EXHIBITION DETAILS
Unbroken Dawn | Dave Jordano
January 15 – February 27, 2016
Artist Talk 5:00 pm February 5th
Public and Artist Reception 6:00-9:00 pm, February 5th
STATEMENT
‘Detroit is my hometown. As a child growing up, my father, who worked all his life for General Motors, used to joke and say that we had motor oil in our veins. Even after all these years of absence I still believe there is some small truth to what he said.
These photographs are my reaction to all the negative press that Detroit has had to endure over the past several years.... I began looking at the various neighborhoods within the city and the people who live within them. This human condition, while troubled, struggling, and coping with the harsh reality of living in a post-industrial city that has fallen on the hardest of times, does thrive, and demonstrates that Detroit is not the city of death and decay that everyone was reporting in the media, but one that shows signs of human activity and movement.
My hope is that this work will convey in many ways that Detroit is a city made up of many small communities, all building a way of life through perseverance, hope, and sheer determination. A city clinging to the vanished ideals of an urban oasis that once hailed itself as one of the most beautiful and prosperous cities in America, at one time a model city for all others to follow, but one which has now fallen from grace.
This personal project is not about what’s been destroyed, but more importantly about what’s been left behind and those who are left to cope with it.’
- Dave Jordano
