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Mordechai Roth's development as an artist
has kept pace with his religious growth.

University and, he says, spent most of his life as "your typi-
cal starving artist."
Special to the Jewish News
He drove taxicabs and buses to keep food on the table and
kept his "creative flow" going by painting when off duty.
rom free-wheeling artist to Lubavitcher Chasid,
Roth spent his summers painting portraits at state fairs, draw-
Mordechai Roth's eclectic artistic styles reflect his
ing the quick creations mostly in pastels. He used to sharpen his
divergent life experiences. SO different is his
portraiture skills by practicing with high school yearbooks.
work over the years that you'd hardly believe the
"There's no end of interesting subjects in them," he says.
pieces to be the product of the same artist.
Although he has received
Now living in Southfield, Roth will
commissions
for portraits, he
exhibit his paintings in a retrospective
doesn't favor the genre.
showing at the Oak Park Jewish
"There's no room for personal
Community Center from Sept. 3 until the
expression," he says. "It's not
end of the month.
cathartic; it's just a job."
The 63-year-old Grand Rapids native
Roth eventually gravitated
lived the stereotypical artist's life until his
from
realism to a more abstract
mid-40s, when he became involved with
form
of
expression, inspired by
Chabad Judaism. He moved from the
the surrealist movement.
Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco to
Artists whose styles have influ-
Crown Heights, N.Y., the world center of
enced his work include Jackson
Lubavitch.
Pollock, Willem DeKooning
As Roth changed spiritually, his painting
and
abstract surrealist
Mordechai Roth: Jammin' with his art.
style changed as well. The result is a wild-
Sebastian
Matta.
ly different collection of work.
Roth
works
in
different
media:
pen
and
ink for smaller
The painter says creativity is in his genes — his mother
drawings, acrylics and colored ink for larger pieces on canvas
and maternal grandfather were artists and his father was a
up to 6 feet wide.
violinist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra.
He sees his earlier pieces as attempts to get the Sturm and
Roth has been drawing since he was young, and has always
Drang of his life out onto paper, and views his later works as
painted to classical music.
more peaceful and optimistic.
He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Wayne State

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