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Galerie Camille

4130 Cass Ave, Suite C
Detroit MI 48201

Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Sat­ur­days from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Opening re­cep­tions are typ­i­cal­ly on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you see La Feria tapas restaurant, you're on the right track. So if you don't see the entrance or the side­walk banner, go in the res­tau­rant and ask. The Si­mone DeSousa Gallery is very close by, and so was The Butch­er's Daughter before moving to New York.

Galerie Camille often hosted Museum of New Art (MONA) events in collaboration with Jef Bour­geau. The owner is Adnan Charara, who named the gallery after his oldest daughter.

The director was David Chow (not to be con­fused with CCS instructor and Hollywood sto­ry­board art­ist Dave Chow), then Melanie Chard (who now owns and runs M Con­tem­po­rary Art in Ferndale), and now Dalia Reyes, at least until her successor is named.

In 2023, Dalia Reyes was selected artistic director at another gallery, but she will continue at Galerie Camille to help Adnan find her successor.

Current exhibition

• The Tyranny of Small Decisions, Ryan Standfest and Jeanette Strezinski. Opened November 2 and slated to run to November 29, with a closing reception from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Upcoming exhibitions

• Sculpted Impressions, hosted for Blackbird Gallery, with artists Candace Hunter, Ellis Echevarria, Saffell Gardner, Judy Bowman, Gigi Boldon, Ricky Calloway, Kimmy Cantrell, Valarie Davis, Cheryl Haithco, Robert Ketchens, Charles McGee, Carole Morrisseau, Patricia Simpson, Ifoma Stubbs, Paula Tutman, Ed Watkins. Slated to open November 29, with a reception from noon to 3:00 p.m. and run to December 1.
• Scott Hocking and Donald Kilpatrick? Orig­i­nal­ly slated to open November 17, 2017 and run to December 15, 2017, but may have been postponed indefinitely if not canceled al­to­geth­er.

The Flora Borsi and Elene Usdin exhibit has been postponed from May 2017 to an as-of-yet unspecified later date, or it might be canceled altogether.

Past exhibitions

Adnan with one of his paintings at Galerie Camille. Note that the scarf has one of his designs.

