Arts & Entertainment
Sheldon director’s art small, but competitive
By Kevin Cowan
Senior Reporter
Four of Sheldon Art Gallery Direc
tor George Neubert’s sculptures were
selected to represent American con
temporary small-sculpture artists in
the Seventh International Small
Sculpture Exhibition in Budapest,
Hungary. Neubert was one of three
artists selected from America.
Sculpture need not be grandiose to
evoke power and emotion. Strength
exists in smaller packages. Neubert
holds true to this ideal — as shown by
his work.
And though Neubert is a sculptor,
he is an administrator as well.
“At times I have to wear both hats,”
'I'm here to build the best
collection possible with
the funds available.'
— Neubert
he said.
The small-scale sculptures, defined
by Neubert as “Shinto Landscapes,”
were displayed with sculptures from
artists around the world. Neubert said
he thought the mixed multicultural
display promoted a dramatic stylistic
distinction between the represented
artists.
Neubert’s contemporary ascent
into minute, formulist sculpture is a
maturing process, he said.
“I’ve come to realize that though
these works are small in stature, they
provoke larger emotions,” he said.
“You don’t really have to take on the
world” with every work you create, he
said.
Neubert said his trend is more
toward an intimate scale. His recent
works, of unpainted, welded steel, are
all less than 25 inches in length or
w idth, and no more than 4 inches tall.
Neubert said his background as an
artist and his role as an administrator
form a lucrative dichotomy, and some
separation of the somewhat philo
sophically opposed roles has been
necessary.
“I’m an artist,” he said. “Being that
helps me to deal with other artists ...
understanding from whence they
come.”
Although Neubert emerges from a
studio past — art acting as the prime
directive — his works, he said, cannot
be a part of the collection of Sheldon.
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art here,” he said.
Neubert said his first concern is as
administrator.
“I’m here to build the best collec
tion possible with the funds available,”
he said.
'I'm an artist...Being that
helps me deal with other
artists.'
— Neubert
Neubert said many of the larger art
projects bought by Sheldon stir contro
versy from concerned students. But
the upheaval is misplaced, he said.
“The money we get from the uni
versity is only a smal 1 part of our actual
operating budget,” he said. “Most of
the money we receive arrives via pri
vate donations earmarked specifically
for the purchase of art work. We can’t
simply reallocate the funds to promote
scholarships and the like; it just
doesn’t work that way.”
“Art has the ability to enter the
mind and broaden our experience,” he
said, recalling his initial encounters
with aesthetic works.
Neubert said one of the aspects
most desirable to him in performing
the duties of Sheldon director is the
emphasis the gallery places on collect
ing 20th-century American art rather
than concentrating on foreign, classic
or archaic works.
“So many significant works of art
have been produced by contemporary
American artists,” he said, including
all the Native American art readily
accessible in this area, that supervising
as curator is highly gratifying.
Courtesy of Neubert
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Film Khnt in Frpmcmt
Nebraska weather worries film's co-producer
By Terie Clement
Staff Reporter
Don Schain, co-producer of the
tentatively titled film ‘‘Bom to Lose,”
said last week that John D’Aquino,
Vito Ruginis, David Sherrill, Michelle
Johnson, Kristin Kaufman and Anas
tasia Fielding have been cast as the
central characters of the production
now being shot in Fremont.
D‘Aquino appeared in the recent
tilm “No Way Out” with star Kevin
Costner, and Johnson played the
daughter who had an affair with Mi
chael Cain’s character in “Blame It on
Rio,” Schain said.
He added that all the main charac
ters had yet to arrive, but filming,
which started Oct. 12 in Fremont, wju»
going very well, though he said he is
worried about the weather.
“Obviously we didn’t travel all this
way to shoot interior sets,” said
Schain, a Los Angeles producer. He
said his company. Focus on Nebraska,
Inc., chose Nebraska to “get a look and
feel for the film that we can’t get at
home (California).”
Schain said there are very few inte
rior cover sets that can be used in the
event of bad weather and that he “let
out a yell you could hear all the way
across the state” at the snow flurries on
Oct- 10.
One interior cover set is Morrill
Hall’s dinosaur display. Schain said
the company tentatively plans to shoot
some sequences of the film in the
building during the last week in Octo
ber.
He declined to say more about the
plot of ‘‘Bom to Lose” other than that
it is a murder mystery. He “guesti
mated” that the film would be released
in “very late spring-summer 1988.”
Although most of the filming will
be in Fremont, other locations the
company is considering are in Omaha,
Blair, Scribner and Hooper. Schain
described the Nebraska Slate Film
Office’s role in drawing his company
to Nebraska as ‘‘absolutely sensa
tional.”
“When we got here, they didn t
move on and leave us on our own.
They’ve continued to help with any
problems we’ve experienced ”
Nebraska was chosen as the film
site from 10 other Midwest states.
Schain said he and the turn s writer/
director, Eleanore Gaver, also visited
areas in New Mexico ana Wisconsin.
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