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L Exp. 3/14/2002 JN Brass PointePAcd&quw4 24234 Orchard Lake Rd., N.E. corner of 10 Mile • 476-1377 ale Band (2148) 544-7373 HIGH HONORS from page 66 From Detroit, also ed to the shows rock acts but group, and I has altered land- do things on ,, marks and symbols, my own. including a White Loren, who Panther flag replac- was raised in a ing the American Reform home flag known to and had his bar adorn the former mitzvah at Hudson's down- Temple town department Emanu-El, store. considers him- Amazing Freaks of self more spiri- the Motor City pres- tual than reli- ents more subcul- gious but has ture personalities brought Jewish This Destroy All Monsters piece pictures the concepts into and their symbols, while Mall Culture Lion of Judah in an apocalyptic artwork. his artistry. shows the four The Hebrew on the flag held by the lion In collabora- original members tion with translates to "Have No Fear:" of the noise band another per- Destroy All Monsters (the current mem- formance artist, Josh Friedman, he bers of the collective plus Detroit artist recently created The Valentine Golem for Niagara) in a Westland shopping area Detroit's C-Pop Gallery. Based on a near Kelley's childhood home. Jewish legend, the piece involved burn- "The name of the installation comes ing sugar and marshmallows, reading a from an obscure rock band called the story about the legend and introducing Friit," Loren explains. "We wanted to a sound segment with makeshift instru- show the influence band members had ments. as a wild group of performance artists." Loren also has done a Destroy All Strange Friit• Rock Apocrypha was Monsters piece that pictured the Lion of begun in the late 1990s with a commis- Judah in an apocalyptic artwork. It was sion for two murals and the video from adapted for banners in the Netherlands a museum in the Netherlands. The with the words Have No Fear" translat- Center of Contemporary Art in Seattle ed into Hebrew and painted on the flag paid for the final two banners. held by the lion. The image also appears on the group's Making Art 25th anniversary CD, T-shirts made for the Seattle exhibition and a limited-edi- Loren's interest in art started when he tion sticker and postcard sent for the was a student at Berkley High School. Whitney Biennial. He began corresponding with a New Loren says the phrase has talmudic York underground filmmaker, Jack origin and recites his understanding of Smith, and went on to spend the sum- the passage: "Have no fear; the world is mer after graduation with Smith. a short bridge." "Destroy All Monsters, formed in "I'm very excited about the Whitney Ann Arbor during the 1970s, worked show because it's nice to know that what on music, films, artworks, performance we're doing is appreciated and validat- art and other activities," explains Loren, ed," Loren says. "Hopefully, this will whose specialties are photography, film lead us to other important work."O and video. "We all grew up listening to the Detroit psychedelic culture of the 1960s, and I had a loft where we put on performances." The 2002 Biennial Exhibition Loren, who -earned a bachelor of fine runs March 7-May 26 at the arts degree in 1979 from Wayne State Whitney Museum of American Art, University, kept up with his perform- 945 Madison Ave., New York. ance art after opening the Book Beat in Hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays- 1982 and uses segments of his space for Thursdays, 1-9 p.m. Fridays and 11 exhibits by other artists. a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. $10 As he operates the store with his wife, admission/$8 seniors and students. Colleen Kammer, he makes time to (2 1 2) 570-3676. release limited-edition recordings, peri- To view "Strange Friit• Rock odicals and books related to the influ- Apocrypha," go to the Web site at ences of the culture represented in the http://www.dia.orglartiststake/proj installation. ects/destroy all monsters.html "I don't pursue my artistry as a career," Loren says. "I do [projects] relat-