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Sunday, Morch 2, 1980

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An Artist ·Who Paints With Bits And Pieces

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enormous field of blue, a forbidding, an- thropomorphic figure placed to the ex- treme right of the canvas, a blending of beauty and the macabre. Graff worked with USD's students and created an as yet untitled etching, showing the figures of two elegant women in 'full, long gowns, very romantic and not at all supernatural. This work was printed by Nancy J. Walker and pulled by students under the supervision of Deloss McGraw. Graff is to be commended for so gen- erously donating his time and expertise to USD's art department. This program of professional artists in the classroom pro- vides valuable lessons for the students and a stimulating environment for the artist. The Herman Graff exhibition runs through March 13. Hours: Weekdays 10 to 4.

in blood red showing an extraordinary feeling for the anatomy of evil. On the other hand, "The Studio," a 1965 acrylic on cardboard, is a lyrical composi- tion of an artist's studio abundantly filled with the fluid figure of a model in motion, props, completed pictures hanging on the wall and the figures of two women stand- ing in a doorway. As one moves from pic;ture to picture (spanning a period of almost 24 years) one becomes aware of how Graff's work has evolved, from figurative compositions to increasingly abstract shapes and forms, from a demonic figure to paintings where expressive distortions and personal sym- bolisms merge, leaving fragments of reali- ty totally behind. "Blue Sky With Yellow Figure," an oil on canvas measuring 48 by 46 inches, projects a long-stemmed flower against an

By RICHARD REILLY Art Critic The San Diego Union

transcends bitterness, and Saunders gets his message across through humor and wit. Amixed-media work, "Far East X O,"

Education Spanish catechet1cal tute, "Educac,on de la fe a traves de la farnilia y del grupo ·eclesial," 9 a.rn to 5 p.rn. March 23, Camino Hall Un1versIty of San Diego Details: 297-7110, 297-7113 Dr. Cor'leha Wilbur psych,a· trist of the rnult,.personal1ty patient. 'Sybil," w,11 speak at 8 pm .• March 6 Camino Theatre CJn,versity of San Diego, San D,e~o. 'Gen ral public $2 Details: 299 l 40. insti-

On a scale of one to 10, Raymond has been created against a black back- Saunders' art rates a 10 for innovation and ground and shows a torn photograph of a for ambiguity. In an exhibition of 45 of his Chinese woman in a wicker chair and a works (primarily paint and collage on post card addressed to the artist at his canvas and mixed media and collage on Oakland address. Astitched tree has been paper, but color field paints with stenciled glued to the postcard together with a additions as well) at UCSD's Mandeville rubber-stamped message, "I miss you." Art Gallery, one sees spontaneous, sophis- Other mediums of expression in this ticated art. work are fragments of blue and yellow The themes - black childhood, nostal- tags, torn paper and the letters X and 0 gia, society and some aspects of black painted in white. (The letters X/0 are culture - are perceived vaguely. Knowing repeated in several other works and, to the artist's background may clear up some this observer, have no precise meaning of the ambiguity. unless it's the obvious representation of X Saunders was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in equals an unknown and Oequals zero.) 1934, studied at the Pennsylvania Acade- Most of Saunders' collages incorporate my of Fine Arts, at the University of man-made objects, frequently linked with received awards from the Ford Founda- ments of fantasy and reality, difficult to tion, the National Endowment for the Arts, categorize. His elusive and seemingly frail the National Institute of Arts and Letters, expressions, imaginative memories and the American Academy (Rome), the abstract dreamscapes produce ambiguous Thomas Eakins prize from the Pennsylva- auras of sophistication and innocence. nia Academy of Fine Arts and a Guggen- Some viewers to this exhibition will heim Fellowship. liken Saunders' work to the unselfcons- The artist has exhibited extensively, and cious productions of young children, but his work is in the permanent collections of the artist's work makes too many de- the Addison Gallery of American Art, .mands on the viewer to sum it up that Dartmouth College, Fisk University, the easily. There is an ambiguity to Saunders' Minneapolis Art Center, the Museum of work until one discovers and unites his Modern Art, the Oakland Museum and the numerous images, but searching for an- Whitney Museum of American Art. Saun- swers makes it tough sledding. ders has been associated with the Depart- This exhibition runs through March 21. ment of Black Studies at the University of Gallery hours: 12 to 5p.m. Sunday through California Berkeley and has written a book . Friday, and 7 to 9 Wednesday evenings. titled "Black is a Color " Closed Saturday. Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology (B.A.) and the California College of moral, a story to tell. Saunders' work ls comprised of ele-

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Above, "Dick and Jane" by Raymond Saunders at the UCSD Mandeville Art Gal- lery. Below, "Seated Woman" by Herman Graff at the Founders Gallery, University of San Diego.

