Past Exhibitions
Cody Norman at Ford House
September-October 2024
Throughout the summer of 2024, Norman spent time exploring the grounds and archives of the historical estate built by Edsel and Eleanor Ford in 1928.
Throughout the residency, Norman also working with Ford House staff to gather the plastic waste that results from normal daily operations across the historic estate as well as the surrounding community.
Norman’s residency culminates in September 2024 with the installation of an outdoor sculpture Plasticus Thalamus.
Made from more than 125 lbs of locally sourced post-consumer HDPE plastic from Ford House + the Grosse Pointe communities, extruded over stainless steel, Plasticus Thalamus is inspired by the arch at the gate house that welcomes you to Ford House. Instead of vines and other organic plant-life, this arbor is encrusted in recycled plastic hand extruded to resemble coral, blurring the line between synthetic and natural.
Adaptive Objects / or / Terms for Living
September-October 2024
Adaptive Objects / or / Terms for Living is an exhibition of ceramic works by Benjamin Teague
Our showroom becomes the stage for Teague to share objects from distinct periods in his work, creating three installations expressing the shifts in his emotional, observational and philosophical relationship with the objects over time.
With inspiration ranging from emotional loss to references of film and art history to the visual inspiration of daily life, Teague’s vessels show us how seemingly disparate occurrences, people, and things are all connected and ever-evolving.
Each object is both a striking example of Teague’s mastery of his craft, and a humble testament to the beauty of simply enduring the vicissitudes of time.
Until…
September-October 2024
Until… is a multi-media exhibition of work by Lauren Kalman.
Born as a response to the loss of physical connection induced by the pandemic and soon evolving into an exploration the powerful and liberatory agency of our own bodies in shaping reality, Until… examines the desire to hold close; the ability to smother; cathartic glitch.
Curated in emerging cultural destination, Stanton Yards, the exhibition also examines the power of the individual in shaping the world around us, each vessel a reminder of the lasting imprint of our actions.
November 4 - December 9, 2023
TIME, MASS is a solo exhibition featuring artist and designer Seth Keller.
“My objects are built foremost from sensibility, and each object has a sensibility of its own…
To express gravity, softness, dependence, to reveal a shadow, to perceive the wall in a new way…
To become itself, the self that existed first in the log.”
-Seth Keller
September 9 - October 7, 2023
Ergo <ITSELF> is a solo exhibition featuring Detroit-based artist Paula Schubatis. The exhibition itself is a fluid environment, grounded by a nest-like structure into which the viewer can enter and engage with various multi-functional objects. Objects from a hand woven rug or ottoman to sculptural garments which will be worn by models moving about the space - all encourage intuitive interaction and use. Schubatis creates a total immersive experience, blurring the lines between the installation/environment, the object and "itself" (the individual).
September 16 - October 14, 2023
Korean artists working in two different disciplines, Nina Cho and Minji Namkoong, explore similar design sensibilities of harmony in color, form, and aesthetics born from their shared cultural heritage. Created with a subdued, monochromatic palette, each body of work enhances the other as differences in process and craft both differentiate and unite the objects.
July 29 - September 2, 2023
The Latin root animare means "give breath to" and "endow with spirit." This exhibition examines a new phase in Norman’s practice of extending and elevating the life cycle of plastic waste into art and design objects - “re-animating” trash found in alleys and dumpsters into new forms that also trace back to the original function of the objects left to the landfill.
June 3 - July 8, 2023
Jenna VanFleteren creates an exhibition of transformative textiles reminiscent of the domestically familiar. Exploring moments of play through color harmony, fabric manipulation and craft.
April 1 - May 6, 2023
Born from an intense, almost year-long collaboration between Shulman and Hudes, Myrrha brings together two distinct materials to create a shared language.
December 9, 2022 - January 14, 2023
Fête is a celebration of the season and the close of an exciting year with an IMWG imagined dining room.
November 10 - December 1, 2022
September 10 - October 22, 2022
July 23 - August 20, 2022
June 2 - July 1, 2022
April 23 - May 21, 2022
January 29 - March 26, 2022