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SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Form In 3-D
culpture Pontiac '97," an in-
door/outdoor exhibit enhanc-
ing the city's downtown
ambience, features the works
of 64 artists, including those of Sally
Kaplan, Jay Lefkowitz, Ray Katz, Bri-
an Kritzman, David Roth and Lois
Teicher.
The three-dimensional forms —
cast and fabricated metals, woods, ce-
ramics, glass, mixed media, videos
and installations — are being shown
through Sept. 27 throughout the
gallery and entertainment district.
Sally Kaplan, who teaches at the
Center for Creative Studies (CCS), is
showing two bronze
Sally Kaplan:
works that make so-
cio-political state- Diver, sandstone
and bronze.
ments.
Caryatid, which
also uses concrete, shows a female fig-
ure on a column. Based on ancient works, the
Jay Lefkowitz: It Was This Big, steel.
sculpture is designed to communicate how mod-
ern women hold together different parts of their
lives.
Diver shows a small masculine form on a
large sandstone rock as a metaphor address-
ing the issue of balancing each day's events.
"All of my sculpture is figurative, but it's not
executed in the classical style," Kaplan said.
"My latest pieces are the most dramatic, and I
like bronze because of the communal aspect of
pouring it in a foundry."
Kaplan divides her personal sculpting time
between the CCS foundry and a basement stu-
dio in her home. Her technique evolved as she
Sol LeWitt: Stars, embossed multiples.
Mathematical Colors
earned her bachelor's degree from CCS and her
master's from Wayne State
University.
In contrast to Kaplan's
work is Lefkowitz's ab-
stract It Was This Big,
forged from steel painted
black.
"I like the strength and
permanence of steel," said
Lefkowitz, who works with
torches, welders and
grinders to shape the met-
al.
The piece for Pontiac re-
sembles Lefkowitz's earli-
er works, which are not as
full as the ones he gener-
ally produces now in his
Detroit studio.
"I also am a painter, de-
signer and ceramist,"
Lefkowitz said about the
other media in which he
works. "Currently, I am
taking classes toward a mas-
ter's degree in printing at Wayne State Uni-
versity." ❑
ei The artists featured in Sculpture Ponti
ac '97 will be introduced during a reception
6 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, at the Creative Art
Center, 47 Williams. There also will be an
afterglow, 9-11 p.m., at the Industry Night
club, 13 S. Saginaw. Artists will also attend
a party closing the show, 7-10 p.m. Satur-
day, Sept. 27, at the Museum of Contem-
porary Art, 23 W. Lawrence. For
information, call (248) 644-7821 or (248)
398-1774.
As the Lemberg Gallery in Birmingham features a mixed-media ex-
hibit for the summer, it is showing works by an artist who is repre-
sented in a large display at the Detroit Institute of Arts. A Sol LeWitt
print, Stars, is among the works at the Lemberg, while a print ret-
rospective is at the museum.
LeWitt is known as a minimalist fascinated with mathematical
combinations of color. He captures ideas, not forms, communicated
through a vocabulary of lines and cubes. Often he works directly on
walls, creating unique images for museums and institutions.
Through Aug. 23, the Lemberg Gallery, 538 N. Woodward in Birm-
ingham, rotates a LeWitt series of aquatints and small, unframed
prints with works by other popular artists such as Jim Dine, Susan
Logan, Stephen Magsig, Kiki Smith and Steven Sorman. (248) 642-
6623.
Photographic Fusions
Lawrence Silverman, professor emeritus of the College of Fine, Per-
forming and Communication Arts at Wayne State University, sees
an abstract beauty in reality and uses details to form fresh photo im-
ages. He brings together multiple shapes, transitions them with sub-
tle fusions and infinite directions and completes imaginative designs.
Silverman's large, abstract works and realistic photographs are
being shown through Aug. 31 at the Port Huron Museum, 1115 Sixth
St. A meet-the-artist reception with refreshments and music is sched-
uled between 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26. (810) 982-0891.
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Lawrence Silverman: Blue Horizon, photograph.