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Corazón y Dignidad

Rosa María Zamarrón + Amelia E. Duran

Oct 23 - Nov 14

As we move into the next season of a year rich in reckonings; in a society full of contradictions and governed by violence. Many have come to understand this moment as an opportunity to radically re-imagine and rebuild. Confronting shrouded truths about our interdependence by tilling into the complexities of our fragile coexistence. 

“Corazon y Dignidad” is an exhibition that invites us to commit to a spiritual journey that awakens the mystical spaces that exist deep within our physical being and memory. An instinctual memory that demands to align itself more closely to the daily lived experiences of our peoples. 

By honoring the roots of our communal traditions and liberation movements we engage in a process of reverence and self-reflection that resists assimilation and examines the pathway necessary to build power. Conjuring ancestral energies felt through an inner pulse that acknowledges pain, hope, and sacrifice. To continue to guide our intentions through their strength and courageous acts of revolutionary love in defense of our shared humanity. 

Uplifting a collective desire for true liberation and healing by fighting from our hearts with dignity."

- Amelia E. Duran

Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers  

art & installation by sabrina nelson

sept 4 - oct 3 | weds - sat: 12-5 p.m.

༽ BY APPOINTMENT only ༽

appointments accepted by email only. email us at info@galeriecamille.com

Galerie Camille is pleased to announce the solo exhibition opening of “Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers” by artist and educator Sabrina Nelson. Sabrina’s latest body of work is inspired by Nina Simone’s song Blackbird and her charge to artists- “it is your duty to reflect the times”. We live in a hash-tag era, where Black and Brown bodies are brutally murdered and swiftly turned into hash-tag symbols on social media; where often the focus of how they were killed is sensationalized and who they were as valued beings in their communities is ignored. These bodies leave behind their Mothers, Fathers, and community members who mourn them. The sacred spaces (the bird cages represent the womb and homes) they once occupied in their communities, are empty. The schools, churches, stores, homes, they will never return to. The Mother has to revisit these empty spaces, while the child is criminalized by the media. “Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers” meaning Black Bird in Spanish, is an experience exhibition that includes floating sculptures, large rich charcoal and pastel drawings on paper, installations of ritualistic alters and carefully placed objects in memory of a mothers energy and the solitude of the empty nests left behind.

“Paloma Negra is also about that sadness that beings must endure publicly and privately while the media captures the story. Our body and our nesting always tells the truth. A grouping of black crows is called “a murder of crows” and a grouping of ravens is called “a conspiracy of ravens “ or “ an unkindness of ravens”. These poetic names were given to these Corvid creatures during the 15th century.”- Sabrina Nelson

This exhibition experience will be on view from Sept 4th through Oct 3rd, 2020 by appointment only.

Sabrina Nelson was born in 1967 during the rebellion in Detroit Michigan. She is a well known painter, educator and lecturer in the city of Detroit. Influenced by West Africa’s Yoruba Religion, and Eastern Philosophy—her work is a combination of mixed media, logic and feminism. She teaches at The College for Creative Studies and Detroit Institute of Arts. Sabrina’s work has been exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Arts in Detroit and the African American Art in Culture Complex in San Francisco CA. Sabrina’s work has also been exhibited in Florida, New York, Louisiana, Illinois and Ohio. Her work is in the collection at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and private collections all over the country. She has participated in the Miami Basel at Jakmel Gallery, American University in Paris.

The Galerie Camille gallery is located at 4130 Cass Avenue, Suite C, Detroit, MI 48201. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5:00 p.m. by appointment Please make an appointment by email to view the exhibition.

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T E M P O R A L E
MARCH 6 - APRIL 4
watercolors and drawings by Sergio De Giusti

Galerie Camille is pleased to announce Temporale, a solo exhibition of the recent work of renowned artist and sculptor, Sergio De Giusti. De Giusti presents his recent series of drawings and watercolors exploring the anger and violence in nature. In Italian, Temporale means darkness, a gathering clouds and the deluge that follows. Each piece is a meditation of the forces that are making critical climate changes to our planet. The wildly tragic results from thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, fires and tornadoes, all of which are depicted in Sergio's explosive new visions. Much like the 19th Century Romantics, nature was used as an allegory for death and the conditions and problems of the times. Dystopian views of stark empty landscapes in turmoil with few images of life, shrouded in darkness. These powerful, visceral artworks will be on view from March 6 through April 4, 2020. The opening for Temporale is March 6, 2020, 6 p.m.

