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Elaine L. Jacob Gallery (Wayne State University)
480 W. Hancock
Detroit MI 48202
Wayne State University has two art galleries. The main purpose of the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery is to give art students experience working with international artists. Faculty and students have exhibition opportunities at the nearby Art Department Gallery, which shares staff with the Jacob Gallery (for this reason, openings are staggered so as to not occur in the same week). Gallery hours have been changed for the 2019/2020 school year. I have not yet verified the new hours.
Current exhibition
- Weapons & White Music, Jefferson Pinder. Opened February 2 and slated to run to April 26.
Upcoming exhibitions
- I'll Be Your Mirror, various artists. Slated to open May 31 and run to June 28.
Past exhibitions
A view from the staircase of the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery.
This listing might be missing exhibits from 2020 and 2021. Not sure if the WSU galleries were closed for most of those two years.
- Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics , various artists. September 15, 2023 — December 9, 2023.
- Foreign Intimacies, a Mel Rosas retrospective. March 31, 2023 — June 2, 2023.
- Paradise: Myth of a Liberal North, Quinn Hunter. January 19, 2023 — March 10, 2023.
- Confluent, Anita Bates, Jeanne Bieri, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Sergio De Giusti, Mariam Ezzat, Mary Fortuna, Marcia Freedman, M. Saffell Gardner, Laura Makar, Sandra Osip, Tom Pyrzewski, John Rizzo, Donita Simpson, Diane Carr, John Egner, Brenda Goodman, Susan Hauptman, Douglas James, Gordon Newton, Kurt Novak, Judy Pfaff, Ellen Phelan, Robert Quigley, Ron Weil, Robert Wilbert, Don Willett. September 22, 2022 — December 9, 2022.
- Double Life. March 31, 2022 — May 20, 2022.
- Amy Myers. February 10, 2022 — March 17, 2022.
- Labyrinth, Shiva Ahmadi. January 16, 2020 — March 20, 2020?
- This Land. October 25, 2019 — December 13, 2019.
- Back in Detroit, James Lee Byars. April 5, 2019 — July 5, 2019.
- Mike Kelly and David Ireland. January 18, 2019 — March 22, 2019.
- Building Utopia, curated by Lauren Kalman. October 19, 2018 — December 14, 2018.
- An Instant's Compass, Marissa Bluestone. August 24, 2018 — October 5, 2018.
- Miami artists. April 6, 2018 — July 6, 2018.
- Works from the Kim Foster Gallery collection. January 19, 2018 — March 23, 2018.
- Folk art from Oaxaca. October 27, 2017 — December 15, 2017.
- Sculpture X exhibition. August 25, 2017 — October 14, 2017.
- Say Yes, curated by Kimia Kline. April 7, 2017 — July 14, 2017.
- In Pieces: Presence and Objecthood in the Aftermath of Technology. January 20, 2017 — March 24, 2017.
- New York Foundation for the Arts artist-in-residence exhibition. April 8, 2016 — June 24, 2016.
- Critical Direction in Design. January 15, 2016 — March 25, 2016.
- Sculpture X Symposium Exhibition. July 31, 2015 — October 9, 2015.
- How To Return. April 17, 2015 — June 26, 2015.
- Blood/Sport. January 16, 2015 — March 27, 2015.
- Menagerie. October 24, 2014 — December 12, 2014.
- Recurrent Histories, prints by Enrique Chagoya. August 1, 2014 — October 4, 2014.
- ...many more...
There was some confusion regarding the 2015 — 2016 exhibition calendar: it mentioned Jinwong Chang as if that was the name of an artist who would be exhibiting, but then it went on to say the gallery was to be closed from October to December 2015 "for renovation and facility upgrade." Much needed clarification came with the last Art Detroit Now newsletter of November 2015, which linked to a Facebook event page created by the gallery. According to that page, Jinwon Chang's Returning Again "Hweh-Geeh" 회귀 was to be on display at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center (much closer to the Art Department Gallery than to Elaine Jacob) from November 30 through December 18.
In what may very well become an annual tradition, the gallery is once again closed for renovation during the Fall 2016 semester. In the meantime, the gallery staff assisted Beili Liu with an installation at the McGregor Conference Center (in a building connected to the building the Art Department Gallery is in) that was up from November 8 to December 16 of this year. Don't know if there was an opening reception at some point.
I think this gallery opened in 2000, I'm not sure.
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