MALT

A conversation with artist Malt around his upcoming two-person exhibition with Freddy Diaz, current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

S. KAY YOUNG

A conversation with Detroit artist S. Kay Young around her current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

MEIGHEN JACKSON

A conversation with Detroit artist Meighen around her current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CAITLIN MANCHESTER

A conversation with illustration student Caitlin Manchester around her current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CARLA ANDERSON

A conversation with Carla Anderson around her current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ROY FELDMAN

A conversation with Roy Feldman around his current practice and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Feldman’s solo exhibition “Truth & Grace in Hamtramck” opened, or was slated to open, on March 20, 2020, but the opening was canceled amidst the Governor’s order that Michiganders stay-at-home. The exhibition was hung as scheduled.

March 29, 2020 by Ron Scott

Truth & Grace in Hamtramck was in the planning for a year and scheduled to open on March 20, 2020, at the M Contemporary Art in Ferndale, but the state order to “Stay at Home” by Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan made those plans impossible. As a result, I asked the gallery owner, Melannie Chard, to allow me to view the images online and proceed with a review. I had viewed Feldman’s photographs over the years and seen several images in person, which gave me enough perspective to proceed in this peculiar and highly unusual endeavor: write a review from art viewed online.

For his latest solo exhibition, Detroit photographer Kenny Karpov took to the Mediterranean Sea for a closer look at Europe's refugee crisis.

Many of the photos show Black bodies packed onto ship decks, calling to mind a modern-day slave ship. What gets lost in the mainstream media narrative of the refugees, Karpov believes, is that any of the African and Middle Eastern refugees are in fact fleeing the horrors of modern-day slavery, human trafficking, famine, and war.

Looking through his lens, photographer Kenny Karpov tries to capture who people truly are — their expressions, their bodies and the light in their eyes. His emotional portraits, paired with written work, tell their stories.

In Karpov’s latest project, the book “Despite It All We Never Learn,” he tells the stories of refugees, the real people going through travails on a journey toward better and safer lives.

Internationally acclaimed photographer and Detroit resident Kenny Karpov joins us to talk about his upcoming photo exhibit, “Despite It All, We Never Learn.”

The photos take you on a journey with Karpov on a refugee boat in the Mediterranean. It’s quite the story, and the opening event is at M Contemporary Gallery in Ferndale.