The Art of the Cathartic Circle: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture , Installation, Photography & Film by Artists of The Catharctic Circle

Abstract

Excerpt from essay: "In 1985 a group of Detroit artists began a collaboration uniting their disciplines in the act of making performance art. They were an unlikely group; not all were painters, there were sculptors, photographers and filmmakers. Neither were they a single sex collective. There were also significant differences in age,ethnicity and religious affiliations. Some had full-tine jobs; others led a hand to mouth existence, barely surviving off the sale of their art. There were always discussions about whether they should make a living to make art or make art to make a living. On the surface it seemed unlikely that such a miscellaneous group would gel into The Catharctic Circle, the leading collaborative performance art entity in the region."