AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the University of Michigan Cancer Center to check out their new exhibit “Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel.” Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined.
“Gifts of the Art” gallery inside the U-M Cancer Center
“Huron River” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Fleetwood” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Metzger’s Corner” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Massage Parlor” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Mallets Creek Library” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Downtown Dexter” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Washington Viaduct” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Grand River” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Purchase Radio” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Main & Broad Street, Dexter” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Pioneer High School Canival” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“The Old Ark” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Blind Pig” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“On Huron Street” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
“Backstreet Brighton” by Carlye Crisler (oil on panel)
Overview of the art exhibit
“Toy Robots Past & Present” by Elaine Reed
This art collection can be found on the Level 2 Alcove
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