Who?
Cristin Richard, Francisco Amaya, Paula Raatz, Joshua Ball, Bill
Harbort, Aunia Kahn.

What?
"It's Humble To Be Good": 6 juried winners from "©POPportunity" exhibit.

Where?
©POP, Detroit

When?
Opening: Saturday, October 13th 7PM-11PM- runs to November 14th

Wow!
©POP Gallery ends its summer hiatus with the much-anticipated art
showcase culled from the winners of ©POP's hugely successful
"©POPportunity" exhibit last March. Entitled, "It's Humble To Be
Good", the show launches with an opening reception on Saturday,
October 13th. "©POPportunity" was a hybrid of MySpace marketing and
the "vanity" gallery scheme, but with a twist: the artist was charged
a nominal inclusion fee and if the artist's work sold, they garnered
an unheard of 90% of the proceeds. Works were juried by an eclectic
group of artists, gallerists, musicians and media personalities, with
one artist voted in by exhibit attendees. Though a daunting prospect
to choose only a few from the wonderfully strong and top-quality cast
of over 100 entrants, the 6 winners were a great assortment of new and
exciting talent that demand further examination.

Aunia Kahn
Digital art/Model- Urban decay at it's most lush. Kahn's self
referential, digital manipulations are scenarios in which the themes
of sex, death, undeath and resurrection are all played out by the
artist herself, and is reminiscent of a Goth noir dream in chilling
blues and mauves. The prospect of an afterlife has never looked so
inviting.

Bill (Billy Chuck) Harbort
Hailing from Minot, North Dakota, Harbort was the only artist to sell
all of his pieces at the "©POPportunity" exhibit in March. His
ornately framed multi-media Pop-paranoid constructions are often
dipped in lucite or clear acrylic that helps hold together some of the
most disparate materials and concepts you'll ever witness in a
singular work of art. Denizens such as dead cockroaches, 17th Century
noblesse, B-film baddies and Big Brother all populate Harbort's
fascinating world of eye candy as exploitation.

Joshua Ball
Capturing the dark zeitgeist somewhere between Fancis Bacon and HR
Giger, Rochester, MI painter, Joshua Ball's expressionism is
minimalist noir at its moodiest. His expertly applied ochres and
earth-tones create a dread or apprehension that is as eerie as it is
beautiful.

Francisco Amaya
A Buffalo, NY native, Amaya paints large urban landscapes in a
lysergic "Chuck Close-like" cell by cell construction, such that each
cell has a perceived 'average' hue up close, but from a distance they
all come together to create a strikingly vivid whole. It's
expressionism, psychadelia and pop all rolled into large, majestic
images. Amaya also portrays the macro-world view of smaller subjects,
ranging from hamburgers to plastic toy soldiers, blown up large scale
and forcing us to consider the minute as well as the massive.

Cristin Richard
Richard was the only unanimous pick by all 10 judges in
"©POPportunity". Important, unique and powerful, many of Richard's 3-D
works, installations and fashion designs which are constructed with
the polarizing medium of sausage casings, deal unapologetically with
gender issues and social forces. Distinctly feminine with a touch of
the macabre, her work is in the personal collection of world-renown
Fluxxus collector, Gilbert Silverman.

Paula Raatz
Ferndale artist Paula Raatz paints like a Flannery O'Connor short
story in powerful visual vignettes, painted in a regional gothic
narrative style. And like O'Connor's prose, she also utilizes the
not-so-subtle foreshadowing with ironic consequences as her hallmark.
Raatz' subjects represent the dark banality of people who live their
lives in what Henry David Thoreau referred to as, "quiet desperation".

"It's Humble To Be Good" runs from October 13th through November 14th.

COMING NOVEMBER 17: Six Artists in the Tradition Of The Arts And
Crafts- Tony Williams, Bill Girard, Jay Holland, Bill Rauhauser, Bob
Vigiletti & Gordon O'Rear.

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