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Extra delicious Little Caesars® pizza. For every one you pay for, you get an extra one free. Amidst a small maze of cats, pens, paints, Xerox cartridges, canvases and a television, Joan Maf fei paints a visual image of a recent afternoon adventure. Maffei turns on the television to a popular soap opera, puts her head down and continues working on her latest piece of art, “A Trip to the Dump.” Although television is vital to her creativity, Maffei virtually ignores the viewing screen while she works. “Television is my inspiration,” Maffei explains. “I can’t work with out it.” As a small girl, when radio was (lie only source of home entertainment, she would sit in front of the speaker and draw pictures visualizing the ra dio shows site heard. Today, while working on her paintings, Maffei listens to the tele vision. She chooses programs that she doesn’t need to actually watch in order to understand what’s going on. “I don’t care if they’re soap opera stories, the Iran-Contra investiga tions or whatever,” Maffei says, “as long as there’s a plot that I can listen to and see unfold.” Maffei says television helps her add imagery to her paintings. “I like to tell the story and have a ploiline in my pictures,” Maf fei says. Maffei is a figurative painter who enjoys working with people and tilings in her daily life. “Since I do pictures of people I know,” Maffei says, “nobody ever wants me to sell anything.” To keep everyone happy, Maffei finds alternate ways to make money with her paintings. “I sold the rights of a painting to St. Martin’s Press and they used it on the cover of a book,” Maffei says, “but I got to keep the painting.” Maffei, a tall, thin, confident woman, partially credits her parents for her lifetime interest in painting. “I was one of those kids who could draw horses real well,” Maffei says. “Everyone thought it was real neat, so I kept on doing it.” The Los Angeles native says her parents encouraged homemade arts and crafts instead of store-bought toys, so plenty of painting materials w'ere always lying around the house. Although her parents helped spark her interest in art, they weren’t supportive of art as a profes sion. “My parents said they wouldn’t pay my w'ay through college if I studied art because it was too frivo lous for a woman,” Maffei says. Her parents told her that during the 1950s, but Maffei says that even today art is too frivolous for anyone. While her parents wouldn’t sup port her if she studied art, they would support her if she studied ed ucation. Maffei, in keeping with her innocent nature, told them she was studying elementary education. But she wasn’t. Maffei says they found out the truth w hen she graduated. Maffei studied fine arts at the University of California at Los An geles, where she received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s de gree. She has been showing and sell ing her paintings since she grad uated from college. “My first painting went for about $500,” Maffei says, “and that w'as during my first show in the ’60s.” After studying and working in Los Angeles for several years, Maf fei, her husband and children moved to Berkeley, Calif, where she painted whatever she saw that inter- Joan Maffei at work Photo by Traotol ested her and that realistically por trayed the times. “I did a series of portraits,” Maf fei says, “of a soldier, an astronaut, a Black Panther, a policeman and a hippie —John Lennon.” “While I w'as living in Berkeley,” Maffei says, “Ronald Reagan was governor and he was tear-gassing ev erybody every day. The Berkeley campus was like a battleground, and then we came here and there were all these kids with military uniforms on.” Maf fei and her husband moved to College Station in 1970 when her husband accepted a position as a professor at Texas A&M. “We had never heard of Texas A&M,” Maffei says. “We had never even been to Texas and had no idea w'hat we were doing. “We were in culture shock for at least a year. The amazing part is w'e’re still here and I really love it.” Maffei says her artwork suffered from the move for nearly a year w'hile she overcame her culture shock. The shock w'as enhanced by the vast difference in the art worlds of California and Texas. Maffei was separated from her friends and peers, who served as critics to her work. She also discovered the lack of galleries in w'hich to exhibit and sell her work in College Station. “It was both positive and negative because I was removed from the style and fashion of art in Los An geles,” Maffei says. “I think that has made my work stronger,” Maffei says, “but I haven’t been able to exhibit as much as if I would have stayed out there.” She says College Station is a diffi cult place for artists to thrive. “I came here and there was no thing,” Maffei says. “ There wasn’t even an art program here at A&M. “It’s hard to stay in the market place and live in a place that’s this re moved from it.” Maffei fortunately has been able to utilize the galleries at A&M. Her next solo show will he in the MSC gallery for three weeks in April 1988.' In Los Angeles, Maffei primal ily showed