thenextbigthing:If it can be seen, it is real. Existence and truth are inseparable from our vision, even when it is being deceived. Deception is merely another form of reality that allows us to see the entirety of our world. It clarifies self-representation, the negative with the positive.
And so, the concept of reality is never constant. It evolves within the delusions of environment and time, creating a subjective Big Bang over and over. Simply put, we never view anything the same twice. And, when we're not looking, everything is constantly recreating itself for our next viewing.
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Roland Lusk, Unholy Erection, Kelly Rosebrock, Narine Kchikian, Michelle Hinebrook, Georgia Vandewater, Gabriel Hillebrand and Cynthia Randolph.
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@ The Museum of New Art
7 North Saginaw, Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac - The Museum of New Art's (MONA) new show reveals more than meets the eye. Head to the museum's Pontiac complex to see "The Next Big Thing", featuring new work by young artists to watch, working in all disciplines.
Some standouts include Cynthia Randolph's studies of time and timing depicted in a series of digital photographs. One chronicles one day of urine flushing down toilet bowls, resulting in a grid of colors and gradations in light that don't look anything like what they are. Another work discovers the beauty of a surgical mask, light and disposable but able to protect from disease.
Roland Lusk has created a room installation that takes you into a verdant yet somewhat sickly forest. Leaves of green fabric are suspended from the ceiling and stuck on the walls along with painted white tree fungus and antlers. The walls are papered in an oversized digital print - a cowhide tinted grass-green.
Michelle Hinebrook creates highly textured and veiled paintings – some pure abstractions, others with hidden figures – on tiles covered with netting culled from produce bags found on fruits and vegetables.
Other artists' include Kelly Rosebrock who has captured "fingerprints" of individual cell phones in her sparse, colorful photographs; Narine Kchikian, who curated the show, has created a minimalist room installation where illusions come into play; Georgia Vandewater, who creates paintings in vinyl that are variations on Da Vinci's "Circle of Man"; the artist Unholy Erection has created a funhouse of gender coding in his installation of photos and video; and Gabriel Hillebrand whose work in the Annex on the first floor combines grids, string and books into a playful sculpture.
Mary Kim, a Cranbrook graduate and instructor at the College for Creative Studies, takes center stage at MONA with her colorful geometric towers, some of steel and some of wood. Simple yet complex, her painted pieces change as you move around the gallery, revealing hidden negative spaces and subtle shifts in color that are engaging.
MONA will hold a Searchlight Gala Reception for the artists, 7-10 p.m this Wednesday November 24th at the respective galleries and museum, including champagne, wine, three food stations and music by DJ Powder Blue. Shows are up through Dec 18.
t: 248.210.7560
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