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of Temple Beth F.,1 and his acccmpanist

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MARTY MANKIBAUM

SUNDAY 7

The series continues:

MATT "MIS" KING

July 16

also appearing:

RON COHN

The Beth El
Kids Klez Band

August

730 P.M. in ROTHSTEIN PARK

"I decided to work
in black and white because I can
control the composition," says Helen
Honigman of her black-and-white abstracts.

All concerts axe at
located on the pedestrian deck over 1-696

Events are open to the community at

no charge.

In the event of rain, oa=ts are held inside the JCC's Jimmy Pnantis Morris Building
on the A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus.

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Laugh a lot and cry

a little at these six

moments in time

that changed lives

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Helen Honigman had been a buyer
for her father's store before marrying
and expressing an interest in the art-
work of others. In 1960, she decided
to test her own talents and enrolled at
Wayne, where she earned her degree
11 years later.
Her late husband, dentist Alfred
Honigman, shared her enthusiasm for
art and took up sculpture after he
retired. They sometimes would sign
up for classes they could take together.
"I feel that my son has a natural tal-
ent," she says. "When he went to col-
lege, his father said he had to make a
living, so he became a lawyer."
Robert Honigman, who thinks of
himself and his mother as cultural
Jews, uses art to express himself in a
language that cuts across national
boundaries.
"My paintings show actual models
that posed at the BBAC," says Robert
Honigman, who practices real estate
law and spends five or six hours a
week on his hobby. "The human face
and figure fascinate me as the result of
millions of years of evolution. In my
abstract work, I try to combine the
rhythms and complexity of African
sculpture with the color and design
qualities of Matisse and Chagall."
Robert Honigman, treasurer of the
Brazilian Cultural Club of Detroit, has
taken art courses in Brazil, where he
visits his former college roommate,
now retired and living with his wife
and children. This roommate intro- ,
duced the single Honigman to the
Brazilian community in Michigan.
"My mother and I are hoping to
do more shows," he says. "If other
people like certain work, we'll do
more of that."

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"Edges — Hard and Soft" runs
through July 1 at the Lawrence
Street Gallery, 6 North Saginaw,
Pontiac. (248) 334-6716.

A New Passion

M

ark Schlussel always seems
to have doodled during
business meetings, but four
years ago, someone else noticed and
spoke to him about it.
"That's really good," Schlussel'was
told. "Why don't you try it in color?"
Not one to ignore an interesting
suggestion, Schlussel did just that, tak-
ing some preliminary steps before sit-
ting down and sketching formally. He
read some books, talked to artist
friends and went shopping for the
appropriate art supplies.
Initially, in the privacy of his home
basement, he designed and executed
more precise representations of the
geometric forms he drew at meetings.
Then, more .spontaneously, he did
free-form abstractions using acrylics.
Samples of the work produced
since that life-changing suggestion will
be on display through July 1 at the
Uzelac Gallery in Pontiac, where his
exhibit is titled "The Creative Side of
Mark Schlussel."
"I think there are two Mark
Schlussels," says the premiering artist,
an attorney and chairman of the mbi
credit card firm in Birmingham who
also serves as a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
"There is the persona that everybody
knows who is disciplined and works
within lines and borders, expressed in
the geometric designs. There's also a
more playful side that is probably less
apparent because it stays more hidden,
and that comes out in the expressionist
works after I start with a bare canvas
and then let my emotions roll."
Schlussel and his wife, Rosie, have
collected art since they were first mar-
ried 37 years ago, when he was a law
student at the University of Michigan.
Their first find was an oil painting
shown at an Ann Arbor art fair.

