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Interactive art making for

kids, teens, tweens, and adults

Drop-in art classes continue. Saturday mornings at 11-12:30 are for teens & tweens (or for mature younger children (please call for availability 734-420-0775), and Monday evenings, 7-8:30, are for people 18 to 98, limited to the first 10 people.

Inner Worlds & Animals

Charles Aimone & Joan Painter Jones

June 18 - July 31, 2010

opening reception: June 19 7-11pm

Artist talk: 7:30pm

Do our inner world and outer world coexist?

We're now showing work by artists Charles Aimone and Joan Painter Jones, in preparation for a major exhibition focusing on them in June. We have four paintings on display from Charlie, who's been doing a lot of "dog-focused" work lately. And from Joan we have a couple sculptures, made from found objects and the human imagination.

Charlie Aimone’s works are small, layered paintings that use a broad color spectrum, often showing an animal as a central image, surrounded by abstract elements. The content of his paintings is based on the premise that dogs (and other animals) possess an innate intelligence that humans do not understand. “Dogs have complicated ways of signaling to you,” he says, whether it’s a look, a twitch of the ear or tail, or in the way they touch you. He reflects his interest in dogs as subjects by depicting them as if through the eyes of a six-year-old child.

Joan Painter Jones’ sculptures are imaginative assemblages of wood, metal, found objects, paint, and other media. “My work evolves from the jumble of materials I have picked up from roadsides, parts of things my husband no longer wants or are discarded, and things friends have given me,” she says. “I am captivated by old scraps of things, old wood with peeling paint, rusty metal, broken things, seem to have had a life and memories are in them somewhere. I know this isn't so, but it evokes that feeling in me nonetheless.”

Joan

Charles

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