SaveArtSpace x ComposingDetroit is proud to present In|Divisible, a public art exhibition on ad space in Detroit, MI opening April 3, 2026, curated by ComposingDetroit.

The In|Divisible selected artists are M Rozzi, Miles Marie, Jaclyn Iskow and Teilo Wessells, Evan Hutchings, Mara Magyarosi-Laytner, Megan Christiansen, Monica Shulman, Christian Alexander Gerard, Erin McConnell, Tryst Red, and Thermo Flame.

The vertical bar in In|Divisible acts as both a connector and divider as it represents the tension between separation and wholeness, marking the space where that difference exists while also highlighting what binds us together. The vertical bar splits the word visually, yet, it remains whole, re-enforcing the idea that even in division, unity persists. It acts as a visual pause that allows the viewer to consider boundaries, relationships, and ultimately connection.

In|Divisible is an ad-space-based exhibition that utilizes photography as its primary medium, paired with subtle graphic and textual interventions. The works are designed to be read individually yet understood collectively, mirroring how division and unity operate simultaneously; often appearing separate but functioning within shared systems. By distributing the work across multiple public sites, the project reflects its concept further by creating a shared system that showcases unity and division operating as a whole. 

Opening March 30, 2026 SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for the selected artwork on digital billboard ad space in Detroit, MI. The public art will be on view for one week.

Selected Artists

Mary Rozzi is an Italian-American photographer, director, and founder of The September Issues, whose practice spans more than three decades across New York, Paris, London and Los Angeles. Her work moves fluidly between fashion, portraiture, and fine art, examining how women and the body are adorned, revealed, and represented. At the core of her practice is a conviction: photography is not simply image-making but cultural intervention—an act of intimacy, authorship, and transformation.

A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Rozzi was mentored by Satoshi Saïkusa, David LaChapelle, and Michel Comte. She has photographed cultural figures including Angelina Jolie, Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong’o, Jodie Foster, and Jamie Lee Curtis, and created campaigns for Dior, Saint Laurent, La Perla, Ferragamo, and Louis Vuitton. Her editorial work has appeared in Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, Purple, Numéro, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Guardian, The New York Times, and AnOther Magazine.

In 2017, Rozzi founded The September Issues, a biannual publication and platform amplifying women, non-binary, and underrepresented artists. Featuring contributions from groundbreaking creators including Zanele Muholi, Carlijn Jacobs, and Nadine Ijewere, the project challenged dominant beauty standards and built a global community of progressive voices in fashion and art.

Her first solo exhibition in nearly 15 years, Fearless (Remèdes Galerie, Paris, 2021), crystallized decades of inquiry into resilience, beauty, and authorship. She is currently preparing ROZZI SEEN & UNSEEN (working title) 1986–2026, a four-decade monograph tracing her evolution from early darkroom experiments in Cincinnati to international exhibitions and cultural platforms. Her most recent body of work, Out of Bounds – Portraits of Resistance & Resilience, centers incarcerated women at Central California Women’s Facility and reframes portraiture as healing and reclamation.

Rozzi is a recipient of the Quiet Fellowship, where she also serves as a “Pollinator,” mentoring emerging artists and reinforcing her commitment to community and collaboration. Fluent in English, French, and Italian, and descended from six generations of pyrotechnic artists, she brings a heritage of spectacle, precision, and transformation to her visual storytelling.

This is 1 piece from a larger series entitled Purge in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Mahya Shamai.

Connect with Mary at @maryrozzi.

