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Tom Duimstra brings beguiling sculptures to UICA in “Zero +”
By Steven Davison Grand Rapids artist Tom Duimstra has been an activist and advocate for Outsider art for nearly three decades. His tireless support for the Grand Rapids art scene over the years is...
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Break It Down, Make It Better Attempts to Compare Curatorial Practices
by Aaminah Shakur On Saturday, February 28, Avenue for the Arts, ArtPrize, and the UICA convened creative-minded folks from West Michigan for the Break It Down, Make It Better event. This is a series...
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The Spectre of Surveillance: Terms of Service at UICA
Terms of Service is on view at the UICA through April 17th. The exhibit “explores identity, individualism and the conditions people face as a result of our increasingly surveilled lives”. I have never...
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Reconsidering the Commonplace: Jihyun Hong’s (extra)ordinary at UICA
Jihyun Hong. (extra)ordinary. Mixed media installation. UICA by Zachary Johnson With (extra)ordinary Jihyun Hong invites us to see everyday objects not by their familiar functions, as sponges,...
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A World on Display
by Zachary Johnson As the seventies became the eighties, world-building expanded from the spheres of fantasy and sci-fi into the new field of video games. At the same time, it spilled over into fine...
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A Deeper Look
Rumi Koshino. Untitled 1, Untitled 2. Watercolor on paper. 2015 By Zachary Johnson Studying art history in college, the question that arose in every class was, “At an exhibition, what do you look at...
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US IS THEM Asks Hard Questions & Seeks Communal Solutions
by Aaminah Shakur With US IS THEM the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art has brought to Grand Rapids an exhibition that pulls together work from diverse artists, of diverse styles and mediums, the...
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Flex Gallery and the Work of Fan Wu
by Zachary Johnson In response to a lack of public art opportunities during winter, on January 11th, I launched Flex Gallery, a mobile public art space located on my left arm. For the project, I sent...
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Portable Art: Zachary Johnson’s Flex Gallery at UICA
by Tamara Fox Zachary Johnson’s unconventional curatorial project Flex Gallery is featured in an exhibition at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Flex Gallery: A Public Project by Zachary...
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Artist & Scholar Naima Lowe Visits The Fed Galleries at KCAD & UICA
Please note: In response to concern about the Coronavirus/COVID-19, These events have been cancelled. by Aaminah Shakur The Fed Galleries @ KCAD [https://kcad.ferris.edu/galleries/] and the UICA...
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