48 | AUGUST 3 • 2023 

ARTS&LIFE
ART

W

omen who have been artists for 
many years were asked to think 
about creative ways they could 
express themselves, and 60 of them represented 
their personalities and outlooks through diverse 
styles. 
Those artworks are being displayed Aug. 
6-Sept. 13 at the Janice Charach Gallery in the 
West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. For 
clarification, each artwork is accompanied by a 
statement that communicates the meaning of a 
particular work and especially reaches out to a 
specific viewer or viewers with similar propen-
sities.
The exhibit, titled Her Story, features projects 
by members of either the Birmingham Society 
of Women Painters or De la Vie Studio and 
includes perspectives from a number of Jewish 
artists.
Lesley Kutinsky, a resident of Farmington 
Hills and a member of Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek, thinks of hands when she thinks of wom-
anhood, and she made a 3D collage of her ideas 
with representations of four pairs of gloves. 
 In “The Hands of Women,
” Kutinsky shows 
that she thinks of hands as maintaining respon-
sibilities for caring, working and praying among 
many other tasks.
“My mother was 99 when she just passed 
away, and she had between 30 and 40 pairs 
of decorative gloves so important in the years 
that her skills developed,
” said Kutinsky as she 
recalled the impetus for her artwork.
Kutinsky, who has a painting in the collection 
of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, worked as 
a science teacher before establishing her own 
company for making T-shirts. It was named 
TLC The Lesley Company, and she meets people 

Her Story exhibit at the 
Janice Charach Gallery 
shows the creative 
expressions of women.

Every 
Woman 
Has a Story

SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Lesley 
Kutinsky’s 
“The Hands 
of Women” 

