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SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

N.Y., thinking he would become a
graphic artist, but changed goals after
earning his master's degree. A teaching
stint at Rochester preceded his accept-
ance of a similar assignment at Eastern
Michigan.
"When I do ciryscapes of the Jewish
neighborhood where I grew up, I have
the Hebrew lettering that was seen on
the small stores," the artist says. "I like
the shapes and forms of Hebrew
words, which are not as distracting as
words in English might have been."

any Avedon designs chairs
— not for sitting but for
viewing.
A colorist working in oils,
Avedon has created many paintings of
chairs for his latest series, which
includes a variety of images all tided in
the order of completion. Chair Tivo, for
example, depicts what he finds in class-
rooms at Eastern Michigan University,
where he teaches painting
and drawing.
J
Examples of Avedon's
work — from his chair
series, cityscapes, abstrac-
tions and drawings — will
be featured through Sept.
15 at the Washington
Street Gallery in Ann
Arbor.
"I've been a professor for
30 years and spent a great
deal of time looking out at
chairs like Chair Two," says
Avedon, 60, who paints in
a studio attached to his
)frAe..4014,Xt4
Ann Arbor home and
Barry A vedon:
sketches at his summer
About 25 years ago, after read-
"Chair Two,"
place in Saugatuck. "The
ing a book on the search for Nazi
oil on ca n vas.
chair series ties in with my
criminals, Avedon did some
interest in interiors. I grew
black, white and gray drawings of
up in New York City and
Holocaust scenes. The work
recall that time through cityscapes."
toured area universities, including the
Avedon paints big, with canvases
University of Michigan and Central
reachina to 5 feet, and likes to use
Michigan University.
b bold color.
blocks of
Avedon easily relates to the question
"My color is vivid, lively and
of whether he is related to noted pho-
vibrant," says the artist, who regularly
tographer Richard Avedon. Many
shows his paintings at the Water Street
years ago, with much curiosity, he had
Gallery near his vacation home and
a brief correspondence with the cam-
has been represented in hundreds of
era legend to see if there were any
juried exhibits throughout the coun-
known connections.
try. Among the Michigan museums
"We both have Russian-Jewish her-
that have exhibited his paintings are
itage and know there are few Avedons,
the Detroit Institute of Arts and the
but there is no definite link that we
Art Center of Battle Creek.
could trace," the artist says.
"My grandmother was an artist who
studied professionally and -took me to
The works of Barry Avedon will
many exhibits," Avedon recalls. "My
be on display 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
greatest enjoyment, even in first and
Tuesdays-Thursdays and 11 a.m.-9
second grade, was always art, and I
p.m. Fridays-Saturdays through
can remember doing classroom murals
Sept. 15 at the Washington Street
and turning in assignments with illus-
Gallery, 215 E. Washington Street,
trated covers."
Ann
Arbor. (734) 761-2287.
Avedon attended the Rochester
Institute of Technology in Rochester,
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