Lake Effect

This exhibition in summer 2017, organized by Hartmut Austen together with the Oliver Art Center in Frankfort, Mich. presented new and recent works by emerging and mid-career artists living in various regions of the United States and the U.K., that have a strong connection to the Northwest Lower Peninsula region of Michigan.
The installation at the Oliver Art Center, a former Coast Guard building, juxtaposed formal and thematic differences in each artist's work while also suggestiong commonalities in associations with time, space, memory and place.

Left: Julie Mecoli; center sculpture: Andy Denton; right side: Jordan Buschur; center wall: Hartmut Austen

Front objects: Julie Mecoli; far wall: Jordan Buschur; left wall: Hartmut Austen

Left smaller paintings: Dylan Evans Weiler; right: Hartmut Austen, Roller, 2012, oil on canvas, 60 in x 75 in

Hartmut Austen, left: Seminar, 2015, oil on canvas, 75 in x 54 in; right: Untitled, 2016, acryl on canvas, 60 in x 48 in