More Blue Than Red: encaustics and paintings by Nina Caruso

Cafe 1923 Coffeehouse, 2287 Holbrook St, 48212 Hamtramck, MI

Reception Friday, January 13 from 7pm to 9pm, featuring live music by Robert Ize.

Nina Caruso is a Detroit based artist creating work at her studio space at Hatch Art in Hamtramck. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art Education from Oakland University and shares her love of art with Detroit's future artists by teaching elementary art at a local school district.

Her work spans many mediums but her primary focus has been abstract encaustic and oil painting as well as mixed medium sculpture, and has most recently been exhibited at the Scarab Club in both the Silver Metal and Gold Metal Exhibitions.

The paintings included in this exhibition are a collection of acrylic, encaustic, and oil on canvas. These works are representative of a process that often consists of repetitive adding and removing layers until imagery reveals itself, creating a space for the viewer to enter into a calming or meditative state if even for a moments time, revealing the transformative power of art.

Ryan Standfest: Random Negotiations Toward an Unreasonable Happiness

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7, 6 To 10pm. 

Gallery Hours:
Saturday, January 14th, 1-6pm
Saturday, January 21st, 1-6pm
Saturday, January 28th, 1-6pm (artist talk at 2pm)

3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

"Random Negotiations Toward an Unreasonable Happiness" is an exhibition of printed works by artist Ryan Standfest.

ARTIST STATEMENT: "Navigating an environment of startling contradictions, I am motivated to construct work that reflects an interest in structural collapse and the impossibility of certainty. Perceiving the world as a series of absurd situations, I construct narratives establishing an equally absurd causality. The meaning I manufacture is knowingly held in place by the flimsiest of scaffolds, serving as gags or little black jokes that acknowledge a more profound irrationality. My artistic philosophy relies on humor in confronting uncertainty, and reflects an enthusiasm for “lower” forms of “disposable” print ephemera such as comic books and comic strips, tabloid newspapers, postcards, catalogs, manuals and advertisements, because of their ability to function as a suitable device for investigating the absurd and the satirical. Through the use of text and image, I pursue the Absurd as a purposeful exercise in futility, in which meaning is assembled using procedure and ceremony, within a greater framework of indeterminacy."

Ryan Standfest is a Detroit artist. He is the editor and publisher of ROTLAND PRESS, presenting publications of humor and despair, and founded the performance group Cabaret BLACK EYE, a hybrid of vaudeville and Absurdist theatrical tendencies. He is also a curator, assembling exhibitions that focus on different forms of humor in the visual arts. Standfest holds an MFA in Printmaking from The University of Iowa. He is currently a Lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an instructor at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. 

Studio: ryanstandfest.com | Publishing: rotlandpress.com

Michael McGillis: A Shortcut Through the Sun

Dec. 10 - Dec. 31

Opening reception: Saturday, Dec. 10, 6 to 10pm. 

Gallery Hours:
Saturday, December 17th, 1-6pm
Saturday, December 24th, 1-6pm
Saturday, December 31st, 1-6pm

3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

Hatch happily presents "A Shortcut Through the Sun", installation, video and sculptural work by Michael McGillis. 

In Michael's words: "My drivers have always been landscape, the memories we associate with places, and the careening state of the natural world…it seems these are where the needle of my thought process always returns to center. Whereas the default state of my working process is to set up collisions between unrelated objects and materials, and synthesize worlds that exist briefly, like the unstable Elements created in a supercollider. 

I’m not interested in providing answers, or even complete sentences. I’m interested in what we think we see when the lights are dim, or that moment when we squint at familiar things and they briefly shift into something else."

Now Showing

Christine Monley: Portrait Paintings and Collage

http://christinemonley.tumblr.com/

Craig Billings: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Tolerance

Opening Reception Saturday, November 5, 6-10pm

Gallery Hours:
Saturday, November 12th, 1-6pm
Saturday, November 19th, 1-6pm (Art Talk At 2pm)
Saturday, November 26th, 1-6pm

3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

How can humanity search for better ways to live together in a dangerous, complicated, chaotic world? The artwork of Craig Billings, which includes repurposed items, assemblage, and collage in a bright, colorful way, explores many issues facing our world today. In this politically-charged month, this work encourages honest discussion in the hopes of finding understanding.

Dawn Cooke: Clown Baby

October 2 - 29
Cafe 1923, 2287 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, Michigan.
Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7-9 P.M.