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Freedom To Be: Paintings by Waleed Johnson

February 19 - 29, 2020

artist talk February 28

Waleed Johnson is a 2015 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Dual Degree program with a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in painting. He was selected as a 2015 Reilly Scholar; a special honor given to exemplary dual degree students at Notre Dame. Waleed is the recipient of the 2015 Barbara H. Roche Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Painting as well as the Mabel L. Mountain Painting Prize.

Waleed is a native Detroiter who is passionate about his city. After graduation Waleed returned to Detroit, which is where he lives and creates. His work has been published in the International Review of African American Art and he has exhibited in various galleries including The Saginaw Art Museum, Gallery Guichard in Chicago and Cass Cafe in Detroit.

“People of color and their emotions are the focus of my work.” - Waleed Johnson

“In many communities of color, silence and suppression are coping mechanisms for emotional trauma. We are taught to not talk about mental health; thus, our emotional struggles are often times neglected. Black culture is full of expressions of emotion; however, when it comes to pain, sadness, depression or mental health issues, these emotions are often suppressed under the guise of being strong. My work seeks to bring light to the so-called “weak” or negative emotions that people of color hide, and to remind people that it is okay to not be okay. Emotion, however, is a universal part of the human experience, not just something people of color deal with. Utilizing color, shadow, and facial expressions I aim to create thoughtful pieces that draw the viewer in and invite them to connect with and understand the emotions of the people in the paintings.” - Waleed Johnson

DISSIMILATE COHORT:

AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL

JAN. 10 UNTIL FEB. 8, 2020

ARTIST TALK: JANUARY 25, 2020 

“DISSIMILATE COHORT: AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL” ATTEMPTS TO ILLUMINATE CREATIVE EFFORTS OF A COHORT HAVING EMERGED FROM WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY’S MFA AND MA PROGRAMS, LIVING AND WORKING ACROSS THE DETROIT AREA.

THROUGHOUT ART HISTORY, ARTISTS OF SIMILAR OR CONTRASTING IDEAS, PRACTICES, AND PEDAGOGIES HAVE CONGREGATED TO UPLIFT AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER’S AFFIRMATIONS OR INVESTIGATIONS. WITHIN THE INTENSE AND INTIMATE SPACES OF ACADEMIA, ARTISTS GATHER WITH THE INTENTION TO INVESTIGATE THE CONTEMPORARY CLIMATE THAT THEY EXPERIENCE. THE PHENOMENON OF A COLLECTIVE ENVIRONMENT IS CRITICAL TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK WITHIN THE EXHIBITION, WITH EACH ARTIST UTILIZING DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT IMAGERY TO UNDERSTAND ART’S RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIETY

“DISSIMILATE COHORT: AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL” IS AN EXHIBITION FEATURING INSTALLATION, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING, AND SCULPTURE CENTERED AROUND THE VARIED CONCEPTS OF SIX EMERGING ARTISTS. 

SUNSHINE DURANT

JUDITH FEIST

RYAN HERBERHOLZ

KYLE SHARKEY 

JESSICA WILDMAN-KATZ

AUDREY ZOFCHAK

The Black & White Show

A JURIED EXHIBITION OF 30 LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARTISTS.

NOVEMBER 15 - DECEMBER 14, 2019

ALEX ALEXANDER / CHRISTOPHER BENNETT / ALEKSANDRA ILIC BJELICA /
ANDREA BOGART / IAN BOYDEN/ DAVIN BRAINARD / DINA CHARARA /
SERGIO DE GIUSTI / JOHN DYKSTRA / DONOVAN ENTREKIN / MICHEL ERUSSARD /
CHRISTINE FORNI / MARCIA FREEDMAN / DEBORAH FRIEDMAN /
MYLES GALLAGHER / DANIELA GOBETTI / ANGELA LARSON / MOLLY MARDEN /
ROBERT MIREK / KELLY O’NEILL / JERRY OPPER / ERIC PERRY / MICHAEL MOE SAAD /
JOHN SIPPEL / SLAW / ERIC SMITH / LINDA SOBERMAN / DAVID M TAFFET /
NANCY THAYER / JANA DIETSCH WINGELS

Inked, an Exploration of Process

October 18 - November 9, 2019

This exhibition brings three artists together, Robert Aronson, Vernard Rubens and Mary Rousseaux, who have shared a print studio for over 15 years. The works range from traditional hand painted etchings, mono chrome relief prints and vibrant tribal monotypes. While each artist has a unique approach to the press they share a passion for the craft.

