Exhibitions

“If the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center isn’t on your radar as a place that mounts great shows, it should be.” – Michael Hodges, Detroit News Fine Arts Writer

Artists interested in exhibiting @ the BBAC: click here for more information.

The general public is invited to come to the BBAC to see our exhibits.

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Exhibitions supported by Bank of Ann Arbor / Birmingham

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2025 Exhibitions

JANUARY 31-MARCH 13 2025 CURRENT STUDENT WORKS SHOW

Juror: Anita Bates, Artist and Educator PhD MFA MA

Dr. Anita Bates is a 2019 Kresge Arts Fellow and a native of Highland Park, Michigan. A contemporary artist, she has been exhibited in several venues including the Trout Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin; the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit; G.R. N’Namdi Gallery; Dell Pryor Gallery; Detroit Artists Market; River’s Edge Gallery in Wyandotte, Michigan; Querini Stampalia Museum in Venice, Italy; A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery in New York, NY and the Ashara Ekundayo Gallery in Oakland, California. The artist and her work have been noted and reviewed in various periodicals and publications such as the Detroit News and Free Press, Detroit Home Magazine, Art News, BLAC Magazine, TR8T Magazine, Imago Mundi: The Luciano Benetton Collection and The Romeo Observer. Ms. Bates holds both a PhD in Education and M.F.A. in Painting from Wayne State University. She also has an MA in Studio Art with a painting concentration from Eastern Michigan University. Other accomplishments include a Fulbright Memorial Fellowship in Japanese education and a King, Chavez, Parks Future Faculty Fellowship from Wayne State University. Her research interests center around the ways in which museum narratives and visual imagery can be used to promote critical thinking regarding systems of inequity and representation. Currently she serves as an Assistant Professor of Teaching and Program Coordinator for Visual Art Education at Wayne State University.

Click here to view the complete list of artists in the exhibit.

MARCH 21-MAY 1 2025

James Kaye: Descriptive Intuition

Historic Manufacture

Rough Seas

Angel Defined

Jackson Wrede: Menagerie

“This exhibition draws inspiration from the historical concept of a menagerie—once defined as a collection of exotic animals kept for display, now symbolizing a diverse gathering of unique characters. Each painting, though distinct, evolves from a shared artistic impulse, meticulously crafted to capture curiosity and wonder. Like the primates, cats, and birds found in a zoo, these portraits, still lifes, and symbolic works coexist to create a varied yet cohesive world of painted forms.”

Self-Portrait in a Cowboy Hat

The Collector

Bubbles and Brine

Beneath the Bluffs

Marilyn Malone II

Lisa Grizaniuk: True Hues

Candy Cane Moka; acrylic on canvas panel; 8 x 10

Pickled Pink; acrylic on gallery stretched canvas; 24 x 24

Candied Corn; acrylic on canvas; 8 x 10

Students of Anatoliy Shapiro

MAY 9-JUNE 5 2025

Laith Karmo & Benjamin Teague: Surviving Outside

core/double life vessel by Laith Karmo; ceramic

HP/.02 by Laith Karmo; paper, mixed media

Shrub and haze by Laith Karmo; photo print

By Benjamin Teague

Carolyn Reed Barritt: Pretty Things

“All of my artwork is rooted in drawing, and combines explorations of color, shape, surface and scale with expression. I follow an inner, personal narrative which is fueled by my natural curiosity to create artworks that read as, “intimate, mysterious, personal poems.” Currently I’m working on paintings and drawings inspired by Golden Age artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter; modernizing and recreating aspects of their oeuvres and integrating them to my own more flat, contemporarily-hued compositions.” ~ Carolyn Reed Barritt

Page 183, Cursive to Cut
Ink and acrylic on torn vintage encyclopedia page

9.75 x 6.5 inches

Thief

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 inches

Flight

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Blue

Watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb HP paper
24 x 24 inches

Patrice Erickson

Students of Patty Eisenbraun

JUNE 20-AUGUST 14 2025 44TH MICHIGAN FINE ARTS COMPETITION

Juror: Laurie Ann Farrell

Laurie Ann Farrell is a globally recognized curator, art historian, and writer based in Dallas, TX. She has written extensively on contemporary art and culture, including exhibition catalogs, journal articles, and artist monographs. Her work has been profiled and featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, African Arts, Vogue, CNN, the Washington Post, the Detroit Free Press, ArtNews, Flash Art, and Artforum, among many others. As the former head of modern and contemporary art and curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, she oversaw one of the USA’s most important postwar art and modern art collections, including the GM Center for African American Art. In December 2018, Farrell curated the Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love exhibition, featuring new works made in response to the DIA collections and Diego Rivera Detroit Industry Murals and encyclopedic art collection.

AUGUST 22-SEPTEMBER 18 2025

Lynn Galbreath: Let’s Talk

Isle Royale II

8ft x 10ft; Oil on baltic birch, refuse and gold leaf

Birmingham Society of Women Painters

Robert Morris: Earth Projects

Students of Ed Duff

SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 30 2025

Boyd Quinn

Ryan Standfest: “As then there was no then, so there is none now”

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