Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1989)
Npbrsskstl a Page Friday, Dacambw8,1989 Al“tS & ElltCltainmCIlt 9 ' " ' .. ' .. !■■■■ ■■■■■" — ' ' ' — » ' » 1 1 1 Al Schaben/Daiiy Nebraskan David Fahleson/Daily Nebraskan kfflTi - ...... *—■**.. m i<nw»i . inrinrii.—■ - m,---££.--— , ——.— J Al Schaben/Daily Nebraskan UNL students Matt Schnase, upper left, and Dan Fosmer, right, show off their room decorations on Abel 12. Above, the Sigma Nu Fraternity House illuminates 16th Street. Lower left, holiday lights decorate this house at 33rd and south streets. Below, this manger scene can be found at 17th and C streets. David Fahleaon/Daily Nebraskan tfegs, kangaroos subjects of exhibition I By Gretchen Boehr Senior Reporter Three Master of Fine Arts cands Jates explore familiar objects, ani nals and people through their paint ings, prints and mixed-media works iisplayed at the Gallery of the De partment of Art and Art History. The MFA exhibition in Richards Hall includes mixed-media works, paintings and print-making by Kate Brooke, Judith Flansburg Burton and Georgia Johnson. Burton’s exhibit, entitled “Still Life as Abstract Structure,’ ’ includes simplistic mono-prints and still-life paintings of familiar objects. In most of the paintings the table ware, such as a salt or pepper shaker, uses soft colors to create a thoughtful and playful mood. Yet some of her larger works, such as ‘‘Hello San Antonio,” use dark colors and evoke dark, brooding emotion. But Burton’s mono-prints high light her exhibition. The roughness and simplicity of color gives the prints a certain charm. In the gallery’s second room, legs are the subject matter chosen by Johnson in her mixed media drawings which capture the power of body language in communicating feelings and emotions. Through differenl isolated poses of legs, Johnson challenges viewers to ask whether a cropped view of the figure is enough to communicate an idea or altitude. Differenl textures, colors and po sitions relate powerful emotions as well as meek personalities. From the primness of “Wall flower” to the innocence of “This Little Piggy,” Johnson communi cates human emotions through legs and feet, which proves to be surpris ingly honest and revealing. Each drawing was created by building and removing layers of oil pastel and oil paint on paper or can vas. The subject matter chosen by the third artist is reminiscent of her life as a small child in Nigeria. Brooke’s exhibition, entitled “Re-membering,” uses layers of pen and ink and relief stamps to record cycles of human memory. The work includes giraffes, kan garoos and other animals, which sometimes looks like something from an old, prairie schoolhousc or chil dren’s textbooks of years gone by. Brooke said she layers images to suggest an emergence or pattern in understanding and experience. As children, Brooke and her brother played with plastic animal toys and each animal had its own function and personality, she said. According to Brooke, she remembers this and expands on the notion of animals with personalities in her ) i work. “Remembering is more of a cur rent activity that allows material from the past to play an active part in the present,” Brooke said. An intaglio print, “and giraffes don’t..captures a childlike fasci nation with animals and their way of talking to each other. The MFA Exhibition features a variety of styles as three artists ex press themselves through very differ ent subjects. Brooke and Johnson, in particular, seem to be saying some thing about the way people or ani mals communicate. The artists’ works will be on dis play at the gallery until Thursday. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
