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Tuesday, June 10, 1986
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Massive Buchanan sculptures
installed in Sheldon garden
An outdoor display of six monumen
tal sculptures by Sidney Buchanan has
recently been installed at the Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery Sculpture Garden.
This special exhibition complements
Sheldon's outdoor sculpture collection
that contains more than 20 works,
among them seminal sculptures by Elie
Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Jacques
Lipchitz and David Smith.
These massive sculptures weigh
between 1.5 and 5.5 tons, and range
from 10 feet to 24 feet long. With the
use of a hydraulic crane, Buchanan and
his assistants assembled the four
separate pieces to create a unified
sculpture titled "Niobe."
Buchanan has used a geometric bar
shape and "C" form which have been
tilted on edge to suggest tension,
uneasiness and motion. The geometric
forms are held in place by a 10 foot
horizontal arm which rests quietly on
the ground. "Niobe" has been painted
a muted red. This color, along with the
tilted geometric forms, suggest the
mood of the piece titled after the Greek
myth of Niobe, whose children were
slain for their mother's vanity.
Supplementing this large installa
tion are five sculptures that are more
modest in scale. This series of works
utilize the found characteristics of
organic twisted steel forms against the
geometric forms of their bases. The
artist constantly uses titles to suggest
the mood and gestures of his sculptures.
These characteristics take on further
connotations by the titles Buchanan
has given them. "Mangonel III," 1932,
takes the configuration of a military
weapon. "Frazzell III," 1982, consists
of a geometric base with a mass of
frayed oxidized steel welded into place
at the center of the base.
Buchanan, who was raised in Minne
sota, considers the complexities of his
sculptures a mere extension of his
childhood, in which he created objects
using various forms of "junk." Bucha
nan states, "I used to build all sorts of
stuff in the backyard when I was a kid.
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rials and subject matter have changed."
After high school, he attended col
lege at the University of Minnesota
Duluth and received his bachelor of
arts degree with a minor in English.
Compelled to continue his education,
Buchanan chose New Mexico High
lands University in Las Vegas for his
graduate work. In 1964, he accepted
a position at UNO and now teaches
classes in sculpture while continuing
to create the massive, welded pieces in
his Omaha studio.
Throughout the midwest, Buchanan
is considered one of the leading con
temporary sculptors.
George Neubert, director of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, said,
"Over the past several years, Sidney
(Buchanan) has developed a personal
and energized vocabulary of monumen
tal scale, unparalleled in this region."
This special display will be on exhibit
at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Sculpture Garden from June 1 to October
1. This exhibition is in conjunction
with the Flatwater Festival, which takes
place the weekend of June 19 to 21.
Beer company
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If you look between 25 and 27 years
of age, have an "outdoorsy" appearance
and a little free time between 9:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m. today and Wednesday, you
could be well on your way to being the
celebrated brawn beer commercials
have launched into show business.
Jackie Beavers Talent and Casting,
the agency responsible for casting extras
in. the film "Terms of Endearment,"
will hold the auditions at her office at
740 S. 17th Street. The agency will cast
20 principles and 60 to 70 extras in the
commercial.
Potential actors can drop in whenever
they want during these times, but cast
ing is basically "first come, first served,"
according to Beavers.
According to Beavers, dress for the
auditions is casual. Jeans and a T-shirt
are acceptable attire. Snapshots or
photographs are also recommended.
If you are hired to perform in the
advertisement you would need to be
available all of the month of July. Pay
would be according to the Screenwriter's
Guild pay scale, somewhere between
$350 and $400 a day.
Ansel Adams
photo show
at Sheldon
"Ansel Adams and Friends," an exhi
bition drawn from the Sheldon Memor
ial Art Gallery's permanent collection,
and curated by James May, director of
the Walker Art Gallery, Kearney State
College, will be showing at the Sheldon
from June 1 through the end of August.
His inspiration for the show was
drawn from an interview with Adams
shortly before his death in which Adams
was asked which photographers he
admired.
The artists included in the exhibi
tion are Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt, Roy
DeCarava, Joel Meyerowitz, Wright Mor
ris, Arnold Newman, Eliot Porter, George
Tice, Brett Weston and Don Worth.
Though the motivations of these
artists vary greatly, from Newman's
portraits of famous artists to Meyero
witz's explorations into formal issues
of color photography, they all confirm
an aesthetic that Adams is largely
responsible for establishing: that of
"straight photography."
As a young man in the early part of
the 20th century, Adams helped to
assert the photographic image as an art
form with its own unique criteria.
"Ansel Adams and Friends" reflects
the strength and diversity of the Shel
don's holdings in the media of 20th
century photography.
Sheldon's hours are Tuesday and
Wednesday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday, noon-5 p.m. and 7
p.m. - 9 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. - 9 p.m. The
gallery is closed on Mondays.
