Curated by Allison Glenn
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 6-8PM
Location: the Shepherd
May 17, 2025 — August 30, 2025
ARTISTS: Halima Afi Cassells, Wesaam Al-Badry, Candida Alvarez, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Dawoud Bey, LaKela Brown, Ashanti Chaplin, David Antonio Cruz, Olayami Dabls, Bryce Detroit, Chantell Donwell, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Olivia Guterson, L. Kasimu Harris, Scott Hocking, Doug Jones, Louise Jones, Joanna Keane Lopez, Paul Kremer, Le’Andra LeSeur, Dameon Miller, Keisha Miller, Mario Moore, Ebony G. Patterson, Benjy Russell, Neha Vedpathak, Jordan Weber, Rosha Yaghmai
In this moment of intense climate change and ever shifting policy, what does it mean to care for, tend to, and remember a landscape?
Library Street Collective announces The Sea and the Sky, and You and I, opening Saturday, May 17 at the Shepherd from 6-8pm. RSVP for the opening reception here.
The second portion of a two-part exhibition series focusing on the intersecting histories–and current landscapes–of Detroit through the work of artists’ practices, The Sea and the Sky, and You and I, presents artists and cultural organizers who consider the enduring relationships between humans and subterranean, terrestrial, and imaginary landscapes in Detroit and beyond.
An interpretation of a lyric from “All Blues”, a 1959 jazz composition written by Miles Davis, The Sea and the Sky, and You and I considers the histories of place and human impacts on the environment. With a strong focus on Detroit, over half of the artists in The Sea and the Sky, and You and I are based in the city, engaging with themes of Drexciya, detritus, land use, and more.
The Sea and the Sky, and You and I presents expanded notions of how artists render and make visible our strong connections to landscapes, and the symbiotic relationships between history, environments, humans, and climate, highlighting how artists are shaping discourses for the future, by taking lessons from the past and applying them to this moment. The Sea and the Sky, and You and I is curated by Allison Glenn, Artistic Director of the Shepherd, and on view through August 30, 2025.