DETROIT, MICHIGAN.-Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) presents its second exhibition exploring regional artists and their artwork. DETROIT NOW, the first such exhibition was initiated in February of 2002. At that time, the museum sought to coordinate with regional galleries in showcasing the best and brightest of new, young talent working in the metropolitan area.

The idea was to create a museum that would work in a concerted effort with the galleries of the region: in order to create, in theory, an exhibition without walls.

The idea was also to create a sort of biennial out of it all, since the list of such young talent is always refreshing itself. That show was an enormous success in 2003.

Now, it is 2005 and the Museum of New Art is proud to announce it is continuing the success of that first endeavor with its second installment of DETROIT NOW.

The common denominator this time around is various notions of movement, real and imagined, implied and imposed, active and inactive, and, as an exhibit to create a meditation on all motion.

The MONA exhibition of 12 regional artists’ works, in all media - painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation, film/video, performance, photography, textiles, web-based and interactive art - will be on view from July 15 through August 13.

Including: Lisa Dillin, Chris Erchick, Anthony Frazzini, Marie Gardeski, Aaron Hillman, Matt Monroe, Cynthia Randolph, Matt Schlian, Jeffrey Schweitzer, Andrew Simsak, Amanda Thatcher, and Andrew Thompson.