Past
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JOHN MAGGIE & AMY VOGEL
The faintest fragrance of fields 25 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 paul kotula projects is pleased to present The faintest fragrance of fields featuring recent paintings by John Maggie (Ann Arbor, MI) and photographs by Amy Vogel (Chicago, IL). In this first pairing of the artists’ work, the exuberant and tender nature of nature is explored through the genre of still... Read more -
Gathering
Chakaia Booker, Brenda Goodman, Zemer Peled, Paul Schwarz, and Anne Wilson 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 In PKP's project space: bouquets from the simple perspective of gathering. Read more -
gallery by appointment
30 May - 29 Jun 2024 Please contact us at info@paulkotulaprojects.com to schedule a visit. Read more -
Jim Chatelain: Help is on the way
Select figurative work from 1974 – 2023 22 Mar - 26 Apr 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, March 22 6 - 9 PM
A small survey exhibition of the artist's figurative work designed in celebration of the publication Jim Chatelain: Help is on the way published by Rotland Press, edited by Ryan Standfest, with contributions from Jonathan Rajewski and Glen Mannisto.
Gallery Talk: Sunday, April 7, 2 PM
Jim Chatelain in conversation with Jonathan Rajewski, Glen Mannisto, and Ryan Standfest
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM during exhibitions and by appointment. Please contact the gallery at info@paulkotulaprojects.com or 248.544.3020 to schedule a visit between exhibitions or outside regular gallery hours. Read more
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Gallery Selections
by appointment 10 Feb - 22 Dec 2023 A rotating selection of works by gallery artists. Read more -
Sleepwalker
29 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present Sleepwalker, on view through December 17. Sleepwalker recognizes the omnipresence of trauma and loss in America and the ambiguous consciousness of its reality. It brings together visual and sound artworks by seven American artists to affect emotional and intellectual responses to the preciousness... Read more -
Peace Project Ceramics: Harvest Table
7 - 8 Oct 2022 Paul Kotula Projects and Peace Project Ceramics are pleased to present a series of plates and platters celebrating community at this time of harvest. Join us Friday, October 7 from 12 pm to 7 pm and Saturday, October 8 from 11 am to 5 pm for Peace Project Ceramics: Harvest... Read more -
Jim Chatelain and Paul Schwarz: A Conversation 24 Years Later
30 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Featuring recent work by Jim Chatelain with selected work from the 1990s by the late Paul Schwarz, the grouping highlights each artist’s idiosyncratic approach to abstraction and collage. The exhibition will begin with an opening reception on Saturday, April 30th, from 6 to 8 PM and will remain on view... Read more
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Reflections: Selected Works from the Art Collection of Meg LaRou
19 Jun - 4 Sep 2021 Over 35 artists are represented in the exhibition including Conrad Bakker, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Jim Chatelain, Marsha Cottrel, John Gill, Brenda Goodman, Tony Hepburn, John Lees, Kirk Mangus, Ann Mikolowski, Ron Nagle, Nancy Pletos, Sharon Que, Joan Snyder and Bill Viola. Read more -
Peter Williams: Mass Murder
23 Jul - 5 Nov 2020 Paul Kotula Projects is excited to announce the solo exhibition, Peter Williams: Mass Murder opening July 23. Consisting of a vast number of paintings from five series of work, Mass Murder elicits dialog on the unrelenting injustice on Black Americans. Mass Murder was first exhibited at CUE Foundation, New York,... Read more -
Jim Chatelain: Home is in My Head
5 Mar - 4 Apr 2020 Chatelain's highly idiosyncratic abstract paintings, replete with an array of imagery cultivated from his years in metro Detroit; New York City; Findlay, Ohio; and upstate New York, combine to form a truly singular vision. Jim Chatelain has had over 20 solo exhibitions in metro Detroit during his extensive career and... Read more -
Jim Shrosbree: thinking/still
14 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to begin the Fall exhibition season with a solo exhibition of recent work by 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, Jim Shrosbree. Titled thinking/still, the exhibition features sculpture, painting, and works on paper and will be on view from September 14 to October 19. Please join us for... Read more
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Jim Shrosbree: slo (roll) NCECA 2019
curated by Paul Kotula 27 - 30 Mar 2019 Featuring work from his recent series of enigmatic sculpture and collage on paper, Jim Shrosbree: slo (roll) highlights the artist's ongoing investigation and use of abstraction to explore humanistic experience. The exhibition title, like those of his sculpture, is encrypted. It infers a call to action. The title is... Read more -
Natural Consequence: Currier, Gill, Karmo, Melchert, Shrosbree
17 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 Paul Kotula Projects is excited to present Natural Consequence featuring Anne Currier, John Gill, Laith Karmo, Jim Melchert and Jim Shrosbree, an intergenerational group of artists whose work continues to transform the field of contemporary ceramics. In Philip Rawson's pivotal book, Ceramics (1971), the author discusses transformation images as a... Read more -
Dangerous Laughter
13 Jul - 18 Aug 2018 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present ' Dangerous Laughter ' opening July 13. The exhibition presents four pairings of work within in the four spaces of the gallery. Included in the exhibition are works by Jim Chatelain, Howard Kottler, Kathleen McShane, Thomas Rapai, Jim Shrosbree, Amy Vogel and Anne... Read more -
Cynthia Greig: San Souci
14 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present Sans Souci , an exhibition of photography, video, and sculpture by Detroit artist Cynthia Greig. In this, the artist's first exhibition at the gallery, Greig muses the French phrase that translates 'without worry, free of care'. Culled from several series of recent work,... Read more
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To Time!
