Whizzing by the barns, silos and churches on the Midwestern plains as you drive relentlessly to your destination deprives you of the sense that the structures that you pass have any integrity of their own. Larry Chait is determined to correct that sense in his color shots of roadside buildings taken from a speeding car—driven by his wife—in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas. Striking a fine balance between a blur that carries the eye from left to right, and a precision that allows each structure to body forth, Chait freezes his subjects in momentary suspension, allowing us to realize that other lives than our own have their distinctive patterns and gain whatever meaning they possess in places that we pass through thoughtlessly. Chait has risen to the challenge of his problem and has achieved equipoise. (Michael Weinstein)
Through September 8 at Anne Loucks Gallery, 1046 W. Fulton Market
Repurposing AI: A Review of Stephanie Dinkins at Stamps Gallery While this show is timely for everyone, I consider its setting within a university art gallery and emerging tech hub like the city of Ann Arbor a subversive provocation which Dinkins invites the greater public—including members of the university community—to consider our own positionality to AI and technology.
Lost in Translation: A Review of Crip* at Gallery 400 The strongest works in the exhibition succinctly express the ways the artist relates to their own body while calling out how the artist’s body and body of work has been perceived or coded against norms or ideals.
