Zeitgeist
2261 Michigan Ave.

Detroit, MI 48216
313-965-9192

www.zeitgeistdetroit.org
Thurs 2-7pm, Fri 12-4pm, Sat 12-5pm, open during theater performances.

Runs Sept 6 - Oct 19.





In Zeitgeist’s main gallery, visual artist and co-owner of Alley Culture gallery, Sherry Hendrick has created quiet, intimate sculptures, almost more poetry than physical objects. Mostly of boats, the simple wood constructions are attached to wood whose grain and color she has painted reminiscent of the sea. She casts a sense of longing or loss. The one non-boat image, has a similar wood backing, but is of a basketball, plastered in American flags, above a hoop. Frozen, never making the score. It is as if there is a sense of America, above the rim, unable to find its proper course.





Cass corridor veteran Robert Sestok, sculptor, and painter, continues to create new life through art. In this series he turns to painting in the abstract. The square canvases burst with an explosion of color and mark making. Sestok captures the energy and movement of life unfolding, changing, becoming. Layers of broad color swatches, curvilinear drips energize the central area of the paintings. Each type of mark and drip weave in and out of one another creating a feeling of space on the flat canvas. Named after Detroit streets, one might picture the flurry of activity captured in a day on that location.





By the bar, Bryant Tillman displays “Trane” referring to John Coltrane. The works are abstract movements of energy, like painted music staffs, obscuring industrial, mechanical remains on the canvas below. Like looking from an airplane through a hole in the clouds at the land below, Tillman creates an illusion of depth dividing the abstract and machine.


To quote Coltrane himself, “My goal… is to uplift people as much as I can, to inspire them to realize more and more of their capacities for living meaningful lives, because there certainly is meaning to life.” These artworks echo that sentiment, as passionate explorations into uncovering meaning.