14-E- THE PLAIN DEALER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1987 FOR 8 J. MEYERS Sun-Hee J. Kwon, with painting from her "Mere Mortal" series, acrylic on canvas. Pensive 2- By HELEN CULLINAN ART CRITIC The three exhibitors at Spaces definitely have something on their Sun-Hee J. Kwon expresses human frustrations, longings and hope in her paintings.
Susanne Slavick's paintings are concerned with man's destroying his environment, and Murray Horne's sculpture obliquely focuses on threat to global survival. Kwon, born and schooled in Korea, painted pure abstraction until events in her life dictated a more subjective vein of expression. Her first non-abstract painting was the start of her "Mere Mortal" series, a work depicting a male figure with a blank face beside a coat seemingly worn by an invisible figure. The painting, exhibited in the 1986 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, led to a sequence of "Mere Mortal" variations on the recurrent blank faced male in different situations. Kwon's "Mere Mortal," which embodies personal references including a parental image, also led to different trains of thought and the use of other representational elements a chair, fish, flower.
Words, too, are scratched into layers of paint amid allover scratchings on the underglowing metallic-tinged color ground. Kwon's intriguingly ambiguous paintings reflect the ambivalence of subjective thought, doubts, hopes and trauma. She favors both symbols and the play of word and image, such as the alternate meaning of "fort" as strength or a place of refuge. "Reserved" is scratched on a somber painting in which an empty chair burns through purple darkness. But the mood lifts in the new, "Heart" series in which hearts and clubs (clover leaves?) introduce hope.
"Why should it all be so depressing?" Kwon said. Pittsburgh-based Slavick, a graduate of Yale University and the artists at "Home Aid," concrete, wood, aluminum and paint, by Murray Horne. Tyler School of Art, combines healthy and mutant landscape elements in the same picture space. The canvas frequently is sectioned off by a cruciform shape, separating etiolated trees and dead space from receding balmy skies. In some canvases, the differently-treated areas are simultaneously lighted by golden sunlight and threatened by lightning and eerie darkness.
It must be said that Slavick frames her portents of ecological doom in a painterly way in her large canvases of varying format. And, she consciously projects a Spaces ART SPACES positive and spiritual element of hope for the world's resources. Still, the threat is clearly outlined by such titles as "Haywire Harvest," "Sclerosis of the Will" and "Heaven's Jest." If only painters could solve the world's problems. Horne, also of Pittsburgh, is a native of New Zealand and graduate of the University of Canterbury there, and also the Tyler School of Art. His three large floor pieces (of concrete, aluminum, plaster, wood and paint) form a composite caveat on human vulnerability in a climate of global destruction.
The untitled 6-foot pillar form simulates a stack of human brain shapes graduating from small on the bottom to tiny at the top (metaphorically, a brain-drain reverse of evolution). Next is the sculpture titled "Common Cause," depicting a giant hand in which a giant white (blind man's?) cane is balanced. And finally we have the 12-foot missile form with the brain pillar- inside, plummeting downward. "I call it 'Home meaning that you are helping yourself destroy yourself, but a friend of mine calls it 'Blow Your Brains Horne said. "It's all very simple and direct as you could possible make it." Also slightly inelegant.
But as Horne put it, "I want my work to exude an intensity that is beyond specific unnerving incidents The pieces should act as metaphors for our 'being on the presenting a no-man's land between pain and anesthesia, responsibility and apathy, or rationality and stupidity," he said. "Horne, Kwon, Slavick" can be seen at Spaces, 1216 W. 6th through Oct. 9. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Cho Choreographer er Bob Fosse dies; directed 'Sweet Charity' WASHINGTON (AP) Director and choreographer Bob Fosse collapsed and died yesterday just before the premier of "Sweet Charity," one of his most enduring creations, theater and hospital officials said. He was 60. Fosse was director of the show, which was opening at the National Theater.