• Quiet Performance: The Stillness of Shape, Lois Teicher. September 28, 2024 — October 19, 2024.
• Whiskered Wonders: Unveiling the Marvels of Facial Follicles, Eric Perry. September 19 and 20, 2024.
• August 31, 2024 — September 14, 2024.
  • Language of the Heart, Nina Ashraf.
  • Stranger in Paradise, Jef Bourgeau.
• Something about Joshua Tree in Detroit, featuring art by Robert Aronson, Bill Brewer, Bobby Furst, Sue Kearns, Snake Jogger, Aydra J. Swan. August 9 — 24, 2024.
• July 13, 2024 — August 3, 2024.
  • Keepers of the Earth, Shawn Renee Forman.
  • Landscape Detroit, Scott McDuffee.
  • Fallout, Martin Sbrocca.
• I'll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, various artists. May 31, 2024 — June 30, 2024.
• Beyond the Frame, Henry Heading. May 11 — 24, 2024.
• April 19, 2024 — May 3, 2024.
  • Bubble Gum Nose, Adnan Charara.
  • Dancing with Time, Michel Erussard.
• Actual Size 2023, joint exhibit with Detroit Contemporary. December 2 — 30, 2023.
• Hole in the Sky, Davin Brainard, Warren Defever, Dion D. Fischer. October 14, 2023 — November 11, 2023.
• Florals: Urbana & Baroque, Gilda Snowden, curated by Dalia Reyes. This ex­hib­it focused on her floral period, cor­re­spond­ing roughly to the years 2007 to 2010. August 11, 2023 — Sep­tem­ber 30, 2023.
• All Blues, Hermon Futrell, Kef Parker, Andrew Wilson, curated by Ashara Ekundayo. June 10, 2023 — July 8, 2023.
• Under the Surface, Chris Hyndman, Jaime Pattison, Breonna Phillips, Virginia Rose Torrence, Lorena Cruz Santiago. May 13, 2023 — June 3, 2023.
• Kicked by a Dead Horse, Alexander Buzzalini. April 7 — 29, 2023.
• Resonance | Reverence, Kaleigh Blevins, Brianna Bryant, Halima Afi Cassells, Maya Davis, Bakpak Durden, Sophiyah E., Danielle Eliska, Hiroko Lancour, Sabrina Nelson, Luzhen Qiu, Mieyoshi Ragernoir, Julianna Sanromán, Sudani Shaah, Gilda Snowden, curated by Dalia Reyes and guest curator Dayana Juarez. March 11, 2023 — April 1, 2023.
• I Owe You Nothing, This Is for Me, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, in the main exhibition space. January 20, 2023 — February 18, 2023.
• When Day Is Done, Ryan Standfest, in the Papier Galerie. December 3, 2022 — January 28, 2023.
• October 21, 2022 — November 19, 2022.
  • Lunacy, Adnan Charara, in the main exhibition space.
  • New work by Michel Erussard, in "the Cube."
• New Minority, Dennis Jones. Sep­tem­ber 16, 2022 — October 8, 2022.
• Quiet Revolutions, Gabbi Fossano, Bri Hayes, Dayana Juarez and Jaime Pattison. July 22, 2022 — August 13, 2022.
• Mighty Real / Queer Detroit presents In the Life, Paula Allen, Charles Alexander, Elliot Avis, Audrey Banks, Tanner Blackwell, Patrick Burton, Justin Coleman, Christopher Cushman, Julio Dominguez, LeRoy Foster, Boswell Hardwick, Bryan Hoffman, Howard Kottler, Richard Lewis, Tom Livo, Scott Northrup, Matthew Papa, Rachel Pontious, Mieyoshi Ragernoir, Julie Sabit, Peggy Sauer, James Stephens, Patrick Webb, Jack Whitehead. June 3 — June 30, 2022.
• Looking for the Light, Linda Allen, Kaleigh Blevins, Erin Brott-Holtzman, Yolanda Conway, Denyse Couture, Matthew Daher, Barbara Dorchen, Ron Fortier, Deborah Friedman, Sharon Glazer, Steven Goossen, Loralee Grace, Sophie Grillet, Brianna Hayes, Deborah Kashdan, Nancy Kozlowski, Nanci LaBret Einstein, Chanell McCollum, Scott McDuffee, Margaret McGuinness, Tracee Mae Miller, Theresa Moriarty, Shelby Murphy, Ena Nas, Emilia Nawrocki, David Raznick, Kenneth Rosenthal, Katherine Savelle, Gary Schwartz, Kathryn Seib, Kyle Sharkey, Tony Shopinski, Coral Sifre, DeMacio Soto, Ardea Thurston-Shaine, Christina Towell, Corine Vermeulen, Simon Waranch, Joan Witte, with featured artist Michael Francis Miller. May 10 — 31, 2022.
• Chosen, Nour Ballout and Shterna Goldbloom. April 8, 2022 — May 7, 2022.
• To Make Is to Stay, Lara Atallah, Yasmine Diaz, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Farah Al Qasimi, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Zeinab Saab. Galerie Camille will share the exhibit concurrently with Spot Lite Detroit, 2905 Beaufait. February 24, 2022 — March? ??, 2022.
