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Special to the Jewish News
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Helen was an illusion.
Goldsmith's work, a photostat on
paper, has French words arranged not
for meaning but for the way they look
and would sound if they were spoken.
That approach runs through all his
projects regardless of language.
"I'm not concerned about common
sense," says Goldsmith, who was
trained at the Rhode Island School of
he tide of the next show at
Center Galleries in Detroit
is "On Language: Text and
Beyond," but for two
Jewish artists, the "beyond" appears
more important than the "text."
Andrea Eis, a Royal Oak artist
whose main interest is photog-
raphy, will show an installa-
tion, "Eidolon: Helen at the
Walls of Troy." Kenneth
Goldsmith, a New York artist
who does unconventional
books, is represented in an
untitled wall piece that hangs
at the Merce Cunningham
Dance Co. in the city where he
lives.
"The exhibit looks at the
personal rhetoric of 16 artists
— visual artists, composers, a
choreographer and poets —
who use words, notational
scores, compositional scores
Andrea Eis: "I think words suggest an emotional
and scientific structures that
level that gives greater depth to the piece."
examine the theory that ideas
are closer to language than to
images," says Michelle Spivak,
gallery director.
Design. "The words are meant to be
Eis' piece references the idea of
read, but not conventionally."
phantom and whether Helen of Troy
Goldsmith, trained as a visual artist,
was just that. The use of the Greek
started with book images and then
word for phantom, "Eidolon," along
became more interested in words.
with a large-scale photograph from
Working with foreign languages he
Greek statuary, covers her wall space,
does not understand, Goldsmith uses
which extends through a draped cur-
dictionaries and maps out his text
tain held in place by bricks.
with a bland print style that does not
"I think words suggest an emotional
distract attention from the words and
level that gives greater depth to the
their placement.
piece," says Eis, who earned a degree
Although he has been commissioned
in archaeology and lived in a kibbutz
to do single pieces in Yiddish and
near an archaeological site in Israel
Hebrew and has shown at the Jewish
before deciding to become an artist. "I
Museum in New York, Goldsmith
like the play of words as well as
now applies his style to books, some as
images."
thick as 600 pages.
Eis, who has a master's degree in art
"They look like regular books, but
from Cranbrook, teaches art and art
I'm just interested in the way the
history at Oakland University. She has
words look together," he says.
shown her work at the Meadow Brook
Art Gallery, Cranbrook and the
"On Language: Text and Beyond"
Detroit Artists Market.
runs March 31-April 28 at Center
"Although I have used text with my
Galleries, 301 Frederick
photography for years, this is the first
Douglass, Detroit. Hours are 10
piece in which I've used a Greek
a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.
word," says Eis, who relates not know-
(313) 664-7800.
ing the word to not knowing whether
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