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Arts & Entertainment
Just
Judaic
Art and jewelry fair at West Bloomfield JCC
offers items with Jewish flair.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
years:' says Natalie
Sharon Geller-Metal: "Apple and
Special to the Jewish News Lipnik, a West
Honey Drizzle Service" in silver.
Bloomfield interior
Judaica show and sale
designer who has
-has outgrown.the syn-
chaired the event
agogue that launched
since it began in
it and soon will be on view at
1997. "We looked
the Jewish Community Center
for a wide range of
in West Bloomfield.
artists and differ-
The Juddica Ail & Jewelry
ent media. Our
Fair, sponsored biennially by
goal was to have
the Bais Chabad Torah Center
variety for all
of West Bloomfield, has
those people who
expanded from three to 50
wanted new art-
artists and from one to three
work for their
days. The multimedia event,
homes.
-
which runs Feb. 11-13, features
"Thirty-two of
works in glass, ceramics, pre-
the 50 artists are
cious metals, woods, textiles,
new to the show.
paper, photography, watercol-
Thirty-nine are
ors and more.
coming directly
"We enlarged the fair .
from Israel, and
because we got such an over-
this is our way of helping them beautiful art into the commu-
whelming response over the
earn a living while bringing
nity."
One of the artists especially
benefiting from the larger
space-is Mary Goldmintz, who
paints big metal sculptures.
Lipnik describes Goldmintz's
work as "bold and bright."
Eliyahu Alpern, who gradu-
ated from the University of
Michigan and now lives in
Israel, will be showing photog-
raphy. The Middle Eastern
studies major, who grew up in
Chicago and has worked as a
chef, turned a special interest
into a career.
"I wilt be bringing colorful,
panoramic photos of various
places in Israel," explains
Alpern, who moved from the
United States in 1997 and
makes his home on a moshay.
"I started doing commercial
photography for Web sites, and
I opened my own gallery last
year."
Alpern, who also does food
A
Mary Goldmintz:
"Dancing Miriam and
Girls," -2005,
hand-painted steel.
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photography; offers a virtual
tour of Israel through two Web
sites, www.golem.ws and
www.israelvr.net . An example
of his very large-scale work
can be seen as the wallpaper in
the Hillel center at New York's
Columbia University.
Multimedia Creations
Goldie Monzon, the wife of
wall tapestry artist Moshe
Monzon, assists her husband
with his Israel-based work.
"We offer florals and
abstract motifs in addition to
Judaica designs," she explains.
"Sometimes, there are hidden
Jewish symbols, and those
works of art become puzzles."
Monzon, who graduated
from Israel's Shenkar College
of Fashion, works with syn-
thetic materials that are light
and flat. His pieces, often with
Hebrew letters, can be bonded
to curved surfaces.
Sharon Geller-Metal has