H an ound Taking A L At The Art Scene... 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. - Lawrence Silverman: Blue Horizon, photograph.