Detroit-based architect and artist, Catie Newell, and newly arrived UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, will discuss the themes of the exhibition, including Newell’s impulse to create new architectural space out of the unseen and her interest in the sensory qualities (light, darkness, texture, density, malleability) of our built environments.

Catie Newell, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Her Overnight exhibition will run at UMMA in the Irving Stenn, Jr., Family Gallery from June 11 to November 6.

Jennifer Friess is UMMA’s Assistant Curator of Photography. She is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has broad knowledge of the history of photography and art-making practices. She previously worked at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and most recently at the Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas.

Lead support for the exhibition Catie Newell: Overnight is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning