The Downriver Council for the Arts’ (DCA) presents our 10th Annual Photography Exhibit, in-person and on-line! Hover over the image to read the description. Click to the left or right to scroll through the entire show. If you are interested in purchasing a piece, please contact the DCA at 734-720-0671 or dc4arts@downriverarts.org
The Offering
Artist: Marie Karambis
The Offering | Artistically Altered Photograph | $300 | 20” x 16”
Unique art created from quality wildlife images is my signature. Enjoyed by nature lovers and collectors. Each piece tells a story.
SnowDaze
Artist: Marie Karambis
SnowDaze | Artistically Altered Photograph | $300 | 20” x 16”
Unique art created from quality wildlife images is my signature. Enjoyed by nature lovers and collectors. Each piece tells a story.
HindSight
Artist: Marie Karambis
HindSight | Artistically Altered Photograph | $300 | 20” x 16”
Unique art created from quality wildlife images is my signature. Enjoyed by nature lovers and collectors. Each piece tells a story.
Hands Tied, 2019
Artist: Jessica DeMuro
Hands Tied, 2019 | Artistically Altered Photograph | $2000 | 72" x 13"
www.jessicademuro.com
@jdemuro
Bio: DeMuro (b. Ann Arbor) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Photography is often at the core of her work and she weaves that medium throughout installations, collages, and mixed media compositions. She’s earned varying degrees in both writing and the visual arts, bringing the depth and crossover of those disciplines into her creative process.
Jessica exhibits both internationally and throughout the United States. Previously, she’s received the Premio Internazionale Bugatti Seganti International Art Prize in Milan, and was a recipient of the Puffin Foundation grant for her work ‘Unspeakable’. In 2016, her installation ‘3,650 Days’ was featured in the Casablanca Biennale in Morocco. This September she will be apart of the Detroit Design Classic for window display design and The Scarab Club’s Contemporary Photography Exhibit for Design Month Detroit. Her works have been collected by The Rossi Foundation in Milan, the Biennale Internationale De Casablanca, and the Building Bridges Art Foundation in Los Angeles.
Growing up DeMuro naturally gravitated to the arts. She attended Michigan State University for Journalism and later moved to Chicago to further study photography. In 2010 she took another journey, leaving Chicago and moving to Los Angeles for graduate school. During her time in southern California she had the opportunity to work with many mentors while simultaneously earning her Masters Degree in Fine Art Photography. Currently, her studio is located inside the Fisher Building in the New Center District of Detroit.
Artist Statement:
Often tackling subjects that pierce the human experience, my work unfolds into pieces enriched with deep symbolism and metaphor. I find myself gravitated towards the internal landscape as it relates to the outside world, and how this can simultaneously be both beautiful and tragic. In honoring all dimensions of an experience we create a reality that is fully embraced, and fully lived.
As a multidisciplinary artist I often explore concepts in a diverse number of ways, primarily rooted in photography, collage, installation, and commonly the intersection of these mediums. This non-linear creative structure allows me to work towards a deeper examination of themes, emerging an even greater development of the concepts.
I make work to engage honest consideration and dialogue with my audience, and to that measure, the pieces created often reveal more intimate layers of themselves the longer one stands in conversation with them.
This particular series of images explores Alzheimer’s disease, and how it operates as a slow moving coup inside a persons existence, in this case specifically, my father's. Dissolving the most inherent parts of the self, this disease disassembles a person from the inside out. The dichotomy between a mind disintegrating and the vibrancy it once had becomes more transparent with each day.
5 years, 10 months, 3 days, 2019
Artist: Jessica DeMuro
5 years, 10 months, 3 days, 2019 | Artistically Altered Photograph | NFS | 12" x 12”
www.jessicademuro.com
@jdemuro
Bio: DeMuro (b. Ann Arbor) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Photography is often at the core of her work and she weaves that medium throughout installations, collages, and mixed media compositions. She’s earned varying degrees in both writing and the visual arts, bringing the depth and crossover of those disciplines into her creative process.
Jessica exhibits both internationally and throughout the United States. Previously, she’s received the Premio Internazionale Bugatti Seganti International Art Prize in Milan, and was a recipient of the Puffin Foundation grant for her work ‘Unspeakable’. In 2016, her installation ‘3,650 Days’ was featured in the Casablanca Biennale in Morocco. This September she will be apart of the Detroit Design Classic for window display design and The Scarab Club’s Contemporary Photography Exhibit for Design Month Detroit. Her works have been collected by The Rossi Foundation in Milan, the Biennale Internationale De Casablanca, and the Building Bridges Art Foundation in Los Angeles.
Growing up DeMuro naturally gravitated to the arts. She attended Michigan State University for Journalism and later moved to Chicago to further study photography. In 2010 she took another journey, leaving Chicago and moving to Los Angeles for graduate school. During her time in southern California she had the opportunity to work with many mentors while simultaneously earning her Masters Degree in Fine Art Photography. Currently, her studio is located inside the Fisher Building in the New Center District of Detroit.
Artist Statement: Often tackling subjects that pierce the human experience, my work unfolds into pieces enriched with deep symbolism and metaphor. I find myself gravitated towards the internal landscape as it relates to the outside world, and how this can simultaneously be both beautiful and tragic. In honoring all dimensions of an experience we create a reality that is fully embraced, and fully lived.
As a multidisciplinary artist I often explore concepts in a diverse number of ways, primarily rooted in photography, collage, installation, and commonly the intersection of these mediums. This non-linear creative structure allows me to work towards a deeper examination of themes, emerging an even greater development of the concepts.
I make work to engage honest consideration and dialogue with my audience, and to that measure, the pieces created often reveal more intimate layers of themselves the longer one stands in conversation with them.
