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COMING for Detroit Month of Design: An immersive experience with Elonte Davis & friends

UNDERCURRENT transforms Irwin House Gallery into an immersive photo, moving image, and sound-cave culled from over 20,000 extraordinary everyday moments crystallized by emerging photographer, Elonte Davis. Designed to celebrate the pulse of Detroit – our people, neighborhoods, and creative communities – the activation highlights some of Davis’ most iconic captures through light, film, sound, spoken word, traditional prints, and indoor/outdoor installations. As part of the exhibit, and in the spirit of community, a crew of collaborators will participate and respond to Elonte’s images using their respective media. The cast includes Oshun Williams, Terrell Anglin, Bryce Detroit, Desmond Love, Joe Cazeno, Jimel Primm, Aya Hassan, Ruby Flwrs, Dominick Lemonious, Matt Rozensky, Trevor Tillman and introducing youth artist, Brooklyn Wilson.

Photographer, Elonte Davis

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 7, 2024
6PM   – 10 PM

Nite Cap
Garden Party w/sonic projections by Matt Rozensky
Friday, September 13, 2024
8PM – 11PM

Artist Talk
Sunday, September 22, 2024
2PM – 5PM

Closing Reception
Storytellers Edition moderated by Bryce Detroit
Saturday, September 28. 2024
5PM – 10PM

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Might Real Queer Detroit @ IHG and all around town!

OPENING SATURDAY JUNE 1ST – Irwin House Gallery participates, along with ten local galleries, in the Mighty Real Queer Detroit 2024 Biennial for Pride Month. MRQD features over 170 local, national and international artists in exhibitions across participating galleries.

“The theme for this year’s event – “I’ll Be Your Mirror” – explores the aesthetic mirroring between art and the viewer to highlight the role of art in achieving personal visibility and social connection. The diverse representation of artists and the thematic focus on the relationship between art and viewer make MR/QD’s I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer a significant event in the art community.” – MRQD.org

IHG Featured artists: Anthony Peyton (New York), Christopher Gene (Detroit), Corey TuT (Detroit), Doug Johnsonson (San Francisco, CA), Doug Wright (New York), Erin Brott (Detroit), Jesse Satterfield (New York), Lola Flash (New York), Laicee Blackwell (Indiannapolis, Indiana), Marla McLeod (New York), Rinaldo Hopf (Berlin, Germany)…

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, June 1, 2024 | 5-9 PM

Exhibition runs thru June 30, 2024 | Hours: Thurs-Sat 12-7 PM + Sunday 12-6 PM

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DOUBLE-HEADER: 2 Fantastic solo shows opening at once!

Who says you can’t do two fantastic things at once? We don’t!

This Saturday, May 4, 2024 two solo exhibitions will open at Irwin House Gallery: FAUXSTALGIA features the work of Bryan Gower in the gallery’s main floor exhibition space, while Viniecia Farmer‘s RESILIENT HE(ARTS) features in the gallery’s Red Room and on the upper level. Come check out two colorful, imaginative shows in one by two exciting, local emerging artists. There is no entry fee to visit.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 6-10 pm.
Hours: Weds-Sat 12-7 pm; Sundays 12-5pm thru Saturday, May 18, 2024.

Artist Bryan Gower: @illtype_art
Curated by Ivan Quinones @elpiqasso
Artist Viniecia Farmer: @nayetaye_soul
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TALENTED & GIFTED – our 4th annual “Gift of Art” holiday affordable art exhibit

Irwin House Gallery presents TALENTED & GIFTED – our 4th annual “Gift of Art” holiday affordable art exhibition. This is the gallery’s most festive and inclusive show of the year, where shoppers and art-lovers are encouraged to give the gift of art for the holidays! The traditionally intergenerational, cross-cultural show boasts over 100 original works by 50+ (primarily local) talented and gifted emerging and established artists. Featured works include figurative and abstract paintings, photography, sculpture, assemblages, and mixed media compositions. With everything priced below $500, this exhibit, truly, offers something for everyone! Opens Black Friday with an Open House Reception from 2-7 pm.

Participating artists include Alga Washington, Allen Williams, Amadeus Roy, Anita Sewell, Ash Guzman Asha Walidah, Ashley Menthe, Aya Hasan, BAI, Bruce Agababian, Bryan Gower, Chanel Beebe, Chris Dragan, Clifton Crockatt, Corey TuT, Daijah Henderson, Debbie LaPratt, Derick Gaston, Donald Calloway, Doug Jones, Ellen K. Doyle, Elonte Davis, Erik Smith, Erin K. Schmidt, Ese Alexis, Inez Brown, Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn, Ivan Quiñones II, Izaiah Ford, Jasmine Graham, Kelly O’Neill, Kelz Cousins, Kristen Trierweiler, Larry Green, Limani Laster, Linda Laster, Lulu Fall, Lynette Gibson, Mariah Mitchell, Martenya Shawhan, Mecco Banks, Miriam Hull, Montana Travis, Nicole Josette, Nicolena Stubbs, Oshun Williams, Paige Saum, Robert O’Banner, Samaiyah Abdur-Rahman, Sam Kthar, Scott Millington, Shaquona Espinoza, Sherell Chillik, Simone Bryant, Tia Nichols, Trish Howell, Viniecia Farmer, Will Smith, and William Matthews.

