The Art Ambience Spring Art Exhibition and Miniature Show is taking entries through next Friday. Artists 18 years and older living Downriver are eligible to submit their work. Last year's show included more than 250 pieces of artwork.
This year's Art Ambience exhibition will be held April 20 - 22 at the Woodhaven Community Center, 23101 Hall Road.
For more information, call Judy Nelms at 1-734-676-3377.
The Downriver Council for the Arts Home Gallery, 20904 North Line Road, Taylor, will be the site of two new exhibits opening with a reception from 6 - 9 p.m. April 26.
In the Home Gallery is the Wayne County Community College District Student Exhibit, with artwork created in a variety of styles and media by students from the college's fine arts department on display.
Featured in the Skylight Gallery will be digital art by Dearborn artist R. Darrow Bernick. The scope of the work includes nearly two-dozen digital photographs inspired by the Major Arcana of the classic tarot deck.
The exhibitions run through May 11.
At 7:30 p.m. May 3, Bernick will present a lecture on the significance of the tarot and the hero's journey and explain the techniques used to create his artwork.
The exhibits and lecture are both open to the public, free of charge. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and noon - 3 p.m. Saturdays during exhibitions. For more information, call 1-734-287-6103.
River's Edge Gallery, 3024 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte, presents exhibitions by a diverse trio of artists.
On the mezzanine level are new paintings by Amy Chenier and pieces by found-object sculptor Tim Burke.
Chenier combines highly realistic images of famous people, setting them in abstract alternate realities that reflect their inner life as well as scientific and philosophic principles.
Burke creates his 3-dimensional art and sculptures from materials and objects he finds searching through the abandoned ruins of Detroit
On the gallery's third floor will be a photographic exhibition, "In Bloom," features images by Elaine Redmond.
Redmond's reverse negatives and depictions of nature in various states of "aliveness" give an ethereal look to her images. They are beautiful but a little haunting, and they make her the perfect photographer with whom to welcome spring and to establish the new photographic gallery.
There will be a "meet the artists" night next Friday. The exhibitions will run through May 12.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. For more information, call 1-734-246-9880 or visit www.artattheedge.com
Biddle Gallery, 2840 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte, has hot times planned for the summer months.
It will begin with the Summer Solstice Show, starting at precisely 6:06 p.m. June 21, then running until midnight
Artists Dave Moroski, Carl Oxley III, Davin Brainard, Frank Pahl, Steve Miller, Mark Sengbush, Rick McQuaid and others welcome the season with a mixed media show, with art, animated films and live music, and maybe even a parade.
Summer is the season for outdoor art fairs, so Biddle Gallery is bucking convention with the Climate Controlled Art Fair July 1 - Aug. 31.
Get away from the hordes, the baby strollers, the smell of fried everything and the heat of the asphalt by coming inside Biddle Gallery for an art fair featuring pottery, glass, furniture, home accessories and fine art by more than 100 Michigan artists.
Dreaming Through Reincarnation, new paintings by Ryan Weiss dealing with dreaming and a consciousness of an afterlife, will be on display Aug. 6 - 31, with an artist's reception from 6 - 9 p.m. Aug. 17.
Currently, the gallery is featuring "Vessels," slip-cast porcelain vessels by international award-winning ceramic artist John Albert Murphy, through Aug 31.
Murphy casts thin wall forms to accentuate the translucent qualities of porcelain.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturdays. Call 1-734-281-4779 or visit www.biddlegallery.com.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., is showing "Ansel Adams — America's Treasures from an American Treasure" through May 27.
Tickets, which include an audio tour and general admission, are $10 for adults, $9 for adult groups of 20 or more and $5 for ages 5 -17. DIA members are admitted free.
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