This particular series of images explores Alzheimer’s disease, and how it operates as a slow moving coup inside a persons existence, in this case specifically, my father's. Dissolving the most inherent parts of the self, this disease disassembles a person from the inside out. The dichotomy between a mind disintegrating and the vibrancy it once had becomes more transparent with each day.
Endure II, 2019
Artist: Jessica DeMuro
Endure II, 2019 | Artistically Altered Photograph | $1200 | 22" x 29"
www.jessicademuro.com
@jdemuro
Bio: DeMuro (b. Ann Arbor) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Photography is often at the core of her work and she weaves that medium throughout installations, collages, and mixed media compositions. She’s earned varying degrees in both writing and the visual arts, bringing the depth and crossover of those disciplines into her creative process.
Jessica exhibits both internationally and throughout the United States. Previously, she’s received the Premio Internazionale Bugatti Seganti International Art Prize in Milan, and was a recipient of the Puffin Foundation grant for her work ‘Unspeakable’. In 2016, her installation ‘3,650 Days’ was featured in the Casablanca Biennale in Morocco. This September she will be apart of the Detroit Design Classic for window display design and The Scarab Club’s Contemporary Photography Exhibit for Design Month Detroit. Her works have been collected by The Rossi Foundation in Milan, the Biennale Internationale De Casablanca, and the Building Bridges Art Foundation in Los Angeles.
Growing up DeMuro naturally gravitated to the arts. She attended Michigan State University for Journalism and later moved to Chicago to further study photography. In 2010 she took another journey, leaving Chicago and moving to Los Angeles for graduate school. During her time in southern California she had the opportunity to work with many mentors while simultaneously earning her Masters Degree in Fine Art Photography. Currently, her studio is located inside the Fisher Building in the New Center District of Detroit.
Artist Statement: Often tackling subjects that pierce the human experience, my work unfolds into pieces enriched with deep symbolism and metaphor. I find myself gravitated towards the internal landscape as it relates to the outside world, and how this can simultaneously be both beautiful and tragic. In honoring all dimensions of an experience we create a reality that is fully embraced, and fully lived.
As a multidisciplinary artist I often explore concepts in a diverse number of ways, primarily rooted in photography, collage, installation, and commonly the intersection of these mediums. This non-linear creative structure allows me to work towards a deeper examination of themes, emerging an even greater development of the concepts.
I make work to engage honest consideration and dialogue with my audience, and to that measure, the pieces created often reveal more intimate layers of themselves the longer one stands in conversation with them.
This particular series of images explores Alzheimer’s disease, and how it operates as a slow moving coup inside a persons existence, in this case specifically, my father's. Dissolving the most inherent parts of the self, this disease disassembles a person from the inside out. The dichotomy between a mind disintegrating and the vibrancy it once had becomes more transparent with each day.
Aqua Gleam
Artist: Emily Kokay
Aqua Gleam | Color Photograph | $350 | 18” x 24”
I dip into painting, drawing, photography and multi-media sculpting while I am captivated by the opportunity of unlimited and boundless expression within visual art. My personal works revolve around observations and expressions of the Earths complex and varied processes while demonstrating the human impact and peering through an emotional perception. The core intention is to understand the visions of the natural world while exploring and innovating what art can do for the people, society and culture.
Provenance
Artist: Emily Kokay
Provenance | Color Photograph | $350 | 18” x 24”
I dip into painting, drawing, photography and multi-media sculpting while I am captivated by the opportunity of unlimited and boundless expression within visual art. My personal works revolve around observations and expressions of the Earths complex and varied processes while demonstrating the human impact and peering through an emotional perception. The core intention is to understand the visions of the natural world while exploring and innovating what art can do for the people, society and culture.
Aura Gleam
Artist: Emily Kokay
Aura Gleam | Color Photograph | $350 | 18” x 24”
I dip into painting, drawing, photography and multi-media sculpting while I am captivated by the opportunity of unlimited and boundless expression within visual art. My personal works revolve around observations and expressions of the Earths complex and varied processes while demonstrating the human impact and peering through an emotional perception. The core intention is to understand the visions of the natural world while exploring and innovating what art can do for the people, society and culture.
Ambiguity #1
Artist: Caeleigh Girard
Ambiguity #1 | 35mm Film Photography (Ilford HPS B&W) | NFS
https://instagram.com/darkroom_ambiguity
𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒌
Ambiguity #2
Artist: Caeleigh Girard
Ambiguity #2 | 35mm Film Photography (Ilford HPS B&W) | NFS
https://instagram.com/darkroom_ambiguity
𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒌
Ambiguity #3
Artist: Caeleigh Girard
Ambiguity #3 | 35mm Film Photography (Ilford HPS B&W) | NFS
https://instagram.com/darkroom_ambiguity
𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒌
Huroc Bliss
Artist: Erin Davis
Huroc Bliss | Artistically Altered Photograph | NFS | 11”x14”
https://www.instagram.com/artfully.erin/
A Day At The Twelve Apostles
Artist: Shelby Begeman
A Day At The Twelve Apostles | Artistically Altered Photograph | $120 Framed | 8”x10”
Website: www.shelbynicole.media
IG & FB: @shelbynicole.media
First Light
Artist: Shelby Begeman
First Light | Artistically Altered Photograph | $120 Framed | 8”x10”
Website: www.shelbynicole.media
IG & FB: @shelbynicole.media
Daffodil Sunrise
Artist: Shelby Begeman
Daffodil Sunrise | Artistically Altered Photograph | $120 Framed | 8”x10”
Website: www.shelbynicole.media
IG & FB: @shelbynicole.media