This exhibition in dedicated to their mentor and friend Stanley Rosenthal

Rose (Brown) Dalessandro

September 13-October 5, 2019

Join Galerie Camille on Friday, September 13th for the retrospective of Rose (Brown) Dalessandro’s artwork from 6-9PM. The exhibit features important pieces from Dalessandro's work from 1975 until her untimely death in 2017.

Born in 1940, Dalessandro graduated from Detroit's Center for Creative Studies (now the College for Creative Studies) in 1983 and quickly became a noted figure in the city's art community, although she maintained a somewhat elusive presence, periodically leaving the scene to expand her artistic sensibilities. She served as assistant director of CCS's Center Galleries from 1989 to 1998 and studied at Wayne State University in 1998-99.

Dalessandro was best known for her sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs in bronze, clay, and plaster, often described as frankly feminist in theme and suggestive of goddesses and mythological totems. Her series of shields in particular has been interpreted as Dalessandro's response to growing up female in a male-dominated world. Dennis Nawrocki noted, "Such wall-mounted protective armor could, conceivably, be donned at a moment's notice to reinforce the guarded stance women often adopt in a patriarchal culture." Art critic Marsha Miro wrote of the lack of detailed features in Dalessandro's sculptures that served to emphasize the forms and edges of the works. "She understands the geometry of nature and the evocative power of slight irregularities."

For Dalessandro, her religious upbringing helped form her approach to both life and art, as she found the restrictions intolerable and the expectations impossible to attain, particularly as a woman. Of her sculptures of women, she wrote, "The female form prevails in [my] work because of another factor evident in most religions: shame placed on women for nothing more than being female." Ultimately for Dalessandro, it was not the final product but the process of creating that led her to a life in art: "The final product, the sculpture or the drawing, is not the only incentive. The process of doing, assembling, mixing, watching, and experimenting is an exercise that is a very necessary and personal element of my art."

Saturated

July 19-August 10, 2019

Gerald Collins, Megan Stone, and Valerie Ross To Be Featured in Exhibit SATURATED at Galerie Camille Detroit, MI--April 30, 2019--Gallerie Camille presents an exhibition of works by Gerald Collins, Megan Stone, and Valerie Ross, running July 19-August 10. Titled SATURATED, the exhibit features light installations and abstract paintings that explore color and color theory.

Gerald Collins is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Detroit. Influenced by the aesthetic philosophy of Bauhaus, his work is predicated on conceptually elevating and warping the mundane into abstract imagery that yields psychological responses. He has spanned the media of photography, graphic design, film, and spacial instillations. His works have been featured in multiple venues throughout the Metro Detroit area. Collins lists Fauvism, Minimalism, and Expressionism as inspirations for his works that are at times stark and abstract in subject matter but elevated with the application of color to inspire a psychological response. His goal is to view older forms through the lens of twenty-first century technology.

Megan Stone practices a variety of processes such as photography, printmaking, and collage that explore contrasting patterns, forms, and textures found within nature to inform her
paintings on canvas and paper. Her work is built up through multiple layers of neon colors and playful marks that challenge the invented relationships between nature and culture. In 2014, Stone received a BFA in Painting from Grand Valley State University, whose permanent art collection includes fifteen of her original works. She currently lives in Wyandotte. Using bright neon and candy colors against a backdrop of industrial architecture and the geometric pattern or urban living, Stone believes "the line between nature and human-made can often be blurred in our contemporary world, but the relationships and their structures are what is most obvious to me. There is richness in the many layers of nature and culture, where they recreate one another, and the process continues. In exploring the many ways in which these two elements relate, conflict, and transform, a series of patterns and marks are playfully developed to share the bigger picture of these realities, highlighting their irregularities and the tensions that arise."

Inspired by the Abstract Expressionism of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell, Valerie Ross’s style both reflects the essence of Abstractionism and pays homage to the pioneers of the style by using pathos to evoke raw emotion in every aspect of her work. Ross sees her creations as poetic displays of rich dimensional colors, familiar shapes reminiscent of the female form, deep Interconnectivity, and depth of media to evoke an intense feeling of passion in her audience.

Reverberations

June 7th-29th, 2019

Galerie Camille presents a dual-artist exhibition of works by Carla Anderson and Hiroko Lancour, running June 7th-29th. Titled Reverberations, the exhibit features photography and mixed-media pieces that explore movement, pattern, repetition, and the role of happenstance in nature.