Miles Marie

Red film title: Sunset Silhouette

Black and white title: Odd Eyed at Twilight

35mm, odd eyed at twilight is a silver gelatin scan

Miles Marie, also known as Nomadic Madam, is a Detroit based photographer whose practice explores the fluidity of identity, femininity, and place through a girl’s gaze that resists fixed definitions and embraces the femme side of the gender spectrum as both method and metaphor. Her earlier work examined the tension between social expectation and fantasy, weaving cultural fragments and beauty standards into visual narratives that challenge traditional modes of representation. Her current work expands on these themes through analog photographic processes, using film as a way to foster material presence and raw honesty through tactile analogue photographs in response to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Her work has been featured in PH Australia and The Detroit Metro Times, among other publications. Most recently, her work was exhibited in Composing Detroit’s Tenfold Exhibition at Playground Detroit. She lives and works in Detroit, where she co owns the artist-run gallery The Voyeur Bordello.

Connect with Miles at @nomadic_madam.

Viscera is a collaborative series of abstract photographs by Jaclyn Iskow and Teilo Wessells that challenges contemporary representations of intimacy and embodiment. The images reflect sensations that occur within the human body—experiences that are constantly felt yet rarely seen. Through striking color and organic forms, the work evokes the intensity and movement of visceral sensation, translating interior experience into an abstract visual language.

Iskow and Wessells first met while studying at the College for Creative Studies, where both artists received the Imre J. Molnar Artistic Achievement Award in recognition of their respective senior thesis projects. Following graduation, the pair continued their dialogue in a shared studio at the Russell Industrial Center, where Viscera was developed over the course of nine months. Through an intuitive and collaborative process—often accompanied by shared music and late nights over wine—the artists cultivated a visual language rooted in experimentation, trust, and mutual discovery.

Connect with Jaclyn & Teilo at @jaclyniskow & @teilo.w.

Evan Hutchings is a Detroit based photographer working primarily with 35mm film. He is currently working on a project featuring in camera double exposures where his work merges flowers, buildings, and street scenes into layered portraits of Detroit. 

Connect with Evan at @evan_hutchings.

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is an artist who pairs multiple experimental lens based methods to explore identity through a symbolic and poetic viewpoint. A graduate of both College for Creative Studies and Savannah College of Art and Design, she is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area. The artist and her work have been featured internationally, including in exhibitions and festivals in the United States, Canada, Italy, France, and Hungary.

Artist Statement:

Your mind is restless, they say you’re getting better
But, you don’t feel any better
Your speakers are blowing, your ears are wrecking
Your hearing damage, you wish you felt better
You wish you felt better

Hearing Damage, Thom Yorke

The Subtle Body of Living Things is a visual response to the life experience of always being close enough to encounter peace, but never truly being able to experience it. Processing the loss of my memory, my moments, and most of all, the version of myself that I envisioned, has created an additional layer of anxiety that I previously never anticipated.

After a diagnosis of a recurrent syncope with zero solution or direction, my life was immediately reduced to a series of cautious and unsettling episodes. Induced by the very joy I have always chased, laughter has become a ticking bomb that causes the rhythm of my mind to disjoint. I often awake on the floor with little to no reference for how I arrived there, and if I am lucky, some of my memory of the incident will eventually emerge in fragments. Time, something I have always considered as constant, has taken an edge of impermanence.

The Subtle Body of Living Things is my most interdisciplinary work to date, utilizing time as the medium, which is then threaded through multiple lens based methods and experimental processes. Created using short films as the base, each piece takes footage of a peaceful location and utilizes crystal prisms to disorient and separate from the original tranquility present. After, the work further deconstructs time by utilizing a different combination of moving film with multiple photography techniques, including moving installations with Polaroid lifts, digital collage methods with hand coated printing techniques, and alcohol-based photo transfer accordion books. Drawing inspiration from Uta Barth’s White Blind (Bright Red) and Penelope Umbrico’s Range, images are pulled out of sequence, altered, then reconstructed – irrevocably different from their first experience. The installed work, resulting from a space of both desperation and play, creates an immersive experience that reimagines peace from behind the glass.

Connect with Mara at @maramagyarosi.

Megan Christiansen

Kick Back, 2023 + America (Diptych), 2023

Born in 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand, Megan Christiansen is a visual artist and educator working in photography, experimental video, installation, and performance. She utilizes this interdisciplinary practice to explore the performance of gender, race, and sexuality, and how these performances are imaged. 

