Works On Words
In his meditative visions. Chicago artist Adam
Siegel joins graphic images to text.
Please join us for a special three
day gala exhibit and sale of
ANTIQUE POSTERS
Opening
Friday, Sept. 26th / 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 27th I 12 p.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 28th 12 p.m.-6 p.m.
Seminar Will Be Conducted By
Mr. Jacques Athias
International expert appraiser
from Paris
Friday 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 4:00 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m.
The largest collection of Original Antique Posters
Collection includes the works of:
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, COLION,
MUCHA, STEINLEN, BERTHON,
CASSANDRE, GRASSET, CITERET,
and their friends.
Crosswinds Mall
4301 Orchard Lake Road
Suite 145
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Tel: (248) 626-5810
Fax: (248) 626-5462
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Register for door prize and win an original, framed antique poster: "Turn of the Century"
whose ancestors arrived in America o
the Mayflower.
Adam Siegel: Works on Words, a col-
lection of 20 meditative visions com-
efore even entering the
pleted by adding graphic images to
Spertus Museum, Chicago
text, is on display at the Spertus
visitors can see the work of
through Jan. 4.
Adam Siegel.
Past Perfect, a digitally-
"The pieces that eventually
Adam Siegel. ended up in the show reflect a
enlarged, 16-foot by 16-foot
Untitled #25, natural stratum of works that
painting, stays on permanent
display at 600 North Michigan waterco for on were made on Yiddish and
pape r.
Ave. address.
other foreign-language docu-
Peering through a glass
ments," said Siegel, 41, who
started out as a photographer and
facade onto the city street is the
moved to other art forms.
familiar "blue face," one of the artist's
trademarks, painted over the contents
"It's a show about feelings and rev
elations as opposed to ideas and intel-
of a letter written in 1812 by a girl
lect."
Suzanne Chessler is a Farmington
The core documents in Siegel's
Hills-based freelance writer.
works — first inspired by a collection
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News
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