Nicole Eisenman @ the College for Creative Studies 
Olaf Breuning: Post-Art in the 21st Century with Chris Samuels & Riso Mattner
April 24 - 6 to 10pm a preview @ MONA Detroit in the R.I.C.
(in anticipation of the DCCP inaugural group exhibit on May 1st in Pontiac)
Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Nicole Eisenman, painter and installation artist (co-sponsored by the Museum of New Art and the College for Creative Studies) During the past fifteen years, New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman has created a self-aware and psychologically probing body of work that includes installations, animations, drawings, and, with increasing focus, paintings - Brian Sholis. Since her New York debut in the 1995 Whitney Biennial, Eisenman’s unique brand of humor permeates her work. Simultaneously playful, biting, and raunchy, she challenges cultural and social norms associated with gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the current art scene. In the last three years, she has had solo exhibitions in Zurich, Berlin, Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York.
Artist and writer Arnold J. Kemp wrote: “Her drawing style is reminiscent of the WPA and artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Mangold and Paul Cadmus, but hers is a complexity that belies its accessibility.” The recipient of Joan Mitchell and Guggenheim awards, Eisenman is represented by Leo Koenig Inc in New York City.
The Woodward Lecture Series is made possible by a generous endowment gift from an anonymous donor. **All lectures are free and open to the public. **Free parking available in the CCS Parking Structure, located on Brush Street, just north of Frederick Douglass. Lectures take place in: The Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium Walter B. Ford II Building (corner of John R and Frederick Douglass) College for Creative Studies
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Saturday, April 24 from 6 to 10 p.m. Olaf Breuning with Chris Samuels & Riso Mattner a preview @ MONA Detroit in the Russell Industrial Center Building #2, 3rd Floor Olaf Breuning takes B-movie kitsch to a whole different alphabetical scale somewhere way past Z.
With an undeniably self-ironic undertone Breuning confronts us with the consequences of a media-modeled, Pop-culture society. Olaf Breuning: There’s a fine line in my art because, sure, it has a kind of a humor, it is not too serious, but I never want to be an artist who makes “fun art.” In Europe, there was a big scene, especially in the 90s, making this fun art. I hated it. I don’t like it. I think a certain seriousness has to be there. But the only serious part of myself is my personality. I think I’m of a postmodern generation.
If you watch music and fashion, people just use signs that have been made before. All the young kids now make punk rock music. I grew up with the Sex Pistols. You cannot blame them, you cannot say, “You stupid idiots, why do you do that? That’s already been done.” They are kids. They just have a guitar and a bass and sing, and that’s rock.
Maybe that’s just art history.
For a long time, I have held that I would never reference art. But in the end you will do it. from 6-10pm - Opening Reception @ MONA Detroit The Russell Industrial Center 1600 Clay Street Detroit - Bldg. 2, 3rd Floor (see the complete exhibition at the Detroit Center for Photography on Saturday, May 1st from 6 to 10 p.m. - 7 North Saginaw, Pontiac.)
