The sandwich board used to announce Re:View Contemporary was open continued to serve that same function for Simone DeSousa Gallery for several months.

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Re:View Contemporary

444 W. Willis, #112
Detroit MI 48201

This gallery is now known as Simone DeSousa Gallery, after its founder, owner and director, Simone DeSousa, and will be renamed yet again, to Matéria. The first change of name did not signal a change in ethos or aesthetics, and the second name change reaffirms the gallery's values.

Let's face it: the old name, despite its eccentric punctuation, was extremely bland, plus it couldn't really help Google rankings. Simone DeSousa Gallery continues the Re:View Contemporary track record for flawless presentation.

The website was changed over very quickly. Facebook and other social media lagged behind for a few weeks. But for most people, the change was easy, since it had always been Simone DeSousa Gallery in their minds.

Past exhibitions

Simone DeSousa and Tiff Massey at Re:View Contemporary during the opening reception for the solo show of the latter.

• The More We Get Together Megan Heeres. March 21, 2015 – April 18, 2015.
• Are You a Man Matthew Zacharias. January 17, 2015 – February 28, 2015.
• Re:Collect 2014 A group exhibit of artists who exhibited at Re:View in 2014, like Katherine Behar and Iris Eichenberg. December 6 – 21, 2014
• Tabula Rasa Ed Fraga. October 25, 2014 – November 29, 2014.
• The Loss of Either/Or Timothy van Laar. September 6, 2014 – October 11, 2014.
• A Heightened State Melanie Manos. July 12, 2014 – August 9, 2014.
• Vanity Tiff Massey. June 7, 2014 – July 5, 2014
• Recent Works Fernando and Humberto Campana. April 26, 2014 – May 31, 2014.
• "We Need More ___________!" Cedric Tai. March 22, 2014 – April 19, 2014.
• College for Creative Studies (CCS) exhibit of star students: Austin Brady, Julie George, Austin Kinstler, James Mussat, Brittany Nassar, Kristina Sheufelt, Gabriel Viñas. March 7, 2014.
• Ether Sharon Querciagrossa. January 25 – March 1, 2014.
• Re:Collect 2013. December 7 – 21, 2013.
• Rotations, Susan Goethel Campbell. October 26, 2013 – November 30, 2013.
• Potential Artifacts of the Northwest Territories, Graem Whyte. September 7, 2013 – October 12, 2013.
• ...some more...
• Nothingness, Greg Fadell. April 28, 2012 – May 26, 2012.
• ...many more going back to 2008...

External links

As of October 15, 2018, www.reviewcontemporary.com still redirects to www.simonedesousagallery.com.

News

• Alonso del Arte, "Tiff Massey impresses at Re:View Contemporary", Examiner.com, June 8, 2014.
• Alonso del Arte, "Gabriel Viñas shines at Re:View Contemporary", Examiner.com, March 8, 2014.

Reviews

• Sarah Rose Sharp, "An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures", Hyperallergic, April 7, 2015.
• Jim Welke, "A Myriad of One :: Simone DeSousa", artifizz, May 17, 2013. "The surfaces of most of Ms. DeSousa's works exhibit an undulating, sensuous texture, which adds to the warmth. None suggest a cold, mechanical topography. You want to touch them, but know you can not. They beckon like temptresses. The three-dimensionality adds to that sensation. The laminated, layered edges suggest growth rings in timber — time passes, layers accumulate during growth, growth implies continuity — organic continuity."