Mount Clemens' Anton Art Center offers intriguing exhibits
A block installation -- "The The" -- by Bridget Byers, a boyish artist at the University of Kentucky, constructs a visual fantasy using ceramic toys, figurines and several childhood tchotchkes of the sorts made from molds. Loaded points include little vaulting wolves, rustic "Western" fences, and -- perhaps most deliciously -- noteworthy American presidents whose heads and torsos are obscured by much-larger Native-American wolf headdresses that they're (clearly involuntarily) wearing.
"It's a fantastic base," says Alison Wong, Anton exhibitions and training coordinator. "It's really sophisticated labour, and I love bringing young, emerging artists to the Center."
Noble Oak artist Scott Michalski and Philadelphia photographer Eric McDade collaborated on a two-part poke out involving self-portraits poignant on displacement and loss, jointly titled "One of Us, One of Us." Each vocation is framed through a little boy's cowboys-vs.-Indians worldview.
Michalski's colored-pencil self-record shows a defeated, bloodied Native American without a doubt being led away by U.S. troops. By contrast, McDade's photograph sets the artist on horseback, appearance marked up with war paints, hands resolved and roped to his unseen captors. The cowboy still grasps his six-shooter in his tied hands, an ironic detail that could, one supposes, suitable to itself to any number of interpretive theories.
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