Gallery at Ideation Orange, 420 W 9 Mile, Hazel Park, MI (2026)

09/04/2026

Opening TONIGHT 6 to 9pm

What Endures brings together the work of Detroit and Omaha-based artist Iggy Sumnik, whose work spanned multiple mediums—sculptures, paintings and drawings. Iggy primarily created in clay, hand-built stoneware; sculptures defined by texture, balance, and physical presence - often life-sized or larger, rooted in forms that feel familiar yet reimagined. His work reflects an ongoing dialogue between the built and natural worlds, and invites consideration of how we shape our environments and how they, in turn, impact us. In a practice guided by resourcefulness and care, he embraced reuse, conservation, and material awareness, embedding these values not only in his art, but in the way he lived and worked. Sumnik’s studio, a modest former boathouse along a Detroit canal, was both a site of production and a point of connection. There, in a space defined by efficiency, adaptability, and proximity to the rhythms of the river, he created with intention. He showed up to the work, again and again, believing that commitment to process was itself a form of meaning. Iggy’s impact extended far beyond the objects he forged in clay

The Gallery at Ideation Orange
420 W. 9 Mile Rd, Hazel Park
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09/01/2026

Iggy Sumnik: What Endures

September 4th through September 25th

Opening: Friday September 4th from 6 to 9pm

What Endures brings together the work of Detroit and Omaha-based artist Iggy Sumnik, whose work spanned multiple mediums—sculptures, paintings and drawings. Iggy primarily created in clay, hand-built stoneware; sculptures defined by texture, balance, and physical presence - often life-sized or larger, rooted in forms that feel familiar yet reimagined. His work reflects an ongoing dialogue between the built and natural worlds, and invites consideration of how we shape our environments and how they, in turn, impact us. In a practice guided by resourcefulness and care, he embraced reuse, conservation, and material awareness, embedding these values not only in his art, but in the way he lived and worked. Sumnik’s studio, a modest former boathouse along a Detroit canal, was both a site of production and a point of connection. There, in a space defined by efficiency, adaptability, and proximity to the rhythms of the river, he created with intention. He showed up to the work, again and again, believing that commitment to process was itself a form of meaning. Iggy’s impact extended far beyond the objects he forged in clay. Equally central to his practice was his role as a teacher and mentor.

Across Detroit and Omaha, Sumnik worked with a wide range of communities: youth, students, Native Americans, and individuals often underserved by traditional art spaces, sharing not only technical skill, but a belief in the transformative power of making. For Iggy, art was never only about the finished object; it was about the act of creation, the confidence it builds, and the connections it fosters. This exhibition, his first retrospective in Michigan, returns his work to his hometown, placing it within the community that shaped and sustained him. While his life was cut short in 2023, his presence remains in the objects he formed, the spaces he brightened, and the many hands he guided.

What endures is not only the work itself, but the way it continues to live on: in community, in practice, and in the ongoing act of inspiring creation.

Learn more: https://www.artbyiggylegacy.com/
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08/19/2026

Join us THIS Thursday starting at 6pm for this dynamic talk with Joseph Ferraro and Rick Lieder as they take you through a tour of the exhibit highlighting their artistic practice and answering questions!

Joseph Ferraro is a conservation macro photographer walking the naturalist's path, based in Ferndale, Michigan. His yard, planted with native species, doubles as his field studio, and is where the journey began. Working by a "do no harm" credo, he photographs portraits of insects and pollinators as they are in their environment: native bees, ambush bugs, jumping spiders, and the countless other tiny creatures most people walk past without a second glance. Shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61 People's Choice Award, his work asks viewers to look more closely at the intricate world around them, one that doesn't require a plane ticket, just patience.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, People's Choice Nominee (WPY61), selected from more than 60,000 entries from photographers across over 110 countries, placing it among the 24 photographs shortlisted for the global public vote, and included in the competition's highlights book.

Featured in BBC, PetaPixel, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Axios Detroit, and Country Life UK, among others.

Work has been used for academic and research purposes, including presentations and papers..

