Against the mainstream: ‘How to Blur a Line’ celebrates arty otherness at Russell Industrial

The intent of an exciting new show at the Russell Industrial Center’s Motor City Movie House, How to Blur A Line, is to get rid of previous ideas you may have held about what it means to exist in a world of opposites. We have always been told that there is two of everything, and that one cannot exist without the other, and know that the “other” is often misrepresented or forgotten.

But what if we lived in a world where everyone and everything was truly equal; a physical balance, if you will. What if we chose to accept what we dislike as completely necessary, and not a burden? What and who would we then have left to blame for our mistakes, differences, and fears? Now you can come to a place that will blend performance, photography, sculpture, painting, and illustration into one idea that will hopefully begin to set us free from the mind-prison that is “mainstream” and forced opposites. Well, heck yes to that, we say.

Artists in the show include KT Andresky, Leslie Blackburn, Marianne Audrey Burrows, Amanda Faye Cain, Alana Carlson, Joni Dalia, Cheryl Faligowski, Jay Harnish, Bill Macleod, Tim Pewe, Tom Pyrzewski, Dave Sanders, Marjorie SauerIan Swanson and Colleen Walters. The opening is Saturday Feb. 6, 7 p.m. – midnight at the Motor City Movie House — Building 1, Floor 5 (look for yellow elevator door) — at the Russell Industrial Center, 1604 Clay, Detroit. Warning: the show contains nudity and is not for kiddies.