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Painting, Sculpture, Video/Film, Glass, Photography, Fashion, Vinyl Art Toys, Rock Art, Kustom Kulture
MusicMusicians/Artists who have exhibited at ©POP : Niagara, Iggy Pop, Wesley Willis, Thurston Moore, Bill Brovold, Ron Asheton, Steven Cerio, Mark Dancey, Neil Oliverra,The Residents, Derrick May, The Dirt Bombs, DJ Mega, DJ DigD, DJ Nefarious, Frank Pahl, Tracee Mae Miller, Jerry Vile, Johnny "Bee" Banachek, Dee Dee Ramone, Glen Barr, Ewolf, Einstürzende Neubauten (sorry, just dreaming about that last one)
MoviesNiagara - "Dude Where's My Car" H.R. Giger-"Alien" Dan & Tracee Mae Miller -"Walk The Line" Ron Ashton- "Mosquito" Gillian Eaton- "Yellow Beard" Shephard Fairey-"Dare Devil"
TelevisionGlenn Barr- "Ren & Stimpy", "I Miss You" (Bjork video) Niagara- "Weird America" (HGTV) Camilo Pardo- "Extreme Home Makeover" (ABC) Shephard Fairey-"Family Guy" Gillian Eaton- "Murder She Wrote"
BooksNiagara- "Beyond The Pale" 2005 9mm Books Glenn Barr-"Haunted Paradise" 2006 last Gasp Robert Williams-"Malicious Resplendence" 2001 Last Gasp.
HeroesRichard Manore (Jr. and Sr.), Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Glenn Barr, Niagara, Bask, Mark Dancey, AWOL, Jerry Vile, Orbit Magazine, Von Dutch, Camilo Pardo, Ed "Big Daddy Ed Roth, Gary Panter, Chris Dean, Renata Palubinskas, H.R. Giger, Shag, Shawn Barber, Russell Keeter, Matt Gordon, Randy Eaton, Gillian Eaton, Tristan Eaton, AZK, The Residents, Topher Crowder, Mark Dancey, Tyree Guyton, Tom, Jaspar, Mika and Josh Thewes, Umberto Boccioni, the Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Carol Marvin and the DEMF (not Movement), Charles Wish, Nick Sousanis, Jack Johnson, John Thomas, Frank Pahl, Ron English, Isabel Samaras, Steven Cerio, Parskid, Otto J. Seibold, Tracee Mae Miller, 9mm Books, Alex Porbe(Incite Design), Dan Kennedy, Ewolf, Tim Day, Gary Arnett, Guide To Detroit, The Dirty Show, Bill Brovold, Anthony Ausgang, Kymm!, EMEK, Stanley Mouse, Gary Grimshaw, Frank Kozik, Derek Hess, Highway Press, Tim Caldwell, Dan Graschuck, Jay Holland, and you.