. ~ 3 Pilots Teach usD'°'f;'~;on In 89-70 · Win d t student tonl.ght,.. Brovelli to compete without Division 8 AILENE VOISIN slow, undermanned an no y d h t adm1·tted. "The thing I I players. THE SAN DltGO UNION

But like Avina said, it takes a while. "Yeah, we had a few losmg years - 5- 22, 11)-16 ... " NOTES - Last night was the final appearance for USD seniors Earl Pierce and Marty Mates. Pierce scored 8 points, Mates 4 ... Portland leads the WCAC in field goal percentage (51), is third in team offense.

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most admire about Avina is his ability to recognize his team's strength and then "He taught me a Jot of u I was with him." Enough, maybe, to get him the job at USD. But

stattwnter,TheScnDle90 mon Ten years ago, when Jack Avina was offered the head coaching job at the University of Portland, he selected a San Francisco high school coach named Jim Brovelli as his assist- ,;I surprised a lot of peo-- Avina said last night. "He didn't have that much coaching experience. But I wanted someone who would fit in with the program and the town." Last night, Avina and Brovelli were together again - this time on oppo· site benches, representmg different towns. In the sea- son finale for both, Avina's Pilots defeated the Univer- sity of San Diego, 89-70, at the Sports Arena. The victory was Port- land's ninth in the West Coast Athletic Conference (9-7) and 17th on the season (17-11). The Pilots are awaiting a pcssible NIT bid. For USD, it was. just • another loss (1-15 and 5-20). "Brovelli should be ac- . customed to losing," Avi,na joked afterward, "he had a lot of practice with me The first year he was in Port- land, we were 5-22, the sec- ond year, 10·16." But that was before Rick Raivio, Jose Slaughter or Darwin Cook were around. Raivio, a 6-5-forward who plays as if he's 6-8, scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Slaughter, a 6-4 forward who also plays taller, finished with 22, while Cook contributed 16 points and four assists. Still, as they have all season, the Toreros kept it close for about three-quar- ters. Portland led only 34-31 with three minutes remain- ing in the ;;rst half, but Raivio hit a jumper from the top of the key, and reserve Sidney Watson scored underneath on a per- fect pass from Mark Sheard to make it 38-31. Rusty Whitmarsh scored at the buzzer to keep USD w.ithin seven, 40-33. And then in the second half the Pilots offered a clinic on how to execute the fastbreak. It was Raivio and Slaughter on the boards, throwing perfect outlet passes to Cook and Bill Krueger - and each other - for layups. Or it was Raivio and Slaughter on the .boards, throwing perfect . passes to team- mates who stopped at the top of the key, shot and scored. Ironically, this is the very same offense Avina deplores. "I don't like this running game a bit," he said, "I like a controlled, pattern offense. But when you don't have the domi- nant center, you have to try something else." ant

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.. . . While there is something ambiguou about the Expressionist and Surrealisti drawings and paintings of Herman Graff, being shown at the University of San Diego's Founders' Gallery, they are not inexplicable. Graff has an enviable academic back- ground: degrees from the School of the Chicago Art Institute, De Paul University, Northwestern University and a certificate in drawing and painting anatomy from the Accademia di Belle Arto e Llceo Artistico, Florence, Italy. He has been an instructor in design at the School of the Chicago Art Institute, has taught and lectured at Indi- ana University and has been a professor of art at the California State University, Long Beach, since 1964. Exhibited at the I<'ounders' Gallery are 22 examples of Graff's work, the earliest being an uil i\f a "Demonic Figure" com- pleted in I !15f , the most recent being four oils executed earlier this year expressly for This show. G ~rrs demonic figure is truly a frightenin 7 rt resentation painted

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"What I need now are some front line players and

Max Ernst once stated, "It is not the paste that makes the collage," and this is particularly evident in Saunders' work. His collages combine drawings, bold brushstrokes of color, as well as numerous objects having intellectual and perceptual components all their own. Some of the items the artist uses are pages torn from cartoon strips and chil- dren's books ("Little Black Sambo" and the "Dick and Jane" primary school series)- as well as playing cards, photo- graphs, post cards and fragments of labels.

