©Pop – Detroit

The Carnivora exhibition had its premier at ©POP Gallery in Detroit on Jan 12th. For photos of the installation and the opening, please visit the gallery’s MySpace page.

 

 

© POP GALLERY: It has been the launching pad for some of the city’s most visible, popular and important visual artists of the last 13 years and home to some of the midwest’s most exhilarating exhibitions. ©POP Gallery was born rather ceremoniously when world-renown Cartoon Surrealist, Robert Williams was chosen for the gallery’s debut exhibit, “Grab Yer Ankles, Detroit” and a local media frenzy ensued, instantly embossing the familiar “cpopyright” logo into the Detroit cultural psyche, and soon becoming THE gallery in which to shown or be seen. Manore saw an unbelievable range of visual talent fermenting in what he would later deem, “The New Munich”, and soon local first-timers with names like Niagara, Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey, Tom Thewes, Tristan Eaton, and many more, soon-to-be nationally famous Motor City artists, would find their first successful exhibits in the basement of an old church. By 1997, some of America’s cutting-edge art and culture journals such as “Juxtapoz”, “Your Flesh”, “Art Alternatives” and “Details” all trumpeted the Gallery and the artists who were emerging from this suburban, “underground-zero” and right into national prominence. By 1999, ©POP and it’s stable of artists -Niagara , Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey,and a retro-futurist named, Tom Thewes, Jr., were more than just, “Detroit’s best kept secrets”. As a perennial award-winner from its inception, acknowledged by local publications’ year-end “Best Of” lists, ©POP continues to elevate the art bar to lofty heights – for both artists and viewers alike, with an uncompromising and innovative style which aims to carry the rich and risky tradition of showing both the diamonds and the dirt of contemporary art well into the 21st Century.

62 ARTISTS APPEARING IN THE ©POP SHOW:

John U. Abrahamson, Guy Aitchison, Marshall Arisman, Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Jason Beam,Zdzislaw Beksinski, Jim Blanchard, Stephen Blickenstaff, Hanno von Bran, Joshua Bronaugh, Greg Brotherton, Mark Bryan, Colin Burns, Patrick Byers, Matt Cambell, Vincent Castiglia, Coop,Christian Correra, Bernardo Corman, ChrisTopher Crowder, Robert Crumb, Ronnie Cutrone, Jason D’Aquino, Chris Dean, Steve Ellis, Ron English, H.R. Giger, Goldmine Shithouse, William B. Hand, D. Hwang, Viktor Koen, Robert LaDuke, Dennis Larkins, Andre Lassen, Eli Livingston, John “Crash” Matos, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Mark Mothersbaugh, Niagara, Till Nowak, Camilo Pardo, Peter Pontiac, Rick Prol, Pooch, Rich Rethorn, J.L. Robbins, Paul Rumsey, Sibylle Ruppert, Megan Rush, Chris Savido, Hugo Schuhmacher, Winston Smith, Hajime Sorayama, Kevin Thayer, Tom Thewes, David Trulli, Brian Viveros, Nick Weber, Kenneth Williams, Martin Wittfooth and Chet Zar.

 

 

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