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flatf? Sunday, August 4, 1991 77)e Beacon Journal Hit. Art review Portraits of the American spirit noon Friday at Tangier. Speaker will be Nancy Hackney, a teacher from Madison. Cost is $7.50. Reservations must be made by Tuesday.

Call 668-1975. Cards aad faahlom Come to the Circus is the theme of a card party and style show sponsored by the St. Thomas Medical Center Women's Guild at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at Our Lady of the Elms Commons, 1230 W.

Market Akron. Clowns will entertain, and fashions from Kristin's of Crawfis Square will be shown at 8. Tickets are $4.50 and may be ordered by calling Madeline BooeUl, chairwoman, at 923-4946, or Marie decarone at 923-4573. Gotten may register Registration is under way for the American Heart Association's Night Fore Golf Aug. 19 at Mayfair Country Club, 2229 Raber Road, Green.

Play, with glow-in-the-dark balls, will begin at dusk and end at midnight. The tournament will benefit the association's programs. Cost is $35. To register, call Goffing for the srwto The fourth annual women's golf outing to aid the Great Trail Boy Scout Council's career awareness exploring program will be Monday at Fairlawn Country dub. Registration is at 7 a.m.

Continental breakfast is at 8 a.m. Tee off is at 8:30 a.m. Cost is $125 and includes the awards luncheon. To register, call Jane Walker Snider at 867-6412. Vlrtfm-ambtaiire speaker Phyllis CetUe, founder of the Victims Source of Strength Group, will discuss assistance for victims of violent crime at a meeting of the Tallmadge Business and Professional Women's Organization at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Tallmadge branch of the Akron-Summit County Public Library, 32 South Ave. The public is invited. CUssrwHn topics Back-to-school fashions from Stem Mann's, and a talk about special education will be features at the Christian Women's Pub of Akron luncheon at 4 I if ft 4 I Charles, by John Lucas. Lucas is one of five artists whose work Is being shown at In Collaboration on South Main Street In Akron. ANNOUNCING A SiiLL ElMTrfQUGH 5 photographers' works offer personal visions By Dorothy Siltnn flrtuxm Joumm art critic When we see a show like the current one at In Collaboration Five Americans: Kevin Everson, John Lucas, Neil Runyon, Jessica Tamer, Arnold Tunstall we realize all over again the value of unique personal visions and how lucky we are to be living in a country and an age that allows us to express them.

Of the five photographers whose work is being exhibited at the gallery at 380 S. Main Akron, each of them is a top-notch practitioner of the camera arts. Three of the exhibitors Runyon, Tunstall and Everson received undergraduate degrees from the University of Akron. Tunstall and Everson earned a master of fine arts degree in photography from Ohio University. Everson has moved to Cleveland, but teaches at UA.

He shares studio space with Kent-Akron-Cleveland artist Michael Lod-erstedt, and it shows. Runyon, who earned his master of fine arts degree in photography from New York University, lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he manages a professional lab that does archival-quality black-and-white prints for museums and artists. Tanzer is from San Francisco. She has exhibited there and in Los Angeles, and her work has been extensively published in Europe and Australia. Lucas is from Cuyahoga Falls and still lives there, where he works for photographer Rick Zai-dan.

Lucas has a fine journalistic eye. His quick takes on Middle America are witty and telling. We chuckle when we see black-and-white image of a fat lady wearing a T-shirt that reads: "I'm fat but you're ugly and I can go on a diet," because it seems as if she's just mind-melded that message to the skinny lady beside her. the other images. It must be reverse chic, then, to have all this structure in a photograph that goes to great pains to look spontaneous and untutored.

Call me obtuse, but is there a context here that I'm missing? What may really need context and here, I need to warn that these images may be offensive to some are the studio-size black-and-white photographs of members of Atlanta's gay community by Tanzer. It will be interesting to see if these crisp, clear images which show nudity, frontal nudity (partial), homoerotic scenes between women, and one in which male and female couples (and you can't tell which is which) are lying in a circle kissing will cause the same reaction as Robert Mapple-thorpe's images of homosexual men. Some critics of the Mapplethore show said the hue and cry was raised because the images were photographs, and that made them more real and immediate than paintings. Others said it had more to do with the fact that the homo-erotic images were of men, and that had they been of women, no one would have cared. We shall see.

All but one of these artists have college degrees in photography. That's interesting. Because the work of the four college grads is more or less derivative and selfconsciously with it, while work by Lucas, the sole journeyman photographer in the show, reeks with honesty and the unswerving clarity of a unique, personal vision. If Lucas' work could be compared with anyone else's, it would be Robert Frank's 1955 classic, The Americans. But if Frank's vision is devoid of sympathy and sentiment, Lucas' is filled with it.

