(SCENE) Metrospace is Bleeding Green until March 1.
The gallery, 110 Charles St., is featuring the work of MSU-affiliated artists, including current graduate students, faculty and alumni, during its Bleeding Green exhibit, which opened Jan. 16.
E.L. gallery features MSU alumni, faculty
Lansing resident Randi Richards, a volunteer at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., straightens a poster Sunday hanging in the gallery. The gallery has an exhibit titled Bleeding Green which showcases art made by people with an MSU connection. The exhibit opened Jan. 16 and will be displayed until March 1. “It’s interesting to see a lot of the art that comes out of MSU. They’re very busy, they’re very active pieces,” Richards said.
Tim Lane, director of (SCENE), said although MSU-affiliated artists have shown work at the gallery before, this may be the first exhibit featuring solely MSU artists.
“There are a lot of good painters going through the (masters of fine arts) program at MSU right now, so I wanted to showcase them. I thought it would be a really good showcase for the first show of the year, and I thought it also might help future directors if we could establish a connection with MSU’s painting department where (SCENE) always started the new season off with the all-MSU show,” Lane said.
“I just thought it would be a good way to connect with campus and the program and establish a better relationship with them. … I was impressed with a lot of the artists, so I was itching to show some of their work.”
The Bleeding Green exhibit features the work of Andrew Rieder, Grant Whipple, Chris VanWyck, Renee Robbins and Michelle Word. Lane said
the selection process for the exhibit was primarily by invitation.
He contacted MSU’s master of fine arts students and visiting faculty and invited them to submit their work.
He said he also invited Robbins, a 2005 MSU graduate based in Chicago, to show her work, which he has been familiar with for a long time.
Robbins said she also showed her work at (SCENE)’s first show when it opened.
“I think it’s kind of exciting to continue to be in shows with people associated with MSU,” she said. “Michelle Word, one of the other people in the show, we both graduated together.”
“I think it’s the start of a community, and it’s nice to perpetuate that beyond graduation.”
Word is now a specialist in the Department of Art and Art History at MSU.
Some of Robbins’ work in the exhibit includes the pieces “Fiber Optic Fireflies in the Amphitheater” and “Phantasm of an Aerial Lift,” which are acrylic and mixed-media pieces with vivid colors, rhythmic lines and textures.
“One thing I try to do when I’m working is I try to pull together a lot of different forces from different aspects of our human experience in a way, ranging from kind of tiny things, like fiber optics to larger things, like planets,” she said.
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“I try to bring things from the micro to the macro together in one piece so I’m kind of pulling together bits of imagery from those different systems together in the work to get a metaphor for the public and private self.”
“You think about all the different kind of things that we interact with in a day, from the smallest things to larger things, like celestial systems and different things like that. All those kind of come together and create this concept of who we are.”
Lane said the exhibit has been received well by the community.
“Everyone I’ve talked to or overheard has had nothing but praise and positive comments about the show,” he said.
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