On Grand Rapids’ westside warehouse district are many emerging creative studios and artists’ collectives/businesses. One group committed to the exploration of this region of our city is Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Civic Studio, whose students have been working in the community on a very unique art presentation worth checking out while you have two last opportunities.
Friday night is the second public opening of Civic Studio’s "Liminal Dissonance" exhibition.
From their website: “Daily life exists in tension. The horrific and unjust becomes disguised as normal, the points of reference scrambled. Liminal Dissonance occupies the space between the struggle which is life under the current systems, and our unknown futures. This studio encourages viewers to redefine terms of existence.”
Civc Studio has also welcomed over the last year artists Jen Delos Reyes, Nicolas Lamper, and 2017 Whitney Biennial artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz to take part in GVSU’s 2016-17 Visiting Artists series, Art and the Radical -- a thought-provoking program of lectures from some of the world’s best artists working on projects that aim to increase dialogue as they transform our understanding of art and our world.
Liminal Dissonance’s exhibition will be open Friday, April 21, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. with a closing discussion on Wednesday, April 26, 4 p.m.
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