“Super Bloom” (Sep 7 – Oct 5, 2024) is an immersive gallery experience and exhibition by Detroit-based artist Quinn Faylor, featuring meticulously crafted 3D sculptures and paintings rooted in vibrant abstraction and imaginative worldbuilding.
Presented during Detroit Month of Design 2024, the exhibition transformed the gallery into a space of exuberant color, movement, and emotional resonance.
Through a combination of CNC fabrication, lap joinery, and painterly construction, Faylor’s works offered an exploration of identity as something assembled, layered, and continually evolving. The vivid colors and organic geometries invited viewers into an exuberant, almost otherworldly environment — a physical manifestation of growth, connection, and becoming.
Each sculpture acted as a meditation on the embodiment of queerness — not as a fixed identity, but as an ongoing state of motion and relation. Faylor’s use of lap joinery carried deep symbolic weight, suggesting the structural interdependence and trust that sustain both materials and human relationships. In these forms, queerness was understood as both personal narrative and collective architecture.
My work is about connection — the physical and emotional structures that hold us together and allow us to grow.” — Quinn Faylor
“Super Bloom” celebrated the extraordinary potential found within relationships — between people, between forms, and between self and environment. The exhibition stood as an ode to transformation and resilience, proposing that the act of flourishing is not solitary, but shared.
About the Artist
Quinn Faylor is a queer, non-binary multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Originally from Petoskey, MI, they hold a Bachelor of Arts and Ideas in the Humanities from the University of Michigan (2016).
Their public artworks include murals across Michigan, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Faylor has participated in multiple artist residencies, including City Walls (Detroit, MI), Glen Arbor Arts Center (Glen Arbor, MI), and Salt Spring Arts Council (Salt Spring Island, BC). They were a 2024 recipient of the Emerging Artist Fellowship from PLAYGROUND DETROIT.
