Jef Bourgeau, *First Snow*, 2023, archival pigment print on coldpress watercolour paper

In the sunshine or the moonlight, overlapping the last burnt-orange bursts of autumn or accentuating the colours all around it, fresh snow envelopes us in a muffled cocoon of joyful, wondrous, irresistible beauty.

The striking 2023 archival pigment prints by Jef Bourgeau - a native of Detroit, curator, artist, and founding Director of Detroit’s contemporary Museum of New Art - capture the joy, colours, and stillness of these moments.

Jef Bourgeau, *James River Trail (Blue Ridge)*, 2023, archival pigment print on coldpress watercolour paper

Working in various mediums, Bourgeau is widely exhibited in the US, Europe, and Asia. He founded the Museum of New Art (better known as MONA and not to be confused with the MONA - Museum of Old and New Art - in Tasmania, Australia) in 1996 as a popup museum with locations that varied from a walk-in closet of a commercial gallery (reportedly rented for $1 per year), to a satellite facility in Detroit's Russel Industrial Complex. Now MONA is a non-profit contemporary art museum with three locations in Metro Detroit. Its goal is “to fulfill the region's need for a lively and intimate space to experience contemporary art”, underscoring the importance of the free flow of ideas and works by living artists.

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