Upcoming or Current Art Exhibits in Detroit, MI

Published July 16, 2014

Guilty And Framed: Solo Exhibit And New Works By Topher Crowder

Hatch: Hamtramck Art Collective

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 2014, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Gallery, 3456 Evaline St., Hamtramck

Show Runs Through Saturday, July 26, 2014
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1-6pm Beginning June 21st
Third Thursday, July 17, 6pm – 9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 19, 2pm
“I have always loved the concept of storytelling through images and have found inspiration in the animated Saturday morning cartoons from my childhood, vintage postcards, comic books of the 1960s and 1970s, and roadside billboards. I have fond memories from my childhood spent in the early 1970s, of giant illuminated beer-bottle billboards serving up electric brews, smelling the pungent odor of grease paint and alcohol while being entertained by hobo clowns in the front row at a Shriner’s Circus, Saturday mornings spent with H.R. Pufnstuf, and the televised pictures of the Vietnam War. My method, inspired by a Saturday-morning cartoon edited for commercials, a postcard received from a foreign location, a comic book with more than a few pages torn out, or a partial, high-speed glimpse at a roadside billboard, reveals these childhood memories and everyday emotions.”

-Topher Crowder
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