Art News
Letts’ “The Strangeness of Everyday” Costume Designer-Turned Painter Creates a World of Wild Style
November 30, 2018K. A. Letts’s exhibition, “The Strangeness of Everyday,” opened at the Connections Gallery at the University of Michigan’s North Campus Research Complex on September 20th and runs through December 21. Letts says of her art: “My work looks both forward and back in time. I employ techniques and strategies from painting’s history to describe the present Anthropocene age where all of nature is touched by humans and all humans are touched by technology.”
Have We Met?—The Dialogue Between Past and Present
October 31, 2018It is heartrending to see that message, reverberated through the past and into the present. Cynics may be tempted to ask, “Have we really made any progress?”. Yet, above the calls of protest and activism, the gallery is also filled with silence, waiting for the viewer’s response to the question, “Will you change it?”
“Unapologetic Dinnerware: A Brief History Of Disposable Dinnerware”
September 30, 2018“Unapologetic Dinnerware: a brief history of disposable dinnerware” opened on August 28 at the Kreft Gallery at Concordia University.
“See Through” Reflective And Transparent Surfaces
August 31, 2018See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth Century Photography, open to the public at the University of Michigan Museum Of Art, makes use of reflective and transparent surfaces to create perspectives and to expand the range of the photos’ possible meanings.
