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Last call for an art exhibit that proves no scene is ordinary Waiting for Ride' shines in Fay Kleinman show Monday, January 24, 2005 BY ANNE RUETER News Staff Reporter At a bench on a busy street, three people are waiting - a sight so common, few of us would take a second look. How fortunate that our community is full of artists who do. Five years ago Fay Kleinman, now 92, saw the threesome when she was waiting, too, in the University of Michigan Hospital lobby, where her daughter was to pick her up. "I looked out, and there were these people in front of me," she remembers. "I took out a tiny pad I had in my purse and did a little sketch." Kleinman, a lifelong artist with many shows to her credit, later turned that Ann Arbor street scene into a luminous moment in "Waiting for the Ride." It's part of an exhibit of 30 of her paintings at Gallery 55+ at the Turner Senior Resource Center. Against a backdrop of muted greens, gray-blues and taupe - a November day in Michigan - we see the backs of two women seated, a man standing, beside a bench. Bold sprouts of color make them pop out: the seated woman in her scarlet scarf and nearly chartreuse coat, the man with his pink face, blue cap and jeans. The other woman, in yellow coat with dark crimson hair, is turning, like him, as if to see if the bus is coming. There's nothing forlorn about these two. With a few brush strokes, Kleinman makes us feel they're ready for something to happen. Have they already spied their bus in the distance? The third woman sits hunched over, head bowed. She's not ready. That's what we saw. Here's what Kleinman has to say about her painting. The little sketch "just sat around for years - I kept thinking about it. I guess it was incubating in my mind," she says. Last year, she decided to turn the sketch into the bright oil painting on canvas. Kleinman, who lives in Ypsilanti, studied at the American Artists School and the National Academy of Design; one of her paintings, a small snow scene, once hung in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The works in the Turner Senior Resource Center show span nearly 50 years, from collage self-portraits to a dazzling orange sleeping cat to "Michigan Clouds," a short poem nestling in its brilliant pinks. S he still paints, despite faltering vision. "Paintings come from everywhere, and they're all around you," Kleinman says. If Kleinman's fresh, delightful touch makes you curious to see more, hurry out to the center at 2401 Plymouth Road: The show comes down Thursday.For more information, call (734) 998-9353. Kleinman will show more of her paintings at a show opening March 28 at the Ypsilanti District Library (for details, call (734) 482-4110). Or visit Kleinman's own Web page a www.geocities. com/faykleinman/paintings.html Reporter Anne Rueter can be reached at (734) 994-6759. ? 2005 Ann Arbor News. Used with permission
