Arts The Michigan Daily Thursday, July 22, 1982 Page 7 Acrylic paintings explore barriers of expression Sometimes people paint paintings; sometimes people paint people. At a booth on South University, a young girl gets her face painted. Thursday Events 11 a.m.- At the Graceful Arch stage on East University, Mustard's Retreat performs a broad selection of music including folk, rock, and blues. Noon- Franz Harary confounds audien- ces with "Odyssey in Illusion," a magic act that his assistants might not survive at the Graceful Arch. At the Michigan Union stage on State Street, Ann Arbor's own Gemini plays many original folk songs. No, you're not seeing double, these guys are twin brothers. Michigan Union stage. 3 p.m.- The Bizer Brothers handle Top-40 at the Graceful Arch. The Michigan Union stage must endure the stomps with eight clog dancers, the Starcrossed Cloggers. 4 p.m.- Gold Rush, an all female quartet, strike up lots of country music at the Graceful Arch. The Urbations are composed of a three-man brass group which forms the nucleus of the band, around which vocals, keyboards, and guitar experiment with a number of infec- tious genres and songs. A dance band, bar band, family band, garage band-whatever they are, they're always a good time. At Rick's/Pizza Bob's stage on Church Street. 4:30 p.m.- Jazz/rock with Sky High at the Michigan Union stage. 5 p.m.- Danse Orientale performed by Troupe Habitat-Al-Fen at the Graceful Arch. 6 p.m.- Tom Steppe sings standards and originals at the Graceful Arch. Outstanding danceable reggae from SLK at the Michigan Union stage. 7 p.m.- Rock from a group called Trees at the Graceful Arch. 7:30 p.m.- Foot-stompin' country fun from George Bedard and the Bonnevilles with a few early rockers and originals at the Michigan Union stage. By Jill Beiswenger Sara Buhrman, whose show of recent acrylic paintings is being produced by Claire Spitler on the second level of the Kerrytown building, is an artist who is still maturing, whose canvases are filled more with hypotheses than facts. A first impression of Buhrman's works likens them to images of cities and plains similar to those recorded by remote sensing satellites. The colors are not the "adjusted," brilliant con- trasts NASA uses to distinguish "hot" oil flares from the "cold" Saudi Arabian desert. Buhrman's paintings. are softer, with boundless folds of tran- slucent color edging over geometric,, gridlike centers. The distance implied is a matter of degree and opinion. Some. of the paintings might just as well be curtains blowing over a patchwork bed- spread. Buhrman works in Ann Arbor, Florida and Northern Michigan. "Saturday Morn" and several of the other "remote" works were painted on the Florida island where Buhrman owns a home. Her paintings seem to reflect the quality of the light available there, but Buhrman says, it's not that simple. Although she does like to use a model, these paintings are explorations of moods or mind images; to achieve this she works on several canvases at one time in order to achieve the fullest ex- pression of an impulse. Buhrman says that she had been at- tracted to art throughout her life and had always needed to express herself creatively, but that painting as an outlet had always been repressed. It was criticism of her work done as a student that forced her to take herself seriously as an artist. The sense of process, of material ap- pearing and going through changes on 12:30 p.m.- Mime's the word at the Graceful Arch as Perry Perrault presents a chapter in quiet theater. 1 p.m.- Good, clean country music from the New Nash Ramblers at the Michigan Union stage. Classy baroque music comes from the Sterling Chamber Players who perform on violins, woodwinds, and harpsichord at the Graceful Arch. 2 p.m.- The Junior Theater Strolling Players act in the musical-comedy How Does Your Garden Grow? at the Graceful Arch. Teatro Ikaro perform through mime and masked theater at the the canvas just as it has in Buhrman's perceptions, is vivid in these paintings. This is particularly striking in ones which combine layering, smudging, and effects such as draperies of falling volume which pass over, into, and un- der areas of solid color. In Caribbean Cruise, one of the few paintings that isn't brightness obscured by whiteness, the layering effect is den- ser, almost as if the layers were par- tially dissolved walls. After seeing these paintings and talking with the artist, one gets the im- pression that there are a number of barriers she has been negotiating. It will be interesting to see what her art' will be life if she ever makes these in- ternal walls dissolve completely. She has already climbed over them. ANN ARBOR7 INDIVIDUAL THEATRES 5t A, e f.ie, ty , 1-9. 00 ENDS TUES! :'" ~onlyS175 shows Setore GO FOR ROCKY III THURS, FRI-6:00, 7:55, 9:50 (PG) "DINER DELIVERS" -PEOPLE MAG. "Extremely funny. -Vincent Cmnby, NEW YORK lIMES DIIMIA Young people don't act childish By Blake Ratcliffe IF YOU ARE between 6 and 18 years old, talented, interested in Medieval Drama and the 1920s Berlin Theater scene; if you want to work im- provisationally with a director and playwright at creating your own play but you also want to study the Masters from Aeschylus to Beckett; if you don't have much money but enough drive to that your parents have to tie you into bed each night; if, in short, you want to be creatively challenged by the theater, where do you go? The Royal Shakespeare Company? Stella Addler? Join the Circus? Nope, you don't need to go any further than Ann Arbor's own Young People's Theater. The dramatic education you get at Y.P.T. isn't your normal High-School "Bobsya-Twins-Meet-The-King-of-Siam" musical. "These students really have to work," says Jennifer Shikes, one of the instructors you Y.P.T., who is currently teaching a class on Bertolt Brecht. "They have to work right alongside the instructors and directors in developing productions. Young people's Theater is probably one of the tightest ensembles in the city." And it shows. With only one day to work up a script and then perform it at the Graceful Arch yesterday, three Y.P.T. actors and Shikes produced a very entertaining parody of the Art Fair Craftsmen and Buyers. If you think you would be interested in finding out more about Y.P.T., Stop by their Art Fair booth this Saturday where you can talk to the instructors and actors. And you don't have to be a young person to be a member of Young People's Theater-anyone who is young at art can join. While the productions are only open to first through 12th raders, adults are welcome to enroll in classes teaching the technical aspects of theater. SHORT OR LONG Hairsty les for Men and Women DASCOLA STYLISTS Liberty off State ........668-9329 East U. at South U........662-0354 Arborland ..............971-9975 Maple Village ...........761-2733 THURS, FRI-6:15, 8:15, 10:15 (R)