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Mixed-media dolls juxtapose pastels
By DAVID HENRY
By DAVID HENRY Staff Writer
Art making has been defined by some as the desire to bring order and understanding to random experience. Others view it differently. They believe that the creative process should transform everyday experiences into something fantastical.
Beginning May 9, the Spencer Museum of Art's Kress Gallery will be divided literally in half, giving equal space to both points of view.
Suzanne Klotz-Reilly's fantastical mixed-media assemblages and doll-like beings, and Peter Thompson's complex, yet ordered pastel drawings and watercolors provide two very different insights into this ongoing controversy about art.
asbH a work of Klotz-Relly defies easy categorization; it has been called "bizzare" and "acentric" by critics. Yet no single word adequately explains her irreverent doles—spindly legged figures with faceless ceramic knees frozen in toothy screams. Klotz-Relly
turns the innocence and charm of childhood into a nightmarish vision.
Her mixed-media shadowbox, "She'll Break Your Heart and Make You Cry," is equally beguiling. Composed of fabric, clay, wood and tiny objects, "She'll Break Your Heat" depicts an amorphous clay creature attacking a Barbie doll in bed.
Klock-Reilly's exhibition, entitled "Humming Heart Gardens," is somewhat of a homecoming Although born in Wisconsin, she grew up in Shawnee Mission and received her BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1966. She subsequently taught art in Massachusetts, Kansas, Texas and California before moving to Phoenix, Ariz., where she has worked since 1975. "Humming Heart Gardens" is Klock-Reilly's first Kansas exhibition.
The work of Thompson draws upon very different concepts than those of Klok-Rellly. Thompson's large pastels and watercolors, all created in the last three years, are complex networks of rapidly drawn, colored lines. Out of the chaos of individual marks emerge calm geometric shapes. This tension between the order of the final products and the helter-skelter
process which creates them is the hallmark of Thompson's work in the exhibit.
While Thompson describes the drawings as "mark-making," he avoids defining his work.
"It's a collective accumulation of ideas over the years. You think about painting for 25 years and then when someone asks you, 'What are they asking you for painting?' He hard to understand," she said recently.
Thompson also is no stranger to Kansas. Trained at Rhode Island School of Design and Yale in the early 1965, Thompson has taught the University of Kansas since 1965. He has served as chairman of the painting and drawing department and as associate dean of KU's School of Fine Arts.
KU students will have a unique opportunity to explore the course at a preview opening in week 7 from 8 to 10.
"It's a TGIF at the museum with music, root beer and pretzels," Linda Bailey, Spencer Museum membership coordinator, said. The museum's Central Court will be transformed into a dance floor, with music provided by the Thumbs and Marty Olson, Bailey said.
Javhawk Jam '82 relocated
The event, moved this year from Potter Pavilion to the hill between Memorial Stadium and the Campanile, will start at 2 p.m. and end at 4 p.m. The bands will play around 10:30 p.m.
More than six area bands will set up stage south of Memorial Stadium this Sunday as Jayhawk Jam #2 gets underway, Irene Carr, SUA director, said yesterday.
The band lineup this year includes the Tunes, Betshell Calipar, Murphy's Law, the Artists, Sylvan Williams, and Chad O'Connor.
"They are rock bands, bluegrass, New Wave— you name it," she said. "There will be something there for everybody."
But small acoustic groups will appear at the event as well, she said.
Carr said some of the bands were from Lawrence, although others would come from Kansas.
The event is free, and everyone is welcome to come and bring refreshments.
"It's just a day of fun," Carr said. "People usually come and make a picnic out of it."
Carr said the event was a KU tradition dating back to 1897, although it was called Wheatstock until two years ago.
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Christine Cressie, standing, Monica Lacey, left and Cheryl LaCoste play three of the seven women portrayed in the University Theatre production of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf." The play, which is a dramatization of the role of black women in today's society opened last night and will run through May 2 in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall. For ticket in formation call the Murphy Hall Box Office.
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