Hatch Art presents “Clown Baby,” a collection of oil paintings by Dawn Cooke of some local clowns and cute baby animals.

Dawn Cooke is an American artist, painter, illustrator and tattooer. Her work is about mark making, the study of symbolism and human emotion.
http://www.dawncookeart.net/

There is No I in Hamtramck

Opening Reception Saturday, October 1, 6-10pm

Gallery Hours:
Saturday, October 14th, 1-6pm
Saturday, October 22nd, 1-6pm (Art Talk at 2pm)
Saturday, October 29th, 1-6pm
3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

Hamtramck is a uniquely strange and wonderful city, nestled within the loving arms of Detroit. Twelve artists are exhibiting work that show their equally unique views of this place.

Featuring:
Sanda Cook
Jeff Fournier
Jessica Frelinghuysen
Matt Hunt
Laura Macintyre
Luke MacGilvray
Robert Piatek
Mariuca Rofick
Clinton Snider
Dmytro Szylak
Carl Wilson
Emily Wood

This is a Happy Place: Hamtramck Disneyland in Photographs

This is a Happy Place: Hamtramck Disneyland in Photographs
New work by Christopher Schneider
August 9 -31
Cafe 1923, 2287 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, Michigan.

Chris Schneider is dispalying a collection of photographs of Hamtramck Disneyland at Cafe 1923 in Hamtramck for the month of August. Proceeds go towards Hatch Art's campaign to restore Hamtramck Disneyland! Buy these great works by Aug. 20th and your contribution will be added to the Patronicity campaign and will be DOUBLED!

For more information and to donate to the campaign please visit www.patronicity.com/SaveHamtramckDisneyland

Every Fart is a Work of Art

Opening reception August 6th, 6-10pm

Gallery Hours:
Saturday, August 13th, 12-6pm
Saturday, August 20th, 12-6pm
Saturday, August 27th, 12-6pm

Hatch Art is pleased to announce a "Every Fart is a Work of Art" curated show by Katherine Montalto! The fart show is an art show dedicated to the funniest bodily function. It’s one of the few simple gifts of life that waste gas produced by our bodies, comes out of our butts with a little trumpet sound. Humankind has always found fart jokes funny. They appear in ancient scrolls, medieval books, and carved into stone.

All forms of media: illustration, collage, painting, sculpture and photography by artists:

Rachael Podlisecki
Shruti Nain
Rachel Bourgault
Ren Fracture
Rob-0
Jupiter
Alana Lorin Carlson
MIke Kelly
Killmonkies

HAMTRAMCK DISNEYLAND CHARITY EVENT

Admission: $50 (available at event or online)
Date: Friday July 29th, 2016 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: 3456 Evaline in Hamtramck, MI 48212

Join us at the Hatch Art Gallery for an evening supporting Hamtramck Disneyland! All proceeds will go towards the ongoing fundraising efforts and will be matched by a grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority. In addition to supporting a great local treasure the evening will feature: 

- Strolling dinner featuring many great local specialties
- Open bar featuring beer, wine and themed mixed drinks
- Charity auction featuring art by local artists and goods and gifts from local businesses
- Presentation on the history and future of Hamtramck Disneyland
- Current gallery exhibition by 2010 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship awardee Timmy Lampinen
- Live music and performances

100% of donations and proceeds from the event will go towards the current Patronicity fundraiser and will be DOUBLED by a matching grant from the MEDC and MSHDA! 

Artists and businesses interesting in donating to the auction or event please contact Scott Collins at collins@hatchart.org. 

Hands On at Hatch Art: Wood Tiles

Tuesday, August 9 6 pm - 9 pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Jen Fitzpatrick
Fee: $30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60
Register here:  https://form.jotform.com/61876866322971

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

Build an 8”x8” Wood Tile.
Come explore wood, building surfaces with wood scraps, experimenting with tools, color and found objects.

Join Hands On at Hatch Art for a workshop where we will make a unique 8”x8” wood tile with Jen Fitzpatrick and Alice V. Schneider. We'll use wood scraps and cutoffs, hand tools and some small power tools, paint and assorted found objects to build a unique three dimensional surface.

The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate tiles, the end result will be individualized.

Some materials will be provided. We will have an 8”x8” piece of birch ply for everyone and many odd shapes, sizes and kinds of wood as well as paint and found objects. We will have tools and wood glue but we won't be mad if you bring some of your own provided they are hand tools or small power tools (dremel, hand drill etc). We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

Save Hamtramck Disneyland!