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Hours: Tuesday-Thursday: 3 p.m.-7 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 1 p.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
313-833-9901
4160 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48201
©POP Gallery is the Motor City's pre-eminent art showcase. For over a decade. it has been the launching pad for some of the city's most visible, popular and important visual artists of the last 20 years and home to some of the midwest's most exhilarating exhibitions.
Founded in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1995 by ultra-Boheme rock poster publisher, Rick Manore, in the cloisters of a renovated old church where the impetus originally was to sell rock and roll poster art and graphics, Kustom Kulture and a vintage visual memorabilia. ©POP Gallery was born rather ceremoniously when world-renown Cartoon Surrealist, Robert Williams was chosen for the gallery's debut exhibit, "Grab Yer Ankles, Detroit" and a local media frenzy ensued, instantly embossing the familiar "cpopyright" logo into the Detroit cultural psyche, and soon becoming THE gallery in which to be shown or be seen. ©POP exposed the unbelievable range of visual talent fermenting in this "New Munich". Soon local first-timers with names like Niagara, Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey, Tom Thewes, Tristan Eaton, and many more soon-to-be nationally famous Motor City artists would find their first sucessful exhibits in the basement of an old church.
By 1997, some of America's cutting-edge art and culture journals such as "Juxtapoz", "Your Flesh", "Art Alternatives" and "Details" all trumpeted the Gallery and the artists who were emerging from this suburban, "underground-zero" and right into national prominence.
By 1999 ©POP and it's stable of artists -Niagara , Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey,and a retro-futurist named, Tom Thewes, Jr., were more than just, "Detroit's best kept secrets". Now, as they were all beginning to experience national prominence vis a vis exhibits in Los Angeles, New York and all points inbetween.
Unable to meet the demands of the gallery and the increasing interest in the artists he was promoting, Manore was approached by ©POP stablemate, Tom Thewes, Jr (last of the der Lärm boys), who only 3 years earlier had his third successful ©POP Royal Oak exhibit, and now offered his help in taking the gallery and it's burgeoning roster of artists to a whole new level.
Putting his money where his mouth and heart were, Thewes, now ©POP Owner/CEO, renovated a three story former trophy shop, bar and den of iniquity in Detroit's Mid-town Cultural Center, into a world class showplace for art. The newly improved cultural showcase opened to much fanfare and excited expectation with a "Grand Re-Opening" Exhibition entitled , "© Stands For..." which included all of the ©POP regulars plus names like, Mark Ryden , H.R. Giger, Robert Wiilliams, Eric White, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Isabel Samaras and many more. More than just a simple re-location, this new version of ©POP created a cultural domino effect of being the first of what soon became an imperssive "gallery row" on the south end of the Cultural Center, which still continues to grow with more galleries every year.
Setting the bar high led to more than 20 exhibits a year for the two-floor gallery with such names as Shag, Shephard Fairey, Bask, Yumiko Kawikawa, Kid Robot, Iggy Pop and some of the most legendary Art openings in the city's history, and helped to build ©POP's mythic status, as patrons came from every continent (except Antarctica) to visit this iconic gallery.
As a perennial award-winner from its inception, acknowledged by local publications' year-end "Best Of" lists, ©POP continues to elevate the art bar to lofty heights - for both artists and viewers alike, with an uncompromising and innovative style which aims to carry the rich and risky tradition of showing both the diamonds and the dirt of contemporary art well into the 21st Century. Photobucket
Recent Exhibitions




See what The Detroiter said about "Carnivora"





Masters of The Arts & Crafts Exhibition




Russell Keeter Exhibit




style="font-size:12px;text-decoration:underline;line-height:30px">Camilo Pardo Exhibition





Chris Dean
"Science Shows Us How"
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Topher Crowder
"Playig God"

"Hundreds of years from now, when scholars look back at the 20th Century to see what art form from that century had the biggest impact - the art that moved people, from the working man to the aesthete, it won't be Cubism, nor Abstract Expressionism, nor even Pop Art - it'll be cartoons and comics."

Robert Williams

©POP Gallery is proud to present the illustrator and comic expressionist, Topher Crowder in the first one-man exhibit of his highly intricate and obsessive works, entitled, "Playing God", with an opening on Saturday, April 14th at 7 PM. The black and white world of Livonia artist, Topher Crowder is both beautifully rendered and unconventionally composed. Absurdity, irony and obsession abound in Crowder's world. An early influence (and cue) came from Basil Wolverton's ultra-morphic 1960's illustrations for the popular, "Whacky Packs" series. His hyper-meticulous detail is akin to an amped-up Robert Crumb, but with the narrative style of outsider icon, Joe Coleman, sans the color. His almost maddeningly obsessive attention to the banal, coupled with his free-flowing composition may seem familiar to some, yet his work is commandingly sui generis in style as well as in concept. Like most gifted comic illustrators, Crowder is a born storyteller. In "Playing God", his choice for a narrative vehicle is the brave individuals who, by choice or not, became pioneers, as the guniea pigs for medical advancement by basically "going where no man or woman had gone before". One of these explorers of uncharted human experience is Barney Clark, the recipient of the first mechanical heart. The brave yet doomed Clark's pathology and mortality are systematically chronicled in Crowder's swirling narrative. Exacted in ink on board, Crowder’s allegory follows Clark’s travails as he makes medical history, becomes famous, and ultimately dies as doctors try to cheat death by attempting to recreate nature and prolong his life. Medical marvels go hand in hand with the consequent horrors in Topher Crowder's world. His analogy to Shelly's Frankenstein is evident throughout, as it is in his piece about the infamous "Icepick Lobotomist, Dr. Walter Freeman, who invented the "ice pick" or transorbital lobotomy. The doctor used this procedure, in which he quite literally uses an ice pick hammered through the back of the eye socket into the brain, with nearly 3500 patients in the 50's and early 60's. The sidebars and detours that Crowder takes in telling these stories are as compelling as the main central images, as he alternately visualizes the lives (and deaths) of these medical sojourners with blind mythic heroism and touching human frailty. Some may remember Crowder from the displays of his unconventional college notebooks in various group shows in 2005 and 2006. He attended the prestigious College For Creative Studies in the mid-eighties and studied under the legendary, Russell Keeter as a freshman and then dropped out. He spent years working dozens of meaningless jobs until the onset of a crushing and debilitative psychological depression caused him to take 250 Tylenols in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Surviving that, and a stint in a mental facility, prompted Crowder to destroy all his work, throw away all his art supplies, and embark on a career in the computer industry, eventually get married, and building what he describes as a "steady yet torturous life". But after many years of not doing art something happened, and the urge, the innate compulsion to create again, became evident when he began landscaping his backyard with over 230 bowling balls. His wife Hanna understood this as a good sign. Shortly after, Crowder re-enrolled in Wayne State University's Fine Art program, almost 20 years after he'd dropped out. The former drop-out will graduate this Spring and a long and sometimes tortured journey will have been completed, only to find him at a new crossroads, psychologically as well as creatively, ready to express and document his own cryptic yet fascinating view of the world. Topher Crowder's "Playing God" opens Saturday, April 14th and runs through May 19th, 2007.



