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Painter feels Joyfully free without typical ‘real’ Job By John Fulwider Senior Editor Laura Nothem is living proof that one can take forever to gradu ate from college, not get a “real” job afterward and love every minute of it. Her art professors told her she’d never make a living as an artist — that she’d have to get that always loosely defined “real” job and do art on the side. More than two years after gradu ating from the University of Ne braska-Lincoln with a bachelor of fine arts degree (on the seven-and a-half-year plan), Nothern isn’t quite making a living yet; she gets some support from her parents. But she’s doing what some people only dream of — working full time at a job she passionately loves. “It’s really a joy for me. I mean, I just love painting so much,” she says, brimming with enthusiasm and smiling broadly as she paces the hardwood floor of her attic studio. Nothem has a solo exhibition opening Wednesday at Gallery 9, 124 S. Ninth St. The opening recep tion is Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Among her 50-or-so oil still lifes will be “Sunbeam,” a portrait of an electric mixer. She picked up the - mixer when her neighbors were cleaning out their attic. Why paint a kitchen appliance? “I don’t know. I think they just Please see NOTHERN on 8 ^--s-- IJ Courtesy of Noyes Art Gallery “PRAIRIE WINDS,” a watercolor landscape by Lais Meysenberg, is one of 50 paintings, sculptwos and craft objccti created by Nebraska mothers now on display at Noyes Art Dallery, 119 S. Ninth St. The Mothers show’s opening reception is Friday evening from 6:30 to 9:30. * Artwork produced by Mom’ showcased at Noyes galleiy By John Fulwider Senior Editor At Noyes Art Gallery right now, there’s nothing more American than mom, art and... art. The Nebraska Mothers Association’s Annual Creative Arts Exhibition is now up at the gallery, 119 S. Ninth St. There are no paint ings of apple pie, but among die 50 entries there is something for just about every taste from oil portraits to watercolor landscapes — all pro duced by Nebraska mothers. There were three first-place win ners in the three categories of a con test held Saturday at Noyes. “Night” by Amy Sadie of Syracuse won in fine arts, “Ancient American An thropomorphic Figures” by Gretchen Olberding of Burwell took the crafts award and “Self Portrait” by Lincoln’s Elise Marie Clarke won in sculpture. » ( The three will represent Ne braska April 30 in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the National Art Competition of the American Mothers Inc. Clarke’s entry in the fine arts cat egory was “Untitled,” a watercolor painting. It features Christ as part of a roughly cross-shaped, leafy tree. From the holes in Christ’s feet sprout new leaves, and babies clad in pink and blue occupy spaces in the tree’s roots. Clarke, an art student at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said her painting has several levels of meaning: that Christ is the tree of life, that all life springs from him, and that he is the sacrifice for child victims of sexual abuse and babies who have died in miscarriages and abortions. Lincolnite Lois Meysenberg took second place in fine arts in 1993’s national competition. Her two entries in the local com petition this year were “Prairie , Winds/’ a watercolor landscape, and the mixed-media “Alley Way New Orleans Style.” The self-taught artist of nine years says in her artist’s Please see MOTHERS on 8 Courtesy of Gallery 9 LAURA NOTHERN, a UNL graduate, created this oil-on-canvas painting, “Sunbeam,” in part to playfully spite a former art professor who told her she simply couldn’t do a red-yellow-blue composition. The opening reception for her solo show at Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St., is Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Lincoln Gallery > _______ ■” ' T J" / ^ \ _ Y " # Pr"*^ X A I IX V I . ^~ -*v-‘ : r-f, -•>: * ' Courtesy of Hajtoon Art Gaiiert JOHN LEBOEUF created these tiny sculptures, which will be Included in a dual exhibition at Hayden Art Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St. Clockwise from top right are “Gourd Vessel,” “Articulated Figure,” “Knife” and “Antler Vessel.” The exhibition* opening reception Is Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Antler sculptures, photographs part of dual exhibit at Haydon i By John Fulwider Senior Editor Open now at Haydon Art Gallery is a dual exhibition by White River, S.D., sculptor John LeBoeuf and Omaha photographer Michael Flecky. LeBoeuf’s friends collect shed deer and elk antlers for him. Then, when he’s not teaching art at White River Public Schools, fie carves the antlers into tiny sculptures that Please see HAYDON on 8 Drag queens, art mirrors at Burkholder By John Fulwider Senior Editor “I’m late! I’m late! I’m very, very late!” You could show up at a certain Lincoln art gallery March 14 wear ing a rabbit costume and screaming the above. Not a single person would look at you funny. Especially not the drag queens. Or the fortune tellers. Or the magicians. The art harpies have gone mad. Follow them “Through the Looking Glass.” The Lewis Carroll-esque show at the Burkholder Project promises to be a spectacle, at the very least. Be sides seeing more than 10 established artists working outside their usual* mediums, there will be Lincoln’s be loved drag queens Buddy Starr and Friends in “Bad Taste on a Stick.” Buddy Starr (a.k.a. Paul Pearson, director of Lincoln’s Futz theater) promises that her audience will be offended. Never seen Tammy Wynette in a wheelchair wailing “Stand By Your Man”? You will. Guests are invited to wear cos tumes (not necessarily of funy bun nies) and munch on the hors d’oeuvres. All for free. Getting back to the gallery artists —the unusual medium they’re work ing in is art mirrors. That is, mirrors that have been manipulated in some way. Some pieces will have painted fraitaes, others will have paint applied directly to the glass. It should be quite the whimsical evening from 7 to 9 at the Burkholder Project, 719 P St. The drag show starts about 8. DN PHOTO jj£ ..