27 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 Jason E. Carter/Jim Chatelain/John Gill/Brenda Goodman/Shane Huffman/Laith Karmo/Howard Kottler/Jean-Pierre Larocque/Ellen Phelan/Kathleen McShane/Jim Shrosbree/Paul Schwarz/Peter Shire/Peter Williams/Anne Wilson 'To Time!' brings together a select group of work by gallery artists along with work from the estates of Anne Markley Spivak and Marcia and Howard Parven. The exhibition celebrates histories in multiple... Read more -
Jason E. Carter: #Distracted_Presence
PKP @ 700 Livernois 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Jason E. Carter: #Distracted_Presence features a series of photographs based on the evolving realities of image experience and Saarinen House, the restored 1930 home of noted architect Eliel Saarinen and his wife and artist Loja Saarinen at Cranbrook Academy of Art. The subject of Carter's prints in are his digital... Read more -
Paul Schwarz: A Shadow is Never Still; Chapter Two, 7:55
PKP @ 700 Livernois 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Chapter Two: 7:15 includes a selection of the artist's noted collage/painting hybrids, sculpture and works on paper (including many sketches never exhibited before). It will also include a selection of the artist's dairies, collected imagery, and the artist's writings. The installation is designed to give the public a heightened understanding... Read more -
Paul Schwarz: A Shadow is Never Still; Chapter One, 4:55
22 Jun - 29 Jul 2017 Paul Kotula Projects is very excited to present Paul Schwarz : A Shadow is Never Still. Presented in two parts -- Chapter One: 4:55 and Chapter Two: 7:00, the exhibition celebrates the life and work of Detroit artist Paul Schwarz (1946-1998), a younger member of the Case Corridor group whose... Read more
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Anne Wilson & Amy Vogel
1 - 3 Jun 2017 P aul Kotula Projects is pleased to present a special program June 1 - 3. View a re-installation of 'Portable City' by Anne Wilson (last exhibited 2009) with the current exhibition 'Landscapes' by Amy Vogel . The pairing brings together two Chicago artists who are challenging the notion of landscape... Read more -
Amy Vogel: Landscapes
18 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present Landscrapes, an exhibition of recent paintings by Amy Vogel (Chicago, IL). These recent paintings continue with Vogel's past use of entropy as a kind of mark-making: these surfaces are painted and erased, repeatedly, simultaneously stripping down and covering up. Scraping as a verb... Read more -
I/WE/THEN/NOW Jim Chatelain Brenda Goodman Peter Williams
11 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 PAUL KOTULA PROJECTS is pleased to announce I /WE /THEN /NOW November 6 through December 17 . The exhibition features the work of three American painters: Jim Chatelain (Delhi, NY,) Brenda Goodman (Pine Hill, NY,) and Peter Williams (Wilmington, DE.) The artists, who have each lived in Detroit at different... Read more -
Jim Shrosbree: Slight Return
2 Apr - 14 May 2016 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present Slight Return, a solo exhibition of recent work by Jim Shrosbree (Fairfield, IA). The exhibition includes an extended series of wall-hung and freestanding sculpture and a vast portfolio of works on paper. Shrosbree 's new work 'returns' to work he created in the... Read more
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IF
5 - 26 Mar 2016 Jason E Carter Jim Chatelain John Gill Brenda Goodman Shane Huffman Laith Karmo Kathleen McShane Object Orange Thomas Rapai Peter Williams Anne Wilson Amy Vogel 'If ' signifies possibility, but it is also circumstantial - if only I had the time to... The works in this exhibition, many seen for... Read more -
BRENDA GOODMAN: A Life on Paper
14 Nov - 19 Dec 2015 Paul Kotula Projects is very pleased to present Brenda Goodman: A Life on Paper. This special survey exhibition offers an extended view of intimate works by this noted New York artist. A native of Detroit, Goodman is recognized for her emotionally packed and brutally sincere autobiographical paintings and works on... Read more -
