Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering
Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering
60 artworks. Celebrating 60 years of The Wright. From long-departed masters — to present-day Detroit artists — experience the radiance and power of Luminosity.
Featured Artwork: Johnathan Harris | See no evil, 2021
About the Exhibition
Experience Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering, a dynamic exhibition celebrating 60 years of The Wright with over 60 artworks from present-day Detroit artists, long-departed masters, and the museum’s archive.
Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and more, Luminosity illuminates the city’s creative spirit through shared histories, personal reflections, and bold artistic exploration.
Wright Perspectives
Read statements from Wright team members who helped put this exhibition together.
- Vera Ingrid Grant | Guest Curator
To mark the occasion of The Wright’s 60th year in Detroit, we invited artists to exhibit their work at museum in celebration of this milestone. The artists responded with the works that reflect upon our cityscape; share inner musings; and capture material and conceptual explorations in the visual arts.
We, in turn, searched our collection to share singular works of the last six decades that capture extraordinary moments of life in Detroit.
Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering reveals a panorama of creativity that arcs across shared histories, personal memories, and dreams for the future. These works, not usually shown together, create exciting and vibrant dialogues as their radiant energies move in startling tensions, or confound with a powerful stillness.
Luminosity is a lively and interactive mix of media: paintings, sculptures, photography, woodcuts, and prints. The artistic strategies displayed range from landscape, surrealism, modernism, and abstraction to vital examples of the historical and changing nature of figuration and portraiture.
We may see, hear and perceive Detroit in a new and surprising ways as these visual and very local conversations unfold before us.
About the Curator
Vera Ingrid Grant is an independent curator and scholar who has produced numerous national and international exhibitions. She is based in Ann Arbor, MI and specializes in African and African American art and issues related to race and social justice in contemporary art.
Previously, she served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2018-19) and was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University.
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See over 60 artworks from present-day Detroit artists, long-departed masters, and the museum’s archive.