ARTS
The Michigan Daily
Friday, April 17, 1987
Page 7
'Masters' show great promise
By Charles Oestreicher
Two new degree shows opened
Thursday night, and I had the
privilege of previewing one, at the
lean Paul Slusser Gallery, the
afternoon before.
The show features six degree
candidates at the height of their
powers and will be open for an
extended period of time, thanks to
te artists themselves. It was
decided that larger shows open for a
longer period of time would be
preferable to several smaller ones,
so both this show and the one
opening at the Rackham Gallery of
Art will be displayed for two
weeks. This gives students ample
opportunity to see both of them,
which they should take advantage
of. Based on what I saw at Slusser,
the work on display merits
attention.
It's hard to avoid mentioning
George Gates first in this review,
not just because his work is so
good, but also because it is very
big. In fact, one of his sculptures,
"Snap Dragon," is about twenty
feet tall. Constructed of rusty scrap
metal and car springs, among other
items, one can't help but wonder
two things upon seeing it: "how did
they get it in the room, and is it
going to bite me?" Gates'
sculptures and paintings possess an
angular, pointy look that is both
threatening and appealing. He
handles light and composition very
well, drawing the viewer's eye in
and out of dozens of holes, slits and
other orifices. Forms are repeated,
twisted, suggested and mocked.
Gates' cubist-like paintings are
sharply satirical, but have a geniune
(if jet-black) sense of humor. The
medical, military and religious
establishments all receive a beating
from Gates' witty, pointed brush.
Denise Samuels' work also has a
knowing sense of humor, but her
imagery is much more abstract. Her
reed and twine scultures take a
seemingly limited media and
illustrate the fact that limitations in
any media exist only within the
artist's mind. Composed of long
and usually dark reeds and multi-
colored twine, these scultpures
evoke many styles, particularly
those of American Indians and the
Middle East. Samuels' most
provocative piece on display is
"The American Dream" - a house
made out of laminated and sewn
together road maps. It is a simple,
elegant statement to which nothing
really can or should be added, except
see it for yourself.
Brenda Holly and Claudia
Liberatore are both photographers,
but neither has presented standard
examples of the medium in this
show. Like Samuels, these women
extend the range of their medium.
beyond the obvious into the
infinite. Holly Liberatore's photos
don't even look like photos.
Through stereo photography and
hand tinting, she has created surreal
new-wave collages. She combines
natural and imaginary elements,
which seem to have had their rough
edges softened through tinting, and
arranges them so they resemble
cloth patterns or objects falling
gently from above.
Liberatore's style involves
images being laid on top of one
another and combined. It produces
eerie, slightly unnerving work -
the viewer almost expects to see
ghosts floating around in the
scenes. In "Florida Brides," a
tropical storm over a beachfront
motel brings with it obscured
portraits and lends the whole piece a
strange, grainy gray tone. Photos
with play-on-words titles
("Christmas Presence," "Window
Pain") produce similarly spiritual
atmospheres. The closest parallels
to these images are in mysticism
and hallucinogens.
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo's graphic
design pieces are intelligent and
resourceful, both pleasing to the
eye and effective in conveying
ideas. Nunoo-Quarcoo limits his
choices of colors and lettering to
one or two in each piece, and sticks
to abstract images and shapes. Such
discipline results in bold, unadorned
work which is strictly non-partisan
and relies on chiaroscuro for its
visual impact. Nunoo-Quarcoo's
work is, in effect, an object lesson
in graphic design technique, relying
on talent and knowledge rather than
gimmicks to do its job.
Sharon Sandberg is, like George
Gates, a painter, but her work
differs in virtually all respects from
his. Sandberg has chosen still-life
subjects for the paintings on
display, usually groups of glasses
and bottles on oddly shaped shelves
in corners. These quiet, spare, (but
not stark) scenes usually occupy
small parts of large canvasses -
which means Sandberg is painting
mostly space where stuff isn't,
rather than where it is. She handles
these compositions well, using a
small palette and a careful style in
rendering objects. In spite of the
limited color range, Sandberg's
paintings are not monochromatic,
but they do posess a greenish tone
which seems intentional. Overall,
she captures light and space in an
intelligent, resourceful manner.
Since this show presents
talented, inspired artists and is
running for an extended period of
time, students should take time out
and go see it and the one at
Rackham. You won't be
disappointed.
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