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"The teacher taught the Avina can't teach him how a guard. We'll be there." ple when I took Brovelli," .--~---------------------------- --

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A series of small collages, "Players" and "Dick and Jane and I Guess I Must Have Been a Shadow," for example, utilize fragments of drawings and pages from children's books showing Caucasian chi!- _ ............. dren "at the farm," with "hapoy pets," working "in the farm gardf:'n" ana "at , These collages emphasize one aspect of Saunders' work - the "all-white" chil- dr~n•s books read by, but never depicting, black chi!d~en -- and have more than a tinge, of irony. Tile artist's work, however, home."

Group Offers 'Mazarin~ Alliance Francaise de San Diego will present "Mazarin," a French his- torical film, produced for French television with sub- titles in Engllsh. The film will be shown Mareh 15 at 2 p.m. in De Sales Hall, Uni- versity of San Diego. There will be a small charge for non-members.

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Even Winning Can Be . A Painful Experience

Notes quotes and other stuff .. . Gary 'Nolan was a major league starting pitcher at 19 and a blackjack dealer by the time he was 28. . Those of course are the hazards of a profession which places ~xtraordin~ry demands upon the human arm. Nolan accepts them. . . But he can't accept the high mortality rate _among pitchers on the tea~ for which he did most of his good work, the Cincmnat1 Red,~i think they felt pitching. wit~

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pain is part of the game, wh1c~ it is," says Nolan, who is attemptmg a comeback with the San Diego Padres this spring. "But there is a difference be- tween pain and injury." . Nolan had an injury, a partial tear of his rotator cuff, which was finally repaired last year by sur- gery . The Reds, he believe~, refused to acknowledge the possi- bility he might be suffering m?re than tlie normal discomfort which

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'Secon Chance' Courses for Adults o Be Offered at USD If you struggled through high school math, couldn't draw a straight line i art class or th?ughl high school Latm was Greek the University of San Diego may offer hope. The' Alcala Park s ool is offering its new "Second Chance" pro~ ... a series of nine-week C?urses_ m subjects you- either didn't like ot didn't do well m dunng high school or liege. Among ttjec ferings are Frmch, a study of the novel, beginning Greek and Lain, a tourse on opera for singers and listeners drawing, themi!try, math for paren~ and children and n course m "Plants, Man and Society." Courses range from $65 to.$100. . . . To register call the US) Offte on contmwng education. The program will continui tbrrugh May 8.

Basketball All Day And Into Night, In LawSchool Classic Even the most fanatical basketball enthusiast should be satiated this weekend after attending the Second Annual Lowenbrau Law School Basketball Classic at the University of San Diego Sports Center. The first game starts at 4:30 p.m. today; play will go on all day tomorrow, and part of Sunday. The winners will fight it out at ,the San Diego Sports Arena before the Clip- per-Golden State game. USD alumni David Vargas and Mark Speck are putting on this year's classic, and the following law,schools will be represented by teams: Brigham Young, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, UCLA, the University of San Diego, USC, McGeorge, Hastings, Santa Clara, Loyola, Pepperdine, Stanford, South- western, Cal Western, Western State, and Golden Gate. Admission will be free and ex- penses will be defrayed by the sale of Lowenbrau beer, Coke and hot do!{

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1980 Psychiatrist Cornelia Wi\hur •who rcated the celebrated ca,e ~,t . yb,I," will g,ve a lecture enntl_ed . The ldennfication nnd Treatment < f Mulnple Personalities," ~Thur dav. March 6, 8 I' m. • Capm'~: h USO Alcala nr,c T eatre. • 191-6480 x4296

