A conversation between Melannie Chard, founder of M Contemporary Art, and Isabelle Weiss, founder of NEXT : SPACE Detroit, a design consultancy.

Listen to the gallery’s first episode of our new podcast “In the Gallery.” The inaugural episode is a conversation between Melannie Chard, founder and director of the gallery, and Meighen Jackson, a visual artist in her own right, wife of the late photographer Bill Jackson.

The paintings by Marcia Freedman and Ani Garabedian in Figuratively Dreamingpresent a current interpretation and exploration of a genre that is versed and familiar but still evolving. Abstract painting rose from a multi-century evolution that moved away from the realistic religion-based storytelling of the Italian Renaissance through the French Impressionists and on to schools of thought like Dada.