Hatch Art needs your support to save the local artistic landmark known as “Hamtramck Disneyland”. With your donations, Hatch will renovate the installation and property into an active community art space. 

Please help us spread the word and donate today at  patronicity.com/project/save_hamtramck_disneyland

Join us at these exciting events:

July 29: Formal Gala at the Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline St., Hamtramck 

Aug. 11: Lecture & Dinner at Hamtramck Historical Museum, 9525 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck 

Aug. 20: Closing Event & Celebration at Trixie’s, 2656 Carpenter Ave., Hamtramck

Check out www.hatchart.org for details, times and additional events including: Beer Garden at “Stadt Garten”; Fowling Warehouse; Concert at Small’s, and more! Donations can also be mailed to: Hatch Art, 3456 Evaline St., Hamtramck, MI 48212. You can also reach us at HamtramckDisneyland@HatchArt.org to make donations or volunteer. 

Timmy Lampinen: Splatter Brains and Poster People

Saturday, July 2, 6-10pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, July 9, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, July 16, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, July 23, 1-6pm: Gallery Hours, 6-10pm: Performance
Saturday, July 30, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

Hatch Art, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck

Hatch Art is pleased to announce the retrospective exhibition "Splatter Brains and Poster People", artwork from Timmy Lampinen's past and present. This show will include new, current and past artworks by Timmy, including poster art from past performances.

STATEMENT
Here is some of my work through out the years! New and old! From paintings to poster art. I am a mixed up dude using mixed up media. My brain is scrambled, there for I SPLATTER paint etc., onto whatever I can find! From wood to cardboard to store bought canvas. I do not color in the lines in any aspect of my life. Never mind the Pollocks, here’s Timmy Vulgar!!!

BIO
Timmy Lampinen aka Timmy Vulgar Has been a creative force for the last 20 years, in Detroit and around the world. Playing in many bands (EPILEPTIX, CLONE DEFECTS, HUMAN EYE and Currently TIMMY'S ORGANISM!), booking shows and making all his own poster and album art.

He's also a Taco chef on the side and a 2010 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship awardee. As Timmy's music strives for wild abandon and maximum impact via spaced-out sounds, his artwork opens your third eye and squeezes in a couple more. 

Hands On at Hatch Art: Summer Art Camp!

Join Hands On at Hatch Art for a wonderful and exciting summer art camp! Every day your child will focus on making different projects led by local professional artists! Age appropriate projects will range from 2-D, 3-D, Sound, Video and Performance art!

Morning classes for ages 5-9, afternoon classes for ages 10-15.

Week-long workshops the following weeks this summer:

Jun 20 - Jun 24
Jun 27 - Jul 1
Jul 4 - Jul 8
Jul 11 - Jul 15
Jul 25 - Jul 29
Aug 1 - Aug 5
Aug 8 - Aug 12
Aug 15 - Aug 19
Aug 22 - Aug 26
Jul 18 - Jul 22

Hands On at Hatch Art: Little Looms

Monday, June 6 6 pm - 9 pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Francine Hibiscus Rossi
Fee: $30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60
Register here:  https://form.jotform.com/61374637247966

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

Join Hands On at Hatch Art for a workshop where we will make beaded jewelry with Francine Hibiscus Rossi and Alice V. Schneider. We'll use little handmade looms to make bracelets, broaches and earrings out of seed beads and thread.

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate collages from the basic materials.

Some materials will be provided. We will have a loom for each registered guest with a varying amount seed beads and thread to choose from. We won't be mad if you bring some of your own. We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

Hands On at Hatch Art: Collage

Wednesday, May 18, 6pm - 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: George Rahme
Fee: $30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/61225756701958

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

Join Hands On at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make collages with George Rahme and Alice V. Schneider. We'll use papers of all kinds, cardboard, photographs, bits of fabric and other items to create collages on the surface of your choice - boxes, illustration board, book covers, wood panels, paper etc. 

Some materials will be provided. We have papers of all kinds, fabric scraps, glitter, trim, beads, magazines, adhesives and some brushes. We won't be mad if you bring some brushes, sicssors, exacto blades and glue of your own. We will provide some objects and materials as a base for your collage, but you may want to bring your own cigar box or other box; stretched canvas; wood panel; heavy paper; record covers; vintage book cover; or other material as a base. We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

Linden - Mnemosyne: Reflections on Memory & Myth

May 1-May 29
Cafe 1923, 2287 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, Michigan.
Reception: May 6, 6-9 p.m. & May 19, 7-9 p.m.

