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OU Art Gallery Current Exhibition

The Oakland University Art Gallery (OUAG) is a crucial educational element in the life of the department, as well as an important center for visual arts in the Detroit metropolitan area. OUAG emphasizes both contemporary art and art historical exhibitions, which offer direct engagement with coursework in both studio art and art history.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
JIM CHATELAIN: CORRECTING PAST MISTAKES
SELECTED ABSTRACTIONS | 2001 -2024
On View: September 7 - November 24, 2024

This exhibition presents an extensive survey of abstract paintings from the past twenty-three years by Jim Chatelain, a key participant in Detroit’s storied Cass Corridor artistic milieu. Chatelain is a painter who subverts the conventions of painting and collapses standard notions of good taste with a beguiling body of work that is by turns crude yet sophisticated, grotesque yet elegant, concrete yet elusive, provocative and humorous.

– For more information on the Jim Chatelain: Correcting Past Mistakes exhibition, please visit the Oakland University Art Gallery's website, www.ouartgallery.org

Mark your calendar for these related exhibition programs at the Oakland University Art Gallery:

September 7th at 5:00 PM:
Opening Reception

September 26th at Noon:
Exhibition walkthrough with curator Ryan Standfest

October 30th at Noon:
“Dealing With It: The Other Tradition in Art,” a lecture by Dan Nadel, Curator-at-Large, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles. Made possible with generous support from The Judd Family Endowed Fund

November 6th at Noon
Jim Chatelain in Conversation with Ryan Standfest

Oakland University Art Gallery (OUAG) 
371 Wilson Boulevard
(West Wilson Hall in Room 208)
Rochester, MI 48309
Phone: 248-370-3005

Regular Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday
Noon - 5:00 PM
Closed Mondays

Oakland University Art, Art History and Design

310 West Wilson Hall
Rochester, MI 48309
(location map)
phone: (248) 370-3375
fax: (248) 370-3377