Twelve Prints Somerset Mall

TWELVE PRINTS

Somerset Mall

Twelve Printmakers, an invita-

tional showing of 11 artists from

the Detroit/ Ann Arbor area and

one New Yorker, is definitely

worth the attention it's getting

right now from the shoppers at

Troy's Somerset Mali, where it

warms the cool scenery until Oct-

ober 2.

D. K. Semivan, a director at

Detroit's Artist Market, has done

a nice thing, Florida Swannery,

with a blank state map with what

looks like huge multicolored sets

of crossed legs suspended like

hooks in the smokehouse.

Jim Nawara, a WSU professor,

is into Bedrock - little detailed hunks

of weathered rock that pro-

bably even make the geology boys

happy.

Now, my favorite was Ox Box

III by Center for Creative Studies'

Aris Koutroulis. It looks

like the scum that 's left in a pot

of water after you've boiled pota-

toes in it the day before.

Stanley Rosenthal has a whole

series of prints with lots of

strange figures, like the visions of

a deranged gramma. Autumn is

set in some grotesquely ultra-

real hunters' lodge - what's missing,

though, is talk balloons.

Keiko Hara's designs are nice.

Frank Cassara got little faces in

relief that all look like mini Aga-

mmenon death masks, for what

t's worth.

Anyway, twelve better artists

haven't gotten together since the

Last Supper. We must wait to see

who hangs himself.

Twelve Printmakers continues

inside Somerset Mali, Big Beaver

Road at Coolidge, Thursday &

Friday 10-9, other days from

10-6. The exhibit itself is without charge.

--Harald Habinski