• Continuing Narratives, Melissa Jones. January 14, 2022 — February 5, 2022.
• Modern Masters, Berenice Abbott, Josef Albers, Ruth Bernhard, Ilya Bolotowsky, Alexander Calder, Nek Chand, Philippe Cognée, Eric Fischl, Helen Frankenthaler, Viola Frey, Ralph Gibson, Robert Goodnough, Earl Kirkham, Koizumi Kishio, Hughie Lee-Smith, Marilyn Levine, Martin Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Roberto Matta, Reuben Nakian, Yoshimoto Nara, Robert Natkin, Arnold Newman, Mimmo Paladino, Eliot Porter, Frances H. Quint, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, David Shapiro, Aaron Siskind, Kiki Smith, Gilda Snowden, Donald Sultan, George Tice, Manoucher Yektai, Art Zilio, Larry Zox. December 10, 2021 — January 8, 2022.
• Life Is But a Dream, Mary Fortuna, Scott Northrup, Luzhen Qiu, Sarah Rose Sharp. October 1 — 30, 2021.
• Sacred Imagination, Shelby Murphy. August 14, 2021 — ???
• Works in Progress, Richard Lewis. August 13, 2021 — September 11, 2021.
• Chasing Dreams, Michel Erussard. June 25, 2021 — July 2, 2021.
• Passport to Infinity, Davin Brainard, Warren Defever, Dion Fischer. April 30, 2021 — May 29, 2021.
• Hard / Soft, Ijania Cortez, Asia Hamilton, Megan Heeres, Sydney James, Melissa Jones, Dayana Juarez, Shaina kasztelan, Hiroko Lancour, Shelby Murphy, Sabrina Nelson, Catherine Peet, Cyrah Powers, Maria Prainito, Cristin Richard, Lois Teicher, Lisa Waud. March 19, 2021 — April 17, 2021.
• Come Together, Doug Coombe, Brian Rozman, Leni Sinclair, Zoë Villegas. January 29, 2021 — February 27, 2021.
• Corazón y Dignidad, Amelia Duran and Rosa María Zamarrón. October 22, 2020 — November 14, 2020.
• Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers, Sabrina Nelson. September 4, 2020 — October 3, 2020.
• Treading Lightly, Erin Brott-Holtzman. June 25, 2020 — July 11, 2020.
• Temporale, watercolors and drawings by Sergio De Giusti. March 6, 2020 — April 4, 2020.
• Freedom To Be, Waleed Johnson. February 19 — 28, 2020.
• Dissimilate Cohort: After School Special, Sunshine Durant, Judith Feist, Ryan Herberholz, Kyle Sharkey, Jessica Wildman Katz, Audrey Zofchak. January 10, 2020 — February 8, 2020. There will be a gallery talk January 25 at 2:00 p.m.
• The Black and White Show. November 15, 2019 — December 14, 2019.
• Inked: An Exploration of Process, Robert Aronson, Mary Rousseaux, Vernard Rubens. October 18, 2019 — November 9, 2019.
• Rose Dalessandro retrospective. September 13, 2019 — October 5, 2019.
• Saturated, Gerald Collins, Megan Stone and Valerie Ross. July 19, 2019 — August 10, 2019.
• Reverberations / 余韻, Carla Anderson and Hiroko Lancour. June 7 — 29, 2019.
• Some kind of private exhibition? Included Leah Cohen, Adnan Charara. Roughly from April 2019 through May 2019.
• Transcendental Forms, Graciela Bustos, Fernando Calderon. March 1, 2019 — March 29, 2019.
• Approaching Imperfect, Doug Cannell and Elizabeth Youngblood. February 8 — 22, 2019.
• Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight, Steve Glazer and Lorenzo Lorenzetti. January 11 — 26, 2019.
• Long Ago and Far Away, Adnan Charara and Michel Erussard. Opened November 15 and slated to run to November 28.
• Idea of Ancestry, Richard E. Lewis. October 19, 2018 — November 9, 2018.
• Kegham Tazian. October 3 — 10, 2018.
• Phases, John Dykstra, Eric Perry, Elene Usdin. September 7 — 27, 2018.
• Landscape as Portrait, Robert Aronson retrospective. August 25 — 31, 2018.
• Can We Touch It?, Sarah Brennan, Mitch Fox, Joshua Kochis, Jenna Rothstein. July 6, 2018 — August 17, 2018.
• Waking Up In a Rainbow Opening Reception, Jef Bourgeau and Jessica Hopkins. May 11, 2018 — June 23, 2018.
• Ignite, Julia Stephenson, etc. March 2, 2018 — April 15, 2018.
• Geometrix, James Benjamin Franklin, Clark Goeman, Franklin Jonas. With jewelry and photography by Karissma Yve in the back room, which is now called "the Cube." January 12, 2018 — February 24, 2018.
