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A sculptured art-glass and semi-precious
stone necklace by Arleen and Michael Parker
Laminated
Plexiglass and
stained-glass
jewelry are among
the finds at this
this year's Orchard
Lake Fine Art Show.
The Orchard Lake Fine
Art Show runs Saturday-
Sunday, July 25-26, along
Powers and Daly roads,
south of Maple and west
of Orchard Lake Road.
$5; free for those 12 and
younger. (248) 684-2613;
hotworks.org .
A Fine Art Affair
I
Suzanne Chessler
Contributing Writer
painter inspired by
Kabbalah and a team
`of glass jewelry design-
ers giving a new perspective on
Jewish star pins join some 150
artists at this year's Orchard Lake
Fine Art Show running July 25-26
in West Bloomfield.
New Yorker Robert Bery will
bring a collection of digital world
abstractions for his first visit to
Michigan. Arleen and Michael
Parker, who divide their time
between Georgia and Florida, will
bring new bracelets and earrings
as they return for their 15th year
in Michigan.
The show, in its 13th year,
offers juried work that includes
clay, fiber, wood, photography
and more. All work is original
and personally made by partici-
pating artists.
The event, voted in the top 100
Celebrity Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the
Jewish News
AT THE MOVIES
Paul Rudd, 46, stars in the title role
of Ant-Man, which
Rudd
opens July 17. This
is the first time that
Ant-Man, a founding
member of the Marvel
Comics' Avengers,
has hit the big screen.
Ant-Man is really mas-
ter thief Scott Lang
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among 4,000 art fairs evaluated by
Sunshine Artist magazine, offers
$2,500 in Professional Artist
Awards based on technique/
execution, originality and booth
appearance. There is $250 in
Youth Art Awards.
Enhancing the atmosphere
will be reggae entertainers on
Saturday and Sunday and blues-
jazz performers on Saturday
afternoon. Food vendors include
Yardbird from Keego Harbor,
Union Street Detroit, Saffron
Indian Cuisine from Farmington
Hills and Detroit Shrimp and
Fish.
"My work is filled with abstrac-
tions using acrylic on paper
laminated onto Plexiglas" Bery
explains. "I'm addressing the
issues of cyberspace, all having to
do with the fabric of social con-
tact in the digital age.
"The ideas relate to Kabbalah
suggestions because of the beliefs
that we are all connected like a
in a suit that allows him to shrink in
scale but increase dramatically in
strength. The suit was developed by
his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael
Douglas, 70). Lang, says a publicity
release, has to channel his inner-
hero to help his mentor and keep the
secret of his suit from a new genera-
tion of towering threats." One of those
possible threats is Darren Cross, aka
Yellowjacket — who has developed a
similar suit — played by Corey Stoll, 39
(House of Cards, The Strain).
Opening the same day is Trainwreck,
which has gotten great advance buzz.
It stars the really hot (and I think
brilliant) comedian Amy Schumer,
34, who also wrote the film. Directed
small village with a digital
Quartz is set in a
personality, and we should
stained-glass pendant
have empathy, love and
by the Parkers
positive energy as in the
religious teachings.
"My cyberspace images
are part of the reality of
viewers, and each viewer is
connected in many ways to
the space I'm implement-
ing"
Bery, whose series
comes under the heading
"New Identity," will display
18 large images with blue
shadings to relate to air
and water and circular
strokes to capture activity
62. "I took classes in engraving
and represent electronic waves.
and moved to the United States,
Bery, whose family moved to
where I began working in soft
Israel from Hungary in the wake
sculpture before painting"
of World War II, was trained and
Although his early images were
employed for a time in aeronau-
realistic, mostly of women, Bery
tics but decided to follow the
decided to depart into abstrac-
artistic paths of his father.
tions.
"I went to Paris in 1974 and
"Most of my work has to do
found an art teacher," says Bery,
with soul-searching" says Bery,
by Judd Apatow,
47, the master of
romantic comedy
with some raunch, the
film is about Amy, a
magazine writer, who
believes that monog-
amy is not possible,
Schumer
until she finds herself
falling for the subject
of the new article
she's writing, a charming and success-
ful sports doctor (Bill Hader).
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Vanessa Bayer, 33, has a major
supporting role as Nikki, Amy's friend
and sounding board. This is the first
big-budget film for the SNL star. Dave
Attell, 50, and Ezra Miller, 22, also
have big supporting roles. Also look
for Norman Lloyd, 100, who had big
parts in a number of Hitchcock films
dating back to 1942. He's probably
best remembered as Dr. Auschlander
on TV's St. Elsewhere. Lloyd plays an
interesting neighbor of Amy's father
(Colin Quinn), who lives in an assisted-
living facility. Amy's father in the
movie, like her real-life father, has
multiple sclerosis. In a recent inter-
view with CBS, Schumer said that her
father's illness (which struck when she
was 12 years old and bankrupted the
family), helped her embrace life, laugh-
ter and love. She says: "I want to, like,
experience all I can and make as many
memories as I can." As for her dad,