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Jewish artists made diverse contributions to the arena of
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early a year ago, Oak Park
artist Deanna Sperka was
in the midst of her multi-
media documentation of the
misery caused by terrorism when
the Beit Lid Islamic Jihad suicide
bombing left 21 Israelis dead. Un-
fortunately, in 1995, she has had
to add even more revisions to her
stark portrait.
During the past year, the work
of few other artists has resonated
with the powerful historical rele-
vance and moral force of Sperka's
work. "These people are not num-
bers," she said. "I feel an obliga-
tion to those families who've been
victimized by terrorism." Looking
back, her multimedia exhibit is
one of the many outstanding ef-
forts by Jewish artists in 1995.
Several exhibits and artists'
work created a lasting impression
this year. For sheer intrigue, the
Robert Schefman exhibit,

"Telling Tales," at the Janice
Charach Epstein Museum/
Gallery provided a compelling ad-
venture — from the ancient world
of allegory to the modern. Gallery
Director Sylvia Nelson observed:
"You don't see many realistic fig-
urative painters working with nar-
rative in such a powerful way."
The pressing desire to "tell a sto-
ry" for posterity inspired Hunt-
ington Woods' Morris Rosin to
reconstruct his father's gas station
of the early 1920s through his pen
and ink drawings. Today, Rosin,
80, continues to recreate the by-
gone days in hopes of painting a
vivid portrait of his family's histo-
rY.
Allan and Betty Weiner of
Farmington Hills were more con-
cerned with the future. The Wein-
ers spent more than a year
stitching together a chuppah for
the wedding of their second-eldest

son. "We just wanted to do some-
thing Jewish, beautiful and last-
ing," said Mrs. Weiner. One day,
the chuppah will hold the names
of all the Weiners who honor the
traditions of a Jewish marriage.
Brenda Goodman's exhibit,
"A Song for My Mother," at Rev-
olution Gallery in Ferndale,
proved that you can go home
again. Goodman, who currently
lives in upstate New York, came
back to. Detroit where she was
raised, and first gained promi-
nence in the early 1980s. The lush,
impressionistic haze of her rural
landscapes captured the pain and
joy of her exhibit, a tribute to her
deceased mother.
Throughout the local gallery
scene, the finest art exhibited
demonstrated that great art is
wrought from patience and love.
The mid-June photographic ex-
hibit of Marji Silk at the Woods

Above: Robert
Schefman: Dance on
the Edge of a
Precipice, 1994. An
exhibit of his works,
"Telling Tales,"
appeared at the
Janice Charach
Epstein
Museum/Gallery.

Gallery in Huntington Woods
proved that all true artists even-
tually follow their hearts. Silk has
made a 10-year migration from le-
gal secretary to international
award-winning photographer. Her
ability to "paint with natural light"
can be seen in her works that ap-
pear in local and regional publi-
cations, the Cranbrook Academy
of Art and the Detroit Science Cen-
ter.
The restoration work of Ken-
neth Katz, a Huntington Woods
resident, showed another side of
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Left: Lucien Freud,
Double Portrait,
1988-90, from the
"PaineWebber
Collection of
Contemporary
Masters" at the DIA.