monday, march 6, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
Drawings display art class taboos, too flashy for decor
By Jim Williams
Christopher Hickey, drawings, Sheldon Art Shop, through
March 19.
Making the risky assumption that you have the money,
there are three reasons you might buy a work of art.
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The purchase might simply have knocked your socks
off, and you just had to have it. Or you might have
bought it as a speculative investment, just like a carload of
frozen pork bellies. Or it might be because you've re
decorated your conference room and you wanted some
thing classy that looks good with the wallpaper.
Christopher Hickey's drawings at the Sheldon Art Shop
are in for a tough go. None cf Hickey's pencil-and-pastel
works had the zap to make me want one for my very own;
trading on Hickey's eventual stardom is a risky business at
best; but the drawings have an odd, attention-attracting
quality that makes them too obtrusive for mere decor.
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Hickey's works display things they taught us to avoid
art class-erasures, an occasional smudge, heavy
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outlines of objects. Mickey tries to reduce his subjects to
fundamental outline forms, then highlight areas of special
interest with color or a Crosshatch technique usually seen
in ink drawings.
This technique works best on No. 10 (the drawings are
identified only by number.) It's a light, simple composit
ion of linear forms a door, a radiator, some potted
plants. Tones are limited to light crosshatching in the
plants and radiator, and enough tone to draw attention to
the focal point -a brasierre hanging on the doorknob.
The outline technique doesn't come off as well on No.
3, the other drawing in which it's most noticeable. Here
the forms are not so linear -a naked girl face down, a
twisted sheet over her legs. Applying the same technique
to this less-suitable subject gives it the look of a Target
sale catalog without the latter's redeeming simplicity.
Several more of Mickey's works include similar themes
-annoyed-looking naked girls and their personal effects
poking in form the margins of the drawings. Here a torso,
a sink and a box of Playtex deodorant tampons; there a
woman scowling in a chair; over there a creature that
looks like Ringo Starr in a training bra, standing against an
unpleasantly colored wall.
These drawings still are minimal, the essential outlines
with a few significant details shaded in. They look like
something a talented sophomore could knock out in a
couple of hours.
Besides the aforementioned No. 5, there were two
drawings in the group I especially liked -No 9 is more
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Mickey gets away from depicting a single scene. It is a
strongly horizontal scene with a photographic perspective,
incorporating repeating variations of a, you guessed it,
naked girl in several locations.
Also more fully shaded, is No. 8 which uses more color
than Mickey's other works. It's a strange little scene-a
bored trollop and a Nixon-look-alike hippie stand by a
wall by some potted plants, while a girl strips in the next
room. A brightly-colored hammer and screwdriver lie on
a desk, and part of an enigmatic figure does something in
visible at far right. If I could h'ave it as a $5 poster instead
of a $300 original, I'd buy it.
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