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Young artist's show helps sick children.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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.. John Tanasychuk, Detroit Free Press

Fisher has shown her projects at
Borders Books and Music, won awards
in the Scholastic Art Competition and
the Michigan Youth Art Festival and
had a design in a traveling show
organized by the state.
The painter, whose family has
encouraged her to set up a studio in
the basement of their home, has
attended the Hillel Academy in
Dayton and was confirmed at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield.'
Although she does not focus on
work with Jewish themes, Fisher has
painted a personalized chamsah, a
hand with an eye in the middle to

illary Fisher considers her-
self a "people person" —
so faces become the sub-
jects in many of her paint-
ings. Occasionally, the images repre-
sent people she knows. More often,
they reflect her imagination.
Fisher's portraits, whether calling
upon reality or fantasy, find signature
with abstraction marked by big fea-
tures, bold colors and sometimes,
almost bizarre effects.
Fisher, 19, a freshman at Western
Michigan University, will be one of a
group of artists whose
works will be exhibited
throughout October at
the Orchard Lake Art
Center, where her
mother, Amy Hammer,
had brought her
favorite pieces for
mounting.
The exhibit is held in
conjunction with
National Picture
Framing Month, when
a portion of all framing
purchases will be
donated to the Starlight
Children's Foundation,
Artist Hillary Fisher with an abstract, bespectacled face
an international, non-
profit organization ded- she created.
icated to improving the
quality of life of seri-
symbolize the work of God and
ously ill children and their families.
believed by some to ward off evil spir-
A 52 donation brings a chance to
its.
win one . of two framed prints or $200
"I plan to get more involved with
toward the cost of framing. If $5,000
computer
graphics and find work that
is raised by one framing retailer, the
builds
on
my
artistic interests," says
foundation will donate a Nintendo
Fisher, who also will show collage and
Fun Station to a hospital chosen by
graphics projects. ❑
that retailer.
"I've been painting ever since I
could hold a brush, and I love tex-
ture," says Fisher, whose style generally
Hillary Fisher's work will be on
is expressed through acrylics on can-
display throughout October at
vas. "I think it's fabulous that this
the Orchard Lake Art Center,
show will help seriously ill children."
3477 Orchard Lake Road, Keego
Fisher's first lessons were at the
Harbor. Hours are 9:30 a.m.-
Clinton Art Center in New Jersey, the
5:30 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays,
state where she spent her early years.
9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Fridays and 10
After private instruction and moves to
a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays. An artist
Ohio and Michigan, the emerging
reception runs 5-9 p.m. Saturday,
artist took classes at West Bloomfield
Oct. 13. (248) 681-7447.
High School and developed her port-
folio.

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