It's a taut, tense sympathy, however, at war with its context. There's nothing missing here. We have only to look at the image to know what tha mtext is. Downsized Dish Gets Great Reception! We smirk at the image of the front porch sporting two American flags draped side by side. Under one is a sign that says "Support Our Troops." Under the other is a sign reading "For Sale." But then comes Charles, the portrait of a young black youth that is beautifully conceived, lit, composed and printed.

Charles shows us Lucas the artist. Compare this portrait with others in the exhibit. Runyon, for instance, concentrates on frontal nudity his own, we are told. From what we can see, Runyon appears to be under the influence of Duane Michals or maybe the flip side of Sol LeWitt. His five images, each called Untitled Nude Study, depict the neck-to-groin region of a male.

But the images are blurry Runyon uses a pinhole camera that he uncovers and covers himself (ah, a metaphor). This series needs no warning label because there is really nothing salacious to see. In fact, after a while, we forget about the nudity and get caught up in the liquid texture of the inky blacks and soft, downy lights, for Runyon's prints have a baroque, painterly quality that would not look out of place next to a Rubens or a Rembrandt. Tunstall, who lives in Athens, can't decide whether he wants to be Andy Warhol or Piero della Franceses. Tunstall 's close-up color images of roadside Americana, including fruit stands and fast-food franchises (including a mask of the Colonel), are taken with a Diana camera a plastic box camera that uses 120 film in order to get that weird greenish tint and homely snapshot quality.

Getting a master's degree in photography so you can take snapshots like an amateur is chic. No kidding. It's a bona fide aesthetic. Three of Tunstall's images are portraits, and one of these, the portrait of the young woman, has the flat, frontal, mathematical quality of an early Renaissance portrait. This carefully mapped-out, mathematical quality, once recognized, becomes apparent in I 1 PRIMFSTAR BRINGS THE SIZE OF SATElllTF TECHNOLOGY DOWN 9 TO EARTH.

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Fry's work also can be seen in the spring issue of the Surface Design Journal, and he was one of 80 artists whose work was selected for the Ohio Designer Craftsmen show, The Best of 1991. Tyrone Geter, assistant professor of art at the University of Akron School of Art, won two awards in the Clark State Community College April show, 1991 Black Artists' Exhibition. He took first place for his painting, Horseman, and second place in the drawing category with Binta. Brimfield artist-calligrapher Linda Hutchinson had one of her works published in the March April issue of Journal for the Calligraphic Arts. Her work also was included in the April show of Scripts and Scribes at the Signature Gallery in Munroe Falls.

Akron artist Lola K. Isroff was nominated for the Governor's Art Award in the spring, and her biography is included in Who's Who of American Artists, 1989-1990 edition. Akron artist Charles H. Kapi-ty had a watercolor selected for Watercolor Ohio '91, which will exhibited at the Canton Art Institute Sept. 8 through Oct.

27. Daniel Lucas, son of Daniel and Audrey Lucas, Uniontown, and a recent graduate of Springfield High School, has won a $24,000 scholarship to attend the Columbus College of Art and Design. He will begin classes this fall and plans to major in industrial design. Akron artist Rosemary Marino had a busy June. Two of her etchings were accepted into the Ohio Women's Caucus for Art second annual Juried Exhibition at the Bunte Gallery at Franklin University in Columbus.

Her prize-winning print from the All Ohio 1990 show at the Canton Art Institute was accepted into the Bast of All Ohio 1990 exhibit at the Lakeside Studio, Lakeside. And, 21 of her etchings and lithographs were in a two-person show at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, Pa. Judith Meyer, lecturer at the University of Akron School of Art, is teaching two out-of-state drawing workshops this summer: "InsightOut" at the Penland School in Penland, N.C.; and "Drawing for Realism" at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Dennis Meyer, professor of art and coordinator of painting at the University of Akron School of Art, won third prize in the Judges' Choice exhibit at the Canton Art invitational show in May and June at the Lakeside Studio in Lakeside. Margot Eiseman, part-time faculty member at the University of Akron School of Dorothy Shinn 1yM TH2 PUTA C2ALCn FESTIVAL .3 1 lAavxi i ANNE MURRAY November 21-24, 1991 EE! BARRY MAN I LOW December 5-8, 1991 At s' the Fabulous Art, exhibited two works in the Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, in June and was featured in a two-person exhibit, Heroic Figures: Judith Beckman, Margot Eiseman at Ohio State University in April.

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