Artists Participating in Collecting x Design
M Contemporary Art, NEXT:SPACE (an art gallery and contemporary furniture dealer), and Airea have collaborated on Collecting x Design - an exhibition with a prominent visual narrative that emphasizes the value of local art and design.
Discover more about the participating artists below.
Joshua Rainer
JOSHUA RAINER was born in Detroit February of 1996. He lives in and works from his hometown. Rainer began formal art education at Cranbrook Upper Schools, is a member of the Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center (BBAC). He was the recipient of four Scholastics Regional Gold Medals in Painting, the Regional Best of Show, a Regional American Vision Nomination, and a Scholastics National Silver Medal in Painting. Rainer graduated from the College for Creative Studies’ Illustration Department in 2018 and has exhibited in the Grosse Pointe Art Center, the U245 Gallery, two College for Creative Studies Juried Student Exhibitions, Marygrove College, and been featured in DDEAF Magazine.
Chris Turner
Sculptor, painter, designer, and musician Chris Turner has been working and exhibiting throughout the city of Detroit and abroad for over 25 years. Having exhibited in the UK, Germany, & the Netherlands, Chris’ understanding and appreciation for the “masters” has influenced his creative energy towards his work and found him at the intersection of art & film several times including Matthew Barney’s “Ancient Evenings” and VICE Magazine’s “Detroit Lives.” While Chris’ passion remains sculpture, he continues to create works for commission and independently, as his contributions and collaborations with many design and architectural firms have led Chris to create large-scale works within the design community.
MALT
Malt is a self-taught artist, working and living in Metro-Detroit. Working in both aerosol and acrylic painting techniques, Malt explores themes of nature across a broad body of work. From large scale murals and installations to intimate studio work, Malt focuses on the juxtapositions posed by nature — life/death, growth/decay, strength/weakness.
Growing up in the Detroit area, Malt began his career as an artist through his passion for skateboarding, graffiti and music. Influenced by the bold lines of graffiti and skateboard graphics, Malt re-imagines natural landscapes and the characters that inhabit them, building from vivid backdrops to create other-worldly scenes.
Camille Ann Brewer
Los Angeles native Camille Ann Brewer is a hand weaver and dyer now based in Detroit, Michigan. Ms. Brewer studied textile design and construction at the California College of Arts and the University of Michigan, where she earned her BFA and MFA respectively. Most recently, Ms. Brewer served as the inaugural curator of contemporary art at the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum. Prior to her work at the Textile Museum, Ms. Brewer served as the executive director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, a Chicago-based membership association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions, based at the University of Chicago.
John McLaughlin
The work of Michigan artist John McLaughlin (b. 1954) explores the relationship between humans and their environment. Child-like scribbles are combined with highly finished drawing and collage elements to create abstract works that still retain references to natural and man-made objects. Similar to a musical composition, McLaughlin slowly creates his paintings by building on and modifying motifs applied in previous layers. He embraces improvisational gestures and incidents allowing some of the previous marks to show in a palimpsestic manner.
Don Kilpatrick
Donald Kilpatrick III earned his M.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University in 2006 and moved to Detroit in 2007 to join the faculty of CCS in traditional and digital illustration; he became department chair in 2010. A successful freelance illustrator, Kilpatrick's work has been featured in publications such as Fortune, the L.A. Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was involved in the design of the 2002 Olympic medal for the Salt Lake City Winter Games. He has received numerous awards from organizations such as The Society of Illustrators. He has exhibited his artwork in cities including New York, Philadelphia, and Miami. Kilpatrick is a founding member of The Detroit Wood Type Co., and Signal Return.
Dessislava Terzieva
Dessislava Terzieva is a contemporary Bulgarian-American artist whose practice encompasses collage, sculpture, installation and performance. Born at the sunset of the communist regime in Bulgaria, Terzieva’s process and material choices are reflective of growing up in the flux of radical change. Employing a utilitarian approach, she favors pre-existing materials gathered from her personal experience and immediate environment, applying subtle transformations in order to alter their function, even if that means simply changing their context. The work serves as a bridge between gaps, be they conceptual or real, while simultaneously expounding the paradoxical nature of being.
Roy Feldman
Roy Feldman is a photojournalist and filmmaker with assignments that have included the White House and international work. He is a regular content provider to PBS and producer of Detroit Performs. His current project revolves around illustrating the beauty of his friends: writers, painters and poets.
