GRAND OPENING ART EXHIBIT“SWEET FEET”
Thursday, July 23rd at Pink Pump’s new Birmingham location. Tracee Mae Miller, Cristin Richard, Laura Barnhard, Audrey Pongracz & many more celebrate the grand openings of the Bloomfield Hills shoe boutique Pink Pump’s, two new locations, with the appropriately titled exhibit,” Sweet Feet.”
Pink Pump will celebrate the dual grand openings of their new Birmingham and Royal Oak locations with an art opening entitled, "Sweet Feet" curated by Rick Manore and featuring a bevy of both well-known, and up and coming female artists depicting their own takes on fashionable footwear.
All mediums will be represented at the brand new Birmingham location at 150 W. Maple, on Thursday, July 23rd from 6- 9PM with an opening for the artists all work will be for sale.Complimentary pink champagne and light nosh will be available for attendees.
Pink Pump (formerly Shoe Envy) has expanded it’s popular shoe and accessory boutique in Bloomfield Hills to two new locations in Birmingham (Open now) and Royal Oak ( Open August 2009), and is now franchising both the Pink Pump brand as well as their clever take on floral delivery- “Heels On Wheels” across America.
Pink Pump is owned by 28 year-old, Tawny Thieu.
The Artists:
Cristin Richard, Laura Barnhard, Tracee Mae Miller, Gwen Joy, Jacx, Molly Jacques, Audrey Pongracz, Allison Vince, Lisa Goedert, Sunny Maniaci, Michell Danel, Joell Krista, Nicole Jarecz
A small, yet powerful group of artists including the beautiful yet unsettling work of Cristin Richard, whose pig gut medium has pushed the narrative within fashion to a breaking point. Tracee Mae Miller, the chanteuse from local Indie-Alt band, Blanche, paints in a surreal mix of Currier & Ives meets Flannery O’Connor, Miller’s thick impasto and judicious use of color, make her work indelible and enduring.
Laura Barnhard and Audrey Pongracz, both create dreamy worlds populated by sometimes strange, but always beautiful women. Gwen Joy’s expressive primitive yet femme drenched paintings and her hybrid toy art are well known in Detroit art circles, while young illustrators like Allison Vince, Nicole Jarecz & Molly Jacques explore fashion and fantasy simultaneously.
Expressionist painter Lisa Goedert’s whimsical and colorful works are a nice mix of minimalism and color. Former StunGun leader, Joell Krista, whose album and DVD graphic art has graced major releases as well as local events, creates mixed media Pop pieces of exceptional beauty. Photographer/painter, Michell Danel and the ever-unpredictable Jacx, the former Detroiter, who’s bizarre glass sculptures and 3-D works are known from Detroit to Tokyo.
Painter Sunny Maniaci rounds out the group.DJ Jenny LaFemme will spin House/Chill and then will host the official after party at The Corner Bar in The Townsend Hotel at 10PM.
The exhibit will remain up for 2 weeks.
Pink Pump will also having a pre-“Day On The Town” sale.
The connection between art and fashion borders on obsession.
Sweet Feet’s artists pay homage to one of their favorite weaknesses-
Shoes!
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Pink Pump
150 W. Maple
Birmingham, MI 48009
248 593-5313
Other Pink Pump Locations
6606 Telegraph Rd (at Maple)
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
248 539- 9260
309 S. Main
Royal Oak, MI 48067
Open Late July 2009