C Str eet Wise STYLE Pavarotti Is Appearing At The Posner Gallery Whimsical 3-D art kicks offBirmingham opening. FRANK PROVENZANO SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS SOUTHFIELD FARMINGTON HILLS ■ Arbor Rx 11 Mile & Lahser ■ Efros Rx ■ Arbor Rx Grand River & Drake Evergreen & 12 Mile ■ Borders Book Store Orchard Lk. S. of 14 Mile ■ B. Dalton ■ Kroger Perry Rx Tel-12 Mall ■ Borders Book Store Southfield & 13 Mile 12 Mile & Halsted ■ Perry Rx 12 Mile & Farmington ■ Efros Rx ■ Perry Rx Greenfield & 10 Mile 14 Mile & Northwestern ■ Majestic Market ■ Warren Rx Lahser & Civic Center Middlebelt & 14 Mile ■ Seven-Eleven Franklin Rd. S. of 12 Mile ▪ Togos Tel-12 Mall OAK PARK WEST BLOOMFIELD ■ Arbor Rx Telegraph & Long Lake ■ Barnes and Noble Orchard Lk. S. of Maple ■ Lincoln Rx Coolidge & Lincoln ■ Oak Park Book Center Nine Mile & Coolidge ■ Efros Rx Orchard Lk. & Maple ■ Kroger 14 Mile & Farmington ■ Seven-Eleven Lincoln E. of Greerifield BIRMINGHAM ■ Mapleview Party Store Maple & Farmington ■ Seven-Eleven Orchard Lake & Lone Pine ■ Barnes & Noble Telegraph & Maple TROY ■ Birmingham Rx 1220 Woodward ■ Savon Rx ■ DoubleDay Books Somerset Mall Telegraph & Maple NOVI CJD LU (/) ■ Borders Book Store Novi Rd. & 1-96 ROCHESTER HILLS ■ Doubleday Books ■ Barnes & Noble Twelve Oaks Rochester Road LLJ CC U_1 Ca) LU STYLE TENTH A......vER S AR V 27676 Franklin Road • Southfield, Mi 48034 • 810-354-6060 • fax 810-354-1210 70 PUBLISHED BY THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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. E