Left: "Stripes."
"The paintings look
like they mean more
than they do," says
Rosenthal. "I want
to create questions."

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Neighbors Lisa and
Jerome pose for
a double portrait.

On the cover:
"Dana with
Two Chairs."

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Stanlog Louis
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unveils his latest watercolors
and his new-found peace.

LINDA BACHRACK

tenanc.e bears a striking resemblance to
the director Frances Ford Coppola.
"I 'wigged out' when John Cynar
tanley Rosenthal fidgets with
(director of exhibitions at PCCA)
the flotsam and jetsam of an
asked me to do this show," says
office desktop as he ponders
Rosenthal, his language punctuating
his first juried show
an obvious allegiance to a
since the mid-'80s. Just a
more politically passionate
Stanley Loui
few feet away, the watercol-
era.
Rosenthal:
orist's exhibit, titled "Recent
"Most artists of my experi-
"You suffer a lot
Works," hangs in
ence and level don't do
of scars whi le
Rochester's Paint Creek
juried shows, but I'm excited
getting
wise, but
Center for the Arts upstairs
you become a much about this one. My work has
gallery, where it will remain
totally evolved since my last
better person
on view through Dec. 21.
show in the '80s."
Dressed in a plaid flannel
Rosenthal, head of the
shirt, corduroys, suspenders and a cap
printmaking department at Wayne
that pays homage to the endangered
State University, will explain this evo-
peregrine falcon, Rosenthal projects a
lution in a slide presentation titled
rather bohemian, professorial image.
"How I Got Here," 12:30-1:30 p.m.
His heavy-bearded, bespectacled coun-
Saturday, Dec. 2, at Paint Creek.

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His story is multi-layered, much like
his art. Born in Cleveland, Rosenthal
attended what was then Carnegie Tech
in Pittsburgh, and accepted a graduate
assistantship at Wayne. He began
working full time at the university in
1969.
"I came to the graduate school as a
painter," says Rosenthal, "and changed
to printmaking. I felt I could achieve
what I wanted to do in printmaking."
He tells his students he was a "third-
rate painter and a second-rate print-
maker." But in 1982, Rosenthal start-
ed playing around with watercolors.
Today, he says, he still doesn't care that
much for the medium, but it works
for him.
He laughs when he relates the story
of how he became president of the
Michigan Watercolor Association, a