Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of Detroit
artists. Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists is the third volume in a
series of collections that present short, illustrated essays about
artists who live and work in Detroit or who have participated in
the Detroit art scene in an important way. Stemming from the
popular website of the same name, Essay'd 3 seeks to introduce
readers to new insight and a fresh perspective on the city's
contemporary art practitioners. The arts writers behind the
original Essay'd-a professor, a gallerist, and a critic-are joined
in Essay'd 3 by twelve guest writers. This remarkable multiplicity
of voices enlarges and enriches the overall scope of this ambitious
project as it grows to become ever more inclusive of Detroit's
astonishingly rich and diverse art community. Essay'd 3 offers
thirty new profiles of artists both well-known and under-the-radar.
Each artist is profiled by a writer with an avowed interest in and
enthusiasm for that artist's work and each essay takes into account
biography, context, interpretation, and analysis of individual
artworks. Certain themes emerge in this collection, including a
turn toward more performing artists, as well as a recurrent concern
with the use of the body as a surrogate for social conditions. Some
of the artists highlighted in this volume include Richard Lewis, a
portrait painter and ""keen-eyed explorer of souls and their
discontents""; photographer Lauren Semivan, who works inserial
aggregates of thirty or more black-and-white images, shot with an
early twentieth-century, large-format, tripod-mounted camera;
experimental performance artists The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby and
Richard Newman); and Tom Phardel-sculptor, ceramist, and
curator-who has served as teacher and chair of ceramics at the
College for Creative Studies for thirty years. With renewed
regional, national, and international attention on Detroit and its
creative culture, it is more important than ever that the evolving
and vital work of the city's artists be documented and made known
to the wider public. Art lovers and regional history buffs will
appreciate this continued conversation. Featured artists: Susan
Aaron-Taylor, Carla Anderson, Jeanne Bieri, Sophie Eisner, Gary
Eleinko, Ed Fraga, Eli Gold, Oren Goldenberg, Cynthia Greig,
Matthew Angelo Harrison, The Hinterlands, Sydney G. James, Laith
Karmo, Nicola Kuperus, Richard Lewis, Billy Mark, Tiff Massey,
Allie McGhee, Carole Morisseau, Sabrina Nelson, Tom Phardel, Sharon
Que, Yvette Rock, Gary Schwartz, Lauren Semivan, Donita Simpson,
Maya Stovall, Andrew Thompson, Millee Tibbs, Timothy Van Laar.
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