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All-Around Artist

Jaclyn Schanes draws from many disciplines to creatively express her artistic vision.

The many faces of Jaclyn Schanes:
in the Jewish Community Center in West
The artist will use her watercolor
Bloomfield.
self-portraits as a backdrop to Show
While a senior at the College for
Pony, her one-woman performance art
Creative Studies in 2006, Schanes was
one-person performance piece
presentation taking place on July 31 in
creating
glass
sculptures
of
apples,
break-
reveals the artistic outlook and
Detroit.
ing from reality with different colors, pat-
artistry of Jaclyn Schanes.
terns
and
subtle
variations
in
shapes.
She
The multimedia designer, who has
Schanes says. "I was classically trained in
displayed one with a Chai (Life) symbol
painted a series of watercolor self-images,
piano. Before moving to Chicago, I taught
at
the
Charach
gallery,
where
she
was
part
will use her work as the backdrop while
myself guitar and how to record music.
of
a
student
group
exhibition
to
celebrate
presenting some monologue, music
"I had my own band called Minnie
Michigan
Glass
Month.
and singing for a two-hour program,
Krueger
Buys the Farm, and we per-
"I
wanted
a
num-
Show Pony, at 8
formed
at
the 2007 Detroit Fringe
ber
of
my
apples
to
p.m. Saturday, July
Festival
at
the Music Hall Center for the
express
my
Jewish
31, at the Re:View
Performing
Arts."
heritage
says
Contemporary
Back
in
Michigan
for five months,
Schanes,
daughter
Gallery in Detroit.
Schanes
is
looking
forward
to another
of
Valerie
Schanes
"This will be raw
musical
project.
She
is
going
to do a
of
West
Bloomfield
Jaclyn Schanes,"
recording
with
DJ
Jenny
LaFemme.
and
David
Schanes
says the artist, 26,
The core will be electronic sounds with
of Arizona. "My
who recorded her-
Schanes taking on the singing.
most
popular
self talking as she
When Schanes is focused on her indi-
apples
had
surfaces
was completing the
vidual
projects, she likes to work at night.
suggesting
lace
and
watercolors and will
She
prefers
small spaces filled with objects,
were
not
related
to
merge that talk with
like
books
and
records that inspire her.
my
religion."
her original music.
Schanes
continues
with her watercolors,
While
attending
"I'll have 35 differ-
an
approach
launched
in Chicago, where
West
Bloomfield
ent images that will
she
did
not
have
access
to a space that
High
School
and
express every feel-
allowed
larger,
three-dimensional
projects.
after
a
trip
to
ing I could come up
Recently,
the
artist
has
been
doing
per-
Israel,
Schanes
with as a person of
sonal
portraits,
freelance
graphic
design
expressed
herself
passion diving into
and gallery work.
with imagery
each painting. For
To supplement her artistic income,
related
to
Kabbalah.
the recordings, I'm
Schanes
has assisted her mom with sales
A
number
of
those
the one on keyboard Jaclyn Schanes: "Life is art to me and
of
a
children's
apparel line.
paintings
and
and guitar; and I've
I want to live every day creatively."
"Life
is
art
to
me, and I want to live
multimedia
works
used my washing
every
day
creatively:'
explains Schanes,
are
in
the
homes
of
machine and shower
who
has
exhibited
locally
at the CPop
relatives,
including
her
aunt,
Hope
Kroll,
of
for sounds.
Gallery
and
the
323
East
Gallery.
California,
who
does
narrative
collage
and
"Maybe, when all this is seen and
"I spend every waking moment concep-
helped inspire her niece's career pursuits.
heard, people will understand where I'm
tualizing
and working. Even if I don't have
"Everything
my
aunt
does
is
profound,
coming from. I'm pretty open and a little
my
hands
on art or music, I'm processing,
and
I
feel
like
art
has
to
be
in
the
family:'
rebellious:'
through
my
head, ways to get out a new
says
Schanes,
who
started
drawing
as
a
Schanes, who grew up in West
piece
of
work.
youngster,
later
experimented
with
furni-
Bloomfield and has returned after expand-
"My job as an artist is to provoke. I don't
ture and then moved on to blowing glass.
ing her style during a year in Chicago,
want
to bore people. I feel I should enter-
She
has
designed
infant
clothing
and
hopes to keep most of her presentation
tain
through
art, music or writing. Maybe
served
as
costume
designer
for
the
inde-
a mystery until it is staged. Plans are to
I
can
help
others
find out something about
starring
Iggy
Pop
Art
House,
pendent
film
involve the audience as her show unfolds.
themselves
through
my are'
and
Greta
Gerwig,
now
making
the
rounds
"The people who watch this will get a
at
film
festivals.
chance to use their own imagination:' she
"I had to dress 60 people and also con-
says. "Although I've performed on stage, it
Jaclyn Shanes' Show Pony will be
tributed
a song to the movie soundtrack:'
was a strictly musical performance with
presented 8 p.m. Saturday, July
says Schanes, who is single. "It was the
a band so this will be new I've had water-
31, at the Re:View Contemporary
colors in other art shows, but they've never hardest job of my life, and I'm so proud
Gallery, 444 W. Willis, Units 111 and
of it."
been about my own brain pockets."
112, in Detroit. No admission fee.
Schanes' interest in the performing arts
Schanes, who had her bat mitzvah at
(313) 833-9000;
has
been long term.
Temple Israel, has shown a .very different
www.reviewcontemporary.com .
"When I was little, I studied dance
kind of work at the Janice Charach Gallery

Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News

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