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Adriana Maniaci

Adriana’s current work at 323East is a collection of of Ink Acrylic on Paper in a hand painted wood standing frame

Alphonso Cox

Paint- mixed media. I’ve reached a stage in my life that’s new and colorful. I would like to share it with you. Art has always been my favorite type of expression. I didn’t consider myself an artist until I completed “Troubled Man” which is a portait of my brother Carlos Taylor(1972-1998r.i.p).

Amanda Box

Sculpture and furniture Artist

Anastasia Chatzka

Clothing & Accessories

“I want to dress your naked body”

Andrew Alexander

member of “Konquest”

Andy Kem

Hand Crafted Wood Worked Art.

Angela McBride

www.PEACELOVESPANDEX.COM
you can now shop online! pick up all your fav spandex outfits!
wonderful colorful and exciting can only start to sum up Angela McBride’s forward thinking retro clothing line. If you want to rock fashion with style and a hot flair for sexiness. then you might just want to think Spandex, yup Spandex.

323East carries a full line of Angela’s amazing hand made garments, so stop in and make a colorful splash next time you hit the town.

Peace.Love.Spandex

April Segedi

My work balances between the Cute and the Creep…..I’m influenced most by books and movies. I’m into fantasy and things that don’t exist in this world. I believe this is what propels me into making my work……There are allot of horrible things in our reality today and we all sometimes wish for a place or time where things are simpler and better. Yet even in lands of beauty and glitter evil things creep about in false glamours. Such as the evil witch living in the gingerbread house or a beautiful sea nymph sining you into your watery grave….

Audrey Pongracz

With no formal training, I have learned by studying my favorite artists, and looking at paintings my mother had hanging in the house. My paintings, mainly in oil, are inspired from dreams, childhood, music, and poetry.

Nearly all my works have a personal meaning behind them. Most are inspired from dreams I have, or come from working up all the demons inside and getting them out. I try to make the positive be seen as well, and maybe even outshine the rest. So I guess there’s a good mix in my work, I can’t just stick with one way. I’m human, and I’m curious.

Brad Jendza

Brian Kenny

Hello all!!! I am Brian Kenny, one of 323 east’s new artists, and i am happy as Donna Fargo to be showing my work in the state that gave birth to me.
i got my first professional card making gig when i was twelve, and was asked to design the holiday card for my school. i have been making cards ever since.
the images i use are a tad off beat and in some way or another represent a person or a conglomerate of people i have met on one of my many journeys around the block and back. Oh, the life Brian Kenny has led since leaving the burbs MIchigan!!!
i also love to hand paint, jewel and embellish the images to achieve an even more glamorous card. I feel that my cards can stand alone without a gift. In fact, i feel that the card is the gift!!
I also have an unwavering love for the absurd, kitsch, camp, anything totally out there.(and have even been known to sing a show tune on occasion)
i hope you enjoy and love my cards (and BUY!!… Prada doesn’t grow on trees!) as much as i enjoy and absolutely love making them
and a big thanks to 323 East for making my welcome back to Michigan as warm as Sander’s fudge.
xoxoxo,
Brian Kenny Chicago

Bridget Michael

No medium goes untouched in this impressive artist’s repertoire!

The team at 323East is honored to offer original works by artist Bridget Michael.

Originally hailing from Detroit, Mi., this talented original is displaying her intricate and beautiful “Brave Duck Series” dreamcatchers, as well as intricate earrings and a pair of strikingly powerful sculptures.

Carl Oxley

I love Painting. Most of all, I love making people laugh and smile. My art is almost always happy and humorous, with bright colors and crazy characters. I make art of all sizes. From 4 feet by 8 feet, to 5 inches by 7 inches, and everything in between. I believe art should be accessible to everyone. It is extremely important to me that the people who enjoy my work the most, can afford to take home the piece they love.

Casey Olejniczak

Bio coming soon…

Chris Burkeybyle

Chris, is a wood crafting artist from Metro Detroit.

He came into the store and dropped off a bowl of hand made wooden rings. 32 individually hand crafted from local Michigan recycled wood.

City Bird

City Bird is sister and brother duo Emily and Andy Linn grew up in a family that loved crafting. “All of the kids in our family have always been obsessed with creating,” Andy said. “I like making anything, whether it’s a video, soap or dinner,” Emily noted. With Emily behind the original designs, Andy jumped on board. “We thought we could increase production and efficiency … Plus, it would give us a reason to hang out,” Andy said.

Clint Snider

With its thousands of deserted, moldering buildings and blocks upon blocks of empty, broken streets, Detroit is the mother of all scrap yards. And ever since the late 1960s, when abandonment of the city by businesses and the populace began to explode exponentially, its trove of cast-offs has been mined by legions of scavengers, including at least two generations of visual artists. True bricoleurs, these cultural producers have worked by bringing the refuse of life into the refuge of art, imbuing the otherwise forgotten with renewed significance and thus value. Thirty-six year old Clinton Snider is one of the latest to emerge.

This work builds a new representational order literally upon the debris Snider has collected and adds narrative content to its visual form. In these pieces, which are basically paintings executed on junk substrates, the material aspect of art work is always evident. Painted on top of retrieved strips of lumber, the conventional “window” view is interrupted by the different lengths of board that have been hammered together,

Subverting the rectangular plane of traditional easel painting. Melancholy seems to be the pervasive mood here, but not entirely, on one level the painting is about the decline of modern civilization in Detroit, but on another arguably more important level, it is about the persistence of life even in the city’s most desolate provinces.

