Reporter Volume 25, No.23 April 7, 1994

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
A major exhibition of works on paper by UB Art Professor Harvey
Breverman, an internationally regarded painter and printmaker, will be
shown in Buffalo's Nina Freudenheim Gallery, 300 Delaware Ave., in
April and May.
	The show, titled "Artists, Writers, Musicians and Others:
Works on Paper," includes some of the most distinguished names in the
arts and humanities field, including faculty and former faculty at UB.
It opens with a public reception Saturday, April 9 and runs through
May 11.
	 Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5 p.m. and Monday by
appointment.
	The works to be shown include large drawings in ink,
watercolor and mixed media plus working drawings, sketches and
notations, like one of artist Francis Bacon dashed off on hotel
stationery. Most have not been previously exhibited.
	Among the old familiar faces are South African novelist John
Coetzee, who has been a UB visiting professor; French literary scholar
Michel Serres, who has held the Melodia Jones Chair in French at UB;
poet Robert Duncan, whose archives are held here; occasional visitor
novelist Tom Wolfe, and former UB English professor, novelist John
Barth.
	Also present an accounted for are longtime UB faculty such as
critic Leslie Fiedler, poet Robert Creeley and novelist Raymond
Federman. As in previous incarnations, the faculty cavorts in
mysterious settings that Breverman says advance his obsession with the
human charade.
	If the faces are old, most of the works themselves are new. A
case in point is a 4-by-21-foot long pastel triptych featuring 26
members of the current faculty, which is intriguingly titled "Cabal
II."
	Here, the cast of charactersQprofessors Jack Peradotto, Henry
Sussman, Jorge Guitart, Liz Kennedy, Carol Jacobs and othersQonce
again occupies a common space, apparently involved in congenial
collegial activity. Nevertheless, as in past Breverman treatments,
they rarely engage the viewer or one another directly and, by
Breverman's own description, appear instead to be absorbed in a
private ritual of a mysterious nature.
	In a brochure accompanying the exhibit poet Robert Creeley
writes: RHarvey Breverman has long been the deft and perceptive
recorder of our various presence, seeing us both as one and many. His
extraordinary quick takes, his generous reading of habit and presence,
his accumulated depth of resource and commitmentQall manage a singular
art indeed. Clearly his sense of the world is anchored in what he so
deeply recognizes in his fellows, which is to say, their own seeing of
themselves. Here's looking at you, like they say...