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Students, faculty and friends of the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
execute a wall drawing by
famed conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.

BARBARA WYLAN SEFTON

Special to The Jewish News

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ingham Bloomfield Art Center
(BBAC) had the chance to take part in
the installation of a major work of
modern art created by internationally
known conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.
Drawn and painted by over 30
individlals, Bands of Lines, a vibrantly
colored wall drawing of intersecting
wave patterns, now spans the four
walls of the Robinson Fine Art
Gallery. The wall drawing will be on
display through Dec. 24.
As with all of LeWitt's installations,
the actual execution was accomplished
by other individuals according to
LeWitt's detailed instructions and
under the supervision of one of his art
assistants.
"It's such a participatory experience.
I thought it would be just perfect for
our gallery and that a lot of people
would be interested," says Janet Torno,
executive director of the BBAC.
"We gave Sol the dimensions of the
gallery and he created a wall drawing
to fit it. I feel privileged to be able to
bring Sol's work here." The drawing
was supervised by LqWitt's assistant,
fohn Hogan,

A leading figure in the develop-
ment of conceptual art, LeWitt has
completed over 800 wall drawings
over the past 30 years. His work has
been exhibited at major museums
and galleries around the world,
including the Tate Gallery in Lon-
don and the Museum of Modern Art
in New York
City.
Yet, says
Torno, "Sol
really likes to
keep his work
accessible.
He'll do work
for a small art
center like
ours, just as

The walls of
the Robinson
Fine Art
Gallery of the
BBAC are
graced with a
wall drawing
designed by
conceptual
artist Sol
LeWitt.

much as a big gallery or museum. He 4
wants to be represented in many dif-
ferent kinds of places."
LeWitt, who just turned 70, was
among a group of young artists in the
early 1960s "who searched vigorously
for alternatives to the long established
constraints of traditional painting and
sculpture," says Andrea Miller-Keller,
LeWitt scholar and Emily Hall
Tremaine Curator of Contemporary
Art at the Wadsworth Antheneum in
Hartford, Conn. "He is grouped with
major contemporary artists Frank Stel-
la and Jasper Johns."
LeWitt executed his first wall draw-
ing by hand in 1969 on the wall of the