Currently a resident of Royal Oak, Carla Anderson received her undergraduate degree from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and her MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has received two Michigan Council for the Arts grants and a Michigan Foundation for the Arts award, and her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kalamazoo Art Institute, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Anderson's most recent work current work focuses on the minute and serene in the landscape. She investigates spatial relationships, color, light, and atmosphere in what she describes as "long-term projects." "I begin with a general idea and as my work progresses it takes on shape and direction. Over time I develop a large body of images which consist of groups of photographs I refer to as movements. The reference to music exists because each section is self-sufficient yet related to the whole." Anderson says her goal with her photographs is to give viewers a sense of the "feel" of the geographical subject matter, focusing on details rather than on macro-level descriptions.

Hiroko Lancour is a Japanese-born mixed-media artist with an MFA from Wayne State University. She experiments with interdisciplinary work including collage, drawing, fiber, installation and painting. Her work is influenced by her cross-cultural background of East and West, as well as her prior career as a systems analyst. Her work has been exhibited at the Alden B. Dow Museum in Midland, University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, the Detroit Artists Market, and the Charles L. Freer House in Detroit. Lancour keeps her studio practice in Ferndale. Lancour explains the influence of her former career in computer science on her artistic output, "Trained as a systems analyst, I had developed computer systems to simplify complex and often chaotic business processes for nearly 30 years, before becoming a full-time artist in 2010. I apply a systematic approach to my studio practice, but my artistic experiments often produce unexpected, accidental results which are more interesting." Likewise, she says her experience as a Japanese expatriate in the U.S. has led to a duality in her outlook and artistic vision. "This ambivalent stance generates many questions, and I am compelled to respond artistically."

Transcendental Forms

MARCH 1st - MARCH 23rd 2019

APPROACHING IMPERFECT

February 8th - february 23rd 2019

Don’t fall apart on me tonight

JANUARY 11TH - JANUARY 26TH 2019

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

NOVEMBER 15TH - NOVEMBER 28TH 2018

IDEA OF ANCESTRY: RICHARD LEWIS

OCTOBER 19TH-NOVEMBER 9TH 2018

A Journey Through art: kegham tazian

october 3rd-october 10th 2018

PHASES

SEPTEMBER 7TH - SEPTEMBER 27TH 2018

Landscape As Portrait: Robert Aronson

AUGUST 25TH - AUGUST 31ST 2018

CAN WE TOUCH IT?

JULY 6TH- AUGUST 18TH 2018

WAKING UP IN A RAINBOW
MAY 11TH -JUNE 23RD 2018

IGNITE
March 2nd -April 15th 2018

GEOMETRIX
January 12th - February 24th 2017

SCÈNES COMIQUES |SCÈNES TRAGIQUES
October 20th - December 3rd 2017

DEPARTURE
July 21st - August 6th 2017

DOMAIN:  ART & DESIGN
June 15th - July 8th 2017

ON THE SURFACE
John McLaughlin | Nancy Thayer | Barbara Dorchen
Featuring: Photography by Roy Feldman in the Dark Room

May 12th - June 10th 2017

ON THE SURFACE featured the work of Barbara Dorchen, John McLaughlin and Nancy Thayer - examining their explorations of tactile abstraction through different media.

In the Dark Room, THE ART OF THE SURREAL featured surrealist photography by Roy Feldman. Exploring the dynamic between image and imagination, Feldman turns his lens to the Detroit arts community and seeks to resolve the contradictions between dream and reality.

CHOSEN SILENCES
Carla Anderson and Elizabeth Youngblood
April 7th - April 27th

STRANGER
Scott Campbell and Vineta Chugh
March 10th - April 1st

FRACTURED
Scott Taylor, Brian Lacey, TEAD, Christopher Gideon
Through March 4th 2017

JIVE DETROIT:  BRUCE GIFFIN & BOWEN KLINE
January 20th 2016 - February 4th 2017

JANUARY 20TH  - FEBRUARY 4TH 2017
JIVE DETROIT is a collaboration between photographer, Bruce Giffin and painter, Bowen Kline.
With access to 30 years of Bruce's photographs, Bowen has constructed mixed media paintings that forge impressions of a city in constant change and the many faces of its residents.  

Learn more through a Conversation with the Artists.

Conversations with Bruce Giffin and Bowen Kline

SELECTED WORK

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HAUTE DOMAIN - A COLLABORATION WITH ALAN KANAIRZ AND NEXT: SPACE

Haute Domain is a collaboration between Galerie Camille and NEXT:SPACE with featured host Alan Kanairz, from December 8th through January 10th. This inaugural Haute Domain project allows you to discover two newly renovated homes by Kanairz, and experience two unique environments of art and furniture by Detroit-based artists.  Visit www.hautedomaindetroit.com for more information.

