Extravagant fancy goes free in Jamie Baldridge’s color scenario photographic portraits that never fail to provoke the irrepressible smile of absurd humor. In “The Birth of Telepathy,” Baldridge introduces us to a bearded man in a brown suit with a huge red and white magnet strapped to his head with a leather belt, who sits leaning forward over a table as he stares intensely at a bare and humble twig resting on a white china plate. Not to be outdone in the race for the ridiculous, Sergio Fasola offers up a color scenario shot of a female dwarf sitting in the woods on an easy chair as she pets a black-and-white-dappled milk cow straight out of a Ben and Jerry’s sign; two stone cats in the background stand guard over the touching relationship between brunette and beast. As in show after show this season, the artists are enjoining us to stop making sense, relax and enjoy the human tragic-comedy. (Michael Weinstein)
Through January 2 at Schneider Gallery, 230 W. Superior
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.
