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Taking A Look
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At The Centre °fit All

SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

hen the Southfield Centre for the
Arts celebrates its opening June
- 6-8, visitors can view a vast array
of artwork filling key areas of the
building.
Seventy works of California-based artist
Anatole Krasnyansky will fill the main lob-
by. Each of the 10 chapters of the Michigan As-
sociation of Artists (MAA) will showcase juried
pieces, and 200 juried
works completed by stu-
dents of the Southfield
Public Schools also will be
displayed.
"Krasnyansky is travel-
ing to the Centre to meet
with art patrons attend-
ing our Saturday evening
program," said Rick .Be
har, who is coordinating
the June 6-8 event. "Be-
sides being an artist of
renown, he is very con-
nected to all the dynamics
involved in transforming
the building from a syna-
gogue to an arts center."
Krasnyansky, a Russ-
ian Jew, came to the United States in 1975. He
was a prominent architect and watercolorist
with cityscapes as the major subject of his
paintings.
Living close to the entertainment industry,
he has given his talents to scenic designs for
theater, television and motion pictures, work-
ing for the Odyssey Theatre in West Los An-
geles, ABC, CBS and Universal Studios.
Near to Krasnyansky's paintings will be
works by members of the 10 organizations

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Jeri Fellwoock: Beyond the Moons, water media.

forming the MAA — Art Ambience, Dearborn
Arts and Crafts, Downriver Arts and Crafts
Council, Farmington Arts Club, Livonia Art
Club, Photographic Guild, Palette and Brush
Club, Pontiac/Oakland Society of Artists, South
Oakland Artists Association and Waterford
Friends of the Arts.
"All of our works are two dimensional," said
Jane Rogers, MAA president. "We'll show oils,

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Left:
Leonetto Cappiello: Olio Radino,
lithograph.

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Above:
Biscaretti: Anisette Evangelisti,
lithograph.

Vintage posters have increased in popularity over the past 10 years
and most dramatically over the past 12 months. Collectors and deal-
ers frequent antique auctions searching for special images. In keep-
ing with this interest, the Print Gallery, 29203 Northwestern,
Southfield, is kicking off an exhibit of its new acquisitions with a va-
riety of colorful, original posters from the Belle Epoque, Art Nou-
veau and Art Deco periods up through the 1970s.
The posters were used to advertise food, liquor, entertainment,
travel and a variety of products and events. The combination of rar-
ity, condition, artist and the image itself determine the value of an
individual poster. (810) 356-5454.

Anatole Krasnyansky: Piero with Doll, watercolor and
acrylic on handmade Japanese paper.

watercolors and acrylics, and they will all be
on sale. During the weekend of June 13-15,
we'll be back at the Centre with a complete rep-
resentation of our membership."
Throughout opening weekend, MAA mem-
bers will put on demonstrations of the art forms
shown in the exhibit.
For the student share of the exhibition, Dr
Mardella Alexander, principal of Adler Ele-
mentary School, coordinated the selection of
projects by younger
artists, and Elaine
Green, supervisor of
secondary education,
coordinated the high
school entries.
"We wanted to have
a balance of work, so
we will be showing
paintings, sculpture
and masks," Dr.
Alexander said. "We
had a difficult time
choosing the final
pieces, but there were
some that just stood
out above the rest." LI

For information on
the art exhibition at
the Southfield Cen-
tre for the Arts, call
(810) 424-9022.

Relief and Warmth

Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski uses metal designs to express a soothing
antidote for the loneliness and emptiness in life. The University of
Michigan professor and graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art
presents the objects of this intention through June 14 at the Yaw
Gallery, 550 North Old Woodward, Birmingham.
The artist's work has been in the collections of the Smithsonian In-
stitution and the American Craft Museum in New York According to
Sato-Pijanowski, the traditional Japanese metalwork employs real-
istic, natural motifs as interpretation of nature: "Craft produces some-
thing that is
physical, that
produces joy
when it is held
and touched ...
Craft is con-
cerned with is-
sues of scale and
detail." (248)
647-5470.

Hiroko Sato-
Pijanowski: Life

7a: Orchid-
Phalaenopsis
sanderiana,

necklace,
pendant, brooch.