GALERIE CAMILLE HOLIDAY EXHIBITION
December 16th 2016 - January 14th 2017

NOVEMBER 18th - DECEMBER 10th 2016

Patterns features the work of five Artists:  Suzy Adra, Doris Bittar, Dina Charara, Golsa Yaghoobi and Helen Zughaib. Each artist explores pattern in a unique way by mixing cultural and thematic elements, tradition and abstraction.

U NEXT:  AN ERIC PERRY PORTRAIT COLLECTION
November 10th - 12th 2016

U NEXT is a portrait series by Detroit photographer Eric Perry. The project features the 69 year old Michigan Barber School through environmental and portrait photography. Over the span of two years, Perry spent time with staff, students and loyal customers of the school to capture the pride and deep sense of tradition that upholds the institution. The unique experience of watching students learn the intimate crafts of a barber shop and apply their knowledge inspired Perry to create an exhibition that would contribute to the school. On November 10-12th a showing of U NEXT will be held at Galerie Camille to raise awareness of the school and scholarship funds for future students.

MIXED PALETTE:  JON PARLANGELI, KIM FAY, MALT, PAULA ZAMMIT
October 14 - November 5th 2016

WATER POEMS:  September 14th - October 8th 2016

This trifecta collaboration was formed by Pilling with two other iconic Detroit fine artists, Jon Strand and S. Kay Young with the intent to interpret an original work from each artist then develop a pattern, produce textiles, design garments and construct the pieces.  

INTERSECTION:  MATT EATON | JEF BOURGEAU
July 15th - August 24th, 2016

INTERIOR
In Collaboration with NEXT:SPACE

DRIVEN
Lisa Spindler, Dessi Terzieva, Dr. Lycia Trouton

DRIVEN (written by Dr. Lycia Trouton)

Playing with a two-pronged approach to both The Beauty Industry and D.I.Y Craftivism, these artists illustrate how aspects of feminine creativity have developed within these parameters. The dialogue between photographer Spindler, and 2 installation artists Terzieva and Trouton creates a new vision about the consumerism of cosmetics and crafts, alongside historic ideas of beauty, ‘the domestic’, body adornment (namely artificial fingernail painting), women’s work, craft, the miniature and female empowerment and/or femininity. The result is that this art exhibition shows how individualism and the creative culture (stemming from their training in American abstract modernism and international post-colonialism) outsmarts a seemingly homogeneous, all-powerful consumerism of the 2016+ cosmetic industry, alongside the rise of the new billion-dollar craft consumerism. 

Our work / the work in this exhibition is also influenced by the recently mainstreamed concepts and visuals of the 2012 global tour of the exhibition of In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States

by Ilene Susan Fort et al. This exhibition expressed never-before notions of how these early women artists imaged their subconscious and dreams, and provided new insight into their conceptual links as a group.  

Two artists, Spindler and Terzieva, are well-known in the Detroit art scene. The West-coast-based Trouton returns to mid-town as she holds her MFA in Sculpture (1991) from Cranbrook.  

ECHOES
Robert Mirek, Paula Schubatis and John McLaughlin
April 8 - May 6th 2016

TRANSITIONS
Brian Day and William Harris
March 11th - April 2nd 2016

GLIMPSE
Group Exhibition
January 22nd -  February 20th  2016

DE:limit
December 4- January 2

Featuring current works by 13 Wayne State University James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History graduate students.

Curated by Clara W. DeGalan

Renata Palubinskas
November 6 - 28 2015

“I do not paint paintings to match the walls and I do not paint to please the public decorative needs. I only paint to raise the questions which we are so eager to answer very deep inside.”  - Renata Palubinskas

Galerie Camille is honored to present recent works by Renata Palubinskas. Palubinskas returns to the Detroit art scene in full force, after having taken off time to raise her children. 

Growing up in Lithuania, which at that time was under the suppression of the Soviet Union, she experienced a forced communist ideology distorted by hypocrisy.  At the same time, she was secretly nourished in the old Lithuanian language, fairy tales, cultural and religious traditions. Because of Lithuania's historical location, they had cultural traditions rooted in the West. This had a big impact on her childhood. In her early teens,  she became attracted to the culture and religion of the East.

Palubinskas’ main themes cover complex philosophical ideas, communicated through allegorical and symbolic representation. Questions about relativity of reality, true identity, and death are ideas expressed through her art. Her work reflects philosophical and religious traditions of both the East and West.

Palubinskas uses Eastern and Western symbolic representations depending on the subject matter. She rethinks historic iconography while intentionally addressing the modern through a new perspective. The themes of her paintings are often caught between the struggle of good and evil. That struggle represents the choice of trying to succeed in the immediate sense of gratification or realization of oneself. She shows how her characters go through haunting life experiences with latent possibilities for death. Sometimes the characters try to attempt to understand their existence in the natural world. Once they obtain their knowledge, ecstasy and serenity follows their understanding.

