From 6-9pm On May 29th I Held A Closing Reception For Flex Gallery At The Avenue For The Arts [gallery]

From 6-9pm on May 29th I held a closing reception for Flex Gallery at the Avenue for the Arts [gallery] Space in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I displayed each participating artist’s armband along with prints, collages, textile pieces, and other additional work by the artists. Visitors were enthusiastic, fluffernutters were in abundance, and the work looked great in the space. It was a great way to end the first year of the project. Overall, I had a wonderful time working with each artist, and was very excited for the press the project received. I can’t wait to do it again next winter.

Zachary Trebellas. Ancestry. Text on 35mm photograph taken at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. 2016.

Thoughts I had while standing before this temple in Athens last summer.

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This piece is part of the series I’m working on, Nippo Greco American, exploring my relationship with the three ethnic groups I in some way identify with.

A 1950′s map of Kyushu I scanned in today and reworked. 

Film photos I took on my birthday in February at Saugatuck Dunes State Park in Saugatuck, Michigan.

The nineteenth piece in my photo series on group identity. I took this one of my coworker/friend LG in an alleyway in Grand Haven, Michigan.

More info on this series at the project site.

Follow along on instagram if you like!

Christopher C. W. Sutton. Untitled. Mixed media, acrylic on canvas armband. Flex Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. 2016.

For the next twelve weeks I am displaying works by six artists on my left arm in a project titled Flex Gallery. Currently I’m on my third day of wearing this arm band, created by SCAD alumnus Chris Sutton (@christophersutton​). I’ve sent out five more blank canvas bands to local and national artists specializing in collage, comics, fibers, ceramics, painting, and printmaking. I expect each band will look radically different from the last, and I can’t wait to see what everyone creates. I will be featuring interviews and additional work by each artist during their two-week run, so stay tuned.