matthew j piper: Form and formlessness at 2739 Edwin

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Form and formlessness at 2739 Edwin

Photo by Michel Francois Soucisse

(originally published 4/26/11 in KnightBlog)

Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter's Turn (one of two installations on view in Hamtramck this month) closed last Saturday night. To mark the occasion, there was an improvisational dance and music performance inside 2739 Edwin, the gallery space that housed the installation (composed of hundreds of translucent, tensile bands strung from floor to ceiling).

Read the rest at KnightBlog.

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I'm a Detroit-based writer, editor, and librarian at large. I'm particularly interested in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and urbanism.

I'm the editor-in-chief at Essay'd, where we publish short, illustrated essays about contemporary Detroit artists. My work has also been featured in Curbed, Detroit Research, Infinite Mile, KnightArts, Model D, and the second edition of Thanks For the View, Mr. Mies.

I'm currently researching a book about the ongoing impact of the socially engaged abstract public art that proliferated in Detroit in the early 1970s.

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