July 11, 2025

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New Cranbrook Art Museum show uses basketballs, nets as medium

When it comes to utilizing discovered elements for his artwork, Tyrrell Winston does not just think outside the box. He thinks outdoors the web. Or the rim. 

For awhile, Winston, who was dependent in New York but moved to Detroit with his spouse and little one daughter in March this 12 months, developed art out of previous cigarette butts. He’d scour the ground outdoors bars, seeking for kinds with lipstick marks on them. 

“Men and women would be like, ‘If you really want a cigarette, you can have one,'” said Winston.

But now, Winston, an avid basketball fan because he was a kid, has made a name for himself using sports supplies — preferably applied, deflated basketballs that he is located and old basketball nets (he replaces them with new kinds) to create sculptures that elevate inquiries about community, fame, heroes and what society values.