exhibiting Leigh With Two Ladders.
"I work in a studio with models,"
says Rosenthal of Huntington Woods,
a former Water Color Society presi-
dent who has shown his work at the
Detroit Institute of Arts, Paint Creek
Center and the University of Windsor.
"I create enigmas and leave the inter-
pretations up to the viewers."
The artist recalls doing one painting
with a Jewish symbol, Carnival Series:
Portrait of Louis, in which he placed a
tallit (prayer shawl) in the background

of a knife-throwing sideshow scene.
Prudence Bernstein, a retired social
worker living in West Bloomfield, will
be showcasing Fanciful Fiesta, which
features tiny designs with bright colors.
"I like watercolors because I can
make the paint thick or light and have
a number of types of surfaces," says
Bernstein, who has shown her work at
the BBAC, the Janice Charach Epstein
Gallery and the "Our Town" exhibi-
tion in Birmingham. Active with the
National Council of Jewish Women,

she completed an artistic mask for a
Jewish National Fund benefit.
Bernstein studied painting after her
retirement, and one of her teachers has
been Donald Mendelson, an Oakland
Community College faculty member who
also is featured in the upcoming exhibit.
"Don is showing Locusts Over Lunar
Probes," explains Linda Mendelson, his
wife. "He often brings together
mechanical and primitive images, this
time with shades of orange and
turquoise as well as earth tones." ❑

The 55th annual Michigan
Water Color Society Exhibition
runs May 25-July 21 at the Ella
Sharp Museum, 3225 Fourth •
St., Jackson. Museum hours are
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-
Fridays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays. (517)
787-2320. Information on the
May 31 lecture is available at
(248) 352-3973.

Clockwise from
top left:

"Locusts Over
Lunar Probes," by
Donald Mendelson,
brings together
mechanical and
primitive images.

Stanley Rosenthal's
"Leigh With Two
Ladders": Leaving
the interpretations
up to the viewers.

Linda Mendelson's
"L.0 9-11":
"I've painted with
cadmium yellow
as .symbolic of life,
spirituality and
hope, and contrasted
that with violets,
blues and black."

Deborah Friedman

presents two

opposing shapes
edged in orange
in her 9-11 piece,
titled "Collision 11"

5/24

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