Wasserman Projects

OPENING SATURDAY, 5/16, 5-8PM! Wasserman Projects is proud to present "Half Winged", an immersive musical and visual installation built around a single, devastating question, "Are we truly free?" Created by longtime collaborators, composer Shara Nova and visual artist Matthew Ritchie, "Half Winged" is a choral cantata — part song cycle, part ritual, part elegy — that maps humanity's oldest pattern: the drive to build something new, something bigger, something more beautiful, only to question it, destroy it and begin again. This project was generously supported by the Knight Foundation @knightfdn . See you this Saturday!

OPENING THIS SATURDAY, 5/16, from 5-8PM! In partnership with SNAG, we are excited to present "Steel Work of Mild Hands" in Wasserman Works, bringing together recent works by Alberte Tranberg and Adam Shirley, two artists whose practices engage deeply with metal as a site of labor, time, and material decision-making.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES! In celebration of opening “Half Winged”, there will be short performative interventions on the hour (5pm, 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm) during the event. See you Saturday (5/16), 5-8pm. Our opening event is free and open to the public! @mybrightestdiamond @matthewritchiestudio @half_winged_installation

Opening May 16th 5-8pm @wassermanprojects Half-Winged is an immersive musical and visual installation built around a single, devastating question. Are we truly free? Created by longtime collaborators, visual artist @matthewritchiestudio and composer Shara Nova aka @mybrightestdiamond Half-Winged is a choral cantata - part song cycle, part ritual, part elegy - that maps humanity’s oldest pattern: the drive to build something new, bigger, more beautiful only to question it, destroy it and begin again. This project was generously supported by @knightfdn and @newmusicusa

Final week to see Absence Takes Form! Wasserman Projects is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm. This exhibition is presented in partnership with @nceca and curated by Adrienne Spinozzi. Absence Takes Form is on view now through April 4th. Photography by @pdrearick

FINAL WEEK to experience Matt Wedel and SUBSTUDIO's Sculpted Garden, on view at Wasserman Projects through April 4th. Wasserman Projects is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm. Photography by @pdrearick

Absence Takes Form is currently on view! Wasserman Projects is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm. This exhibition is presented in partnership with @nceca and curated by Adrienne Spinozzi. Absence Takes Form is on view now through April 4th. Photography by @pdrearick

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, is the last day to see the @cranbrookceramics Alumni Exhibition at Chrysler House during @nceca ! The gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm. The exhibition brings together more than 100 works by @cranbrook_art alumni ceramicists spanning over 70 years—featuring artists from 21 states and three countries, and including celebrated figures such as Marie Woo, Mie Kongo, and Rob Raphael. Thank you to all of the artists for sharing your work with the NCECA community and Detroit! Thank you to curator Alison Wong (MFA Painting 2006), Director and Curator at Wasserman Projects and the Exhibition Committee Fabio J. Fernández (MFA Sculpture 2002), Executive Director of the National Sculpture Society; Ian McDonald, Head of Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art; and Shelley Selim, the Mort Harris Curator of Automotive, Industrial, and Decorative Design at the Detroit Institute of Arts. ❤️ Your support is everything @wassermanprojects @bedrockdetroit (Ryan, Olivia, and many more!) @duofineartservices @studioianmcdonald @drawingstraws @shelleyselim @michaelstonerichards @supersarebear @brandondlittle + our Academy staff who all pitched in to make the show a success. 👀 Don't forget, you can collect works from the show via the @wassermanworks website! Check the guidelines for pickup/shipping requirements. 📸 Photos by Gabriel Banuelos 👏

Absence Takes Form is currently on view! Wasserman Projects is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm. This exhibition is presented in partnership with @nceca and curated by Adrienne Spinozzi. Absence Takes Form is on view now through April 4th. Photography by @pdrearick

At the @nceca 60th annual conference yesterday, 300+/- people attended the “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” discussion featuring @rahafilsoofi @fainaland @graemwhyte and #AlisonWong @wassermanprojects . The conversation was frank, as these exceptional, generous artists shared pragmatic, solid, substantive realities and examples toward sustaining their creative lives. People took to the mic and shared their needs which resulted in two small and mighty groups of artists who didn’t know each other before sharing resources and experiences. NCECA recorded this as a podcast. For more information about how to hear the recording, please DM @nceca . Missed this but live in Detroit and the vicinity? You’ve got a second chance to join the conversation: Monday, 3/30pm at 6pm @wassermanprojects co-sponsored by Andrew Camden, @kresgeartsdetroit @cranbrook_art and #wassermanprojects we continue important exchanges hearing artists’ needs and retirement, healthcare, staples of security as we age. Our panel includes #AlisonWong #AndrewCamden @fainaland @graemwhyte and @ritadickersonartist . JOIN US. A special note of gratitude: None of this would have occurred without the great work of #AlisonWong. A fearless, determined arts leader, she made the connections and persevered for this to happen. THANK YOU ALISON! Also: big thanks to @brandondlittle Valerie Jenkins @katie.shulman @katie_grace_mcgowan Jeni De La O @lucyccahill @meshbomb1 @cranbrook_art @ccs_detroit @kresgeartsdetroit @allysonhoffelmeyer @joshpgreen @poppspacking and more. My sincerest gratitude to you all!

🤩🤩🤩 Works from the Cranbrook Ceramics Alumni Exhibition is available to collect via Wasserman Works website! 🏃‍♀️🛒🏺 This online sale is open for a limited time, don't miss out! Please note, pick-up and shipping are the responsibility of the buyer. Thank you @wassermanprojects !

First time visiting Wasserman Projects? Look for the red sculpture and enter through our red door!