Behind the Lab Coat: Selections from the Estate of Howard Kottler
3 - 31 Oct 2015 Read more -
giving time to time: Chatelain, Condo, Goodman, Kottler, McShane, Melchert, Mytty, Rapai, Shrosbree, Tedeschi, Williams,
10 - 11 Sep 2015 Read more
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Jim Melchert: Listen, an incubator for thought
19 Jun - 19 Sep 2015 Paul Kotula Projects is pleased to present Jim Melchert: Listen, an incubator for thought. In 1981, between administrative roles as the Visual Arts Director for the National Endowment for the Arts (1977 - 1981) and Director of the American Academy of Rome (1984-1988), Jim Melchert traveled to Cairo. There he... Read more -
Conversations Around the Table: An American Experience
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, curated by Paul Kotula 6 Mar - 4 Oct 2015 Pots function in the present. Their integral relationship to the intimate, yet universal, social practice of the shared meal makes them a vital part of daily life. Pots are also documents of the past. They are records of their creation and of the culture that inspired their potential. Spanning from... Read more -
Kathleen McShane: Monoliths
8 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Kathleen McShane presents works from her 'Monotlith Series' in her second solo exhibition at Paul Kotula Projects. Each sharing a 'monolith,' or painted cardboard collage element which looks like a parallelogram or stretched diamond shape hovering within an apparent space, these works investigate drawing beyond a flat surface toward a... Read more -
Laith Karmo: Potter
8 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Laith Karmo proclaims the title of 'Potter' for his first solo exhibition at Paul Kotula Projects. For it, he has generated a series of vessels that while highly Modern in form celebrate African, Native American and Middle Eastern histories. Karmo recalls his early experiences as a student exploring those same... Read more
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Jim Chatelain, Peter Williams: recent work
20 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Read more -
John Gill: Architecting Color, Selected Pots from Four Decades
21 Jun - 26 Jul 2014 Read more -
Amy Vogel: Beauty is Difficult
10 May - 7 Jun 2014 Read more -
Jim Melchert: Piano Scores for David Tudor
1 Jun - 30 Aug 2013 Read more
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Shane Huffman: Be silent, unless what you have to say is better than silence
1 Jun - 30 Aug 2013 Read more -
Iris Eichenberg with Stacy Jo Scott: Setting the Table
6 Apr - 11 May 2013 Read more -
Peter Williams: Midnight Waltz in D Minor
15 Oct - 3 Dec 2011 Read more -
EDGE: Heather McGill, Richard Rezac, James Shrosbree,
1 Oct - 27 Nov 2010 Read more
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Thomas Rapai: They promised me its summertime
24 Jun - 31 Jul 2010 Read more -
Melissa Mytty: Sip and Drip
4 Jun - 31 Jul 2010 Read more -
Select Work: Austen, Goodman, Hepburn, Melchert, Mikolowski, Mytty, Schutter, Shrosbree, Turner, Vogel
2 Oct - 12 Dec 2009 Read more -
Kathleen McShane: Fixity's Rainbow
18 Oct - 26 Nov 2008 Read more
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jae won lee: in the shadow of the moon
10 Sep - 11 Oct 2008 Read more -
Jim Chatelain: Further Down the Road
17 May - 21 Jun 2008 Read more -
Melissa Mytty: Urban Couture
12 Apr - 10 May 2008 Read more -
Amy Vogel: At Two With Nature
12 Apr - 10 May 2008 Read more
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Brenda Goodman: New Work
1 Mar - 5 Apr 2008 Read more -
Selections: Chatelain, Eichenberg, Foulem, Goodman, McGill, Mikolowski, Mimlitsch-Gray, Rapai, Shrosbree, Slosberg-Acker
19 Jan - 23 Feb 2008 Read more -
Jim Shrosbree: Zero / Suspension
19 Jan - 23 Feb 2008 Read more -
Ann Mikolowski: Works on Paper
17 Mar - 21 Apr 2007 Read more