An Open Letter to Jimmy Doom on the Opportunity to Curate an Art Show at Hatch Art This Upcoming Weekend
But The Team Would Have to Move Fast
Dear
I visited Hamtramck Thursday, Friday and Saturday night last week. The town has it going on.
Hatch Art is between shows. Hence, Hatch allowed Maus Haus gallery to put up a weekend show. The opening was well attended, and I’m certain Cheryl Maus made a few nice commissions from the sales of paintings from the Wonder of Nature show. It’s an annual tradition now for Maus Haus to do a gallery take-over.
This upcoming weekend’s promoter has pulled out of the booking. That leaves the gallery open. It’s a great space for hanging art with a hallway gallery, a main gallery and an installation gallery in the old jail cell. Yep, the benches, the secured windows and even the tin toilet still remain in the space. The grate has come off the door, though.
A little bar at the end of the hallway allows one to purvey beverages for donations, which do add up. Just ask Mike Ross over at the Annex Gallery of 333 Midland. We’ve often talked about artists you’ve befriended, collected and promoted over the years. Could it be possible to flex that Jimmy Doom community for a pop-up show Friday, Saturday & Sunday, opening Friday, December 15th, 2023? Maybe even challenge the artists to depict a setting or a character from the Jimmy Doom universe, now 1203 or so stories strong and growing?
Probably should pitch Christopher Schneider, Executive Director, today or tomorrow. Publicity should be up by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest. And partial proceeds could benefit Hamtramck Disneyland, which was the folk-art expression of Dmytro Szylak (1920-2015), surely a person who would feel at home in a Doom story. The rest can go to the artists & the curator, which is you.
One might call upon the skills of
, a fellow Detroit Substack author and highly skilled curator.Plus, the gallery awaits not far from Smalls …
Hamtramck Disneyland, 12087 Klinger
That's a great idea, and Michael Ross is a wonderful guy and amazing artist. Some of his mural work is spectacular. He owns both my books while I own none of his art ( a bit more expensive than my books, but someday.)
Unfortunately, I am laid up with a mangled ligament in my right knee and can't commit to any projects that involve driving or...really anything else.
Detroit is overflowing with talented artists, and I gotta assume Hatch can find someone to fill those walls. Halprin has a show currently up in Huntington Woods, and so does David Keuten at Atwater. Sean Nader might have work he could show, Jen Demers is a fantastic newcomer ( @JenDem on Instagram )...Brian " Bumbo " Krawcyzk maybe, he's prolific as hell... Eric Fogle and EWolf's show at Detroit Contemporary is over, those two could easily pull off a last minute guerilla show at Hatch
But I am confined to the gallery that is my house for the next week at least.
I'll be interested to see who you or Hatch can plug in.