Featured interview on Metromode
https://metromodemedia.com/ferndale-photographer-gets-international-spotlight-with-nomination-for-peoples-choice-award/

Interview on Live in the D
https://www.clickondetroit.com/live-in-the-d/2026/03/09/metro-detroit-photographer-nominated-for-global-award/

Interview on Stateside
https://www.michiganpublic.org/stateside/2026-05-26/stateside-tuesday-may-26-2026

Rick Lieder is a photographer and painter whose work has been shown in art and zoological galleries in the Midwest and Canada, featured on PBS, and anchors an award-winning series of picture books.
He lives and works in urban nature, surrounded by trees, bees, and birds."

"The pictures are beautiful, and I think they capture an important aspect of reality."
- Vernor Vinge

Amazing macro-photographs by Rick Lieder take us on a spectacular travelogue tour of the world underfoot, the world where dew-drops are the size of melons, the blades of grass loom high overhead and where every neighbour seems stranger than the next.

It's entirely conceivable that Lieder's compositions, so alive with color, might be mistaken for paintings.

- Nick Sousanis

"Out of all the insect artwork I've seen, your style certainly stands out. So many people forget that the heart of science is poetry." - Ted Snyder - Urban Entomologist

Following the discussion, the artists will be available for questions

Schedule

6:00 pm Doors Open

6:30 pm Artist Talk Begins

08/03/2026

Opening THIS Friday August 7th from 7 to 10pm-

Two of Metro Detroit’s best nature photographers present an exquisite blend of their work in our next exhibit: The Patience of Light

Opening Reception: Friday August 7th from 7 to 10pm

Joseph Ferraro is a conservation macro photographer walking the naturalist's path, based in Ferndale, Michigan. His yard, planted with native species, doubles as his field studio, and is where the journey began. Working by a "do no harm" credo, he photographs portraits of insects and pollinators as they are in their environment: native bees, ambush bugs, jumping spiders, and the countless other tiny creatures most people walk past without a second glance. Shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61 People's Choice Award, his work asks viewers to look more closely at the intricate world around them, one that doesn't require a plane ticket, just patience.

Rick Lieder is a photographer and painter whose work has been shown in art and zoological galleries in the Midwest and Canada, featured on PBS, and anchors an award-winning series of picture books.
He lives and works in urban nature, surrounded by trees, bees, and birds."

The Gallery at Ideation Orange
420 W. 9 Mile Rd
Hazel Park, MI
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07/21/2026

Please join us for an artist talk with Dawn Smith to mark the closing of the exhibit , "Midsummer,”

Mark your Calendars for Saturday August 1st!

Midsummer

Midsummer is a season of extremes. Days stretch long into twilight, growth reaches its peak, and the world appears saturated with light. Across cultures and throughout time, this moment has inspired celebration, ritual, and reflection.

Intense brilliance often reveals what might otherwise remain unseen as brightest sun casts the deepest shadow. Summer welcomes abundance: flowers bloom, fruits ripen, and life flourishes. At the same time, we inhabit a world where forests burn and oceans grow warmer each year.

The dissonance between beauty and catastrophe is palpable. Still, we continue to dream, create, and make meaning from contradiction.

Art can be a gesture of hope, a form of witness, an act of critique, or a way of processing what is difficult to name. In the space between radiance and shadow, beauty and unease this exhibition invites reflection on what emerges when opposites coexist.

Dawn Smith is a Metro Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist whose creative practice includes painting, tattooing, sculpture, performance, and music. With over 20 years of experience as a tattoo artist and more than a decade immersed in oil painting, her work reflects a fusion of technical skill and imaginative storytelling. Raised in the Detroit area by a blue-collar tradesman and an Italian immigrant father, her early memories of watching her father practice pinstriping and lettering sparked her lifelong fascination with artistic craftsmanship.

Smith uses metaphor and symbolism to examine complex themes such as female agency, social hierarchies, environmental fragility, consumerism and social stratification. Her work has been recognized with awards and features in publications such as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, where her bold and imaginative vision has garnered recognition in the Neo-surrealist genre.

Following the discussion, the artist will be available for questions

Schedule

1:30pm Doors Open

2:00pm Artist Talk Begins

07/08/2026

THIS Friday from 7 to 10pm we invite you to the Opening of Midsummer Featuring:

Rachel Delmotte, Berkeley Oceguera Hustebout, Shaina Kasztelan, Dawn Smith

Dawn Smith is a Metro Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist whose creative practice includes painting, tattooing, sculpture, performance, and music. With over 20 years of experience as a tattoo artist and more than a decade immersed in oil painting, her work reflects a fusion of technical skill and imaginative storytelling. Raised in the Detroit area by a blue-collar tradesman and an Italian immigrant father, her early memories of watching her father practice pinstriping and lettering sparked her lifelong fascination with artistic craftsmanship.

