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RAISING THE SPARKS Artist-Of-Residence

Jennifer Rosenfeld's time in Israel inspires art
exhibit currently on display in Pontiac.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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rtist,in-residence was
Jennifer Rosenfeld's title as
she worked in Israel for a
year, but a more apt desig-
nation might have been artist-of-resi-
dence. Rosenfeld's 25 paintings from
that time address habitat issues and
feature abstract representations of her
responses to dwellings.
The paintings, oils on canvas or
wood panels, come together through
"Housing," her current solo exhibit
running through Feb. 19 at the
Creative Arts Center in Pontiac. In
March and April, the same works will
be featured at the Synagogue for the
Arts in New York.
"I've been a cityscape painter straight
through," says Rosenfeld, 29, who
works out of an improvised studio in
her Birmingham apartment. "I like
places that are affected by people, and
I think about the imprint people make
and the history of what is represented."

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002 • 7:30 p.m.

Jewish Community Center • D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building
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recounts his search for a spiritual home, using
Filmmaker/Director Chuck Davis (Kosher Valley)
conversations with prominent rabbis and his own experiences in this moving documentary.

After the film, Mr. Davis and Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg of Congregation Shir Tikvah will guide us
in a conversation about spirituality for the 21st Century.

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Rosenfeld, whose urban images start-
ed out as very real and later moved
to the abstract, uses sweeps of
intensely saturated color interrupted

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by lines, shapes or concentrated
fields of even deeper pigment.
The presence of intense shades and
tones demonstrates how her response to
structure was influenced by the chang-
ing effects of natural light — whether
brightening or dimming — during her
assignment in the Middle East.
"I was accustomed to painting urban
gray, but my time in Israel for the Arad
Arts Project (October 1999 June 2000)
changed my color palette," says the artist.
When Rosenfeld started tracking
Israeli architecture to use as the subject
of her work, she thought about con-
trasts. There were the early buildings,
completed quickly with cement blocks
to take care of immediate needs, and
there were the later buildings, made
more individualized and complex to
add drama to what might have been
an uninterrupted desert.
The contradiction of the beauty of
ancient cultures and traditions versus
modern pragmatism in design became
the metaphor for my work," says
Rosenfeld, who had visited Israel in
earlier years.
"Like modern life in Israel, a land
and nation embroiled in struggle while
its citizens strive to maintain a level of
normalcy in lifestyle, I have wrestled
with the pursuit of beauty in a con-
stricted environment.

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