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🖤 Thank you, Detroit! 2025 was filled with inspir 🖤 Thank you, Detroit!

2025 was filled with inspiring artists, immersive exhibitions, community conversations, national art fairs, amazing collaborations, and powerful art! It also marks 8+ years since the gallery opening in November 2017.

As 2025 comes to a close, one thing feels especially clear: Detroit’s artistic community is stronger, more visible, and increasingly integrated into the contemporary art market.

Throughout the year, PLAYGROUND DETROIT produced more than 20 initiatives — including exhibitions, national art fairs, an artist residency, community conversations, and gatherings focused on exchange, networking, and well-being. 

Thank you to all our artists, collectors, collaborators and partners! Cheers to another year ahead! 
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If you’re interested in exclusive collector-only e If you’re interested in exclusive collector-only events, drop “Collector Viewing,” in the comments! 

“SPACES & TIMES,” a series of paintings by Nic Notion (@nicnotion) is an exclusive Online Exhibition X Artsy, (@artsy) on view through January 2026 by appointment-only.

To visit the gallery, schedule a viewing appointment to view artwork in-person. 🔗 in bio. 

“SPACES & TIMES,” marks an evolution in his practice. Using hand tie dyed raw canvas as both surface and conceptual foundation, the works reflect on time, space, gratitude, and love, capturing moments where nature and architecture exist in quiet collision and layered histories emerge.
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Collector Viewing: “SPACES & TIMES,” a series of p Collector Viewing: “SPACES & TIMES,” a series of paintings by Nic Notion (@nicnotion) is an exclusive Online Exhibition X Artsy, (@artsy) on view through January 2026 by appointment-only.

If you are interested in visiting the gallery to view artwork, please schedule a viewing appointment.

Notion presents “SPACES & TIMES,” a series that marks an evolution in his practice. Using hand tie dyed raw canvas as both surface and conceptual foundation, the works reflect on time, space, gratitude, and love, capturing moments where nature and architecture exist in quiet collision and layered histories emerge.
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Nic Notion is an American multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Highland Park, Michigan. Active in Detroit’s music and art scenes for over two decades, his work explores architecture, nature, spirituality, and community through material experimentation and layered abstraction.
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In his exclusive Artsy exhibition, Nic Notion expl In his exclusive Artsy exhibition, Nic Notion explores process through raw, unprimed canvas. His series of paintings presented in “SPACES & TIMES,” was created with folded and bound, then tie-dyed before becoming the foundation for his paintings.

“I explore the relationship between the built environment and natural forces such as air, fire, and water. My work reflects an ongoing dialogue between human ambition and nature’s resilience. 

After my first daughter was born, I began preparing my own raw canvas through tie-dye techniques, folding and rolling the fabric before dyeing and stretching it. This process introduces unpredictability and time into the work before paint is ever applied.” -Nic Notion (@nicnotion). 

Online exhibition is now live, exclusively on @artsy. 

🔗 in bio to browse artwork and Viewing Room.

Artwork: “Fire on Hamilton,” Acrylic & Water Color on Canvas, 48 × 48 inches, 2020.

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