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Wayne Lockwood comes from taxing your arm. ,;I think the Reds felt that a lot ?f pitcher~, i,~ general, with the whole club were too conscious of pam, he says. "It was a bad situation, not Just for me but for Don Gullett and a lot of other guys. If you look back,. it goes from Jim Maloney right on through (Jim) Merrttt, Mel Queen Billy McCool, Gullett, me. ,, "I d~n·t know why. But I have to wonder why. . . Nolan does not wish to provoke a controvers~ with his previous employers at this late date. "I respect that organization because t~~Y put tog~;her some winners some real good ballclubs, he says. The thing I didn't like was for them to go to the p~ess and run me down without ever bothering to say anything to me. "Let's just say I'm happy to be here," Nolan concludes. "I thin'.: San Diego and Los Angeles have the best doctors in baseball." • · · 1 ·t f s Diego This was a difficult year for Un vers1 y o an Basketball Coach Jim Brovelli. . But he survived it with his head up and his sense of humor intact. . , 1 (th NCAA "If you're wondering why W" d1dn t p ay e limit of) 27 games this year' _it was a master strok~ of scheduling," explained Brovelli, whose Toreros went,? 20. "If we played 27 games, we could have_g?~e 5-22. . USD, advancing from Division II to D1v1s10n I play m the NCAA while joining th~ tough y;~st Coast Athlet~c Conference, was handicapped by m3unes and academic casualties. . • It played most of the last month with no more than ~me athletes. Still, the Toreros were generally compet1t1ve until one or more of their frontcourt players encountered foul problems. . t "It might sound funny, but this was one of the mos encouraging years I've had at USD," says the coa~h. . "We had a chance to develop some good nvalnes m a good basketball league for the first time. We _stayed _close to some very gopd teams. We beat Pepperdme, which 1s going to the NIT. . . "And I'm really happy for the effort our kids gave th1S year. When you're losing, it's hard to stay together. But they dicl., and played hard every game. . ,, "Some people, if they went 5-20, would say the) re gomg to clean house. But we don't need that. All we need 1s to bring in a couple of good Division I players. We ~1,ready hav ornnetent suooorting cast to o with them .

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TOPIC OF USO UPDATE SEMINAR "Making Affirmative Action Work" wl~ be examined during the first University of San Diego UPDATE Breakfast Seminar, Friday, Mar h 14, 7.30 a.m., In the Banquet Room of the Hanalei Hotel. Th eight UPDAi.E meetings runs thr.ough May 2 d I de g d t give an Di go bu lness peo,Ple an lty I Inter c with University of San Diego obi of Business faculty. • F d Bahr, Associate Professor o anag ment at U , will lead the seminar. Cost $15.00. Call'.293-45. 5 for furt er nformatlon.-

"HERMAN GRAFFE: RE- TROSPECTIVE SELECTIONS" Expressionist drawings and paintings chosen from Graffe's 50 years of efforts, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through March 13, in Found- er's Gallery, USO.

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· It's easy to be a little flexible when you have quick, excellent shooting players like Raivio, Slaugh- ter and Cook. But when you're like the Toreros - PORTLAND 18') Cook 8 0-0 16, Krueger 5 0-0 10, Sloughter 10 2-4 22. Raivio 7 Ir! 20, Dyer 0 0-0 0, Walson I0-0 2, Oliver 3 0-0 6, Johnson 4 0-0 8, Williams I 0-0 2, Dudley I 1-13. Totols409-1089. USD (70) stockalw 4 0-0 8, Pierce 4 0-08, Levesque 1 2-6 4, Mates 3 o-o· 6, Bartholomew 6 2-4- 14, Barbour 30-0 6, Cunningham 22-2 6, Whit· morsll 7 4-418.Totals3010-16 70. ·Halftime score: Portland 40, USD 33. Fouled out - Mone. Total fouls - Portland 13, USD 13.

EVENING TRIBUNE MAR 6 1980 Eightt~ams, including University of SanDiego and UCSD, will compete in th Rancho Bernardo Intercollegiate Tennis Tournamen! March 14-1~. Eight teams, including University of San Diego and UCSD, will compete in the Rancho Bernardo Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament March 14_-16. Yale, New Mexico, Oklahoma State, UC-Irvme, Texas Tech and University of San Francisco also will com ete.