PASC FALL 2024 NEWSLETTER: DESIRE LINES

Desire lines is a term urban planners use to describe the routes people take when no specific paths have been planned. Like shortcuts across fields or the direct paths made when others have been obscured, like after a heavy snowfall. These routes, from a starting point to a destination, don’t follow standard directions or systems, their approach is entirely the individual’s own. They decide where they want to go and choose their own way to get there, no matter how circuitous.

This idea is a great metaphor to describe how we work at PASC. We may suggest a destination but our artists plan their own path. We might offer tools along the way but never maps, the journey is entirely the individuals own. And we celebrate each individuals unique method of wayfinding. This experience builds self-confidence and trust in each artist to know what and how they do, what it is they do, is not only accepted but applauded.

It continues to be a busy Fall for us at PASC. We have many exhibitions and events planned. And some exciting new opportunities on the horizon.

- Anthony Marcellini, Founder and Program Manager of PASC

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

Image Caption: Robert Duncombe, Figures in Shades of Orange, 2024, Colored pencil ballpoint pen watercolor on paper, 15 x 22 in

IMAGINATION MAPS: SHERRI BRYANT AND ROBERT DUNCOMBE

Opening November 7, 5-7pm

Exhibition Dates: November 7 - November 30

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2,

Detroit, MI, 48214

Imagination Maps is our first two person exhibition showcasing full bodies of artwork from two of our most prolific artists, Sherri Bryant and Robert Duncombe. This exhibition present two artists who work in a parallel patterned and decorative abstract style. Each artist presents elements that may start with a reference but become abstract through their repetition.

Robert Duncombe’s artworks, appear like stained glass or aerial views of industrial agriculture, but are actually made up of geometric figures holding hands, like rows of paper doll chains. These pieces Robert refers to as communities of people. Sometimes he depicts all the artists including himself and staff in the studio, and sometimes he includes the surrounding community.

Sherri Bryant’s artworks are richly patterned detailed abstractions, that evoke maps, or more recently, cellular biological networks. Often these artworks start with referential imagery or contain small symbols, but hide amidst Sherri’s elaborate webwork of color. These artworks require the viewer to zoom in and out, embracing their intricate and expansive nature.

The exhibition title, Imagination Maps, is named after one of Sherri’s paintings, Imagination Map, which was recently acquired by Cranbrook Art Museum, and is on view starting 10/25/24. The exhibition title pluralizes Sherri’s title, referring to the charts of relationships that these artists create. Documenting their experience as a kind of wayfinding in our world, demarking the landmarks of the most significant people and things along the way.   

VIEW THE EXHIBITION HERE

Jeremy Taylor, Detroit Music, 2024, limited edition letterpress relief prints on watercolor paper edition of 20, 12 x 18 in

Ronald Griggs, Dogwoman, 2024, limited edition letterpress relief prints on watercolor paper edition of 20, 12 x 18 in

Keisha Miller, Self-Portrait in the studio, 2024, limited edition letterpress relief prints on watercolor paper edition of 20,

12 x 18 in

PASC AND SIGNAL-RETURN COLLABORATIVE PRINT LAUNCH

Date/Time: November 21, 5-7pm

Location: PASC (STE 2) and Signal-Return (STE 1) galleries, 9301 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, MI, 48214

Please join us on November 21 from 5-7pm for the launch of PASC and Signal-Return’s Collaborative Print Launch. PASC has been invited by our Detroit Neighbor Signal-Return to participate in a commissioned print project supported with a grant S-R received from Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM). As part of this grant eight PASC artists have been selected to create limited edition letterpress relief prints on watercolor paper with Signal-Return. Participating artists Sherri Bryant, Chantell Donwell, Ronald Griggs, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Thomas Saunders, Aaron Taylor, and Jeremy Taylor.

Each PASC artist will produce a print run of 20 prints made with 2-3 artist’s proofs. All prints will be sold through Signal-Return with proceeds from the sale split 50/50 between Signal-Return and PASC.

Signal-Return is a Detroit nonprofit dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration.

For this event PASC will also feature some new PASC products as well, just in time for holiday shopping.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Image Caption: Ryan McDonagh, My Sculptures, 2024, watercolor and ink on paper, 18 x 24 in

THE CROSSING POINT

Participating artists: Michael Ficara, Manual Bart, Stanley Brown, Sereal Crawford, Dwayne Curry, Mandy Demorest, Santina Dionisi, Zainab ElHasan, Derek Ellis, David Harris, Ryan McDonagh, John Peterson, Justin Pollard, and Tessann Rondeau 

Exhibition Dates: October 17, 2024 - January 3, 2025

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery

13721 Eureka Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Gallery Hours: Friday, 10 am – 3 pm and by appointment

Curated by Benjamin Haddix and Kristi Ternes

The Crossing Point is our newest exhibition at our PASC Southgate Gallery. Featuring fourteen artists from across our three studios. The exhibition presents artworks that represent an acute sense of structure and materiality. Spanning from two-dimensional artwork to sculpture, the artists in this show demonstrate a willingness to experiment beyond mediums, allowing their interests and intuition to guide crossings from paper to clay, from ink to thread and from paint to glue. This show represents a lived world of architecture, toys, props and play. It is flat, soft, drawn, and sewn, and it spans the junction between the manifestation of an idea and the materialization of what spatial form it takes. 

 FUTURE EVENTS AND PROJECTS

PASC AT THE OPEN INVITATIONAL: AN ART FAIR DURING MIAMI DESIGN WEEK

Dates: December 2-8, 2024

Open Hours: mon-Sat 12-7; Sun 12-5

Palm court event space

140 39th street

Miami Design District

PASC will be a participant in THE OPEN INVITATIONAL a new fair dedicated to progressive art studios showcasing the work of artists with mental and physical disabilities. We are very excited for this opportunity to participate in our first art fair ever during a week of art Fairs and events in Miami.

THE OPEN INVITATIONAL describes its aims as “building our artists’ careers and in the process dismantling outmoded hierarchies in the contemporary art world. With openness as our guiding principle we seek to broaden public awareness of progressive art studios and disseminate incredible, unique, and urgent art to collectors and institutions.”

THE OPEN INVITATIONAL was founded by gallerist David Fierman and arts patron Ross McCalla / The Outsider Institute, with support from Craig Robins / Miami Design District. 

PASC will be amongst a cohort of several other incredible disability/progressive art studio programs and galleries dedicated to supporting artists with disabilities.

2bnonprofit, Miami

Artech Collective, New York 

Arts of Life, Chicago

Center for Creative Works, Philadelphia

Creative Growth, Oakland

Community Access Art Collective, New York 

LAND Gallery, New York 

The Living Museum, New York

Studio Route 29, Frenchtown, NJ

Vinfen's Gateway Arts, Boston

PASC SHOWS AT WHITE COLUMNS BOOTH,

AT NADA, MIAMI

Dates/Times: Dec 3 – 7

Location: Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136

PASC will be showcased at a second event during the busy art fair week in December in Miami. The New York Gallery White Columns, who curated our Summer exhibition People Are People, will showcase four PASC artists on the walls of their booth at NADA. They will be featuring Keisha Miller, Ronald Griggs, Thomas Saunders and Alsendoe Owens, and over 60 unframed artworks by PASC artists across all our studios. 

NADA is an art fair showcasing a diverse selection of over 150 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations spanning 37 countries and 66 cities including Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Lagos, Honolulu, Caracas, and Pittsburgh. The fair is run by The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) athe definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.

If you plan to visit the Art Fairs in Miami, drop by and see us.

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