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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, June 17.1998
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The pieces selected include a 7 feet by 15 feet paper kite hung from the ceiling by Tal Streeter, a 1956 KU graduate, and a nature-based piece by Alan Sonfist, displayed on the floor.
Sonfist's, "Landscape of the Earth of the White Oak" from 1969, depicts the space of natural surroundings. It was made by laying canvas on a forest floor and, using dark resin, rubbing the ground's map-like impression onto the canvas.
and then spraying the image with hot tar onto a field in upstate New York.
"I think there will be something in it for everybody."
The emphasis on big art gives the show an unusual quality and should appeal to a general audience, from adults to children, said Sally Hayden, the museum's publicist.
A giant's thumb print is the focus of Dennis Oppenheim's photo documentation of his piece "Identity Stretch" from 1970. The piece was created by blowing up two thumb prints
Spencer Art Museum publicist
exhibit range from a few feet wide to more than 15 feet wide. Many of the pieces have not been shown before or have not been shown together because of their size.
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Janet Dreiling and Michelle Robinson clean the glass of an artwork going in an exhibit of large works at the Spencer Art Museum. The exhibit opens on Saturday. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Museum shows 'Big Stuff'
More museum information can be found its Web site at http://www.ukans.edu/~sma.
The pieces are designed to make the viewer think about spaces beyond the geometric confines of a canvas or the closed dimensions of the gallery, said Susan Earle, show organizer and acting curator for European and American art.
Paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures in the
Big art meant to open eyes as well as minds is the focus of the Spencer Museum of Art's exhibit "Big Stuff. Contemporary Art from the Collection."
By Ellissa Harris
Kansan staff writer
The exhibit, which opens Saturday in the fourth floor gallery, attempts to show how artists use color, size and scale to offer different perceptions of space. Thirty-five pieces, the earliest from 1960, will be on display.
Lawrence Arts Center
Design A, constructed by Glenn Livingood Penzler Architects, shows a scale relationship for the proposed expansion of the Lawrence Arts Center with a larger perfo. mance hall and a more spacious classroom arrangement. Photo illustration by Lizz Weber/KANSAN
Arts Center reviews building designs
Lawrence citizens weary of the typical box shape of new buildings may be pleasantly surprised by the Lawrence Arts Center addition.
By Jonny Oakson
Kansan staff writer
Yesterday morning, David Dunfield, and other associates from Glenn Livingood Penzler Architects, presented three unconventional schematic designs to the 10-member Lawrence Arts Center Study Committee. The sketches, along with three-dimensional models, showed inventive plans for adding a preschool, outdoor classroom, education wing, galleries, administrative offices
and, most importantly, a performance hall to the Carnegie Building at 200 W. Ninth St.
"I like the idea of having the hall look strikingly different than the Carnegie," said John Nalbandian, Lawrence City Commissioner. "Through the architecture, we can convey that it is more than a building. It's an art center."
The cost of the additions is currently $5.8 million, said Ann Evans, director of the center. The city has agreed to pay $3.5 million. The art center plans to raise the rest.
Evans said that she, along with staff and board members, already had raised $1.5 million.
Committee members agreed
that the Carnegie Building must be preserved. Two of the three designs designated the Carnegie Building's current entrance off Ninth Street as the main entrance to the new center.
Dunfield said that maintaining the Carnegie entrance was not only safe and efficient but also important to the community as a symbol of the city.
With either a 300 or 400 seat capacity, the theater will be much larger. It will be similar in size to Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall or Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"With larger productions and larger audiences, we get larger revenues to finance more productions. It's one big circle,"
Evans said.
Although the drawings are on the table, the committee and the Arts Center Advisory Board are far from breaking ground. Evans said that while a time frame for the expansion had not been announced, in two or three months the board and committee members should know when the project will be completed.
The committee has decided to focus on only two of the designs and continue to develop ideas to make them work. During the next two weeks, the architects plan to work on refinements and structural changes with the goal of presenting the schematic designs to the advisory board and art center staff on June 30.