• Catering available at all locations • Coupons are for all locations including Hercules Family Restaurant at 12 Mile & Farmington Visit us at www.leosconeyisland.com Receive Receive 1O $200 Off Total Bill Over $20 Not valid with Specials. Not valid with any other offers. With coupon. Expires 12/31/08 Off Total Bill Not valid with Specials. Not valid with any other offers. With coupon. Expires 12/31/08 Not valid with Specials. Not valid with any other offers. With coupon. Expires 12/31/08 , Joe Zucker: Saskatoon, 1998; acrylic and rhoplex on canvas. *ST of my work. Sometimes, to make an image legible, I need a larger-scale format!' Zucker, the only artist in his fam- ily, began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was 5 years old. His mother had studied there and thought her son could ben- efit from the children's program. Although he entered an art cur- riculum and played basketball for two years at Miami University of Ohio, he returned to the Chicago institute to get his bachelor's and master's degrees in painting. "When I got to college, it sort of hit me that painting was something I could do, and I was interested enough to make it a lifelong project:' says Zucker, who has taught at the Minneapolis College of Art, New York University and Harvard. "Painting became addictive and, as the years went by, I got a fuller understanding of what I was doing. The work became a marriage of talent and ambition, and I had a lot of luck to survive!' Aside from luck, he has called upon different types of paint to achieve artistic goals. For the canoe, he needed a stiffer substance and combined acrylics with a gel medium. The chair series used house paints because of their fluidity and finish selections. In the 1970s, when Zucker worked on paintings about racism, he incor- porated cotton to extend communica- tion of the subject. With numerous solo and group exhibits in and out of the United States, Zucker's paintings became part of museum collections. The Detroit Institute of Arts owns one showing a naval battle during the Revolutionary War, and the Jewish Museum in New York City has a Golem painting. Zucker, who doesn't practice Judaism but identifies with the mod- em accomplishments of Jews, has painted a small New York synagogue as if it were a stained glass window. He titled it St. Sinai, recalling the way people referred to the very Reform Chicago congregation he attended as a child. "I used to work between 10 and 12 hours a day, but now I like to get what I'm doing done before lunchtime," says Zucker, married to interior designer Britta Le Va. "At my age, I like to keep my work hours somewhat reasonable, but sometimes I paint in the afternoon, depending on the process involved. "I see my work as one big painting that's connected. The painting I did yesterday fits into a context with one I did 30 years ago. My main goal is to continue an overall control of the body of work." "See/Sea" will be on view March 7-April 19 at the Susanne Hilberry Gallery, 700 Livernois, in Ferndale. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. There will be an opening recep- tion 6-8 p.m. Friday, March 7. (248) 541-4700. The artist will speak at the Woodward Lecture Series 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Wendell B. Ford II Building, John R. at Frederick Douglass, on the campus of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. (313) 664-7800. AR *STAR *STAR *STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR STAR DELI IS ONE OFTHE BEST CARRY OUT ONLY RESTAURANTS IN AMERICA! Hours: Mon-Sat 7-9:30 Sun 7-8 * Potato Latices * Handcut Lox * Our Regular Tuna & Fat-Free Tuna Can't Be Beat! * Vegetarian Chopped Liver * Homemade Potato Salad & Coleslaw COMPARE OUR LOW PRICES WITH ANY DELICATESSEN IN TOWN! MEAT TRAY $7 ■ 49 won SALAD TRAY $7.99 person SALAD TRAY W/ LOX & CREAM CHEESE s10.99 Per n DAIRY TRAY s15.49 =on STAR'S TRAYS CAN'T BE BEAT FOR QUALITY & PRICE! 14 5 OFF • ***I. ON STAR'S BEAUTIFUL ALREADY LOW-PRICED MEAT OR DAIRY TRAYS Expires 4/15/08 • One Per Order • Not Good Holidays • 10 Person Minimum WITH THIS COUPON 4 D ELIVERY AVAILABLE 4 24555 W. 12 MILE ROAD Jost west of Telegraph Road • Southfield 248•352•7377 1366950 Construction Is Done! We look forward to serving you! 10% OFF TOTAL BILL DINNER OR CARRY OUT Both Locations Expires 3/31 /08 MN MN ii==t Sig 1,tile AL OUNIK)\, yohr Fresh Mid-Eastern Cuisine www.aloumararestaurantcom 1354410 MI a 6123 Haggerty Rd. (north at Pontiac Trail) West Bloomfield 248.960.0511 6096 West Maple Rd. (at Farmington) West Bloomfield 248.539.0505 Open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner March 6 • 2008 C5