PURE DETROIT

@ Art Channel Gallery - Beijing, China

 

February 14th through March 15th - 2009

selected by the Museum of New Art (MONA)

 

In the latest installment of its Changing Cities artist exchange, Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) is proud to send the artwork of nine selected artists from Detroit to Art Channel Gallery in Beijing, China.

 

Changing Cities is a project initiated by Jef Bourgeau, director of MONA, in order to swap artists from the Detroit region with their counterparts in other cities around the world.

 

Previous exchanges have brought a show of Chicago artists to the Detroit museum in 2007. A companion exhibit was followed in February 2008 with a show of Detroiter’s works at ThreeWalls Gallery in Chicago. The exchange has continued throughout 2008 with Galerie Lisi Hämmerle in Bregenz (Austria), and Galerie Eva Bracke in Berlin.

 

PURE DETROIT will be the first exhibition of Detroit artists in Beijing, and will be hosted by Art Channel Gallery from February 14th to March 15th, 2009.

 

[The first major exhibition of contemporary Chinese artists in Detroit was selected by Rose Jiang of Art Channel Gallery.]

 

PURE DETROIT artists:

Kyohei Abe

Jef Bourgeau

Mary Fortuna

Kelly Frank

Cyrus Karimipour

Marla Karimipour

Corine Vermeulen-Smith

Vagner Mendonça Whitehead

Alison Wong