Alma Viator, a spokeswoman for the theater, said Fosse had rehearsed the company earlier terday and left the theater at 6:30 p.m. for a break with Gwen Verdon, his former wife. "He and Gwen Verdon went back to his hotel room at the Willard Hotel," she said. "He had a massive heart attack there. They rushed him to George Washington University Hospital, where they tried to revive him and could not.
"The cast knew nothing of this until the end of the show. He never made it to opening night." George Washington University spokeswoman Yvonne Hiott said Fosse was brought into the hospital's emergency room by ambulance at 6:48 p.m. She said he died of cardiac arrest at 7:23 p.m. Viator said Fosse showed no signs of illness earlier in the day. "He had a very spirited, 'up' rehearsal," she said.
The cast of the show attended an opening night party at a Washington restaurant and toasted him to 1 sustained applause. "It's very somber," Viator said. She said Fosse used to joke with the cast about a song in the show called, "Rhythm of Life." "There's a line in the song about percussion heaven, that they're all going to end up in percussion heaven. Bob used to kid them about that," she said. "Well tonight they were applauding him in percussion heaven." Fosse was long a mainstay of the Broadway musical theater, and he THE COMICS JUMBLE" THAT by A Henri SCRAMBLED Arnold and WORD Bob GAME Lee Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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"Sweet Charity," one of Fosse's most endurable choreographed creations, opened this week at the National Theater for a four-week run. It first opened on Broadway in 1966. with Verdon the original Charity. It was Fosse who gave the show its distinctive stamp, as he did in much of his choreography. Fosse won numerous awards for his work on stage, movies and television.
He won Tony Awards for his Broadway musical hits "Pajama in 1956, "Damn Yankees" in 1956, "Redhead" in 1959 and "Sweet Charity" in 1966, and two Tony Awards each for "Pippin" in 1972 and for "Dancin" 1978. His film work included "Cabaret," "All That Jazz" and He won an Academy Award for his work in "Cabaret" in 1972. In "All That Jazz," Fosse presented the autobiographical story of a brilliant director and choreographer, equally obsessed with work and women, whose smoking, drinking and insanely frenetic lifestyle finally delivered him to open heart surgery. Fosse was married and divorced three times, to Mary Ann Niles, Joan McCracken and Verdon. After his breakup with Verdon his girlfriends included Ann Reinking and Jessica Lange, both of whom appeared in "All That Jazz." He had a daughter, Nicole, with Verdon.
In that area of his life, Fosse claimed he had slowed down. "I certainly don't pursue ladies as much as I used to," he said. "I'm afraid I'll catch them, and then I'll have to do something. But I still find I'm a little more charming and funnier when ladies are around. I seem to strut more.
Some FOSSE'S CREDITS NEW YORK Here is a list of the major. Broadway musicals and movies choreographed and or directed by Bob Fosse: MUSICALS: Game" 1954, Yankees" 1955. "Bells Are 1956. 'New Girl in Town' 1957. Redhead 1959.
'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" 1961. "Little Me' 1962.0 Sweet Charity 1966. 'Pippin' 1972. 1975. 1978.
Deal' 1986. Charity" (revival) 1986. MOVIES: The Pajama Game' 1957. "Damn Yankees" 1958. "Sweet Charity" 1968.
Cabaret 1972. Lenny' 1974. 'All That Jazz 1979. 'Star 80" 1983. ority complex when I was a little boy, I suppose, some need to prove myself.
Anyway I really messed marriage up, and there is a lot of regret." Fosse, the son of a vaudeville singer, was born in Chicago on June 23, 1927. He was known for his bump-and-grind routines. When presenting him with a $5,000 Capezio Award for dance last May, Verdon told how Fosse, as a 9-year-old in Chicago, had gone "dancing over stoops and garbage cans," imitating Fred Astaire. Verdon, who worked with Fosse for more than 30 years and was married to him for more than a decade, called his contributions "unique," "risky" and "provocative.".
