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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: IAN SWANSON, DETROITER TURNED BROOKLYNITE

A couple of years ago, artists Ian Swanson and Cedric Tai seemed to be everywhere in Detroit. Everywhere you turned, they were involved with a great local art project. They had their own gigs, teamed up on joint projects, and both were heavily involved with thedetroiter.com, which is an art-focused Detroit-centric website ‘serving a creative community.’ Their collective energy was great […]

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art artists BOSI Contemporary Brooklyn Cedric Tai Detroit Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Ian Swanson LIFESTYLE North End Studios OWS arts Peekskill Project V Pratt Institute of Arts Re:View Contemporary Russell Industrial Center VISUAL ART W.A.G.E. wayne state university

August 20, 2012

JOHN PATRICK LEARY’S ‘DETROITISM’

John Patrick Leary’s poignant essay, ‘Detroitism,’ featured in the Guernica: a magazine of art & politics, relays heartfelt insight from a Detroit resident as the city becomes a target of “Ruin photography, […] criticized for its ‘pornographic’ sensationalism.” I admit I’m a junkie for images of the dilapidated beauty decaying in the old buildings, rich […]

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February 19, 2012