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Da Vcr.dra's "Ilia Llaster's Noise," psrt of the etadent cxt display ccrrcntly cp ct Sheldon.
'Blech ' 5Zo5s to colorful photos
give art show professional touch
The Student Art Show now at the Sheldon Art
Gallery includes a wide variety of pieces of the qual
ity you might expect to find at a professional
showing.
The show began Tuesday night and will run until
May 5. It includes every style you'd expect to find at
a professional gallery, from huge blobby abstracts to
precision art work in near miniature.
Having had two hih school art courses and expe
rience drawing in note pad margins, I hardly feel
qualified to pass judgment.on the work of serious
. art students, but (always a "but"), I do know what I
like, to borrow a phrase from many art critics.
j .,. Chris
C-J, Welsch
With that qualification, I encourage all you closet
art fans out there to attend the show I found that
I like most of what I saw and ended up spending an
hour browsing through the rooms.
The first art I encountered was done by DN staffer
and pundit Dan Wondra. Wondra's combination of
drawing and bad puns is never less than amusing,
and the work at Sheldon was the best of his I'd seen.
"His Master's Noise" was an especially well-done pen
and ink drawing. The RCA trademark dog lay upside
down, as if bowled over by the Victrola next to him.
Biting satire. ,
The next artwork I liked was a silver print by
Constance Boje. Silverware seemed to float in mid
air amid streamers in sort of fog.
Boje's "Bathtub Lady" was sharper and also a fine
photo. The photo showed a nude woman's torso in, a
bathtub it was removed, separate, and yet it was
not abusive or exploitive.
Janelle Carlson's "Heaven" was an interesting
lithograph -r a blobby bit of texture and pink color
with some fine lines. It was interesting but not
engaging. It's lack of detail arid direction left some
thing to be desired it was reflective of most of the
abstracts at the show. Most of them were eye
catching, but did not have the substance or direc
tion to keep the eye or please it for very long.
"Balloons," a color photograph by Anne Risney,
was my favorite in the color division. Anyone who
has walked by the Game Gal-ry at 14th and Q streets
at night has seen the crowd of adolescents who
hound the entrance, screaming at themselves and
passers-by.
Her photo shows two young black boys, another
boy and a bunch of balloons one of them is holding.
You Cjsh see the last light of the sun in the back
ground and the street lights move your eye around
the picture.
"Figure in Transition Towards Paradox" by
Rebecca Ross was another of those blobby, abstract
oil3 that artists love and I dislike. Its colors bordered
on garish, with just a spot of something short of
hunter's orange mixed into every color. The figures
roughly approximated on the large canvas said
nothing to me but: "Blech."
Nancy Sloan-Ehrlich's ceramic boxes were pleas
ing to the eye and a pleasant change from the "Big
Chy feel one gets from blobby abstracts. "Pawnee
County" and "Otoe County" expressed Nebraska
landscapes on ceramic boxes with simple strokes
and earthy colors.
The professional artists who hang their works on
Sheldon's hallowed halls have very little going over
the students. Three cheers for a fine show.
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