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April
Year
1996
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(MORE ART NEWS) The paintings of Jack Kevorkian will be displayed for the opening show of the new Yribar Gallery A "Meet the Artist Opening Reception" will be held Saturday April 13 at 7 pm. The next day those who have already reserved a space will attend a $50 "Exclusive Benefit Brunch/Lecture" featuring both music and philosophy of the controversial crusader for doctor-assisted suicide. Proceeds of this benefit will support the Dr. Jack Kevorkian Mercy Clinic. Exhibited paintings will be sold by silent auction. Signed and unsigned prints are also available.

Kevorkian's paintings have already been seen in the area, notably in an issue of Orbit magazine which reprinted several in color. Those paintings were surreal, darkly humorous scènes featuring death, and I assume we may expect more of the same. The flamboyance which makes Kevorkian bring out in public what other doctors have done for years in private is clearly evidenced in his paintings. Is Kevorkian obsessed with death? Decide for yourself. The exhibit is up through April 28. Gallery hours are Monday-Wednesday 11 am-9 pm, Thursday-Saturday 11 am-10 pm, and Sunday 12 pm-6 pm.

This is the "World Premiere" of the new gallery at 210 S. Fourth Ave. We can expect owner Denise Yribar to continue to not play it safe. Her business Yribar Design is the house on Ashley near the Fleetwood Diner with the naked statues and exotic plants out in front.

CyberZone Café will be Ann Arbor's first café to provide Internet access in a restaurant setting. Opening as early as mid-May, the café will feature eight Pentium PCs with CD-ROM drives and 17" monitors, plus a scanner, a photo reader, and a color printer, all available for hourly rental. The company CyberZone, Inc. is a full-service Internet provider. The restaurant will be open seven days and feature mid-range prices.

Besides encouraging computer literacy and Internet use, the café is intensely interested in promoting local fine art. Manager Sue Shaw urges local artists to get in touch with her now about displaying their work for sale in the café. Traditional fine-arts media like oils, watercolors, signed and numbered fine-art prints, collage and sculpture are her preference, but she will look at work in other media as long as it stands out from normal gallery fare. Computer art might be displayed as monitor backgrounds or screensavers.

Shaw wants to display work that is priced to sell to people who can enjoy it. She will be sure that work is well-presented with complete information about the work and the artist, and will plan special events with chosen artists to promote sales, such as demonstrations and workshops.

CyberZone Café will be at 21 1 E. Washington, the old location of the short-lived Levy's Art Café. The Art Café featured many nonlocal artists through the Levy connection to the Art Fair, and their restaurant seemed to have only a brief appeal as a trend - I walked by it nearly every day , and it seemed to clear out almost overnight when the next wave of popular, pricey restaurants such as Grizzly Peak Brewing Co. opened. With the Internet access, mid-range prices and only local artists, CyberZone Café should be an entirely different sort of establishment. Artists can call 668-2070 on Tuesdays and Thursdays to talk directly to Sue Shaw, or they can call any time to leave a message with their name, phone number and medium.

Washtenaw Council for the Arts (WCA) is following all the poor people (including many artists) who can't afford to live in Ann Arbor anymore by moving to our local frontier for gentrification, downtown Ypsilanti. They have abandoned The Loft, their Main St., Ann Arbor location and moved to the Riverside Arts Center, around the corner from the Green Room. WCA will not rent the whole facility, only offices and whatever it needs for special events. Aside from low rent, Riverside has better performing arts facilities, and until recently the WCA was primarily an organization of performing arts groups. Along with the new location, WCA is acquiring a new Director: Alice Cerneglia will replace Interim Director Tamara Real. The new phone number for WCA is 484-4882.

The New Art League is cancelling its April Second Saturday Morning event because the installation artists Heidi Kumao and Joan Giroux had to cancel their U-M Museum of Art installation "Range of Motion Under Glass." There will be no presentation 11 am Saturday April 13 at the Museum.