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cii THE WINDSOR STAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1989 Exhibit is a moving9 experience By Sharon Hill Star Staff Reporter JUDITH SCHWARZ doesnt want people to flip over ber art. But she does want them to move. To keep their feet shuffling, shes placed a 3 6-metre long black wooden beam on the floor. I did put it at ankle height to force the viewer to move back and forth, she said. It is a disruptive element." The beam is part of a sculpture called Parallel Language at her exhibition in the Art Gallery of Windsor.

The exhibition, which opened Friday night, includes eight pieces of sculpture and 22 works on paper. Schwarz said the beam forces the viewer to submit to a physical response as well as a mental response. The Toronto artist hopes the response to all her sculptures is movement Schwarz said movement is everywhere in nature from the changing cloud patterns to the cycle of seasons. She tries to give her work that sensation of energy and vibration. To me, its the sensation of life, she said.

Her large sculptures of wood and steel are developed from her images shown in her works on paper. Most of the wood and steel are cut for her, although she does some of the metal work. The 45-year-old artist developed her skills at Vancouver Art School and York University in Toronto. Schwarz said she does about three large sculptures a year. In her recent work on display, the wood and steel oppose each other.

It develops a dialogue between the natural and the industrial, she said. exhibition of her recent work is at the Walker Gallery until Jan 7. But visitors to the gallery will have this Judith Schwarz sculpture displayed A bronze casting of The Cheyenne, depicting an Indian warrior on a horse, was recently auctioned off for a record $550,000 US in Detroit but art collectors in Windsor can get a better deal at the 8th Annual Doin The Louvre at Artcite in Mackenzie Hall. The exhibition and sale starts Dec. 1 and continues to Dec.

23. Artcite also has Toronto artist Alan Belcher com ing and WATCH YOUR STEP when viewing to keep watching where they walk. The gallery recently purchased Parallel Language. The next opening at the Art Gallery of Windsor is Dec. 3 when The Griffiths Brothers, an exhibition of 19th century Canadian watercolors and painted porcelain pieces, begins.

Fall Selections 89, an exhibition of local and regional artists, continues in the Chrysler Auditorium until Dec. 10. Across the river, the Detroit Institute of Arts has Holy Image, Holy Space, Icons and Frescoes from Greece until Jan. 28 and Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic until Dec. 31.

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7 at 7 30 m. Belcher is known for his large color photographs applied to wood, plexiglas cinderblocks Mackenzie Halls Common Ground features the work of Michael Califano until Dec. 3. Windsor photographer Mane Wellwood has an exhibit at the Gibson Gallery in Amherstburg until Dec. 17.

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