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©POPportunity 2007


©POP's innovative "©POPportunity" showcased over 70 artists in an all-media exhibit which opened Saturday, March 10th .
It was a bold and risky move when ©POP Gallery put out an "all 'ism" / "all-media" call for ALL artists, or at least those who had never shown at the iconic gallery before, extending an opportunity to exhibit at ©POP, based on nothing more than timeliness and enough cash to cover the modest inclusion fee. It was then posted on our new ©POP MySpace page in order to help reach local and hopefully regional artists, just a week before we sent out our local press release. This was an absolutely ground-breaking concept which completely leveled the playing field by removing any of the usual biases inherent to the usual juried method based on aesthetic preference or style, level of experience, age, gender, location, medium or size. There were serious benefits to be sure (an unheard-of 90% artist-cut on all sales and the chance to have one's work judged and possibly voted into a 4-person show in July by a panel of celebrities, artists, curators and collectors) but in reality, it was a crap-shoot for both the gallery and the potential artist. The artists' risk would be monetary and (as always) out of rejection, a bruised ego, while the gallery's risk would be its credibility, and though basically meeting operating needs on the "front end" it risked potential loss on the "back-end" when things sell. But it remained an unpredictable concept despite all our soul-searching and finger-crossing, and we could only hope that the art would be good. We initially intended it to be a local showcase for aspiring artists willing to put a few bucks "where their talent was". So it was kind of a gamble - a big one really, aesthetically and otherwise, yet one needs to evolve in the ever-fickle art business. ©POP is truly proud and thankful that many of the artists to whom we given a springboard for success are experiencing incredible popularity on a world-wide basis, but we won't lie, it's been rough the last 4 years. Though, paraphrasing Twain, "The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated." Last year we quietly celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We exist because we are fearless and supremely confident in our mission.
Oh yeah, ©POPportunity...
Well, in our dreams we'd hoped to get 40 artists, maybe 80 new pieces, if we were lucky.
But after 3 weeks on Myspace we had over 70 artists committed, from everywhere and anywhere- LA, Calgary, Chicago, Brooklyn, the UK, Germany, Oklahoma, Montreal and Italy. We were lucky all right ...and as it turns out... pretty good too. Suffice it to say, our risk truly seems to have paid off, and what could have been a show featuring a few pieces from local students and©POP interns, has turned out to be a showcase of unbelievable quality, with all-new talent in a wide variety of mediums, featuring artists that run the gamut from the unknown to the internationally renown, from local to global. This project is turning us on to work we may have never seen otherwise, and others we had seen but never had the opportunity to exhibit, including: well-known LA painter of Juxtapoz fame JASON MALONEY, CCS grad from Chicago CRISTIN RICHARD (whose installations featuring sausage casing fashions have brought her great notoriety), TODD KURTZMAN, a bronze sculptor from Portland, OR who is world-renown for his amazing forced perspective bronze figures and "Time", "Rolling Stone", "Newsweek" photographer MELANIE WEINER, whose natural and provocative portraits of Rock Icons like Robert Plant, Tricky and Metallica are beautifully composed from the eye of a true professional. These established artists join gifted "newbies" like local painter MATTHEW J. HOCKADAY, UK agit-popist KAREN BURT, painter AMY-KOLLAR-ANDERSON, photographer/printmaker MARA MILLICH, Canadian surrealist painter Kelly Shpeley, Brooklyn bred painter J CELESTINO, From Australia, LARA ALPORT and local painters MILES RENE VANKEERSBILCK, JOSH BALL and many,many more great new talents.

