Carriage Trade - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Carriage Trade. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Picture City III” Exhibition
Existing as much in fantasy and imagination as in its complex and contradictory realities, the “big city” draws millions of visitors every year who revel in its Oz-like qualities. Providing a stimulating...More »
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Bill Owens “American Icons”
Bill Owens is perhaps most well known for his iconic Suburbia project documenting the daily life of his friends and neighbors in a northern California suburb in 1972. Treating middle class experience as...More »
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“Social Photography V” Exhibition
First presented in 2011 and now in its fifth iteration, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From...More »
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“American Interior” Exhibition
“The facts we hate, we’ll never meet walking down the road, everybody yelling, ‘Hurry up, hurry up!’ But I’m waiting for you, I must go slow, I must not think bad thoughts. When is this world coming...More »
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“Cutting Through the Suburbs” Exhibition
As the site of one of American consumerism’s largest expansions, the suburbs faced its greatest test in the 1970’s, when the postwar suburban fantasy collided with the reality of gas shortages, “stagflation,”...More »
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“Social Photography III” Exhibition
Social Photography III is the third installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell...More »
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João Enxuto and Erica Love “Anonymous Paintings”
Recovered from the depths of the online art platform known as Google Art Project, João Enxuto and Erica Love’s Anonymous Paintings betray the ambiguities inherent in the experience of visual art in the...More »
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“The Pathos of Things” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2013-03-09 - 2013-05-19
Shop for a product. Buy the product. Touch the product’s screen. When things do mostly what we wish, they become invisible. When they frustrate our expectations, they’re dispensed with. In a world of objects...More »
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"Family Portrait" Exhibition
As the subject of An American Family, one of television’s first reality shows, the Loud family exemplified the "Margaret Mead effect" of the mediation of experience, where representation begins to influence...More »
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"Archival Portraits" Exhibition
Traditionally highlighting the unique personality of a subject, the genre of portraiture is at odds with the increasingly disparate quality of our current experience of the self. The popularity of social...More »
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"Color Photographs from the WPA (1939-1943)" Exhibition
Largely forgotten until the mid-seventies when they resurfaced in the Library of Congress archives, the color photographs of the Works Project Administration (1939-1943) document the later period of FDR’s...More »
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"Social Photography II" Exhibition
Social Photography II is the second installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell...More »
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"Pop Patriotism" Exhibition
Offering artifacts of popular culture placed alongside the work of artists skeptical of America's renewed devotion to its flag, the exhibition POP Patriotism addresses the implications of this recent return...More »
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Henry Codax Exhibition
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"Picture No Picture" Exhibition
No one seems to be sure what the decline of modernism’s cultural influence, beginning sometime in the 1950’s and 60’s, has led to. The return of narrative and ornament in the art and architecture of the...More »
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Jef Geys "Woodward Avenue"
carriage trade presents "Woodward Avenue" by Jef Geys, a project first developed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. This exhibition is a variation of Geys’ Quadra Medicinale, at the...More »
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"Social Photography" Exhibition
Organized to benefit upcoming programming at carriage trade, Social Photography is an exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. As cell phone cameras become more ubiquitous,...More »
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"Another Green World" Exhibition
The exhibition Another Green World intends to draw parallels between the genre of landscape and the current preoccupation with "green" in popular culture. While the romanticism of 19th century landscape...More »
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"Mistaken Identity" Exhibition
While the genre of portraiture tends to feature clearly defined subjects, the portrait show Mistaken Identity focuses instead on the uncertainties of facial recognition and how misperception might affect...More »
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"The Cult of Personality/Portraits and Mass Culture" Exhibition
As the U.S presidential campaign kicks into high gear, the exhibition The Cult of Personality, Portraits and Mass Culture investigates the relationship between celebrity and political personas within the...More »
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"Market Forces Part II: Consumer Confidence" Exhibition
The first three exhibitions in the space beginning February 2008 will address the political and economic climate both locally and nationally, as the pace of the U.S. presidential election accelerates....More »
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"Market Forces Part I: Consuming Territories" Exhibition
The first three exhibitions in the space beginning February 2008 will address the political and economic climate both locally and nationally, as the pace of the U.S. presidential election accelerates....More »