River's Edge Gallery, 3024 Biddle Ave., is hosting "Underexposed," two floors featuring work by 12 underexposed artists ranging from sculptors and painters to photographers and potters.
Photographer Marianne Letasi's exhibit, "A Life," is featured upstairs in the Patricia Izzo Fine Art Photography Studio and Gallery.
The show runs through March 14. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
For more information, call 1-734-246-9880.
"Seeing and Drawing People," a three-hour workshop with a professional, live clothed model will be offered in the Home Gallery of the Downriver Council for the Arts, 20904 North Line Road, Taylor, from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow.
Beginning- and intermediate-level artists can improve their figure drawing skills and develop observation skills under the guidance of instructor Mark Jackson.
The workshop will emphasize basic drawing concepts, including gesture, contour, measurement of proportion and simple rules for drawing the head and body. Artists must provide their own supplies.
Preregistration is required, and there is a $15 fee to participate. Call the DCA at 1-734-287-6103 to sign up.
"An Uncommon Life: The Still Life Paintings of Margie Guyot" and "Brian Buck: Points of View" are two new exhibits at the Downriver Council for the Arts through Feb. 15.
Guyot, of Charlevoix, who uses oil paints to depict still life paintings that evoke a lush and hyper-colorful world, will have her works displayed in the Home Gallery.
Buck, of Kentwood, uses a fine-point technical pen to create intricate, detailed drawings of the natural world. Buck's pen-and-ink pointillism drawings will be displayed in the Skylight Gallery.

Photo courtesy of ŠPOP Gallery Works by more than 60 artists, including this depiction of flesh meeting machine by Dan Quintana, are on display during "Carnivora The Dark Art of the Automobile" through Feb. 27 at ŠPOP Gallery in Detroit. Other artists include Niagara, Robert Crumb and Mark Mothersbaugh.
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The exhibit is one of several events planned in celebration of the DCA's 30th anniversary.
The DCA is at 20904 North Line Road, Taylor. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays during the exhibit.
"Carnivora The Dark Art of the Automobile," a shadowy realm where flesh and machine coalesce into humanity's greatest technical achievement the automobile is on display through Feb. 27 at ŠPOP Gallery, 4160 Woodward Ave., Detroit.
More than 60 artists, including Robert Crumb, Mark Mothersbaugh and Niagara, contributed a piece of work for the exhibit and for a book of the same name.
Gallery hours are noon to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Call 1-313-833-9901 or visit www.cpop.com for more details.
"Soup to Nuts: Special Dishes for Everyday Use," featuring the work of artists such as Lucy Breslin, Scott Lykens and Gwen Yoppolo, runs through March 7 at Pewabic Pottery, 10125 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Visit pewabic.org or call 1-313-822-0954 for more information.