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“The Reagan Series sits with the atmosphere and co “The Reagan Series sits with the atmosphere and consequences of an era. It reflects how policy reshaped families, futures, and neighborhoods, not through overt explanation, but through presence, material, and memory. 

The series invites viewers to stand inside the emotional climate of the time without prescribing what they should feel or conclude.

In contrast, the Smurks Series examines how identity, power, and protection are performed in American culture.”

- Artist Tony Rave (@tonyrave) on The Reagan Series (War on Drugs). 

Both bodies of his work will be on view in his upcoming solo exhibition at PLAYGROUND DETROIT opening this Saturday on view during Black History Month. 

Tony Rave: Blue Lives Matter
Solo Exhibition 

OPENING RECEPTION 
Saturday, February 7th

ON VIEW
Though Saturday, March 7th

Viewing Hours Thursday – Saturday, 12-5PM

📸: Heather Araj @igobyaraj 

#TonyRave #BlueLivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth
THOT x Imbolc: January 31 - February 1, 2026 at Th THOT x Imbolc: January 31 - February 1, 2026 at The Boyer Campbell Building, Curated by Ashely Worden, Zoe Beaudry, and Marlo Broughton (@ashelyworden @zoebeaudry_art) 

The House of Tarot (@the.houseoftarot) is an ongoing series of immersive art installations with curation based in Detroit. Cumulatively, the installations will feature the work of 78 artists, each offering a unique representation of one of the 78 Tarot cards.​​​​
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Each iteration unfolds within a different space, but the architecture of the show remains constant: a house of symbols, where each room holds a portal into another world, another truth, another card.
 
In transitional times, Tarot has the power to bring intention to light. Visitors to the House of Tarot will receive a reading upon arrival and set off on a unique Fool’s Journey through the works, from room to room. It is an invitation for reflection, disorientation, and reorientation. 

2026 House of Tarot featured Brigid’s Journey, Gardening Seed Swap, Reading Room & Collective Collage, Imbolc Community Creation Session, Unbroken Circle, Imbolc with Immaculate, and On the Life-History of Spirillum.

#thotdetroit #imbolc2026
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with “Tony Rave: Blue Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with “Tony Rave: Blue Lives Matter,” opening this Saturday, Febuary 7 from 6-9PM. 

Rave’s work speaks to history not as something distant, but as something still living in bodies, neighborhoods, and memory. It honors the full complexity of Black experience—resilience, critique, humor, grief, survival, imagination, and truth-telling. 

Tony Rave is a Detroit-based multirevolutionary artist whose work confronts the intersections of race, power, memory, and American visual culture. 

Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Rave uses satire and familiar iconography to examine how systems of authority are normalized, marketed, and absorbed into everyday life.

ON VIEW 
February 7- March 7

OPENING RECEPTION 
Saturday, February 7 6-9PM

Artwork: “Pastel Smurfs,” see additional information on Artsy.

To request a Collector Preview, DM us or email info@playgrounddetroit.com.

#TonyRave #playgrounddetroit
ONE WEEK AWAY— Tony Rave: Blue Lives Matter Rave ONE WEEK AWAY— Tony Rave: Blue Lives Matter 

Rave’s work speaks to history not as something distant, but as something still living in bodies, neighborhoods, and memory. It honors the full complexity of Black experience—resilience, critique, humor, grief, survival, imagination, and truth-telling. 

Neither purely celebratory nor purely tragic, “Blue Lives Matter” is layered, evolving, and alive, opening space for interpretation, disagreement, reflection, and discovery. His work does not complete the viewer’s thought; it ignites it.

By drawing on familiar characters and visual language, his work questions how innocence and authority become intertwined, and how imagery influences belief, belonging, and control. The connection between the two series is emotional and human rather than literal—together tracing a line between policy and culture, language and imagery, public narrative and inner life.

Tony Rave (aka @eastsidewarhol) is a Detroit-based multirevolutionary artist whose work confronts the intersections of race, power, memory, and American visual culture.

ON VIEW 
February 7- March 7

OPENING RECEPTION 
Saturday, February 7 6-9PM

To request a Collector Preview, DM us or email info@playgrounddetroit.com.

📹 Heather Araj #igobyaraj

#TonyRave #playgrounddetroit
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