NYAB Event - Graem Whyte “Resystemize”

Graem Whyte “Resystemize”

CUE Art Foundation

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Resystemize presents experiments based on the reimagining of infrastructural, recreational, instrumental, and mythological systems of The Northwest Territories (a collective of artist-owned spaces in Hamtramck and Detroit, Michigan). Through the improvement and embellishment of these spaces, loci for social interaction and engagement are created. These works and spaces are increasingly collaborative, and aim to convey notions of sustainability from both a material and social viewpoint.

These spaces are augmented with sculptural components that reconfigure found objects or fuse fragmentary elements from disparate elements into cohesive wholes. These investigations of personal memory and public history are simultaneously astral and deeply grounded, inviting the viewer to wonder and dream while opening a dialogue about how we relate to a demystified world. Hopefully, they serve as examples of how we can rebuild our personal and communal environments into something greater than the sum of their parts, using what we already have available.

Graem Whyte is a sculptor born and raised in metro Detroit, currently based in Hamtramck, MI. His career started in the field of architecture, later shifted into fine art, and now hybridizes both disciplines. In 2007, Whyte and his wife, Faina Lerman, founded the experimental art venue Popps Packing in Hamtramck. Currently, Whyte is working on Squash House, the conversion of an abandoned house in Detroit into a squash court and community squash garden, and is in the development stages of Popps Emporium, an experimental storefront, community gallery, and social club utilizing barter and time-based exchange. His work utilizes a wide array of materials and often fuses architecture, mythology, and patterns of mathematics and nature with a wry sense of humor.