1 FINE ARTS I *ffi0**ffi0***0**ffif***S.***ffi***00* 0 Want to dance the night away, 0 have a few good laughs, great food, 0 and support a worthwhile cause? ffi proudly presents Join in the Laughter ffi celebrating our 5th Anniuers Metro St St 0 0 Patti Warashena's "Brush In A Cup" in new exhibit. Sybaris Gallery Hosts Ceramic Artists 0 atiOliktall Admission $75 per * 0 person :: Kadima provides Jewish support services for adults with mental illness; residential programs, job supported programs and outreach services. 4 tc irffi: 1* Top Dollar for Your Collectibles A major Detroit area bank asked us to assist them with an estate collection. The top offer they had received was just $7,500. We liquidated the collection in less than two weeks for over $30,000! Because we work on a consignment basis, the more dollars we can get for our clients the better we do ourselves. If you are interested in receiving top dollar for your collectibles, call for a free consultation today. IC Richard Charles Rare Coin Galleries Michigan's Only Fully-Accredited Coin Dealer 4000 Prudential Town Center Southfield, Michigan 48075 (313) 356-5252 INSTALLATION SPECIAL $100 OFF RICK WALD 166 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1991 With This Ad (Expires 9/13/91) 489.5862 The Sybaris Gallery will kick off its 1991 fall season with a show entitled "Cup As A Metaphor," which opens Sept. 7 and runs through Oct. 12. Twenty-four ceramic ar- tists will participate. This show is not about utilitarian cups; its focus is on cups of invention and adven- ture. Many new styles of art from nouveau to deco to modernism and postmoder- ism have emerged during this century. Modern artists ap- proach the cup as a primary format for expression. Two of the artists are Ron Nagle and Ken Price. Both have been working with the idea of the cup since the 1960s. Ron Nagle has concentrated on the concept of the cup as an open vessel that has both inner and outer form and car- ries reference to man, tradi- tion and ceremony. He creates the forms which are then slip- cast, painted and fired, often dozens of times, until the right color which, accom- panied by texture along with diminutive size, creates a sense of preciousness. In his latest work, the surfaces of the cups, in colors like lavender, pink, loud yellow, orange, institutional gray and dead black are thick and bumpy. There are no bottoms, to make it incontrovertibly clear that these cups do not function. Ken Price studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in 1953-54 and at the Universi- ty of Southern California where he received a B.F.A. in 1956. In 1957-58 he was one of the central participants in the experiment taking place at the Otis Institute under the leadership of Peter Voulkos. Seeking new ideas, Mr. Price went to the New State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y., where he received his M.F.A. in 1959. At this point, he broke from his earlier for- mat of the pot and began to develop a personal sculptural style, employing brightly painted and glazed surfaces. He began to deal with the cup in the 60s. Other artists in the show who work with the cup form are: Iry Tepper who perfected a special technique involving sanding; Marilyn Levine known for her stoneware that resembles leather or denim- like surfaces; David Furman whose cups are ornamented with real-looking pencil erasers and Louis Marak who creates sculptural and painterly pieces that give the illusion of moving in and out of space Marilyn Lysohir's "The Last Immigrant" cup is based on a large installation piece she created to memorialize her mother's mother who died in 1987 at age 99, the last surviving grandparent of four who emigrated from the Ukraine; Belinda Gabryl builds tiny pieces whose wild forms take the shape of a tor- nado evoking nightmarish thoughts of powerful destruc- tion and devastation. But scale can work in two ways; Sally Goodman quadrupled the normal scale of the cup for her 60"H stacked cup sculptures which look like they belong at a Mad Hatter's tea party; Beth Changstrom incorporates ordinary house- hold objects into her com- plicated three-dimensional ceramic wall hangings. The public is invited to the opening reception of "Cup As A Metaphor" on Sept. 7 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Sybaris Gallery is at 301 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak, Mich., 544-3388. N