Art Reviews

Galleria show opens Monday

A major exhibit of the recently developed "primary color gum stencil" painting technique opens Monday at Delta College's Galleria.

Featuring the works of studio partners Stephen Goodfellow and Lowell Boileau, the show will run through Jan. 31. The Galleria is located in the Fine Arts Building.

The two artists developed the "primary color gum stencil" technique involving the use of the primary colors - yellow, red and blue-to create the entire spectrum. The acrylic primaries are not mixed, rather they are layered onto canvas or paper and washed down with water soluble gum arabic between each layer. Microscopic inspection of the surface reveals tiny splatters of the three primaries which, due to their close proximity to each other, create the illusion of many colors.

The effect of this technique is a brilliant almost luminescent surface. Due to the thinness and evenness of the unmixed primary color layers,  light easily passes through the layers and reflects off the white ground to "light" the painting.

The effect of brushing on the gum stencil is a subtractive process since the result of a brush stroke is to preserve what is underneath rather than to cover. And through blocking and applying the varying amounts of the primaries, a vast number of colors can easily be achieved.

Goodfellow, a co-founder of the Artist Guild of Detroit, received his training in England as well as the U.S., earning a bachelor's from Hull College of Art in England and a master's in printmaking from Wayne State University.

Boileau spent his early years in Saginaw, and later taught woodworking and technical drawing for the Peace Corps in Africa.

An an added attraction to the exhibition at Delta, both artists will demonstrate their work and show a recently released film about their work on Thursday, Jan. 19, from noon to 3 p.m. in Room S-140 of the Fine Arts Building.

Galleria hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission to both the show and the lecture/film presentation are free.

Muskegon. The quartet is made up in CMU students and is under the

direction of John Nichol.

On the tour program are works by Debussy, DuBois, Galante and Howland. The musicians also will conduct clinics at each stop.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1984

The Saginaw NEWS CS

The Arts Beat

by JANET I. MARTINEAU