JAT Fine Arts

Another Opening ... Another Show

Watch for these upcoming exhibits.

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Fraser, Jane Lackey, John McQu , Erika Ayala
Stefanutt:i and Lance Winn chart experiences close
to home or at great distances. A place or idea is pin-
pointed, enhanced and celebrated. Margo Mensing,
interim curator of fiber at Cranbrook Academy of
Art, curat,ed the shov,r.
There will be a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Saturday,
March 1, and a closing lecture at the deSalle Au-
ditorium, Cranbrook Art Museum, at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 27. (810) 651-4110.

Mary Edna Fraser.
Kitty Hawk, batik on
silk.

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Expressionist painter John Walker, a pro eS
sor at Boston College, brings a British back-
ground to his works on display. March 21-April
19 at the Hill Gallery, 407 W. Brown St., 13irrn-
ingham. Walker's works, often regarded as in
tense and powerful, include forms alluding
to outback primitivism, a focus he developed
while working as dean, School of Art, Victoria
College of the Arts, Australia.
On display at museums such as the Chica-
go Art Institute and the British. Museum in
London, Walker's paintings draw upon notions
of space and place, indeterminate time and na-
ture. He speaks of painting as a process of
transforming mud (paint) into form, feeling
and beauty. (810) 540-9288.

John Walker: Untitled, oil on canvas.

ings and ongoing exhibits, please send your information, including photos or slides, three weeks
prior to publication date, to Gail Zimmerman, Fine Arts Editor, I o The Jewish News, 27676

Fr•rik •:youth MI 48034' in orma4on ma be axed to (810) 354-6069.

Emerging Artists # 6
The Janice Charach
Epstein Museum/Gallery
has scheduled its sixth
annual Emerging Artists
Exhibition and Sale for
March 6-April 17 at the
Maple-Drake Jewish
Community Center. An
opening night reception
from 6-8:30 p.m. will hon-
or the 16 participating
artists in the fields of
painting, jewelry, pho-
tography, furniture,
mixed media, ceramics,
computer graphics, illus-
trations and glass. (810)
661-7641.

Jason Scholder: Things Fall Apart, oil and acrylic on
Line Over Volume
Thom Bohneres prima- wood, at Janice Charach Epstein Museum Gallery.
ry interest in vessel forms
leries, 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac. Her
is determined by line rather than contemporary pieces, incorporat-
solid volume. Before working with ing elements of bronze, were on
clay and wire, the artist uses draw- display at the Museum of Con-
ings to plan the transformation of temporary Art last year. Shaffer is
lines into planes. With minimal use known to focus on the flowing qual-
of materials, he emphasizes open- ities of the glass rather than its in-
ness over mass. Bohneres vessels nate beauty. An opening reception
will be on display through March to meet her begins at 7:30 p.m.
28 at the ShawGuido Gallery, 7 N. tonight. (810) 333-2060.
Saginaw, Pontiac. An opening re-
ception will be held from 7-10 p.m.
Snapping Up Color
tonight. (810) 333-1070.
When John Wawrzonek "Walks
on the Wild Side," he steps up the
Heritage Art
"Ancestral Spirits: African Art" use of color photography. Wawr-
showcases masks, jewelry, spears, zonek uses three processes — pig-
batiks and sculptures held by local ment transfer, dye transfer and
collectors and representing diverse light jet — to make the images ap-
regions of Africa. The Creative pear almost three-dimensional.
ARTS Center, 47 Williams Street, Patterns in ordinary places are his
Pontiac, hosts the exhibition subjects, and nature is expressed
through March 29. Tonight's open- in texture through the interaction
ing reception runs from 6-9 p.m. and repetition of natural elements.
Author/lecturer Willie Payne will Viewers can see what it's all about
give a dramatic presentation, "The through March 31 at Creative Re-
Underground Railroad — The source Gallery, 162 N. Woodward,
Michigan Connection," at 7:45 p.m. Birmingham. The opening recep-
Friday, March 7, when dancer tion is from 6-8 p.m. tonight. (810)
Safiya Tsekani will accompany 647-3688.
him. (810) 333-7849.

Ivory Powers
"Images in Ivory: Precious Ob-
jects of the Gothic Age" features
100 examples of devotional and
everyday objects from many of the
world's greatest museums. Rare
ivory sculpture from the 1200s to
the 1400s will be shown at the De-
troit Institute of Arts March 9-May
11. Dramatic and musical pro-
grams will enhance the exhibition
each week to bring the Middle Ages
to life. (313) 833-4249.

With The Flow
The glass sculpture of Mary
Shaffer, recipient of an artist fel-
lowship from the National En-
dowment for the Arts, will be
shown March 7-29 at Habatat Gal-

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Ancestral Spirits: Zurich mask, wood,
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