Craig Hejka

-I produce art that embraces the things in everyday life and also builds upon the unnoticed. Based out of Royal Oak, MI
-Stencil’s on canvas. Tshirts coming soon.

Cyberoptix Ties

Our ties are hand-silkscreened onto 100% charmeuse silk or microfiber; the microfiber is a rich, soft fabric resembling silk. Charmeuse silk is a much more expensive and elegant soft silk, smooth with a slight sheen to it.

We only use high quality waterbased inks which require no harmful solvents, this is better for both the health of our shop and for the health of our planet. Waterbased inks have a much softer hand on fine fabrics and will never crack over time as plastisol inks do.

Dan DeMaggio

City Chicken meets Dan Rock

Faina Lerman

Artist no doubt!

Graem Whyte

Graem is Fine Artist and Sculptor based in Detroit.

Creator of weekly art showcase This Week In Art, he is quite often involved in collaborations with a number of other American artists.

Active as a sculptor of Contemporary art

Jessica Sheeran

Handmade Plush “stuffed animals”

Jessica makes handmade stuffed animals, very cute….Think cutesy monsteresque.

Jessica White

original tshirt art. one of a kind

Joe Lubek

Joe Lubek is a native of metro Detroit, Michigan where he fakes a living as an independent artist and designer.

Kill Taupe

My paintings are usually filled with cute dysfunctional creatures, angry vegetables, zombies, robots and strange little rabbits. I started Kill Taupe at the beginning of 2007 as a place to channel my raging creative energy. I wanted to make things that were bright, colorful, humorous and a little off the wall. Nothing is better then when I see someone smile or burst out laughing over one of my items. Spreading happiness and breaking the mundane is what I want Kill Taupe to be all about.

-Jason Driscol

Konquest

Konquest is a collective of artist and graffiti kids. making sweet art and killer t’s. check out the whole collection.

KwameMug.com Mugs and T-Shirts

The original Kwamemug.com Mug.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Wayne County Arrest Photo from his arraignment on March 24th 2008 on multiple felony accounts. AKA the Text Message Scandal commemorative merchandise. Get involved with this Detroit Fashion statement

Lauren Hood

Lauren lives is Chicago and she made these wonderful safety pin braccelets

Lucille Olechowski

Check out Lucy’s amazing glass work!

Matt Catt

Amazing functional glass & clay sculpture from the D

Matt Cipov

Matt Craven

Psychedelic Paintings

Michelle Becker

Michelle Maule

Michelle’s words..
live in Pontiac, Michigan with my boyfriend Michael and my Boston terrier Chloe. I moved here from Portland, Oregon. Sometimes I feel like I moved to a different country…it is so different here. I recently decided to become an artist full time, and it is the best career decision I have ever made.
http://www.how2drawacupofcoffee.blogspot.com/

Miles Rene

I am a self-taught artist who hails from the Metro Detroit area. I use the term self-taught loosely . My father is also an artist. He had me drawing at a very young age, and he taught me to have no fear in drawing or painting what I have see or want to see. I grew up going to art openings in Detroit and Chicago. I was very gifted at a young age, but teenage angst sent me in another direction all together. I became A criminal, and an accomplished one at that. I followed this route until three years ago, while battling thru a serious bout of depression I picked up a paint brush and things fell in place. My life was instantly changed and I fell in love with the smells and feelings that belong to oil paint. Since then I have taken every step to learn or teach myself, including a stop at CCS for an Intro to Painting class with Clint Snyder. I have appeared in three shows in the last two years. There is no better feeling than a complete painting.

Peter DeAngelo

I’m a colorful merry-go-round of death…I’m also best taken with a spoonful of sugar or a grain of salt.

Robbie Budai

Robert Mirek

Entry into Mirek’s world - and his worldview - is two-fold. One is by way of color and surface. The second through the visual and tactile.

His is a highly personal worldview. Indeed, the small dimensions of his objects invite comparison to medieval devotional objects carried by travelers such as small ivory diptychs or triptychs.

Sarmel

Tiffany Miller

I began my career as an artist by accident while studying business in college. Having to fulfill an elective requirement, I reluctantly chose an art class… and as they say, the rest is history. I later apprenticed with renowned artist, Lois Stout, in Sedona, Arizona. Under her guidance I learned painting, framing, jewelry, ceramics, and candlemaking. Soon after my apprenticeship, I was teaching ceramic painting techniques when a student inquired about mosaics. Immediately, I was hooked.

For over 10 years now, I have been creating mosaics. I sculpt and hand paint most of my tiles, and I am constantly searching for unique and exotic materials to incorporate into my pieces.

Tiffany’s mosaic art can be seen internationally in private collections, businesses, galleries, churches, and restaurants. Her work has been featured on HGTV, DIY, Sedona Now Network and seen on MTV, VH1, and ABC. She has also been featured in such publications as In Touch Magizine, The LA Times, and The Boulder Times. Tiffany Miller is quickly becoming one of the most sought after mosaic artists in the country.

Vomit

Vomit is a graffiti artist from the D.
He gets up on freeways and throughout the city streets and many vacant buildings in the City of Decay.

Vomit has taken Graffiti Art to the next level with his twist on the traditional gallery art.