On Saturday, March 10th they will converge upon ©POP from all points of the compass to see the familiar and the unknown. And we're pretty sure that you'll be hearing great things about many of these artists again very soon. Four of the participating artists will be chosen to participate in the "©POPportunity Showcase", their own group show in July of this year, by a panel of judges which includes: punk rock diva and underground art sensation- Niagara, psycho-rock-a-billy musician/collector- Reverend Horton Heat, photographer- EWOLF, photographer/gallery owner- Matthew Martin, painter/gallery owner- Tom Thewes, Radio host/DJ/Curator- Liz Copeland, manic artist/illustrator- Topher Crowder, lenticular imagist/teacher- Chris Dean and painter/auto/furniture/fashion designer/ Camilo Pardo.

One artist will also be voted in by exhibit attendees during the show's run to join the 4 juried winners in painting/illustration, Sculpture/3-D , Photography/Digital, installation/conceptual/video. The winners will be announced at the closing party on Saturday, March 31st. "©POPportunity" will run through April 7th.

The list of participating artists includes: Don VanAuken
Allison Pasarew
Jeff Denomme
Colleen Walters
Derek Crank
Christina Pomaro
Hilary Wagner
Andrea Ramirez
Tim Gralewski
Jaclyn Havoc
Allison Vince
Jason West
Marcy Sperry
Bruce Gerlach
Dave Manning
Sandi Wheaton
Melanie Weiner
John Shaw
Jake Beeson
Kelly Shpeley
Steve Stowbridge
Merideth Zielke
Mike Kelly
Bryan Hoffman
Jason Maloney
Michael Siporin
Carol Ekkens
Cristin Richard
Bev Hogue
Angela Oster
Paula Raatz
Daniel Soffin
CH Carroll
Dave Kant
Andrew Dent
Jessica Kropog
Karen Burt
John Woytalewicz
Mara Millich
Emily Pelton
Matthew J. Hockaday
Miles Rene Vankeersbilck
Avrell Fox
Rebecca Laughlin
Rick Butynski
Marie Gabriel
Heather Dagenais
Bill Harbort
Shawn Conn
Chris Zahner
James K Lowery
Aletha Israels
Lara Alport
Thorsen Hasenkamm
Eric Zurawski
Jaime Celestino
Terence Cover
Kyle Young
Aletha Israels
Eric Zurawski
Todd Kurtzman
Amy Kollar-Anderson
Suspiria Vil
Andrew Blake
Derek Hartl Eric Lucier Jeff Nolan John Dixon
Marc Christy
Thorsten Hassenkaam
James Ashby
Daniel Pfalzgraf
Kathy Abramczyk
Kathy Slamen
Cowboy Mike Berman
Rick "Ruiner" Lappin
Anastasia Feofanova
Mindi Yarbrough
Sarah Bonk
Tracy Ann Brown
Francisco Amaya
Victor Pytko
Randy Wilcox
Aunia Kahn
Katerina Mitrofanova
Tony Philippou
Josh Ball
Kenneth Walendzik
Kristina Rafalski
Mike Bell
Alex Mildrag
Robert Schafer
Chrishara Wilkes
Mary Fisher
j. Elaine
Mary Rousseaux
Lauren Grazal
Katie West
Chris Blank
Steve Kade
Frances Cocagne
Veronica Paiz
Marc Nischan
Brittainy Bishop
Stephanie Bellomo
Amelia M. Falk
George Booth
Blue Cloud
Ian Miller
Scott Lurain

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