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Wednesday, August 30, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Gallery owner challenges 'everyday people'
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
it could almost be the upstairs of a turn-of-the-century home.
Gleaming wooden floors catch the light from a disappearing sun. The windows are large, like ones used nearly a century ago. The ceilings are high, designed to retain cool air in summers when air conditioners had not yet been invented.
But in another room, a blue, neon "open" sign glimmers from a corner on the floor and wood-and-metal sculptures sit on stands.
This is no ordinary place. This is Artists En
Museum of Modern Art
This is no ordinary place. This is Artists Entrée in fact by Lyme Green, owner of Artists Entrée.
Masse, has her say, there will be nothing ordinary in the gallery.
"My purpose is to show work that is somewhat provocative." Green said.
"I want to change the way people look at art," she said. "To most people art is a still-life framed on a wall. If I can get everyday people to come and look and get them to risk their first object of art — one drawing, one picture — they're hooked."
Since opening the gallery in November 1988. Green has hosted six shows.
"It's been a dream of mine forever," she said. "I grew up with art all around me. I grew up in a family of artists. T me, art is a necessity, not a luxury. Art is so essential to the spiritual growth of people."
Green said that she wanted the gallery to represent not only local artists but also regional and national artists. She found most of her artists by attending art shows.
Gallery shows have included works in many mediums and are sometimes works of many artists, sometimes works of just one.
Michael Barsotti, whose neon sculptures and pencil drawings were exhibited in July, had his first gallery showing at Artists En Masse.
"It was the beginning of my career," Barsotti said. "I feel like Lynne is a little bit more open to art that is a little bit different, unusual or risky."
"I like to experiment. I will work in performance, draw, pastel drawings,
electricity - basically I can get my hands on. I appreciate it when the person who is representing my work is willing to experiment too."
Dale Benson, Lawrence graduate student, will show his work in the sculpture show "Form and Non-Function" scheduled to begin Sept. 8.
"I think this gallery is fairly new," he said.
"I think it'll draw a lot of interest of people who want to see what Lvynne has in store."
The sculpture show will feature works by six regional artists: Deidre Jacobs, Ruth Bowman, Sherry Nickell and Benson, all of Lawrence; Susan Nelson, Leavenworth, and Inge Balch, Baldwin.
Green said that she hoped this particular
show would attract even more attention because everyday objects were used. For example, she said one work used a rolling pin with holes.
"People will see it and think, 'I know what that is. It's
familiar to me, but I can't use it because it has holes in it,'" Green said. "That's the first step—if you get their attention."
Green said she hoped to have a show every four to six weeks.
Artists En Masse is a privately-funded gallery, and Green said she hoped that people would continue to support the arts.
"Lawrence is a very supportive community to the arts." she said
Bush promises anti-drug plan and help for Colombia
The Associated Press
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — President Bush wrapped up a strategy session yesterday with top Cabinet officials on a new anti-drug policy and promised that the United States would do all it could to help Colombia fight its violent drug cartels.
"We will cooperate with Colombia to the best of our abilities," Bush told reporters outside his oceanfront vacation home, adding that the administration supports "what the president of that country is trying to do."
Asked about Colombian President Virgilio Barco's televised appeal to drug users abroad to stop using
narcotics, Bush said, "I fully agree with that. So does our drug czar, Bill Bennett. ...We talked about that at lunch."
The president said, "We did have a very good discussion on the anti-narcotics program. We'll have more to say on next week."
White House officials have said the anti-drug plan, to be revealed Sept. 5, in a televised presidential address to the nation, will cost about $8 billion — $2 billion above current anti-drug spending levels.
were Bennett, the White House drug policy director, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh; CIA Director William Webster; Defense Secretary
say, a greater military role in the future with respect to the drug program than has been true in the past." Cheney said in a television interview
It will attempt to cut off drugs at the source, stiffen penalties for users and expand treatment for addicts, they said.
There will be, I think it's fair to say, a greater military role in the future with respect to the drug program than has been true in the past.
Joining Bush at his vacation home
Dick Cheney; Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and national security adviser Brent Crowcroft.
- Dick Cheney Secretary of Defense
"There will be, I think it's fair to
before the meeting.
Asked on ABC's "Good Morning America" what kind of military role he envisioned in the expanded fight, Cheney said, "We'll let the president
worry about that next week "
Meanwhile, Colombia's Justice Minister Monica de Greiff said she was requesting $13 million in U.S. aid to purchase armored cars, bullet-proof vests, metal detectors for court houses and other security devices to protect her country's judges, under seige by the Medellín drug cartel.
"The law is under siege in Colombia, and we must protect it every way we can," she told a news conference in Washington.
Asked about the aid request, Bush did not discuss it specifically, but said, "It's being worked out now, the details."
addition to the $5 million that the Bush administration has approved over a two-year period to improve security for judges. Bush also has approval of $25 million in U.S. military help to secure the country and fight the Medellin drug crisis.
David Runkel, a spokesman for Thornburgh, said the Justice Department was in the process of drafting extradition requests for 12 Colombian drug traffickers under federal indictment.
Barco, in Bogota, put to rest rumors that de Greiff had decided to resign in the face of death threats from drug cartel leaders worried about possible extradition to the United States.
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