PONTIAC, MI.- The Museum of New Art will present It Can Happen Here: New Detroit Art, on view January 27 to February 23, 2007. The exhibition will feature Casey Conlon, Kyle Irving, John Miller, Chandana Reddy, Mikhail Steinberg, Adam Trunoske, and Nathaniel Whitcomb.

With this exhibit, the Museum of New Art hopes to question what and where art can occur. Whether what is allowed globally can occur locally. A questioning of art itself, as it becomes more and more about centralized markets, about placement, about the external, and becomes less about history, the sense of place and creation, of the internal that once incited its creation.

Today's art has become a movement away from the personal toward the collective artist, moving from a single identity and a singular purpose toward a multiplicity that advances only greater exposure and careerism.

Twenty years ago, art students graduated to rebel against everything they were once taught. Today, students are taught the art of rebellion as a matter of course. The avant-garde has been institutionalized.

This small band of Detroit artists proves that exciting new art can happen anywhere. And, in today’s cultural spin, that is as avant-garde as it gets. - Jane Speaks, from Art Can't Happen Here.