The Harvest
Gold Club: COLLECTING, CREATING and CLEARING OUT
One person’s
trash is another’s treasure
Opening Reception: May 10, 6 pm-11
pm
Exhibition runs: May 10 – August 10, 2008
DETROIT (May 1, 2008) – The Carriage
House Gallery features the work of Madeleine Barkey,
Jeanne Bieri, Teresa Petersen with their collaborative
exhibition, The Harvest Gold Club: COLLECTING, CREATING
and CLEARING OUT. The exhibition will display artwork
within an environment that imitates a typical living
room or clubhouse. The artists created this environment
using material found on the curbside, including furniture,
books, appliances, and knick-knacks. These cast-off
items are sometimes antique, sometimes charming, sometimes
utilitarian, but always worth more than their curbside
appearance would indicate.
During the three month exhibition period
the artists will repair useful items they have collected
or that guests have dropped off and create artwork from
other objects to furnish the clubhouse environment.
Assemblages, prints, collages, and paintings will be
installed in the clubhouse as they complete them, making
a visit to the clubhouse a dynamic experience as the
contents change over time. “We want to give extended
use to the rescued items used in the installation by
moving them from the curb, through the show, and then
into real homes and apartments,” says Teresa Petersen,
participating artist. As the exhibition concludes in
August repaired curbside material -- furnishings, decorations,
(everything but the artworks themselves) -- will be
given away.
Madeleine Barkey is a Ferndale-based printmaker
and educator whose work has appeared in solo and group
shows througout the country. A graduate of the University
of Michigan (BA) and University of Ohio (MFA), Ms. Barkey
currently teaches drawing classes at the University
of Michigan/Dearborn. Madeleines work shows a reworking
of dicarded ideas, mediums and objects. Her themes are
old ones: education and ignorance, right and wrong,
might and right, and so on. Her meduim is one of the
oldest in history for passing ideas: printmaking. She
finds discarded objects for her practice- wood scraps
from trash day carved into and printed, textbooks images
from librairy sales reworked and printed again, pages
from thrift store books glued together and reused as
paper for morre printed imagry.
Jeanne Bieri was born in Ann Arbor and
moved to a farm in the southern corner of Hastings,
Michigan. Her childhood memories include a variety of
animals, horses, cats, dogs, 4-H, Memorial Day parades
and small town life. She attended Western Michigan University
where she received a Bachelor in Education. After attending
Western, Jeanne tought at the Sand Hilll School in Hopkins,
Michigan, a two room rural elementary school where busing
meant dirt roads and isolated students. Jeanne received
her MFA in Painting in 1994. A long time member of ACT
Gallery in Detroit, Jeanne's work has been included
in the Michigan Biennial, juried shows throughout Michigan,
the Midwest and New York. She received a grant from
the State of Michigan and produced a series of paintings
relative to quilt patterns. She has taught Painting
and Drawing at U of M, Dearborn (10 years), Design at
Henry Ford Community College and painting at Wayne State
University. From her studio at the Scarab Club Jeanne
Bieri completed a mural for a local library and illustrated
a children's book.
Teresa Petersen is an artist living and
working in the city of Detroit, Michigan. Junk is a
plentiful resource in Detroit, so every trip to her
studio is an opportunity to find intriguing cast off
items to make art with. She works in several media,
specializing in found-object assemblage sculptures,
collages made from vintage prints, catalogs, and magazines,
and mixed media pieces containing elements of both.
The individual objects making up each piece serve to
form a cohesive final structure as well as individually
relate to the theme of the piece as a whole. Her work
emphasizes and explores the relationships between women's
stereotypes and ideals: in culture, in nature, and in
our throw-away society.
Important Information
The exhibition at the Carriage House Gallery
will open on May 10 and run through August 10, 2008.
The opening reception on May 10, from 6 pm to 11 pm
is free and open to the public and will include free
shuttle service to MassiV at Russell Industrial Center
in New Center, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
in Historic Woodbridge Neighborhood and Ladybug Gallery
in Southwest Detroit. The Carriage House is open Saturdays
from noon to 6pm and Sundays from 6pm to 6pm.
Carriage House Gallery
1350 East Warren, Detroit MI 48208 (http://www.carriagehousegallery.org)
- Installation specific exhibit site in
newly-restored historic carriage house where featured
artists are encouraged to manipulate the space to suite
their installation vision, while maintaining the integrity
of the original historic structure.
- An educational and community service component is
included with each installation by way of artist lectures,
tours or individual programs that reference the specific
installations such as the recent felt making workshop
and neighborhood cleanup and community recycling activities.
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