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. 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