She received her MFA in photography with a certificate in collegiate teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 and her BFA in Spatial Design from the Auckland Institute of Technology in 2013. She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the DNA Gallery Summer residency, and the Teaching Artist Project. Her works are held in the RISD Museum and private collections in the United States of America, Great Britain, Europe, and New Zealand. She has taught at Wittenberg University, Rhode Island School of Design, and incarcerated students at Wilmington College. She currently teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Connect with Megan at @megschristiansen.

Monica Shulman is a New York–based artist living and working in the Hudson Valley. While she is widely recognized for her gestural abstract paintings, photography sits at the root of her visual language.

Working primarily in black and white, Shulman’s photographs reflect the same diaristic sensibility, sensitivity to rhythm, and intuitive observation that inform her broader practice. Her images often feel quiet and atmospheric, capturing fleeting moments that reveal the subtle poetry of everyday life.

Photography remains a foundational part of her practice and is an ongoing way of looking and collecting that continues to shape the language of her work across mediums.

Artist Statement:

Photography has long been a foundational part of my practice and the way I move through the world. The camera allows me to collect fragments of time, moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed, and to reflect on the quiet poetry embedded in everyday landscapes.

This photograph was taken along a limestone cliff in Greece where the sea meets the stone with relentless force. At first glance the image can read as abstract, but with closer attention the details emerge: the hard white surface of the cliff, the rippling movement of the water, and the subtle traces of erosion where the sea has shaped the rock over time.

What draws me to this moment is the quiet dialogue between permanence and change. For centuries, the water has been striking this cliff, slowly transforming its surface. The photograph captures a single instant within that ongoing process. It is a brief intersection between movement and stillness.

In many ways the image reflects my broader interest in memory, time, and observation. I am drawn to places where natural forces leave visible traces, where small details like lines, shadows, textures, tell larger stories about how landscapes, and perhaps we ourselves, are continually shaped by the passage of time.

Presented at a monumental scale in a public space, the image invites viewers to slow down and look closely, revealing the subtle details and quiet forces that shape both landscapes and memory over time.

Connect with Monica at @monicashulman.

Christian Gerard is a self/community taught artist living in Detroit, who is drawn to the ever repeating collaborations between time & the elements. Often documenting the background of the everyday & exploring the complex beauty found within its fabric. In doing so, he hopes to get people to think & feel more deeply about the world around them, & encourage them to reconsider the shared reality we all inhabit.

Connect with Christian at @chrisagerard.

I am a digital and film photographer who resides in Detroit, MI. While I specialize in portraiture, I also find purpose in documenting the city that I love. This image was shot as part of my ongoing partnership with The Detroit People Mover, where I frequent the tram and photograph each of its 13 stations around the city. As a 90s kid who grew up in the suburbs, I didn't discover the vibrant art community of Detroit until my adulthood. And now it's a place I champion as often as I can, documenting the hidden beauty of what some might say is "just another city".

Connect with Erin at @erinimages.

Connect with Tryst Red at @tryst.red.

Born and raised in the Cass Corridor of Detroit, art was everywhere and everything! From the architecture, murals, and sculptures; there was always a reinforcement of art in Detroit! My love for photography started with hiphop, sports, and lifestyle magazines. Not realizing I was studying this whole time! Never took classes or any training, just passion driven! To me photography is about telling a story with an image! Saving a memory for later or forever. I am just honored to be able to share my perspective and art with the world!

Model: GoddessPeace

Connect with Thermo Flame at @fotosbyflame.

Curator

ComposingDetroit is a non-profit (501c) organization whose goal is to promote artistic expression and community collaboration within the city of Detroit. By creating meaningful opportunities for local artists to display their work, providing educational workshops and resources, we aim to inspire artistic and cultural growth across all disciplines for the creative voices that call our city home.

Connect with ComposingDetroit at @composingdetroit.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.