• Scènes Comiques, Scènes Tragiques, Adnan Charara and Michael Erussard. October 20, 2017 — December 3, 2017.
• Patrick Burton. September 23, 2017 — October 13, 2017.
• August 11, 2017 — September 9, 2017:
  • Mind Maps, Grant Czuj, in the main space.
  • Featuring Samuel Burbury Hanchett in the "Dark Room."
• Departure, Luke Mack, Jabriel Najjar, Matt Wolcott. July 21, 2017 — August 6, 2017.
• Domain Art & Design, Emilie Beadle, Jef Bourgeau, etc. June 15, 2017 — July 15, 2017.
• May 12, 2017 — June 10, 2017:
  • On the Surface, John McLaughlin, Nancy Thayer and Barbara Dorchen in the main gallery space.
  • Art of the Surreal, Roy Feldman, in the "Dark Room."
• Art & Soul of Oakland exhibit. April 29, 2017.
• Chosen Silences, Carla Anderson and Elizabeth Youngblood. April 7 — 27, 2017.
• Stranger, Scott Campbell and Vineta Chugh. March 10, 2017 — April 1, 2017.
• Fractured, Brian Lacy, Scott Taylor and Christopher Gideon. February 10, 2017 — March 4, 2017.
• Jive Detroit, Bowen Kline and Bruce Giffin. January 20, 2017 — February 4, 2017.
• Holiday group exhibition. December 16, 2016 — January 14, 2017.
• Patterns, Helen Zughaib, Golsa Yaghoobi, Doris Bittar, Dina Charara and Suzy Adra. November 18, 2016 — December 10, 2016.
• U Next: An Eric Perry Portrait Collection, Eric Perry's photos taken at the Michigan Barber School. Also included a small selection of photos by Brian Day. November 10 — 12, 2016.
• Mixed Palette, John Parlangeli, Paula Zammit and Kim Fay. October 14, 2016 — November 5, 2016.
• Water Poems, Leslie Ann Pilling, Jon Strand and S. Kay Young. September 14, 2016 — October 8, 2016.
• Intersection, Jef Bourgeau and Matt Eaton. July 15, 2016 — August 27, 2016.
• Andrzej Sikora, Aimee Cameron, Karianne Spens-Hanna and Alan Kaniarz. June 10, 2016 — July 9, 2016.
• Lisa Spindler, Lycia Trouton and Dessislava Terzieva. May 13, 2016 — June 4, 2016.
• Robert Mirek, Paula Schubatis and John McLaughlin. April 8 — 30, 2016.
• March 11, 2016 — April 2, 2016:
  • Transitions, Brian Day and William Harris.
  • One-A-Day, new work by Sacha Eckes, an exhibit in collaboration with MONA.
• Glimpse: A Preview of 2016. The roster of artists includes Adnan Charara, Karianne Spens-Hanna, William Harris, Jon Parlangeli, Ilham Beddredine Mahfouz, Paula Schubatis, Lisa Spindler, Dessislava Terzieva, Paula Zammit. January 22, 2016 — February 19, 2016.
• WSU graduates group show (including Dominique Chastenet de Géry). December 4, 2015 — January 2, 2016.
• Renata Palubinskas solo show. November 6 — 28, 2015.
• Five Detroit photographers: Carla Anderson, David Griffith, Barry Roth, Donita Simpson and Eric Smith. October 9 — 31, 2015.
• A collaboration with the New International Society (NIS) and the Museum of New Art (MONA). September 19, 2015 — October 3, 2015.
• MONA Prize 2015 exhibition. July 17, 2015 — August 20, 2015.
• Jef Bourgeau solo show. June 12, 2015 — July 11, 2015.
• Heide Hatry solo show. May 8, 2015 — June 6, 2015.
• Bruce Giffin, Andrew Krieger, Clinton Snider and Carl Wilson. April 24 — 26, 2015.
• ...a few more going back to 2014...

It's not a long list, as this is a relatively new gallery, but it still takes time to go through it.

External links

Jef Bourgeau with one of his paintings at Galerie Camille.

• Official website
• Facebook page
• Twitter page

News

• Alonso del Arte, "Detroit's 10 newest art galleries", Examiner.com, September 3, 2014.

Reviews

• Ron Scott, "Anderson & Youngblood @ Galerie Camille", Detroit Art Review, April 17, 2017. "These two artists share an at­trac­tion to abstraction and contemplation but de­liv­er their ideas using different media. This certainly must have contributed to the idea of an exhibition together as the work is not pres­ent­ed in different spaces, but is in­ten­tion­al­ly integrated, with the purpose of bring­ing the viewer along as they peruse the gal­lery space. It’s a good idea."
• Jim Welke, "Jef Bourgeau, Zombie On the Wall at Galerie Camille, Detroit", artifizz, July 7, 2015.