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SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to the Jewish News

ecollections from the city
of Alexander Kanchik's
childhood reach out to
others through his paint-
in.'s, works that communicate much
more than stark reality.
Each image, whether including lots of
people along a thoroughfare or spotlight-
ing one person in transit, has dream-like,
sometimes surreal qualities to project the
complexity of the lingering impressions
and feelings experienced in Russia.
The people — cobblers, coffee sell-
ers, strollers — caught up in that par-
tially true world show kinship through
their full-bodied, squat statures.
"Pictures From My Childhood Town"
is the title of Kanchik's third exhibit at
the Danielle Peleg Gallery in West
Bloomfield. It runs Oct. 22-Nov. 12.
"I think of myselflike Frederico Fellini,
who creates movie images in pan from
memory and in part from fantasy," says
Kam:hi, 42, who lives in Israel with his
wife and three daughters. Some images
are grotesque, and many are humorous."
Kanchik can't explain why he por-

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