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Matéria

Art gallery owned by Si­mone De­Sou­sa. Orig­i­nal­ly called Re:View Contemporary, lat­er Si­mone De­Sou­sa Gal­lery.

In the announcement e-mail, the name of the gal­lery was styl­ized as "MATΣ́RIA," which of course makes no sense given that the Greek let­ter sigma is an S sound, not an E sound, though at least the own­er does seem to at least have some aware­ness that a capital sigma is used as a mathematical sym­bol for summation.

The Midtown location was the gallery's orig­i­nal lo­ca­tion. That location continued to be used for ex­hib­its over­lap­ping with the ones that take place at the Core City lo­ca­tion. But on Au­gust 17, 2024, the gal­lery sent out an e-mail saying all fu­ture ex­hib­its will be ex­clu­sive­ly at the Core City lo­ca­tion.

In late 2025, it was announced that the gallery would shift all exhibits to its new East­ern Mar­ket location, to be activated Jan­u­ary 2026. The "Core City" lo­ca­tion is now des­ig­nated as closed. There was the clar­i­fi­ca­tion that the gal­lery still has the orig­i­nal location but that will only be used as the gallery's of­fice.

Upcoming exhibitions

• Conversations in Color, Carole Harris and Jova Lynne. Slated to open Jan­u­ary 24, with a re­cep­tion from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and run to March 7 at the gal­lery's East­ern Mar­ket location. The opening reception has been postponed to February 6, still at 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Past exhibitions

Period of exhibiting only at the Core City location

• Homes and Gardens, James Collins, at 15114 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe Park, to kick off the Matéria in Spaces series. October 18, 2025 — December 13, 2025.
• Outside in the Middle, Aar­on Blen­dow­ski, Alei­ya Olu, Bilge Nur Saltik, Sophie Yan. Sep­tem­ber 12, 2025 — October 4, 2025.
• Sum­mer Group Pre­sen­ta­tion, Bianca Beck, Lynn Bennett-Carpenter, Ca­role Har­ris, Michael Luchs, Jova Lynne, Al­berte Tran­berg. June 6, 2025 — August 2, 2025.
• Shadow Bath, Ju­lie Schen­kel­berg. April 5, 2025 — May 10, 2025.
• Laughing Along with a Lump in My Throat, Mark Joshua Epstein. January 18, 2025 — March 15, 2025.
• A third thing. Some top­ping out, Al­berte Tran­berg. November 15, 2024 — De­cem­ber 21, 2024.
• See Me Plural, Bianca Beck. September 14, 2024 — October 24, 2024.

Period of simultaneous exhibits at both locations

• Standards, Ian Swanson at the Core City lo­ca­tion. June 22, 2024 — August 10, 2024.
• Ice Cream Castle, Sharon Querciagrossa, at the Mid­town lo­ca­tion. June 8, 2024 — Au­gust 10, 2024.
• Input/Output, Tyanna Buie, at the Core City lo­ca­tion. April 6, 2024 — May 25, 2024.
• Handwoven drawings, Lynn Ben­nett Car­pen­ter, at the Cass Corridor location. Feb­ru­ary 10, 2024 — March 30, 2024.
• James Collins at the Core City location. Jan­u­ary 20, 2024 — March 23, 2024.
• Split, Jova Lynne, at the Core City location. Oc­to­ber 28, 2023 — December 16, 2023.
• At the Core City location. September 9, 2023 — October 7, 2023.
  • Tending Time, Megan Heeres.
  • Form & Seek: Poetic, Bilge Nur Saltik.

External links

• Official website
• Instagram page

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