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Susan
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April 6 - 30, 1995
Meet the Artist
April 8, 4 - 7 PM
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Xochipilli Gallery
568 N. WOODWARD AVE.
BIRMINGHAM
(810) 645-1905
Xochipilli Gallery is featuring
work by Detroit sculptor, Susan
Aaron-Taylor from April 6-29,
1995. Xochipilli Gallery will host a
reception fro the artist from 4:00
to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, April 8. The
public is welocme to attend. Us-
ing modeling compound and
blending materials such as gem-
stones, wire and driftwood, the
artist translates intuition into some-
thing tangible. This exhibit features
her lates series, "Deities." Gallery
hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues-
day through Satruday. (810) 645-
1905.
Samuel Bak
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Born in 1933 in Vilna, Poland,
Samuel Bak at age 6 witnessed
the Nazi devastation of his com-
munity, family and childhood.
With prodigious artistic talent,
he was able to capture the per-
ceptions which existed in the
mind of a child forced into the
adult world of death and de-
struction. At the age of 9, when
his ink drawings and watercol-
ors were exhibited in a juried ex-
hibition mounted within the
degraded confines of the Vilna
Ghetto, even then, people took no-
tice.
Mr. Bak's childhood experience
in war-ravaged Europe was fol-
lowed by liberation which
brought him to a displaced per-
sons' camp and later on a clan-
destine journey to Israel at the
time of the birth of the State. Dur-
ing this painful time, Mr. Bak de-
veloped his acute awareness and
inner images to paint dreamlike
characters, still life and land-
scapes.
An exhibition of these power-
ful images is on view at Spertus
Museum, 618 South Michigan
Avenue, Chicago. Mr. Bak has
included various aspects of mas-
ter artists to create his person-
al visual style. He has integrated
a formal and a personal iconog-
raphy into a universal language
of color, form, symbol and sub-
ject. Painting in a language of
metaphors and ironies, complex
and often disturbing feelings
emerge from the unlikely shapes,
telling his tale of confusion, cat-
astrophe and survival, and ulti-
mately, acceptance.
Mr. Bak's painted world is a
cacophony of impossibilities, va-
cant silences, keys that unlock
no doors, Sabbath candles with-
out homes, and gerry-built birds
unable to fly. Many display the
paralyzing frustration that per-
vades when the conscious mind
recognizes that a dream is a bit
confused, yet unable to right it-
self.