Hours of Operation: Weds-Sat 12-7 pm; Sundays 12-6 pm thru December 17, 2023

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Meet the Artist: Doug Jones

Doug Jones.. Photo courtesy of the artist.
DOUG JONES is a Detroit-based artist, designer, and arts advocate, originally from Jackson, MI. A 2022 Cranbook Academy of Art MFA graduate and Windgate Fellow, Jones’ portfolio includes awards and recognitions from the American Institute of Architects (2018) and (DD 139) the Detroit Design 139 Biennial (2019). Over the past 5 years, he has committed to large-scale public art projects and collaborations throughout Greater Detroit and independently worked with more than 4,500 residents to develop 61 works on public display in an effort to make the arts more accessible to traditionally marginalized communities using his techniques. Concurrently, Jones continues his ongoing work towards new visual language and his recognized development of an innovative approach to abstraction, figuration, and cartography. His work presents contemporary questions rather than modernist universal answers in this current age of data. This year, CAA recruited Jones to teach as a Post -Graduate Studio Fellow in its MFA Photography Department. DougJones.Art
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MAB-logoIrwin House Gallery has been supported in part by the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation in the presentation of Doug Jones’ Mare Incognitum: Unknown Waters.
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Doug Jones’ “MARE INCOGNITUM: UNKNOWN WATERS” opens 9/15

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 – Mare Incognitum: Unknown Waters is an immersive exhibit featuring new large and small-scale mixed media works, including a soundscape and a map that explores mermaid stories and tales of the sea, including the artist’s own, from around the world.

Through collage, paintings, film, sound and print ephemera, Mare Incognitum: Unknown Waters delves into the intersection of myth, lore, and our relationships to water, through history and local geography.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 15, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm with sounds by DJ WIN. Irwin House Gallery.

Doug Jones “Idlewild: Michigan: Safe Space” 2023. 48 in. x 60 in. Acrylic mixed medium on canvas.

Irwin House Gallery has been supported in part by the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation in the presentation of Doug Jones’ MARE INCOGNITUM: UNKNOWN WATERS.

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Meet the Artist, Elonte Davis

Emerging Detroit photographer, Elonte Davis

Born on Detroit’s East Side, Elonte Davis says he picked up a camera and never put it down. He carries the instrument like his keys – never leaving the house without it, capturing spontaneous, classified and often unseen stories in Black life throughout each day. Davis harnesses an intimacy in his photos that can only be discerned from the nucleus of the culture, allowing him to offer a genuine sense of the breadth of Black Detroit, as well as in other places he has visited and documented. Through his lens, the invisible are seen, heard, and celebrated; their tales in earnest, revealed.

Davis exhibited for the first time in 2021 and has since shown his work throughout the city, including at Riverside Detroit, Irwin House Gallery, ImageWorks in Dearborn, and the Detroit Historical Museum. Some of his recent assignments have included work for the Motown Museum and Rolling Out Magazine. Elonte Davis’ work is sought and collected for its raw honesty.  He may be very well evolving into our current-day Gordon Parks.

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THIS IS WHERE I’M AT feat. Elonte Davis @ The Carr Center

THIS IS WHERE I’M AT and this is what I’m doing is a multi-media exhibition featuring the work of emerging Detroit photographer, Elonte Davis. The exhibition launches at The Carr Center with up to 65 candid photographs of local children engaged in ordinary, everyday moments at home and in Detroit’s neighborhoods and public spaces. Videos culled from the photographer’s experiences with his young subjects and their families will provide a soundscape and multi-layered experience of Black kinship, childhood, and family dynamics as well as the joy, individuality, vulnerability, hope and humanity of a range of the inner-city’s youngest citizens.

Organized by Detroit’s Irwin House Gallery with Steed Society Art, this is a traveling exhibition that hopes to expand and encompass youth in urban landscapes across the country including, but not limited to, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Together, we hope that Davis’ unfiltered photographic eye will engender empathy and appreciation between Greater Detroit’s diverse populations, while serving as a historical record of life in the city for many Detroit and turning an eye towards Black futures across the globe.

Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 2023
6:00 – 9:00 PM
The Carr Center 15 E. Kirby @ The Park Shelton, Detroit, MI 48202

VIEW EVENT LINKS AND RSVP HERE: EVENTBRITE LINK + FACEBOOK EVENT

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Concert of Colors Art After Party

We are thrilled to host the Concert of Colors Art Afterparty on behalf of Black Women Rock Official, Friday, July 21, 2023 from 7-11 pm. The exhibition has been curated by Sabrina Nelson and Sudani Shaah and features 15 dynamic artists who absolutely rock, with sounds by DJ Lovebeam!

The exhibition and afterparty follow three days of Concert of Colors and a conversation moderated by Jessica care Moore at The Carr Center from 12-2 pm.