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As a constantly moving source of ideas, Diane Spodarek left a vacuum
in the suprisingly vital Detroit art community when she left for N.Y.C.
in the early nineteen eighties. She projected her persona as dissatisfied
suburban house wife turned hardened rock star in musical performances with
her band, the Cadilac Kids, at venues as varied as the Detroit Institute
of Arts, Clutch Cargo's, this a few years before Mike Kelly and Destroy
All Monsters. Diane and husband Randy Delbeke also fouind time
to chronicle the Motown art scene by publishing the Detroit Artists Monthly
magazine. Along side of reviews and articles, they frequently ran
interviews (with the aid of John Hallmark Neff who was curator there
of Twentieth Century Art) with name artists who were visiting the
D. I. A. .
Diane's art was edgy and controversial.
This phone event captures many of the elements of her work: the longing
for contact with a larger world, the restrictions of domesticity, the bleak
Detroit physical environment. The background sound of water throughout
adds suggestions of ablution or, maybe, chores.
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