Galleries can offer unique summer entertainment
Shelley Mika
Staff writer
A common complaint heard in
Lincoln during the summer,
uttered in a whiny voice, is “there’s
nothing to do in this town ”
And yet flipping through the
phone bode one may be surprised
to find that out of nowhere, and
often tucked away in little build
ings no one notices, are galleries
that provide new exhibits every
month.
Some may be a short walk
down the block and into the
exposed brick atmosphere of the
Haymarket, while others may
require a short day trip to Omaha.
Either way, all provide an inexpen
sive opportunity to view local and
international art, as well as a
resolving response to the comment
“there ^5 nothing to do ”
Sheldoa Memorial Art
GaBery
“Documenting Performance /
Preserving Concepts,” May 2-July
23. This show is a tribute to per
formance and conceptual art The
focus is to explore how artists have
attempted to solve die dilemma of
preserving their processes and
actions. The show also presents
artists who have worked the ten
sion of preservation and documen
tation into die fabric of their work.
Among others, the artists featured
will be Christo, Claes Oldenburg,
Terry Allen, Dennis Oppenheim,
Michael Heizer, and Chris
Burden.
Leonard Baskin: “The
Ultimate Need,” May 9-July 23. At
the center of Baskin’s work is a
mythological narrative of Jewish
culture of die tragedy and heroism
of the human condition. Different
mediums include drawings, wood
cuts, engravings, sculpture, and
book illustrations.
“The Perpetual Well:
Contemporary Art from The
Jewish Museum,” May 13-July 16.
Meant to be an overview of the
Jewish experience as seen through
the eyes of contemporary artists,
this show will include paintings,
sculpture, prints, photography and
installations borrowed from The
Jewish Museum in New York. The
artists represented are both Jewish
and non-Jewish, but both share an
interest in Jewish issues and
iconography. Sixty-three works
will be displayed by 65 artists,
including Richard Avedon, Dennis
Kardon, Deborah Kass, Annie
Leibovitz, Joshua Neustein,
Adrian Piper, Larry Rivers, Joan
Snyder, Doug and Mike Siam and
Robert Wilson.
“American Impressionism
from the Permanent Collection,”
July 21-September 24 Having
toured six museums in die last two
years, this exhibition offers a com
prehensive view of the emergence
of French Impressionism and its
influence on American artists from
the late 19th century through the
early 20th century. Paintings by
Childe Hassam, John Twachtman
and William Glackens will be dis
played.
The Burkholder Project
The Burkholder has three
areas where separate shows are
displayed. The following lists the
shows for each nortion of the
gallery.
June:
“Images from Western
Nebraska” With Moody Leavitt
and Whitmor Barnes
“Vandenack and the Weaving
Guild”
“Randy Mittan: Photographs”
July:
“Doris Leikan: paper mache”
and folk artist Linda Williams
“Bobby Sward: Paintings”
“Shirley Neary: Quilts”
August:
“Visions in the Hand: A Group
Show”
Tom Sheppard
Andrea Scott
Gallery Nine
May:
“Doug Marx: Pottery”
June:
Brian Everman. Everman will
present paintings of fruits and veg
etables in pastel colors. Viewers
may have seen Everman’s work at
last yearV Farmer’s Market
July:
Annual Invitational
Members of the gallery will
invite a guest artist whose work
will hang with their own.
Joslyn Art Gallery
“Soon Come: The Art of
Contemporary Jamaica,” May 13
June 25 Twenty Jamaican artists
present 40 paintings and mixed
media sculptures.
“Midlands Invitational 2000:
Works on Paper,” May 13-July 2
Joslyn selected art by artists from
Nebraska and its six contiguous
states. The focus will be works of
art created on paper.
“Marsden Hartley: American
Modern,” July 8-September 24
Drawn mainly from the Weisman
Art Museum holdings, the Joslyn
presents a retrospective of the
early American modernist Is paint
ings and works on paper. All
aspects of Hartley’s career will be
focused on, from his early land
scapes to his work in the American
Northeast
‘Twentieth-Century American
Drawings from The Arkansas Arts
Center Foundation Collection,”
July 15-September 10 Drawings in
pencil, watercolor, pen and ink,
charcoal, pastels and silverpoint
collected by The Arkansas Arts
Center since the early 1970s will
be presented. Charles Burchfield,
William Glakens, Edward Hopper,
Roy Lichtenstein, Reginald
Marsh, Georgia O’Keeffe and
Jackson Pollock are among the
featured artists.
The Bemis Center of
Contemporary Art
Jo Harvey Allen and Warren
Rosser will continue to be dis
played through May.
June 11-August 27th
‘Terrestrial” an installation fay
Claudia Cuesta
“Pleasure Grounds” an instal
lation by Lee Boroson
The Venue
June:
New York artist Penny Feder
shows floral monotypes.