Hatch Art presents “Mnemosyne,” an exhibition of mixed media myth-inspired paintings by Detroit artist Linden from May 1- May 29, with a reception on Friday, May 6. Three new works and a retrospective of paintings comprise an ongoing exploration of myths reinterpreted in cityscapes.

The Reception on Friday, May 6 is from 6-9pm. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist and enjoy an assortment of refreshing hors d'oeuvres, as well as the delicious offerings for sale at Cafe 1923. St. Zita will be performing, their sublime see-saw melodies from a sweetly somber viola meander atop the chiming percussive plucks of an oblong-iron-board-looking Chinese zither laced with 20-some-odd tinny toned strings.

As spring is a time of revival, "Mnemosyne" celebrates an imagined return of old mythologies to modern cityscapes. Named in honor of the forgotten goddess of time and memory, Mnemosyne, the series is a tribute to what these figures represented and contemplates those spirits present in our culture. Characters from lore, including Egyptian, Greek, and Native American, fly amongst the skyscrapers and drift through streets. These paintings celebrate the wonder of renewal, transformation, the endurance of mystery, and the hellish challenges endured.

Hands On at Hatch Art: Two new workshops

Paper Mache Masks
Monday, April 25, 6pm - 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Alice V. Schneider
Fee: $30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/61034463781959
The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate masks from the basic materials.

Some materials will be provided. We will bring simple papier-mâché mask forms to get you started. We'll also bring basic tools, paint, beads, feathers, yarn, buttons, fabric, markers, pipe cleaners and other materials you can use to embellish your masks and make them as fancy as you want to. We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

Drunk Painting with Bad Advice Alice
Thursday, April 28, 6pm - 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Alice V. Schneider
Fee: $30 per adult
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/60685533102955

Want a fun night out with some friends! Why not come out and paint with Bad Advice Alice?!? Not sure what to paint? No problem, BAA has got you covered!!! All you need to do is show up & BYOB and wear some paint clothes!

No experience necessary! Working with acrylic paint may tend to get messy so be sure and wear "messy" clothes or bring an apron! We will have a large variety of paint colors and brushes to use! Also we will have canvas and the whole sha-bang, please feel free to bring some of your own, if you like! I will provide brushes, but some people have fun results by using other materials... different materials provide different mark-making.

The workshop is open to adults only, 18+ to attend, 21+ to drink (BYOB). The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate paintings from the basic materials.

Materials will be provided, however, we strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice beforehand if you have any questions! 

Shaina Kasztelan: Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a Double Rainbow

Saturday, May 7, 6-10pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, May 14, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours (Art Talk 2pm)
Saturday, May 28, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a Double Rainbow” is an introspective glimpse into the fantasy world of artist Shaina Kasztelan. Through heavily decorated painting and sculpture, Kasztelan examines her own childhood anxieties and reminisces over self medicated hallucinations she has experienced throughout her disobedient youth. The work, while playful on the surface, investigates the surreal and darkly distorted perception of reality brought on by mind altering substances, the stigma of mental illness and the inevitable effects on a loner teenager. Self described as “Lisa Frank on acid”, this exhibition employs kitsch pop art memorabilia to resurrect 90s girl nostalgia in a psychedelic haze which desires to illuminate the pleasures and fears of recreational drug use in a culture where things are thoughtlessly consumed and quickly disposed of. Products, relationships, social media- Kasztelan aims to highlight a contemporary generation whose happiness is shaped by instant gratification, always looking for the next best thing.

BIO:
Shaina Kasztelan (b. 1990, Sterling Heights, MI) is an American artist living and working in Detroit, MI. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2012 with a concentration in painting and a minor in ceramics. Past exhibitions have taken place at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Detroit Artists Market and the Red Bull House of Art.

Call For Entries - Deadline July 18

fArt Show!
hosted by Hatch Art Gallery
http://thefartshow.org

The fart show is an art show dedicated to the funniest bodily function. It’s one of the few simple gifts of life that waste gas produced by our bodies, comes out of our butts with a little trumpet sound. Humankind has always found fart jokes funny. They appear in ancient scrolls, medieval books, and carved into stone.

The fart show is seeking any art inspired by farts. We’re interested all forms of media: illustration, collage, painting, sculpture, or photography.

Please use the submission form here to send up to three entries.