margery Amdur's work at (106) Gallery (Calvin College's downtown gallery at 106 S. Division) looks, at a distance, like children's toy blocks. Up close, however, if the viewer takes a bit of time to investigate it they'll discover...

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Finding what I missed at ArtPrize

Submitted 09-19-2012 under OPINION

I caught a glimpse of ArtPrize 2012 before the fact. As I strolled through the city Sunday evening there were small groups of people scattered around the Rosa Parks Circle area on Monroe. Artists were hard at work: U-Haul trucks and moving vans...

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"Let It Be" revisits classic Beatles repertoire

Submitted 09-14-2012 under OPINION

A few Mondays ago, Aquinas College's Circle Theatre hosted an event quite different than the average musical. Indeed it had music, dance and theatrics in abundance but instead of a play, the troupe, dubbed "Let It Be," performed...

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