Sunday, May 3rd | 2 - 5 PM
Artist Talk: 3 - 4 PM
418 East 3rd St. Royal Oak, MI
RICK VIAN
Plein Air Paintings
$300 each
SUE CARMAN-VIAN
RICK VIAN
Rick Vian has been painting and teaching in the Detroit Metro area since the early 1970s. He received his B.F.A. at the College for Creative Studies and his M.F.A at Wayne State Univeristy. He has taught painting at Wayne County Community College, Wayne State University, and was an Associate Professor at the College for Creative Studies until he retired in 2018.
He was active in the early days of the Cass Corridor, exhibited at the Willis Gallery in 1974 and has continued to exhibit in numerous venues locally, nationally, and internationally.
SUE CARMAN- VIAN
Sue Carman-Vian has had over a thirty-year career as a painter, performance artist and film and video maker. She received an MFA from Wayne State University in 1984. She received the Michigan Council for the Arts Grant in 1986 for the Public Billboard Project, and was an award winner in the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1991. Sue has written, directed, produced and performed in nine productions from 1984- 2014. Some of these productions were sponsored by Marygrove College and Friends of Modern Art. She has written, directed, produced and performed in eleven films/videos from 1986-2009. Sue has exhibited in numerous one and two person exhibitions and many group shows from 1986 to the present. She has taught performance art at Wayne State University and Marygrove college in Detroit, MI.
Her work is narrative and autobiographically inspired by events in her life as they relate to her as a person and artist. Her use of universal themes help the viewer become aware of the value, relevance and place of art in society.