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"I had an uncle who was the health
commissioner of Michigan, and he
helped my mom get some work,"
Secunda recalls. "The first time I went
there was 1930."
The difficulties faced by the
Secundas resulted in the artist's
spending time at the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum in New York. Although he
had religious studies and identifies
with the Jewish faith, he is not active
in observation.
Connections to the Bible are seen in
a series of prints, such as The Chaos,
Be Fruitful and Multiply and The
Binding of Isaac.
Secunda, who studied at New
York University and the Art Students
League in New York, was able to earn
a living beyond his artistry. He did art
criticism and editing and performed
on jazz piano, the interest of his
youngest son, Alexandre, expected to
play at the museum dedication.
The artist, devoted to his field since
childhood, learned later in life that
one distant relative gained attention
through the performing arts. Sholom
Secunda, a cousin, wrote "Bei Mir
Bist du Schon," made popular by the
Andrews Sisters.
"My late brother, Ken, and his fam-
ily lived in Detroit for many years,"
recalls Secunda, primarily known for
landscapes showing color gradation
Asya Reznikov'a Dream features
a looped video in a gilded frame,
reminiscent of Jacob's Ladder.
studio near her home. "They have to
do with the lenses we use to perceive
the world."
Always wanting to be an artist,
Reznikov learned how to paint from
her grandfather, an architect. She
first studied industrial design at the
Rochester Institute of Technology
with a practical career direction in
mind.
She went on to become a glass
artist at the Massachusetts College
of Art and Design in Boston, the
area where her family settled, and
earned a master's degree in fine art
at Hunter College, turning to photog-
and blending of forms but also rec-
ognized for mixed media, polyester
assemblage, ceramics and welded
sculpture.
"My brother went to Wayne State
University and was a General Motors
engineer, and I visited with his family
(no longer in the state) and exhibited
10 or 15 times in the area. There was a
1989 retrospective in Bloomfield Hills:'
With the museum, Secunda, now
divorced, will have an ongoing retro-
spective placed along more than 1,500
linear feet of wall space and filling
two dedicated galleries.
"The displayed works will be rep-
resentative of the span of my career,"
Secunda says. "The honor of having
an academic university museum per-
manently codify and display an artist's
oeuvre is a formidable dream come
true." ❑
The Arthur Secunda Museum
is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-
Thursdays in Chrysler Hall
North on the Cleary University
campus, 3750 Cleary Drive,
Howell. No admission fee. The
dedication gala is planned
1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7.
$200. (517) 586-3010. www.
arthursecundamuseum.org .
raphy and video as her main concen-
trations.
Study and work opportunities
have taken her throughout Europe
and India. She was awarded a two-
year German Academic Exchange
Fellowship.
"I'm interested in a lot of differ-
ent materials:' says Reznikov, who
teaches drawing at Hunter and has
lectured at Cranbrook. "Being raised
within two cultures, Russian and
American, informs my investigation
of otherness and self from the stand-
point of a foreigner and of a traveler!'
Reznikov, whose work is in the
collections of the Flint Institute of
Arts and the Wake Forest University
Museum in North Carolina, charac-
terizes what viewers will see as they
move from her work to McCarty's.
"I've been paired with Kim," she
says, "but the gallery really is having
two solo exhibitions."
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