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Object Orange (formerly Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. [1]) is an artistic project in Detroit, Michigan which seeks to draw attention to dilapidated buildings by painting them orange. [2] The project is composed of local artists, who go by their first names only (Christian, Jacques, Greg, Mike [3] and Andy [4]) for fear of prosecution.
Dec 7, 2006 · Facebook. Flipboard. Email. A group of artists in Detroit have been painting dilapidated houses a bright shade of orange. The project, called "Object Orange," is an attempt to draw...
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West Hancock St., Detroit, MI, #1, 2005 Object Orange, American, active since 2005; Pigment ink jet print on paper. Image: 10 1/8 × 13 1/2 inches (25.7 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 inches (27 × 35.6 cm) Museum Purchase, with funds from Martin Bernstein and Ross Hanley. 2006.130
Object Orange. Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland. Detroit, Michigan. 2009 to present. When a collective of Detroit artists calling itself Object Orange started painting some of the city’s 7,000 abandoned and dilapidated buildings bright orange, they meant to bring beauty to decay.
Dec 11, 2006 · Detroit’s Object Orange goes national. Thanks to PSFK and their article on Detroit’s Object Orange for the above video. We initially went with this feature because of a nice NPR feature from WDET, Detroit Artists Paint Town Orange to Force Change.
Object Orange signals the story of urban decline that is told not only through shuttered factories, shops, and civic architecture, but also through the thousands of ordinary vacant homes that are mostly modest wooden structures.
Oct 25, 2006 · GOOD Magazine Presents: Object Orange - YouTube. 136K subscribers. Subscribed. 88. 29K views 17 years ago. http://good.is/ In our first issue we profiled a group of artists in Detroit who...
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