Disability Pride Exhibition
Various Artists
Group Show at Gallery Be: June 30, 2023 – August 4, 2023
Mid-run reception on July 26, 3:00-7:00pm during the ADA Celebration Picnic
Disability Network Washtenaw Monroe Livingston
3941 Research Park Dr | Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Open during office hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm
Contact the artists to inquire about artwork availability.
Gallery Manager, Claire Moore – 734.971.0277
Show Details
Eleven artists share work that speaks to their disability experiences at a disability-centered gallery space, during Disability Pride month and our annual Americans with Disabilities Act Picnic.
This show includes 2D works, sculpture, culinary art, and performance.
Artists: Tess Carichner, Allison Cowherd, Zach D., Amy Everett, Charista Guzman, Shalonda Jemison, James Murtha, Joseph Ouelette, Rick Stephens, Jeffrey VanDyke, Patrick N. Warren II
Audio Tour
Lion
Patrick N. Warren II
Graphite on paper
12 x 8” 2012
For inquiries, contact: patw188894@gmail.com
Pencil drawing of a lion. The lion is realistically shaded with a large mane.
Lost
Rick Stephens
Acrylic
48 x 36”
2023
For inquiries, contact: rickstephens71@gmail.com
Abstract painting with thick layers of expressive paint splashes and drips, in green, blue, deep violet, and yellow.
Left hand
Joseph Ouellette
Black ink and charcoal on construction paper
8.5 x 11”
2015
For inquiries, contact: johncash1980@gmail.com
Pen drawing of a left hand, from the artist’s point of view, depicting form and value. The hand is loosely relaxed, directed to the right side of the page, thumb toward the viewer.
Two bananas
Joseph Ouellette
Black ink and charcoal pencil on black construction paper
8.5 x 11”
2015
For inquiries, contact: patw188894@gmail.com
Pen and charcoal realistic drawing of a banana. The banana depicts form and value shifts, including some bruising.
Burst of Pink
Amy Everett
Oil pastel and ink
8 x 15″ unframed, 12 x 18″ framed
2023
For inquiries, contact: paleverett@ymail.com
Impressionist-style depiction of a shoreline cove. Layers of blue water and scrub-brush in green and tan. A bright pink flowering bush on the right of the composition.
Sunset Bridge
Amy Everett
Watercolor on Yupo
11 x 14″ unframed, 18 x 22″ framed
2023
For inquiries, contact: paleverett@ymail.com
Abstract expressive painting of a bridge, in layers of orange, yellow, maroon, and red.
Starry Night Crossover
Zach D.
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20”
2023
For inquiries, contact: michellea@wskills.com
Nod to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” with Star Wars vehicles added into the composition. Impressionist-style painting of a small village at night.
Auditory Inception
Shalonda Jemison
Acrylic on black canvas
16 ×20”
2023
For inquiries, contact: shalondajemison7@gmail.com
A green Martian man stands in the right corner looking up towards the sky. There are blue shades of mountains between the Martian and the Galaxy sky. The sky center is a greenish blue planet. Off to the upper right is an abstract lion with green and red mane. The planet is surrounded by white short brushstrokes and blue colored sound signals from the top of the planet.
Let Me Show You Something –
The Us and Them of Health Sciences
Tess Carichner
Digital copy of collage
8.5 x 11“
2022
For inquiries, contact: carichnt@umich.edu
Collage in grayscale. Photo scan of chromosomes, atop a background of a repeating pattern of butterflies. On the bottom left of the composition, a photo of a woman holding a baby above her head. In the middle of the page, a medical illustration of a skeleton with highlight red areas. On the top of the composition, it reads “Let Me Show You Something.”
Listen to the artist read her essay below.
Welcoming Trust
Shalonda Jemison
Acrylic on canvas
24 × 18”
2023
For inquiries, contact: shalondajemison7@gmail.com
A waterfall on the left side of the composition. There are mountains in the background and a bird flying west to east. In the center are rock stairs with a woman descending and a man holding her left hand.
Goddess
Charista Guzman
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40”
2010
For inquiries, contact: charistaguzman76@gmail.com
Goddess is flat layers of glazing acrylic paint on canvas in bright hues of pinks, yellows, oranges, mauve gold rose tones and black outlining of facial or hair features on figures. Surface is smooth to touch. The painting has spherical embodiments of a circle within a circle of rounded figures encasing somber faces. The background is of light pink tone with the main focal figural focus being centered or enveloping in and out of the surrounding spheres.
Healing the Inner Child
Shalonda Jemison
Acrylic on oval canvas
16 × 18”
2023
For inquiries, contact: shalondajemison7@gmail.com
An abstract purple woman holds an embryo with a developing baby surrounded by blue in her hands. A pink light emanates from her forehead. The background is a grey gradient. The child is encased in dark blue. There are faces along the bottom or the canvas.
The Rising
Charista Guzman
Acrylic gel with acrylic paint on canvas
30 x 40”
2010
For inquiries, contact: charistaguzman76@gmail.com
Multi figural forms set upon a fire background with each rising out of the heated relm. Bold colors of reds, oranges, blues juxtaposition amongst the varying figural forms. This painting is heavily textural by use of a matte gel mixed into acrylic to create an impasto like feel. The central blue abstracted figure frontally stands tall with swirling half spheres winding and flowing about in a watery motion.
My Path to Walking
Megan Braun
Photography
(3) 5 x 7”
2019
For inquiries, contact: megan@powerplug.com
Photo one depicts two hands, clasped. Photo two depicts a mobility walker. Photo three depicts a shaggy brown dog, wearing service animal gear.
Challenge
Megan Braun
Text on paper
8.5 x 11”
2023
For inquiries, contact: megan@powerplug.com
Text with various blackouts and highlights, increasing in size. Reads: “The inability to read does not affect intelligence as many people have assumed about me. I have a reading
disability. It made school much harder. When I found accessible technology it made a huge difference. It allowed me to listen and follow along as it highlighted each word and sentence. I’m better at reading than I used to be. But progress does not make a disability go away. We need to stop judging people on what they can or can’t do.”
Untitled
Megan Braun
Graphite on paper
8.5 x 11”
2023
For inquiries, contact: megan@powerplug.com
Simple pencil line drawings of various adaptive technology, devices, and implements in symbol-form.
We Are One
Jeffrey VanDyke
Digital drawing
6 x 6”
2022
For inquiries, contact:
jeffreyv@disabilitynetworkwm.org
Four faceless disabled individuals standing in front of a blue and orange stained glass window circle/globe holding hands. From left to right: Orange figure holding cane, blue figure with prosthetic right leg, holding hands with orange figure with prosthetic arm, connected to a blue person seated in wheelchair.
Super
Jeffrey VanDyke
Digital ink/comic drawing
6 x 6”
2022
For inquiries, contact: jeffreyv@disabilitynetworkwm.org
Black and white drawing of person with disability pulling open their over shirt, it is a buttoned shirt revealing a blue undershirt with the new Go Logo (Updated accessibility logo) underneath.
Golden Eagle
Brian Riggs
Wood
42 × 23”
2023
For inquiries, contact: riggs.brian@gmail.com
Chainsaw carved golden eagle, grasping a salmon in his talons. Its wings are outstretched.