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or areas within sculptures.
"The works on paper
generally come about after
the [larger pieces]. I have an
interest in trying to describe
the interactions within the
sculptures, giving the works
on paper a sense of volume
without mass.
"Although they're very
descriptive of areas within
the [three-dimensional
forms], they have lives of
their own. At the same
time, they reflect back on
the experiences that I had
while making the sculp-
tures."
Although the artist has
completed works on paper
since 1980, his larger pieces
can claim more attention
Artist Howard Ben Tre: While the Lemberg Gallery
because of their availability
is exhibiting Ben TVs works on paper, he is perhaps
to the public. An installa-
best known for his large public sculptures, which he
tion of fountains and seat-
creates in his workshop in Providence, R.I.
ing, for instance, was creat-
ed to enhance Post Office
Square Park in Boston. A
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Bank Boston's headquarters in down-
town Providence, R.I. A plaza and seat-
oward Ben Tre, whether
ing arrangement extend the setting
building mammoth sculp-
outside
the federal courthouse in Las
tures or designing images
Vegas.
on large sheets of paper,
At last count, Ben Tres work is
uses many materials. Glass, metal and
included
in more than 85 museum and
water can bring aesthetic mass to open-
public collections, including the
air plazas, while graphite, bronze leaf
Detroit Institute of Arts. Stuart and
and pigmented waxes can come
Maxine Frankel, of Bloomfield Hills,
together for more contained wall
have collected both his sculpture and
pieces.
works on paper.
Ben Tre, who refuses to limit his
"One of the beauties of collecting
work to one form or style, has devoted
contemporary
art is getting to meet the
part of the past six months to complet-
artist,"
Maxine
Frankel says. "That
ing works on paper for an exhibit at
experience adds to the level of under-
Ferndale's Lemberg Gallery. He will
standing of the work. Being able to
share space through April 20 with
have both his small pieces and a 7-foot
Wendy MacGaw, a Michigan sculptor
sculpture of glass and granite is won-
and longtime friend.
derful and enriches our days."
"The works on exhibit are reflective
Ben Tre was pursuing a degree in
of my most recent three-dimensional
biology
from Portland State University
pieces because they relate to basins and
wrapped forms," says Ben Tre, 53, who when he changed to art. Thinking
about his late father's abandoning a
is showing 10 drawings and five prints,
promising art career to build houses
all mixed media. "They describe spaces
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