Smith uses metaphor and symbolism to examine complex themes such as female agency, social hierarchies, environmental fragility, consumerism and social stratification. Her work has been recognized with awards and features in publications such as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, where her bold and imaginative vision has garnered recognition in the Neo-surrealist genre.

Berkeley Oceguera Hutsebout is an interdisciplinary artist with a studio practice grounded in craft and the everyday. She works across mediums incorporating drawing, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation. Highlighting intimacy, sensuality, and care she explores the human condition particularly as it relates to the natural world. Berkeley’s work has been exhibited at Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture (IN), Hammes Gallery at Saint Mary’s College (IN), and Fernwood Botanical Garden (MI). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oregon College of Art and Craft (2015) and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Print Media (2027).

Rachel Delmotte (b. 1988) is an artist and printmaker in Detroit, Michigan. Rachel's work explores the unpredictable terrain of becoming alongside and the unstable medium of color. Drawn to the psychological space where perception, memory, and emotion shape our realities, her work resists fixed narratives and instead embraces multiplicity as a generative condition.

Shaina Kasztelan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Kasztelan received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2012 and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2024. In addition to her formal education, the artist has worked as a muralist, built theater sets, worked as a prop maker, and spent years building parade floats for America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Her work has been exhibited in many places including The Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities (Ann Arbor, MI).

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Friday, 12 to 5pm

Other viewings available by appointment.
Full information: Galleryatio.com

06/29/2026

Opening next at The Gallery at Ideation Orange

Midsummer
Featuring the work of

Rachel Delmotte, Berkeley Oceguera Hustebout, Shaina Kasztelan, Dawn Smith

July 10th through July 31st

Opening Reception: Friday July 10 from 7 to 10pm

Midsummer

Midsummer is a season of extremes. Days stretch long into twilight, growth reaches its peak, and the world appears saturated with light. Across cultures and throughout time, this moment has inspired celebration, ritual, and reflection.

Intense brilliance often reveals what might otherwise remain unseen as brightest sun casts the deepest shadow. Summer welcomes abundance: flowers bloom, fruits ripen, and life flourishes. At the same time, we inhabit a world where forests burn and oceans grow warmer each year.

The dissonance between beauty and catastrophe is palpable. Still, we continue to dream, create, and make meaning from contradiction.

Art can be a gesture of hope, a form of witness, an act of critique, or a way of processing what is difficult to name. In the space between radiance and shadow, beauty and unease this exhibition invites reflection on what emerges when opposites coexist.

06/25/2026

Tonight!!! Opening at 6pm for Melissa A. Day and Ryan Herberholz to host an artist talk supporting their exhibit "Transient Narratives," - not to be missed!

TRANSIENT NARRATIVES

Transience describes both the activity of human beings and physical processes. On long enough timescales a building, a city, a single life, or the existence of a species on a planet in a solar system could be considered features of a transient universe. These works attempt to narrate the ineffable. While two differing approaches to landscape are evident in this exhibition they both explore the ways in which human beings interact with their environment and each other. These paintings contain evidence of activity and remnants of communication that divulge the fact that the only constant we can count on is change.

The Gallery at Ideation Orange
420 W 9 Mile Rd, Hazel Park
Galleryatio.com

06/24/2026

Tomorrow night!! Doors at 6pm, don't miss Melissa A. Day and Ryan Herberholz talk about their work featured in "Transient Narratives,"

There are so many details and stories associated with their work, not to be missed!

TRANSIENT NARRATIVES

Transience describes both the activity of human beings and physical processes. On long enough timescales a building, a city, a single life, or the existence of a species on a planet in a solar system could be considered features of a transient universe. These works attempt to narrate the ineffable. While two differing approaches to landscape are evident in this exhibition they both explore the ways in which human beings interact with their environment and each other. These paintings contain evidence of activity and remnants of communication that divulge the fact that the only constant we can count on is change.

The Gallery at Ideation Orange
420 W. 9 Mile Rd
Hazel Park, MI
Galleryatio.com

06/16/2026

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