Mitch Cope
Detroit, MI
Mitch Cope was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1973. Mitch works as an artist and independent curator. He earned his BFA in Painting from the College for Creative Studies and an MFA in Painting from Washington State University. He was the co-curator for the Detroit section of the Shrinking Cities Project, Berlin, and formerly the acting curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
From the Journal
- The Detritus of Detroit: Both Maddening and Inspiring March 21, 2016
Organizational Strategies for the After Life
Gina Reichert is an architect and visual artists based in Detroit, Michigan.
Artist BioMitch Cope works as an artist and independent curator in Detroit, Michigan.
Artist BioOrganizational Strategies for the After Life is a collaborative project by Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope, the husband and wife team formerly known as Design 99. Reichert and Cope have been working in their Detroit neighborhood for six years, collecting a warehouse full of objects left behind by former neighbors and their predecessors. With the assistance of several spirit beings, such as Mischievous Cleaners, Kitchen Dwellers and The Vacationers, the artists have processed and transformed the found objects into a series of sculptures, videos, drawings and paintings.
From the Journal
The materials that Design 99 use in their artworks might scare you a little. The Detroit-based collaborative, made up of artists Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, often source abandoned houses in their city for raw material. For their Creative Capital project, Garbage Totem 2, for instance, will include old tires, used mattresses and couches abandoned in their neighborhood to create sculptures and installations. Last year Mitch attended our Creative Capital retreat and explained his process and discoveries.
Gina Reichert
Detroit, MI
Gina Reichert was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1974. Gina holds a Master of Architecture degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.Arch from Tulane University and has worked for housing organizations and architecture firms in Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York and Detroit.
From the Journal
- The Detritus of Detroit: Both Maddening and Inspiring March 21, 2016