Kathryn Brackett Luchs Exhibits - Simone DeSousa Gallery

Kathryn Brackett Luchs

Upcoming Exhibition (Cass Corridor Location):
Kathryn Brackett Luchs: Collision / Re-Vision
January 14 – February 18, 2023

Simone DeSousa Gallery is pleased to present Kathryn Brackett Luchs’ first solo exhibition in Detroit titled “Collision / Re-Vision.” The exhibition includes several recent large-scale works the artist calls “hybrids.”

Before starting her academic education, Brackett Luchs spent the late 60s and early 70s in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, where she filmed and recorded artists and their practices. Over the last five decades, Brackett Luchs has explored the merging of traditional practices with her experimental multidisciplinary studio practice—which includes printmaking, drawing, painting, and photography—and her personal iconography.

Kathryn’s experimental forms negotiate with the limitations of the traditional print boundary, likening them to a vessel or container wherein a collision occurs. The result is a hybrid, a variant, or a self-described “new graphic state.”

In Collision / Re-Vision Brackett Luchs intends to unpack some of her hybrid experiments and her most current ‘resolutions.’ It is a bridge in time and a link to this present.

KATHRYN BRACKETT LUCHS
Born in Detroit Michigan, Kathryn Brackett Luchs moved to the Cultural Center in Detroit at an early age and began living, painting and filming experimental artists also creating in studios along what is called the Detroit Cass Corridor. Brackett Luchs received her MFA from the University of Michigan after developing a personal studio practice and being included in group shows. She was part of the group exhibition Kick Out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977 at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in 1980. The exhibition was after presented at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Brackett Luchs’ early works in painting were chosen to represent Michigan in 1986-87 in the Contemporary Arts Center Biennial that traveled to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her continuing interest in studio experiments and development of large-scale hybrid works have received recognition and many awards that include The Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and The Ed Foundation Grant. Her knowledge, based in multiple studio approaches, has led to a rich teaching history at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design from 1992 through 2019.

Image: Kathryn Brackett Luchs’ installation view.

Upcoming Exhibition (Cass Corridor Location):
Kathryn Brackett Luchs: Collision / Re-Vision
January 14 – February 18, 2023

In Collision / Re-Vision Brackett Luchs intends to unpack some of her hybrid experiments and her most current ‘resolutions.’ It is a bridge in time and a link to this present.

Image: Kathryn Brackett Luchs’ installation view.

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CASS CORRIDOR, CONNECTING TIMES: Brenda Goodman, Kathryn Brackett Luchs, Ann Mikolowski, Nancy Mitchnick, Ellen Phelan, and Nancy Pletos
September 7 – October 14, 2018

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Installation view

Rough Play

Nancy Pletos
1981
Wood, paint, glass, glue, sand
16 1/2 × 14 × 10 1/2 in

Tomorrow’s Promise

Brenda Goodman
2017
Oil on wood
36 × 50 × 1 1/2 in

Balance

Brenda Goodman
2017
Oil on wood
36 × 32 × 1 1/2 in

Installation view

Garden Path (clock-counter yellow-violet)

Nancy Pletos
1981
Wood, paint, glass, glue, sand, craft jewls
10 1/4 × 12 × 8 in

Garden Path detail

Installation view

Tiered Jungley II and Nouveu Rain Forest I

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, glass, craft jewels, beads
10 × 9 1/2 × 7 in

Topsy Turvy

Nancy Pletos
2001
Cardboard, paint, glue, found objects
21 × 24 × 1 1/4 in

Installation view

Artist Book

Ann Mikolowski
1996-1998
Marbled paper, watercolors, ink, graphite

Gerard Malanga, John Godfrey, Eileen Myles’ Back

Ann Mikolowski
1982
Oil on canvas, wood frame
2 1/2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Phillip Glass

Ann Mikolowski
1980
Oil on canvas, wood frame
2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Carol Berge and Jessica

Ann Mikolowski
ca. 1980
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/4 × 3/14 × 1/2 in

Ted Greenwald

1985
Ann Mikolowski
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Ivan Karp II

Ann Mikolowski
1994
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in

Mike Knight
Ann Mikolowski
1991
Oil on canvas, wood frame
5 × 3 × 1/2 in

Installation view

OPEN

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Craved birch plywood with ink & layered glassine with Sumi on canvas, varnished
96 × 96 × 2 in

OPEN detail

Trapping Mirrors and Triangle Mirrors

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, mirror glass, mica chips, craft jewel, glitter, pine cones, other natural vegetation
9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/2 in

Trapping Mirrors and Triangle Mirrors

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, mirror glass, mica chips, craft jewel, glitter, pine cones, other natural vegetation
9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/2 in

Trapping Mirror Detail

Installation view

Untitled

Ellen Phelan
1976-1977
Oil on plywood
80 x 17 x 8 in

Dog Party

Nancy Mitchnick
2017
Oil on canvas
72 1/2 × 36 × 1 in

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CASS CORRIDOR, CONNECTING TIMES: Brenda Goodman, Kathryn Brackett Luchs, Ann Mikolowski, Nancy Mitchnick, Ellen Phelan, and Nancy Pletos
September 7 – October 14, 2018