her paintings in only one gallery — Ceeje — which displayed w'orks of new, young artists. “Unlike most places now , I didn't have to go around looking for a gal lery,” Maffei says. “ They came and found me. I had a one-man show the year I got out of graduate school in a gallery on La Cienega boulevard, which was a very big deal.” Maffei sold her first painting dur ing her first exhibit at Ceeje to a woman who liked it particularly be cause it matched her sofa. “I thought 1 was much beyond matching people’s sofas,” Maffei says with a laugn. Maffei’s paintings enhance every day events with visual compression and intensity. At first glance of the canvas one might think they were a collage of images, but a closer look reveals precise meaning and charac ter in the placement of everything on the canvas. If anything were re moved, the story would not he fully told. Each painting goes through seve ral stages before completion. First, Maffei develops a concept for the painting. Next, she takes photos of the real elements wanted in the painting. Then she draws sketches, which she copies and places on the canvas in their predetermined spots to finalize the layout. Finally, the oil goes on the canvas to reflect a partic ular past event. Sometimes Maffei furthers ops the Xerox copies, create usual formats that display i' single or multiple images. Maf fei lias done all her j paintings in oil because thau she was taught to use and td that’s what she likes. She uh likes the look of oil painion&i In viewing the art, definitecd and surrealistic depths enhans| rich colors of the oil paint. “I’m really not a three-dira nal pershn,” Maffei says. Is have very good depth perceptiu Maf fei says the Los Angeled helped her develop a flattened'.! shortened perspective in her. work. “You really can’t seeasfarjn| of you in Los Angeles as youcaij re,” Maffei says. “In Texas,the! are very clear and it’s easy tod erything.” But she says thoseta tions helped create her original I spective. Her paintings entertain and! gage the spectator with dreail views of everyday scenes j| “Moonllower,” of her pasial "Portrait of Carlo,” and of Ml versial issues its in “1 ToldYouSl Maf f ei is now working on| she calls her Texas folk art paiil “A Trip to the Dump.” “I thought every artist wholr| Texas hits to do it bluebonnet|l ing," Maffei says. "It turned*] he our dog, Ceci, in thebadol| pick-up it tick and we're going if dump with all of these blueH along the side of die road.’’ Looking on her own pain- 1 Maf fei describes them as haul surrealistic, narrative qualityOT morously depicts an event ’ bration or something that haJl ally happened. H Research at A&M predicts Soviets will beg testing U.S. defense against cruise missiles By Rebecca Jackson Reporter Research conducted at the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas A&M predicts the Soviets will try an “end run” around the U.S. Star Wars defense plan, center director Dr. Richard Thomas said. The U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, com monly known as SDI or Star Wars, is developing systems to defend against intercontinental ballis tic missiles flying through space, Thomas said. ICBMs have been the main offensive threat for 20 years, he said. But the Soviets are assuming the L'nited States is developing a space defense. Research predicts the Soviets are equipping themselves with manned bombers and cruise missiles that fly close to the earth. The cruise missiles are small, unmanned bombers that carry nuclear warheads and can be launched from the air or from submarines, Thomas said. f his is called an “end run" because the United Slates has no defense against those bombers and cruise missiles, he said. Researchers have designed an air defense ini tiative to sense bombers and cruise missiles. They also have found ways to defend against them. Space-based sensor systems were designed for the SDI to sense ICBMs, but the research found the systems also can he used for air defense against bombers and cruise missiles if the systems at e made more sensitive, Thomas said. The United States must also have fighter air craft equipped with “fire-and-forget” missiles to shoot down bombers and cruise missiles. These special missiles can he locked on the target and launched, Thomas said. The aircraft firing the missile can immediately turn away and launch another missile with the pilot knowing the target will be hit. tanv r p :: bmaiw ■ W, from nevei Hooc techr nterr Bil uniet when serve agem cial a I “A been rate, chan “The and t to gei 1 Dr tor o video refri; set tin findi the c< 1 “ B 'We’re systei very help, tfoinj Fo ielb; The study is estimating how launched cruise missiles and subn launched cruise missiles the Soviets wi, to 2015. 1 The study also is est imating how the SC U would attack the United States. Tlie predfe riant direction of a Soviet attack wouldbe| ovei the North Pole, Thomas said. f ] F< The Soviets wouldn’t attack the linitedSy from all sources, he said. Their basic miliian g tic is to concentrate all forces in a narrow< and attack in narrow corriders, he said. 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