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Monday, October 2, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Faculty art exhibit displays KU talent
By Tracy Wilkinson Kansan staff writer
Thirty-five different displays of intertangled lines, colors, energies and emotions lined the walls of the Art and Design Gallery yesterday afternoon at the Art and Design Building.
Eighteen members of the art department faculty participated in the faculty display, which will run until Oct. 20.
"I think it's very striking," said Robert Brawley, chairman of the art department. "There is a tremendous variety of strong work."
Brawley said that the exhibit was as good or better than last year's and that the works that composed the show contained a good range of sizes, which helped to make the show more interesting.
Included in the showing are two sculptures by Phillip Blackhurst,
The sculptures are titled "Big Vac Attached from Above" and "Red China Might Fall."
"Big Vac" is comprised of bright
red and yellow colors. A shocking-
yellow vacuum hose appears to be
sucking in a huge, black, inverted
pyramid pierced by bright, red
"Red China Might Fall" has a naked head sitting on top of a funnel, balancing a stack of red china cups and saucers.
Summer Edkinsid. 6. of Lawrence, looks at the mural "A Kansas Dream" by Roger Shimomura, professor of art.
Blackhurst said the titles directed the viewer to make his own interpretation of the work's meaning.
"Those are clues. I want people to make up their own stories about them," he said.
"It has a lot of energy," she said.
Anne Pearce, Lawrence senior, said she enjoyed the exhibition and thought some of it was really strong. She picked Robert Wright's "Shoppers" as her favorite exhibit.
It has a lot of energy. The skin.
The energy could come from the
brightly colored smears of oil on
canvas.
Roger Shimomura, professor of art, captured most of one wall with his three-segment, oil on canvas painting, "A Kansas Dream."
"It's my favorite," said Sarah
Thompson, Lawrence graduate student. "I know the artist, and I think it's very autobiographical. I think cartoon characters were a big part of
his childhood. That's what he's been painting for the past few years."
Thempson said, she thought, the
Brawley commented on the variance among faculty exhibits.
Thompson said she thought the showing as a whole was great.
"The faculty here is diverse
enough that there are no people who occupy the same niche," he said. "There is a good balance between the representational and the abstract."
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