Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Contemporary realism" in English language version.
The show's concentration of Cass artists is one of its great strengths. Jim Chatelain, Brenda Goodman, Michael C. Luchs, Gordon Newton and Robert Sestok are some of the associated names. But just as you're ready to slot them stylistically — Expressionist painting, industrial assemblage — along comes a group member like John Egner, with cool linear abstraction, or Ann Mikolowski, with a crisp, super-realist drawing of a handgun.
The Detroit artists did it in a totally new way because they came out of abstraction...they didn't come out of it like Picasso, through Impressionism.