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Painter sketches cohesion of art, environment
By Caroly Hull
The past three years have been a "marvelous
odyssey" for painter Alan Gussow. The result is A
Sense of Place, a book of paintings combining
Gussow's art and his concern for the environment.
Gussow's odyssey has turned in a new direction.
Through a collaboration of the Sheldon and Joslyn
Art Galleries, he has become the guest curator for "A
Sense of Place," an exhibition of 200 works, some
from his book and others by selected artists.
The theme of the exhibition, scheduled for
September and October 1973, will be much the same
as his book-showing the creative interplay between
the artist and the environment in which he lives and
works.
"The exhibition will be a truly national collection
celebrating the earth. I feel that Nebraska is an ideal
place to have 'A Sense of Place' for the simple reason
that here we can still see the earth. The wet spring
here causes actual concern. In New York it's just
another inconvenience, a puddle to avoid," Gussow
said.
After the Lincoln and Omaha exhibitions, "A
Sense of Place" will become a part of the
Mid-America Arts Alliance. Fine Arts and
environmental concerns will be taken to small
communities in a four-state area. According to
director Peter Milstein, the 200 paintings will be
divided into four shows travelling with an artist-and
an environmentalist-in-residence.
Living in New York's Hudson River Valley, an
environment publicized by Pete Seeger, Gussow
became interested in the harm being done by
pollution in the mid-1960s. Since then he has been
looking for a way to relate his profession, one often
removed from the land, to environmental causes.
"People haven't understood that an artist and a
farmer can have a common cause, even though the
artist doesn't make a living directly from the land,"
Gussow said.
When an artist paints a scene, it is his way of
attaching a value to it-his way of harvesting the land,
Gussow said. Through the simple act of painting the
picture the artist shows that he sees something
beautiful to share with others, he added.
In relating each painting in "A Sense of Place" to
the environment, Gussow spent time talking with
each artist or researching 19th century artists. Never
asking them to talk about art, Gussow asked instead
that they tell something about the scene in their
landscape. Comments in the book relate art as "a
by-product of my enthusiasm for nature" and "a part
of our lives, not a thing separated apart."
Through his book Gussow said he hopes to show
that individuals today are forgetting the land and
nature.
"We are in danger of losing our sense of place. It's
gotten so a person can't tell where he is in America
now," he said.
"When I get on a plane in New York, I could swear
someone rolls up the street and flies ahead of me to
whatever city I'm going and unrolls the road. All
across the country things look the same-Kentucky
Fried Chicken, McDonald's and Burger King
everywhere," Gussow said.
He said America needs to be strong. "The more
things begin to look alike, the more vulnerable we
become," he added.
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