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Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, January 21, 1982
Arts & Entertainment
Eppens' landscapes go beyond provincial label
By David. Thompson
Exhibitions like the 20 paintings by Lincoln native Glen
Eppens on display at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
until Jan. 31 have a limited appeal. This should not, how
ever, prevent us from appreciating the color and style of
his work at its best. I lis evocations of the countryside of
Nebraska are a cut above the usual Midwestern landscape
artist's work, and as such merit our attention.
The reason paintings like this do not command much
attention in the art world is simple. The subjects of the
paintings are the hills, trees and buildings of the Midwest
and would probably be labeled as provincial by members
of the more serious art circles. Thomas Hart Benton
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fought for years against the label of "hick art" being ap
plied to his work, and Eppens must struggle against this
same sort of label. Sometimes, in the painting "Winter
Comes to Deadman's Run" for instance, the label is
merited. It is diffucult to put a ditch on a canvas and ex
pect it to arouse any feeling in the viewer. The diagonal
gash of brown that is the center of the painting is life
less. The same can be said of "Denton Road." Aside from
a few playful splashes of pink on the road and grass and
the dark rumbling of trees in the background, the painting
is without flair, like the plastic landscapes in train sets.
Interesting dirt
This is not to say that dirt cannot be interesting. In
"Farm Abandoned" the plowed field is a river flowing
with the somber colors of the earth, while a cluster of
buildings huddles on its bank. It is compelling to contem
plate the image, especially here in Lincoln: an island in a
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make the exhibition worthwhile.
For a landscape painting to
technical, it should not be
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Glen Eppens' "Winter Prisons," one of twenty
Eppens paintings currently on display at Sheldon
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there should be something conveyed that cannot be felt
by simply looking at a picture of, say, a tree or a field.
Eppens succeeds at this in some paintings and fails in
others. In "Scenic Drive Weeping Water" the trees and sky
are given spark and vivacity, while in "Spring Along the
Missouri" they lie there, inviting the viewer to see
nothing.
Eppens also cannot seem to settle on any particular style
when it comes to his paintings of buildings. In "Long
Branch Bar and Cafe" the building is straight and crisp,
albeit a little awry in its perspective.
Next to it hangs "Taos Adobe," a warm little painting of
a tumbleweed building. In it the edges are blurred, the
trees curving about, the color taking command rather than
the angles.
Trees best subject
The trees make their way into other paintings, and are
perhaps Eppens' best subject. In "Misty Morning," for
example, the viewer stands a short distance away from a
tranquil stand of trees reminiscent of three paintings by
other artists like Monet. In "Trees," the subjects are
stripped of their leaves and forced to stand naked, filling
the top of the painting with a lace of branches and stirring
the air almost to the beginnings of a Van Goghian frenzy.
In "Winter Prisons" the space is filled with shapes,
slices of air and road and building cut by the branches of
the tree.
These tree paintings are Eppens' best work, along with
landscapes like the impressionistic "Cripple Creek Gold"
and the painting "Spanish Peaks," with its mountains
marked with juts of color much like Cezanne painted
his mountains.
Paintings like these prove that here, in the midst of this
sea of dirt, landscape painting can reach beyond the pro
vincial by giving the world around us movement, color, life.
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