Working as an artist, as well as a painting conservator, she became well acquainted with the techniques of the old masters. Palubinskas uses crisp brushwork, with subtle nuances of color like the old masters. Thru the use of glazes of thinned paint, she achieves depth and luminosity in her work.

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY: EXHIBITION 2
Sep 19 - Oct 3, 2015

NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION II
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY will be hosting their second exhibition this September at

Galerie Camille, Detroit.

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY reminds everyone to step back and remember what it means to be an artist: to create beauty and to continually re-ignite the artist’s true and inherent revolutionary spirit. NIS is a contemporary EXPERIMENT to see what happens when artists partly take the power out of the hands of Curators, Commercial Galleries, and Marketeers, and curate, create, and host their own exhibitions, forming direct relationships with benefactors and collectors.

The commercialization and monetization of art has contributed to the demise of craft, skill, and our very relationship to aesthetic beauty. Institutions of learning where overt conceptualism and commercialization of oneself have been taught also increase this loss of craft and technique. Emphasis has too much been placed on selling, networking, and internal politics at the expense of authenticity, technique, and originality—succumbing to careerism, many artists have lost courage and become hesitant sheep or have produced market ready goods labeled as art.

-New International Society Manifesto

OBJECT OVER IDEA! Like Germany ́s Neue Sachlichkeit, the New International Society seeks to “transition into a new realism, a new objective reality, a new universal aesthetic of quantum consciences...” (NIS Manifesto) and includes artists spanning numerous media, continents, and generations—the first collective of its kind. Paul Vogeler, Edouard Steinhauer, and Marina Arbenz founded the New International Society in 2015 as a way to expand upon the The New Berlin Painters, bringing both a new international group and a new variety of media to Berlin. They found a mutual renegade spirit in artist, curator, and Detroit based MONA director, Jef Bourgeau, and the first exhibition of NIS was born during Berlin Gallery Weekend 2015.

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Jef Bourgeau (United States) Taurus Burns (United States) Adnan Charara (Lebanon) Bruce Giffin (United States) Jessica Hopkins (United States) Eoin Llewellyn (Ireland) Dean Monogenis (United States) Ilya Noé (Mexico) Daniel Permanetter (Germany) Pepa Prieto (Spain) Edouard Steinhauer (Haiti) RM Vaughan, Jared Mitchell & Keith Cole (Canada) Paul Vogeler (United States)

We invite you to the

NEW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION II MONA – GALERIE CAMILLE
4130 Cass Ave Suite C, Detroit MI 48201
Opening: Saturday, Sept. 19th 2015 6 – 9 pm Exhibition: Sept. 19th – Oct. 3rd 2015. Hours: Wed – Sat 12 – 5pm. Last night of exhibit, Oct 3, open 12-7pm

HUMANIST PRINCIPLES AND THE ACT OF CREATION! The New Internationalists put forth a new model: artist run initiatives: exhibitions curated by artists for artists, funded by those artists, and presented by those artists for all; New Schools and Museums opened and managed by those very artists. “We seek to encourage a new model free from the obligations and the politics of institutions, curators, galleries, collectors and the market.” For the New Internationalists, this is just the beginning.

This exhibition is curated by Paul Vogeler and Edouard Steinhauer. Many thanks to the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department whose generous support allowed for this exhibition to take place, as well as Galerie Camille, and MONA. For further questions and inquiries please contact Paul: pvogeler@gmail.com or Edouard: esteinhauer@hotmail.com.

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The Museum of New Art in collaboration with Galerie Camile present

CUT OUT YOUR MOTHER'S EYES
THE MONA PRIZE 2015
with
Troy Hoffman
and Special Guest Artist
Daniel Greenberg

July 17 - Aug 20

OPENING RECEPTION:
July 17 - 6pm to 9pm

Show has been extended to include an artist talk and closing reception on August 20, 6-8pm.

If someone is skeptical of the magical relation between an image and what it represents Art Historian Tom Cummins offers a pedagogical exercise to illustrate a point—take a photograph of your mother and cut out the eyes. The good son or daughter would not be able to do it.1

Roland Barthes comes to an analogous conclusion when confronted by a photograph of his mother in a winter garden. Looking at this photograph Barthes is unable to use semiotics to demystify the idea of “the image [as] re-presentation, which is to say ultimately resurrection.”2
These unlikely examples embody a common approach towards image making in Hoffman’s and Greenberg’s practice, which vacillates between mystical belief and critical attitudes.

