Artist Topher Crowder's works will be displayed at the Northville Art House Jan. 6-28. The show is called "Etch, Sketch and Stilettos: The Work of Topher Crowder."
Crowder has worked fixing computers, merchandising beer, designing Christmas ornaments in a plastics factory and packing boxes in an audio/video supply warehouse. He admits he always was interested in creating art. His works are inspired by animated Saturday morning cartoons, vintage postcards and comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. He has an MFA at Wayne State University and is now an adjunct professor at Schoolcraft College.
The show will include Crowder's:
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- Shoe paintings
- Day-Glow plexiglass creations
- Sculptural "studio weavings"
- Reverse vandalism signs
The opening reception is 6-9 p.m. Jan. 6, and at 8 p.m. Crowder will speak.
The show can be viewed during gallery hours, which are 1-5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and 1-9 p.m. Jan. 6, part of First Fridays.
