Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo in Detroit

Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo in Detroit Detroit Institute of Art 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48202 March 15 - July 12, 2015 Detroit is a city that continues to rise from the ashes. This can be clearly seen in the bustling galleries at DIA, the massive renovations along Woodward Avenue, and the growing presence of ...
June 23, 2015
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4/27/15 – WCSF 88.7fm Weekly Album Chart

Here's what's playing out in J-town the week of April 27, 2015!
April 30, 2015
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Esau McGhee – Inspecting Urban Constructs

Though formerly trained, Esau McGhee appears to be the Outsider's Outsider. McGhee investigates urban class and race constructions via his ongoing series of large collages and installations that use traditional applications coupled with contemporary imagery and methodologies. The COMP Magazine visited McGhee's East Garfield Park studio earlier this year ...
April 23, 2015
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Allison Glenn – Compelling Collaborative Selections

Striking, astute and affable, Allison Glenn cultivates her interest in contemporary fine arts and urban studies while creating platforms to investigate and rejuvenate diverse communities. The COMP Magazine recently caught up with this exciting and busy young lady to discuss her curatorial practice, the terrain between non-profit and commercial ...
April 2, 2015
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Soto & Sullivan – The Franklin

Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan run one of the more unusual and progressive art spaces in Chicago. The Franklin is an outdoor gallery and project space that rests in their backyard. No amenities, just the brisk northen winds to energize an artist's creativity. The COMP Magazine recently visited their ...
February 3, 2015
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Sierzputowski & Dye – Inside/Within Interview

Inside/Within has been interviewing and photographing Chicago artists and their studios with a diligence 2nd to none over the past couple years. Piqued by mere curiosity, writer Kate Sierzputowski, and photographer Ashleigh Dye, are producing a fascinating look into the present art scene of the city. The COMP Magazine ...
February 1, 2015
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Onsmith – Poking the Fringes

Chicago embraces and delves deeply into the fringes of comic art, music and ‘anti-high-art’ culture. This city is rife with non-conformist talent. Onsmith, a cartoonist who basks in the Midwest capital’s dialogue produces provocative, insightful, and frequently uncomfortable meditations that reflect the city’s fascination with the edges of artistic ...
January 29, 2015
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Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience

Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP Magazine recently visited Leenaars’ Humboldt Park studio to discuss making art in a new country, how collaboration is essential to being human and why play should be something not lost in ...
January 15, 2015
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Anna Kunz – Invitations & Reflections

Anna Kunz produces experiential works that invite the viewer to immerse her or himself into a space that intersects formal complexity in thoughtful rhythmic arrangements. The COMP Magazine recently visited her East Garfield Park studio to discuss her affinity with performance and painting, the relevance of early 20th c. ...
January 9, 2015
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Meg Duguid – The Entropic Tramp

Meg Duguid is on an epic journey. Using performative practice as foundation while coupling traditional and new strategies of research and art-making, Duguid sifts through historical materials and applies fresh iterations that is often as transient as the roles she takes on in her investigations. The COMP Magazine recently ...
January 5, 2015
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