This Saturday night the Detroit contemporary home store, Mezzanine, is hosting an exhibition featuring the artwork of Todd Patrick. It’s a benefit for Art Road, a non-profit organization that works to bring art classes into Detroit elementary schools that currently have no art education whatsoever.

Todd is a local Detroit artist and architect who paints in intense colors on glass. He back-paints the glass and builds up his paintings in layers in reverse, a very complicated process that yields work that looks very polished - it’s almost luminescent - but very complex. The work features organic shapes that range from abstract to vaguely representational; it is boldly graphic but sophisticated.

The show runs from 6 - 10 PM. For directions and more information, call Mezzanine at 313 442 9000. I’ll see you there.