The first layer of Hoffman’s and Greenberg’s work is an emotional puncture.

In Hoffman’s work this is achieved by a collision of bestial and uncanny imagery. Greenberg uses labor exercised by tedious drawing, physically piercing marks into a surface, signifying penetration, devotion, and discipline.

A second layer in both artists’ practice is purely linguistic, working from images that are more commonly read then seen. Images with pre-existing cultural implications are approached sideways rather than straight on as a means to address queer sexuality, which requires a rethinking of normative terminology.

1 Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill & Wang, 1981), 75.
2 W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want?, (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005), 9.

Zombie On The Wall

Opening Reception with the Artist: Friday, June 12 from 6pm to 10pm

Exhibition: June 12 to July 11

Hours: 12pm to 5pm Wednesday through Saturday.

“An important element of Zombie Formalism is what I like to think of as a simulation of originality”
- Walter Robinson, The Rise of Zombie Formalism, April 2014

“It is an onslaught of copycat and mechanical mediocrity.”
– Jerry Saltz, Zombie on the Wall, June 2014

"Together with his computer, Bourgeau has eaten the brains and guts of the first hundred years of abstraction - only to relieve it all back onto canvas and print in new and playful ways."

- Jessica Hopkins, from the exhibition catalog

"We're all digital, we're all vulnerable and everything's instant,­ so instant. Instant success and instant failure. Instant discovery, instant destruction, instant construction. It's as splendid and wonderful as it is devastating. Honestly, to me it's the death of being an artist in many ways."

- Madonna, March 2015

"Trapped in the ever-present past there is no future."

- Cesar Marzetti, from Manifesto for an Anachronistic-Futurism, 1991

If It Looks Like Art Then It Probably Isn't

by Michelle Hedges 
Special for the Daily Post

DETROIT – Galerie Camille is being forced to make artistic lemonade after being thrown the ultimate art-world lemon: all of the spanking new paintings created exclusively for the gallery’s Zombie On The Wall Show by Jef Bourgeau, have been outed as fakes.

Years ago that would have been an embarrassment to conceal, but this new Detroit gallery is embracing the fraud.

“One of our goals, other than selling art, is to educate our audience,” said Jessica Hopkins, the exhibition curator. “You can learn a tremendous amount by looking at an object that is not quite right. For the public, it can seem like magic that one is right and one is not. This work demystifies that process.”

The phonies — dozens of paintings on canvas and prints on paper created by Detroit artist Jef Bourgeau— will still go on sale for the gallery’s exhibit on June 12th as if duplicity no longer matters in the world. 

“There are a couple works that are too good to be true and a few that are so bad that I can’t believe anyone will take them seriously,” said Edna Pruett, a fiery redhead and local college curator who questioned their origins from the start.

"They aren't true to form, but mere simulations of art," said Edna. "Bourgeau has used computer software to go through all the motions in a few meager minutes that a real artist struggles over for weeks, months or even years."

Hopkins tried to shrug off the growing controversy: "It’s totally absurd. The show hasn't opened yet and your so-called experts haven't even viewed the work in person."

When polled, a nearby gallery owner reacted with the ultimate thumbs down. "It's bathroom art," said Robert Mann, in a twitter exchange with this reporter. "Nowadays the computer can generate anything, even crap."

"They're the ones tapping into artificial intelligence and pulling flimsy critiques out of their you-know-what," Hopkins reacted bluntly. "How can an artist fake his own art anyway?"

"That's obvious enough," Edna countered, "because he's a fake artist. His technique is not his own, but the instant by-product of a computer program - in conspiracy with an ink-jet printer and some canvas remnants."

Other noted experts have since confirmed that Bourgeau's "paintings" may indeed be counterfeit.

"They don't have the tactile depth and signature strokes one would find in a real painting," agreed Carlos Reed, director of the city museum. "All these properties are indeed imitated onto the canvas, but, when viewed in person, they will surely reveal themselves as flat, lifeless and ultimately unreal."

If given the opportunity, what would Ms. Pruett say to the artist?

"Mr. Bourgeau, your pixels are showing," Edna quipped. "Pixelated brushstrokes do not equal true impasto nor true art."

In a century where much of new art is up for grabs, Jessica Hopkins continues to insist that they do.

