museum of new art - june 19, 2010

Oliver Aguilar, Bella Angora, Ida Applebroog, Alice Aycock, Angie Baan, John Baldessari, Donald Baechler, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Kevin Beasley, Kristin Beaver, Dawoud Bey, Ross Bleckner, Ashley Bickerton, Chris Bors, Mary Boone, Jef Bourgeau, Nicolas Bourriaud, Alison Brady, Davin Brainard, Monica Breen, Olaf Breuning, Alex Burdiak, Theresa Byrnes, Amanda Faye Cain, Dan Cameron, Darlene Carroll, Maurizio Cattelan, Saint-Clari Cemin, Sandro Chia, Manohar Chiluvera, Catharine Clark, Larry Clark, Lygia Clark, Stephen Cohen, Matthew Collings, Marco Coraggio, Dorota Coy, Steve Coy, Arthur C. Danto, E.V. Day, Sacha Eckes, Robert del Valle, Cathy de Monchaux, Wim Delvoye, John Divola, Rachel Hunt Durocher, Thoma Eller, Barbara Ess, Susan Evans, Alan Feltus, Zach Feuer, Eric Fischl, Brian Finke, Dido Fontana, Sylvie Fortin, Kelly Frank, Coco Fusco, Brenda Goodman, Ann Gordon, Cynthia Greig, Jessica Guzman, Lisi Hämmerle, Lyle Ashton Harris, Albert Heta, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Wei-Hui Hsu, David Humphrey, Alison Jacques, Irena Jurek, Jesper Just, Deborah Kass, Ulli Knall, Leo Koenig, Mark Kostabi, Anna Kustera, Alix Lambert, Nikki S. Lee, Annette Lemieux, Donald Lipski, Edward Lucie-Smith, Gerardo Macias-Garcia, Ann Magnuson, Stephen Magsig, Allan McCollum, Michael McGillis, Shanna Merola, Julie Mehretu, Shanna Merola, Vanessa Merrill, Marilyn Mintner, Vik Muniz, Yoshitomo Nara, Joseph Nechvatal, Odd Nerdrum, Achille Bonito Oliva, Hans Op de Beeck, Catherine Opie, Dennis Oppenheim, Patrick Painter, Jim Pallas, Allison Pasarew, Julie Pate, Alix Pearlstein, Judy Pfaff, Amy Phelan, Cara Philips, Jack Pierson, Judy Rifka, Michael Rooks, Andrea Rosen, David A. Ross, Charles Saatchi, Amy Sacksteder, Chris Samuels, Antonio Sassu, Robert Schefman, Peter Schiering, Paul Schimmel, Lauren Semivan, Brent Sikkema, Amy Sillman, Jessica Silverman, Rena Small, Gilda Snowden, Dale Sparage, Alan Sonfist, Buzz Spector, Amy Stein, Jessica Stockholder, Tom Stoye, Billy Sullivan, Jack Summers, Ian Swanson, Bryant Tillman, John Torreano, Alexander Vieth, Jerry Vile, Kara E. Walker, Wendy White, Vagner Whitehead, Mandy Williams, Anne Wilson, Eva Winkeler, Lindsey Yeo, S. Kay Young, William Wegman, Darcel Deneau, Andrea Zittel.

The American Dream remains elusive for our nation’s black farmers, who have been losing their land at a rate three times faster than the national average. Institutional racism, foreclosures and bankruptcy have torn families from farms they have occupied for generations. Today, African Americans own roughly only 1 percent of all farmland in the United States.

As this population continues to disappear from our national landscape, the Museum of New Art (MONA) presents “Where Furrows Run Deep,” a comprehensive collection of images by Detroit-based photographer Jeffrey Sauger. Shot on black-and-white film over several years, “Where Furrows Run Deep” depicts the tragedy and triumph of the American black farmer without artifice: It is both anthropological document and aesthetic achievement.

The opening reception will be from 6-9 p.m. June 19, 2010, at the Museum of New Art (MONA), located at 7 North Saginaw Street, Pontiac, MI. Exhibit hours will be 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Jeffrey Sauger began the project as a graduate student in Ohio in 1999. He continued the project through grants and sponsorship from Blue Earth Alliance. Sauger received his master’s degree from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication, and is a professional photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post. In 2000, Sauger was named Michigan Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association.

An abbreviated version of “Where Furrows Run Deep” has appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sunday magazine. He lives in Royal Oak, where he continues shooting editorial and commercial work for newspapers, magazines and clients like General Motors.

in partnership with the Pontiac Art Revival -  making a difference using the arts.

This collection of abstract work is inspired by shapes found in life. The drawings are
rendered in graphite on 1970's "found" sketch paper then framed in early 1900's photographic album paper. The artist wanted a medium that is a facsimile of life, an impermanent fragility that one could touch and see and that recalls lifeʼs delicate nature and how the boundary between life and death is very thin.

Strezinski received her BFA from Michigan State University and works in Detroit. She is
the founder and director of Detroit Industrial Projects and her studio is located in the
Russell Industrial Center.