Friday, September 8, 2006 - The Michigan Daily - 9 'Surreal' misfires with title By Andrew Sargus Klein mixed-mediapaintingscoveralarg- comes off as a wry social view- dom combinations. These two 4 Associate Arts Editor er range and leave more room for point: Look how ridiculous these works stretch into the absurd. And the viewer to come to an indepen- outdated notions are. it's wonderful. FNEARTS ___EVEW _dent conclusion - as opposed to But in the context of Peterson's "19,683 Possibilities" and "Mile Carman-Vian's spoon-fed realiza- collages, the viewer is presented a High Pie" push this even further.:4 Fair or not, timing can be det- tions. His "Fathers of Ornothology culmination of experience, not the The latter is a throw up of the good rimental to an art exhibit. So can II" and four-part series "Audobon internal workings of one's subcon- ol' American family out in the wil- fA its title. As George Barsamian's Jesus" aside scious. The fact that her medium derness with floating pancakes and brilliant exhibit "Time and Trans- from adding is collage - a mixed assembly of other food. The former, like the formation" enjoys its last weeks at to the exhib- Real/SuRleal images not original to the artist - "Match Up Games" looks like an the University Museum of Art's it's amusing Through Oct. 7 affects the personal expression of antique children's toy. In compari- Off-Site gallery, "Real/Surreal' a amount of Free the piece. Liedler's ducks drip with son, her collages appear as spring- three-artist show at the Ann Arbor waterfowl, seemingly careless paint; Carman- boards into her assemblages. Art Center running through Oct. 8, are personal Art terr Vian's thickly drawn figures reflect With three artists jostling seems weak at first glance. windowsthat basic emotion. for position under an awkward Barsamian's kinetic sculptures play on the Petersen's wonderful "Woman umbrella, the results land all over .4 capture an individual and collec- edges of complete comprehension. and Moon Match Up Game" and the map. Surrealism is a problem- tive unconscious to an unsettlingly Much like Barsamian's "Lather," "A Couple Embarking Match Up atic qualifier; note that the Bars- high degree. By keeping a razor's Fiedler allows the viewer enough Game" look like they came from amian exhibit leaves it out of the edge between the unknown and signs to form the edges of under- a barn in northeast Connecticut. title, but it also can be a wonderful the recognizable, Barsamian reex- standing, but leaves the middle to They consist of parallel rows of devil's advocate to antagonize an amines and reinterprets surrealism. be filled in with his own personal, images on separate bars that slide artist's work. - or the audience's The mixed collages and paintings indecipherable memories. on top of each other to create ran- perception of it."- at the AAAC don't hold a candle But he finds more success in his to Barsamian's four pieces, but that "Lies About my Grandmother' fault is not entirely at the feet of Comprised of six portraits of one Susan Carman-Vian, Joseph Dan- woman in the same position - five iel Fiedler and Teresa Petersen, the are small, one significantly larger exhibited artists. The works com- - the series uses repetition and prising "Real/Surreal" are misrep- varying color schemes to a subtle, resented by a divisive title. emotive effect. There is no resolu- The name "Real/Surreal" imme- tion to the series's "lies," opening diately creates in the audience's up a space between the subject and mind a polarity between two the viewer, challenging the latter to"1 worlds that are not wholly opposite, meet the former in the eye. placing each work in one sphere or Although Fiedler finds a foothold the other. The potentially success- in the exhibit's theme, Petersen's ful works are thus marginalized dominant collages break free from through a narrow lens. it. Her nods to pop art - Andy Few of the exhibit's works Warhol, Roy Lichenstein - extend embody the possibility that sur- far into the nostalgic corners of the realism is the direct expression of American experience. the artist's subconscious. And the Petersen's images have the', ones that do attempt that realiza- vocabulary of the '50s. But she's tion rarely succeed. Carman-Vian's smirking with both and ironic and series of "Snowballs" - "Upper sarcastic edge. "Gardening for Peninsula Snowball," Childhood Children" is not surreal. While Snowball" "Global Economy" and there's an element of personal ref- "Teaching Career Snowball," to erence - he is a woman, she grew name most - are too direct and up around lives with social con- childish. Her mixed-media can- structs of female propriety - it vases are the weakest pieces in the would be difficult to call such a exhibit. composition surreal. While sur- Fiedler better embodies the realists have used popular imag- courtesy of the Ann Aror Art center exhibit's purported vision. His ery as a tool, in Petersen's case it Art currently on exhibit at the Ann Arbor Art Center Includes work by Susan Carman-Vian Joseph Daniel Fiedler and Teresa Petersen. 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