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Public Pool is pleased to host Abigail Loughrey’s solo exhibition “This Water is Headed to Niagara Falls: Things I’ve Learned in Michigan”. The reception is on November 4th, from 6-10pm. The gallery will also be open Saturday, October 28th and November 11th from 1-6pm.

Abigail Loughrey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ferndale, Michigan. Loughrey earned a B.A. in Studio Art from Stanford University and continues learning through the Art Students League of New York. She was a 2023 Ox-Bow resident and is a high school art teacher in Detroit Public Schools. Loughrey uses various media, including performance, sculpture, video, photography, and drawing. Her work explores the complications, threats, and absurdities of the human experience.

This Water is Headed to Niagara Falls: Things I’ve Learned in Michigan is a series by Abigail Loughrey that uses text, photography, and video. During her first year in Michigan, Loughrey recorded mundane bits of information that she learned and was surprised she didn’t already know. Loughrey printed the information on yard signs and then took photographs and videos of the signs posted in public.

The work asks several questions. How do we know what we know? Why did we learn it when we did? Which information will we never encounter?

Public Pool is located at 3309 Caniff Street, Hamtramck, MI 48212