March 6–27, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 at 5–9 pm
Closing Reception with live music: Friday, March 27 at 5–9 pm
Color | Ink Studio & Gallery is pleased to present “FEEDER,” a group exhibition of work by a trio of Detroit artists: Stacey MacLeod, Megan DeShields, and Sarah Cavalieri. It opens Friday, March 6 and runs through March 27.
Inspired by a shared affinity for the natural world, imagined realms and exploration of art making as spiritual ritual, the artists fed each other prompts, encouragement and camaraderie throughout the year working on this exhibition. “Feeding the compulsion to create nurtures us in heavy and light times, makes us whole people, and we hope these works inspire viewers to not ignore that hunger within themselves.”
The public is invited to attend the Opening Reception on Friday evening, March 6 from 5–9 pm. It’s free, and guests will have the opportunity to meet the artists and discuss their work in person. Light refreshments will be available. There is free parking in the adjacent lot and on the side streets. There also will be a closing reception with live music on Friday evening, March 27 from 5–9 pm.
About the Artists
Stacey MacLeod is a Detroit, multidisciplinary artist who creates graphic, molten images—drawn with ink or painted with acrylic and/or over-laid with watercolor or spray paint. They often depict images of women (Virgin Mary, Isis, Venus) and feminine symbols (angels, flowers, birds)—using thick, graphic lines. Their motif varies in geometric landscapes and warped architectural drawings. Stacey is inspired by human flaw and the dichotomy between temporary physical forms and eternal spirit. In addition to visual art, she is the lead singer and guitarist for punk duo, Dear Darkness, and plays theremin in her performance art project, Electric Love.
“I do art because the impulse makes me feel whole,” she explains. “My work is a meditation on the energies of ‘being’—being whole, being flawed, being woman, and being powerful.”
Megan DeShields also is a Detroit-based visual artist, with an MFA in Sculpture from Wayne State University. She is an art educator with a decade of experience in the arts nonprofit sector. Megan uses clay, mold making, and a variety of casting processes to explore themes of grief and absence.
“Investigating the absence of form, I consider how the objects I create act as containers for grief: psychological reliquaries,” she explains. “When we experience loss, we are hollowed out and hardened, yet forced to acknowledge our fragile states of existence. By holding space to grieve, we begin to foster a new relationship with ‘absence’, one that transforms and heals, both the individual and collective psyche.”
Megan was selected as one of the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award recipients. In 2021, she was awarded the Thomas C. Rumble Graduate fellowship, WSU, where she was a graduate teaching assistant in sculpture. She is the Visual Art Curator for The Michigan Glass Project, a Detroit nonprofit which helps fund art class curriculum in Detroit Public Schools. Her work has been included in exhibitions at 333 Midland, Galerie Camille, Hatch Gallery, Marshall Fredericks Museum, Scarab Club, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the Heinz 57 Center, Pittsburg, PA, and other galleries.
Sarah Cavalieri is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Her current artistic pursuits include drawing, painting, and block-printing. Forever seeking the next phase of her artistic evolution, she is most excited when introducing different mediums or textures or colors to her practice and exploring the worlds that are opened through imaginative experimentation and the compulsive desire to create and connect to intense feelings that are otherwise buried in introversion.
“My art-making practice is like putting on waders to trudge through psychological goo, stirring up unnameable feelings, so that I may pull them out of the murk and give them physical form,” says Sarah. “My technique approaching these pieces is an exercise in acceptance and adaptability. I rarely start the works with a plan for the finished product, rather, the path forward is revealed as I layer textures in joint compound and sand through. Mistakes are made; ideas are morphed.”
Once the exhibition opens, you’ll be able to start your visit to the Gallery here by exploring a virtual tour of the exhibition. If you would prefer to view it in person, the Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 pm, and at other times by appointment. To schedule a visit either click here to make an appointment, send an email to Gallery@ColorInkStudio.com, or telephone us at 248-398-6119. The original fine art on view in the exhibition will be available for purchase in the Gallery or securely online.