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Whimsical 3-D art kicks offBirmingham opening.

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Their debut exhibit
highlights Madison
Heights' Tim Walker's
zany and warm-heart-
ed animated 3-D sculp-
tures. With uncanny
attention to detail and
technique, Walker's deft
sculpting never cross-
es into stereotypical or
mean-spirited images.
Although, he admits
(since the ultimate
barometer for each
piece is whether it's en-
tertaining), the charac-
ters ultimately poke fun
at some human foible or
deficiency.
"I want to stress the
whimsical side of life,
that's me," said Walker.
"I'm a positive person
who sees the glass as
half full." It's no wonder.
For the 37-year-old
Walker, life and art be-
long in the realm of
play.
The characters are a
combination of Disney
buffoons meeting Robin
Williams wiredness: an
exasperated party girl,
an angst-ridden actor,
an 8-foot tall pitcher
"delivering' a pizza and
a pint-sized butler who
only needs a heart and
lungs to resemble a
real-life gentleman's
gentleman. The only
true caricature is a big-
ger-than-life, or at least
bigger than the world,
Luciano Pavarotti, pre-
pared to grab his audi-
ence with his voice, belly
and arms.
Tim Walker's whimsical creation has got
The amiable charac-
"Stage Fright."
ters, wrought from
Mother-daughter team Madeline and Karen Posner Walker's terminal opti-
opened the Posner Gallery in its new Birmingham
mism, are created from
locale with the Tim Walker exhibit.
wood, wire armature,
acrylic lamination, corn-
_ posite plastics and
ven after four months of other preservative substances
delays, a few too many that he estimates will give his
construction problems, work a 200-year life span.
"I want to separate myself from
and an opening that was
continually pushed back, Made- other artists," he said. "Andy
line and Karen Posner didn't Warhol said you make your name
lose their sense of humor. by making a trend, not following
The mother-daughter tandem one."
The opening exhibit at Posner
opened the Posner Gallery in
Birmingham in mid-December, Gallery was an appropriate time
moving from their Northwest- to show that the new trend at
ern Highway location in Farm- Birmingham's newest gallery
could be "art that's accessible."
ington Hills.

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