View description

Installation view

Rough Play

Nancy Pletos
1981
Wood, paint, glass, glue, sand
16 1/2 × 14 × 10 1/2 in

Tomorrow’s Promise

Brenda Goodman
2017
Oil on wood
36 × 50 × 1 1/2 in

Balance

Brenda Goodman
2017
Oil on wood
36 × 32 × 1 1/2 in

Installation view

Garden Path (clock-counter yellow-violet)

Nancy Pletos
1981
Wood, paint, glass, glue, sand, craft jewls
10 1/4 × 12 × 8 in

Garden Path detail

Installation view

Tiered Jungley II and Nouveu Rain Forest I

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, glass, craft jewels, beads
10 × 9 1/2 × 7 in

Topsy Turvy

Nancy Pletos
2001
Cardboard, paint, glue, found objects
21 × 24 × 1 1/4 in

Installation view

Artist Book

Ann Mikolowski
1996-1998
Marbled paper, watercolors, ink, graphite

Gerard Malanga, John Godfrey, Eileen Myles’ Back

Ann Mikolowski
1982
Oil on canvas, wood frame
2 1/2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Phillip Glass

Ann Mikolowski
1980
Oil on canvas, wood frame
2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Carol Berge and Jessica

Ann Mikolowski
ca. 1980
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/4 × 3/14 × 1/2 in

Ted Greenwald

1985
Ann Mikolowski
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/2 × 3 × 1/2 in

Ivan Karp II

Ann Mikolowski
1994
Oil on canvas, wood frame
3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in

Mike Knight
Ann Mikolowski
1991
Oil on canvas, wood frame
5 × 3 × 1/2 in

Installation view

OPEN

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Craved birch plywood with ink & layered glassine with Sumi on canvas, varnished
96 × 96 × 2 in

OPEN detail

Trapping Mirrors and Triangle Mirrors

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, mirror glass, mica chips, craft jewel, glitter, pine cones, other natural vegetation
9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/2 in

Trapping Mirrors and Triangle Mirrors

Nancy Pletos
1978
Wood, paint, glue, varnish, mirror glass, mica chips, craft jewel, glitter, pine cones, other natural vegetation
9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/2 in

Trapping Mirror Detail

Installation view

Untitled

Ellen Phelan
1976-1977
Oil on plywood
80 x 17 x 8 in

Dog Party

Nancy Mitchnick
2017
Oil on canvas
72 1/2 × 36 × 1 in

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Kathryn Brackett Luchs, Michael Luchs, and Robert Sestok
OFF THE PRESS
July 28 – August 18, 2018

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Installation view

Robert Sestok Installation view

Michael Luchs Print Installation

Untitled (Teeth)

Michael Luchs
Circa 2000
Lithograph, spray paint
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Teeth)

Michael Luchs
Circa 2000
Lithograph, spray paint
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Prayer Squirrel 2)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1995
Lithograph
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Prayer Squirrel 2)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1995
Lithograph
42 × 30 inches

Michael Luchs Print Installation

Untitled (Frog)

Michael Luchs
2018
Woodcut lithograph (Ed. of 5)
40 × 28 1/2 inches

Untitled (Dog Head)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1994
Lithograph (Ed. of 5)
38 × 25 inches

Kathryn Brackett Luchs Installation

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
Print from Asia block, layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches (each)

Untitled 3

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Untitled 2

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Untitled 1

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Remnant 1

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 2

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 3

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 4

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 5

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

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Kathryn Brackett Luchs, Michael Luchs, and Robert Sestok
OFF THE PRESS
July 28 – August 18, 2018

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Installation view

Robert Sestok Installation view

Michael Luchs Print Installation

Untitled (Teeth)

Michael Luchs
Circa 2000
Lithograph, spray paint
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Teeth)

Michael Luchs
Circa 2000
Lithograph, spray paint
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Prayer Squirrel 2)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1995
Lithograph
42 × 30 inches

Untitled (Prayer Squirrel 2)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1995
Lithograph
42 × 30 inches

Michael Luchs Print Installation

Untitled (Frog)

Michael Luchs
2018
Woodcut lithograph (Ed. of 5)
40 × 28 1/2 inches

Untitled (Dog Head)

Michael Luchs
Circa 1994
Lithograph (Ed. of 5)
38 × 25 inches

Kathryn Brackett Luchs Installation

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
Print from Asia block, layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches (each)

Untitled 3

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Untitled 2

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Untitled 1

Kathryn Brackett Luchs
2018
Print from Asia block
Layered glassine print with Sumi on canvas, varnished
104 × 48 inches

Remnant 1

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 2

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 3

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 4

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

Remnant 5

Robert Sestok
2018
Engraving, chine colle mono print
70 × 39 inches

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