Jef Bourgeau is a Detroit painter, curator, photographer and conceptual artist. He has exhibited extensively in both Europe and the USA. Most notably, his work has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Art, David Klein Gallery, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), LedisFlam (NYC), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Takamatsu City Museum of Art, (Japan), Eve Bracke Gallery (Berlin), Galerie Lisi Haemmerle (Austria), Cranbrook Art Museum, The Majlis Cultural Center (Mumbai), Musee d'Art et d'Industrie (France), The White Room Gallery (Los Angeles), Art Channel Gallery (Beijing), United Colors of Benetton (with catalog, Venice), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), BCB Gallery (Hudson, NY), Portland Museum of Art (Oregon). Bourgeau is the founding director of the Museum of New Art (MONA), of Detroit's artCORE (empty storefronts to galleries), and co-founder of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.

Not a Rose : Photographs by Heide Hatry

Fri, May 8, 2015 6:00pm  Sat, Jun 6, 2015 6:00pm

Opening reception May 8, 6-10pm

Friday June 5 panel discussion about Not a Rose

Galerie Camille is delighted to announce Not a Rose, a solo exhibition of photographs by neo-conceptual artist Heide Hatry. Seamlessly juxtaposing flowers assembled from grotesque, immaculately manicured flesh debris and picturesque, nonchalant nature, Hatry’s works bring aesthetics and ethics into an explosive head-on collision that is both conceptually corrosive and visually arresting. 

Hatry’s serene scenes of flowers are actually photographs of trompe l’oeil arrangements of the offal, sex organs and other residues of deceased animals. Their simple compositions almost recall scientific illustrations, whose directed focus on the flowers’ anatomy heightens their fragrant aroma and delicate beauty. Her commitment to replicating the physical beauty of flowers renders the viewer’s realization of the photographs' true materiality particularly jarring. The instantaneity of photography also confronts the ephemeral blossoms with the persistent momentum of death and decay, and invites viewers to interrogate our cultural conception of flowers and their function as, essentially, “sex organs for plants”. Elegant yet deeply disturbing, these works call into question the foundations of aesthetic perception (and perception in general) and the ethics of our use and abuse of living animal-plant nature.

Reel Art Detroit Spring Pop Up Exhibition

April 24 - April 26, 2015

Reel Art Detroit in collaboration with Galerie Camile is proud to present four premier Detroit Artists:

Bruce Giffin | Andrew Krieger
Clinton Snider | Carl Wilson

3-Days Only

Artist Opening Reception
Friday April 24 6P-10P
Saturday April 25 12N-6PM
Sunday April 26 11AM-3PM

The Beatles in Cincinnati

January 17, 2015

Jan 29 - Feb 28, 2015

Previously unseen photos of the Beatles' 1964 visit to Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati photographer Walt Burton, shot about 200 pictures of the Beatles – from their arrival at Lunken Airport to performing at Cincinnati Gardens on Aug. 27, 1964 – for use in the souvenir "Beatles in Cincinnati" 24-page magazine-style booklet sold by WSAI-AM after the concert.

Burton, as the official event photographer, had special access to take pictures of John, Paul, George and Ringo emerging from their plane and waving to the Lunken crowd; entering the Gardens; speaking to reporters during their press conference (including Ringo lighting a cigarette); and performing on stage.

Cincinnati was the Beatles' seventh stop in a 25-city tour from Aug. 19 through Sept. 20. The Fab Four played San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Vancouver, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Denver before arriving in Cincinnati on Aug. 27. They left immediately after the Gardens concert and flew to New York for two shows at Forest Hills, in the Queens borough of New York City on Aug. 28-29. The tour ended in New York's Paramount Theatre Sept. 20.

Listen to Fresh Air podcast with Terry Gross on NPR, interview about the Beatles early years before 1964.http://www.npr.org/2015/01/27/381594109/at-the-bbc-the-beatles-shocked-an-institution

19 ° e 20 ° secolo Venezia

January 17, 2015

Jan 29 - Feb 28, 2015

19th and early 20th century photography, prints and paintings, of Venice, Italy. Works by Carlo Ponti, Giorgio Sommer, Carlo Naya, Otto Straeche, Sidney M. Litten, and James McBey.

Nus

• Fri, Nov 14, 20146:00pm  Sat, Dec 6, 20149:00pm
• Galerie Camille 

Selections from our collection of vintage nude photography, prints, paintings and sculpture.

Opening reception Friday, November 14th, 6-9pm.

Jerry Opper: Mid-Century Prints

• Fri, Aug 22, 20147:00pm  Sat, Oct 18, 20145:00pm

Bay Area Figurative Movement co-founder Jerry Opper passed away this past May. We are pleased to be offering a selection of his etchings and lithographs from the late 1940's to 1950's.