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Thursday, September 4, 1986 Page 10 Daily Nebraskan "Arm Fan" by OUOOOt JTOTTJ 4007 "0" Street '4 vv 1 fu - v. Pam Gaible Uncommon Clothes for Uncommon People The MOOSE'S TOOTH OUTDOOR SPORTS Lincoln, NE 489-4849 "Emigrant Art" By Charles Lieurance , m St-' V v It wouldn't surprise most people to find out that a good many artists from Nebraska, or schooled in Nebr aska, have left the state in search of cultural temperate zones. Nine UNL alumni who have expa triated to Illinois are currently exhi biting works in the University De partment of Art Gallery in Richards Hall. Although one finds few surprises in these exhibits as a rule, the Illi noisNebraska effort is an excep tion. The works of one artist do not blend monotonously into the others. Attention has been paid to eclecti cism and variety. Glen Ilild's oil on paper pieces t akp a Series of primitive shapes two bird-like silhouettes, a foot or wing shape and a head, either in profile or straight on and run them through a series of "Depar tures." Using different colors and compositions, Hild.can solidify his compositions, make them almost wooden ("Departure 5), or make them airy and kinetic ("Departure 2). Many times a work is a play between the effects. The exhibition features more than a few eccentrics, artists whose work seems utterly unique and curious. Joanne Bauman is one of these. Her pencil and prismacolor sketches on prepared paper create hallucino genic fantasy, science fiction land scapes. The series of untitled works evoke otherworldly shapes, the pris macolor adding to the netherworld atmosphere. Fangs, creatures, suns, planets, alien cities, psychedelic video screens, reptilian coiling bodies melt together in a brilliant solder of color. Earl Lock's pastel and charcoal works show a different response to geometrical shape. The works could almost be cubism, but they lack . .-.w.ww. . XvXwXvX I .::XvX-x-XvX :xxx:::xy W&88 i Prices Good Thru Sept. 10 VICTORY CELEBRATION Z0NIN ASTI SPUMANTE 750 mi $4.99 SEAGRAM'S COOLERS Premium, Golden, Peach 4 pack $2.99 FRANK SEZ: NU27 FSU 16 27th 8l Vine 477-7516 that genre's kinetic impulses. Shapes coincide and merge too neatly to imply tension or struggle. There is a basic harmony of shapes. The pieces more or less sit still on the paper. Whereas cubism had an aural equivalent in jazz, Lock's work has an ambient space music quality with few surprises. Pam Gaible on the other hand sets her basic shapes into motion. The arrow and bulb shapes that make up her series of acrylic paint ings, are in the act of opening or closing the specific, reliable forms. "Left Move" and "Arm Fan" have completeness. Fulfilled shapes vi brate in beds of striking color. The lithographs of James Butler are the antithesis of the previous art pieces, in their reliance on photo realism. Butler, however, is as sur real and abstract as any of the other artists once his works are dissected. "2 Black Pots" has a Rorsach of shadow on a wall behind plants and vases. The shadow strangely matches the design on the rug tablecloth in the foreground. Light filtered through leaves and various glass shapes creates shadow patterns which al ways refer to textile patterns some where in the comosition. Rod Bouc's work at first seems common. The landscapes are famil iar, rural bucolic in thick strokes. But as one looks closer hints of Van Gogh are revealed. Swirling mael strom skies seem to pull colors and shapes off the landscape the way stormy seas eat away at a craggy shore. A burst of white dandelion in the calming centerpiece. But once inside it the storm begins again in jagged pale oil strokes leading to a dark nucleus. The IllinoisNebraska exhibit runs from now until September 25. .'..v.w.w XyX'X V BEER B LIQUOR D WINE The Booze Brothers "Game Plan" WARM-UP SPECIALS Schaefers warm case . . . $5.89 Old Milwaukee warm case . . . $6.49 Meister Brau warm case . ....$5.99 Coors or Coors Light warm case $8.99 "America's Premier Mixer Daily's Bloody Mary Liter .... $1.99