Let’s be up front, behind, and on top of it; Monica Rezman has a big-time hair fetish. The tresses are everywhere in her color photos, spilling, sprawling, spewing, spreading and always uncoiffed, whether she is bewitched by the unkempt clumps and piles of the stuff in a wig factory or lavishly bedecking her daughter with it. There is never enough of it for Rezman, so she scrawls more locks in charcoal over the original image, creating a veritable raven-black tsunami. In the title image of the show, “Woolgathering,” Rezman has swamped her daughter in unruly hair and then has put her to work knitting an enormous hair tapestry. Make no mistake, Rezman is not aiming for the perfect “do”—everything is out of place and out of control. She has taken to head and heart a line from the famous song “Hair” enjoining us all to make it “snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty.” It’s an untamed force. (Michael Weinstein)
Through June 18 at Packer Schopf Gallery, 942 West Lake
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.
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.
