Kansan Summer Weekly/Wednesday, June 10, 1987
Arts and Entertainment Downtown reacts to artworks
James Patti, founder and executive director of the Kansas Sculptors Association, is one of twelve artists displaying works in downtown Lawrence. His untitled work is on display at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
Outdoor exhibitions observed by Lawrence shoppers
Arts editor
By Caroline Reddick
Viewer reactions to the outdoor sculptures that were recently installed downtown are almost as varied in opinion as the sculptures are in style.
"Most of them, I don't think much of," Michelle Babcock, 845 Maine, said. "Some of them look all right from one angle, but when you move around, they kind of fall apart."
The twelve sculptures, distributed between the 600 and 1200 blocks of Massachusetts Street, are part of the first yearlong outdoor art exhibition jointly sponsored by the Lawrence Commission and the Kansas Sculpture Foundation. The sculpture, scheduled for display in June will complete this year's exhibit.
Victor Palacios, Columbian graduate student, said he liked the sculptures.
"I thought it was really interesting but a shame that most people don't notice," he said. "It seems to me they pass by and don't look."
Babcock said she noticed one person looking closely at the wind-powered untitled piece on the east side of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
"He was walking around and really looking at it when a gust of wind came along, and it swung around and knocked him down," she said. "It said you were surprised. But he got a good look at her and you shouldn't stand that close to it."
"I noticed the red one on 8th street and wondered what it was before I read about it in the paper," said Sharon Mathews, 118 Museum St.
One Lawrence resident was puzzled by the exhibit.
tion was provided by the sponsors, the city of Lawrence, the Downtown Lawrence Association, the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Kansas Arts Commission. The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department provided trucks and drivers to move the sculptures.
Elden Tefft, KU professor of art, was on the three-member selection committee that chose the sculptures from 41 entries submitted by 17 artists. He said that some of the pieces were chosen for their unusual design.
Financial support for installation and insurance for this year's exhibi-
He said that the artists had to live in Kansas or be a member of the Kansas Sculptors Association to be eligible to submit sculptures for the exhibition.
"The committee's intent was to make a selection of varied approaches and materials so it would be a more interesting exhibit," Teftt said. "Also, the material that was available was widely varied."
The sculptures are on loan to the city for a year by the artists. The sculptures are for sale, they are under contract to remain on exhibit for a year.
James Patti, executive director of the Kansas Sculptors Association, said that the association would help raise $50,000 for pieces on loan for a second year.
"We'd like to expand the exhibit," Patti said. "If we can keep some of these pieces a second year, we can spend our money on expansion instead of replacement."
He said that the Lawrence Arts Commission had asked area businesses to buy a sculpture and donate it to the city.
Patti is the creator of the united figure in front of the First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts Street.
"The main point in a figure like mine was to attain movement and tension in a motionless figure," he said.
"I don't have a name for it. It could be male or female."
Arlie Regier, Overland Park sculptor, said that his piece. Programmed Rectangles, located on the east side of the 800 block, represented computerized machines like car engines, typewriters and robots.
"It is intended to reflect the ever- programmed aspects of our living."
Olate the sculptor Ron Hicks has two works on display. His Arrow Through Sunflower is located on the west side of the 600 block and his Totem Pole is on the east side of the 700 block. He said he used materials he found in the country.
"I like going to these old Kansas farms that are dead or dying and finding an old piece of rusted steel that becomes the origin of the piece." he said. "I also use Kansas sandstone and a lot of the clays that are abundant in this area."
Hicks said he thought that the artists and city residents benefited from the exhibit.
"It's nice to have your work out in a public place," he said. "They're so heavy that you don't just carry them and submit them to every show.
"You can go downstreet and watch the people. Whether they like it or not, they're stopping and looking, and I think that's healthy."
Patti said the exhibition would continue on an annual basis as long as funding was available.
Everybody just cooperated so well and that's what it takes," he said.
New York museum of glass buys KU graduate's mosaic panel
Arts editor
A University of Kansas graduate in ceramics and glass recently sold a glass mosaic panel to the internationally renowned Corning Museum of Glass in New York.
Paul Lucas, a December 1986 graduate and Topeka artist, sold the panel while it was on exhibit in March at a student show sponsored by the Glass Art Society Conference in Philadelphia. The work is a 20-by-24-inch transparent glass mosaic titled "Nazia."
By Caroline Reddick
Jon Havener, associate professor of design, said it was an honor for an artist to have work on exhibit in the Corning Museum.
"It's the glass museum in the United States," Havener says. They go to most extensive collections of the United States of international glass artists."
Lucas said he was shocked when he heard Corning Museum was interested in buying the piece.
"They had to scrape me off the floor," he said. "I didn't expect anything like this so soon in my
Paul Lucas KU graduate
They had to scrape me off the floor. I didn't expect anything like this so soon in my career. Some artists never have a piece in a museum.'
career. Some artists never have a piece in a museum."
Lucas said the panel's design came from photographs of a friend's face.
"I usually use a series of photographs to do a person because I can't get anyone to sit that long." Lucas said. "It can take weeks.
"My impressions at the time that the photos were taken also go into it."
seemed that the time was right. I had gained enough control over my medium, and I felt I was ready to try it in glass."
He cut colored glass into three-eighth-inch squares, applied epoxy and glued the individual squares to a sheet of clear glass.
Lucas said he worked with acrylics, oil paints, stained glass and metals before he became interested in glass mosaics.
"It wasn't an idea that popped into my head immediately," he said. "It
"It needs to hang where light can flow through it," Lucas said. "I never think of my pieces as windows, but they need a strong light source."
The mosaic was completed while Lucas was a KU student. During that period, he enrolled in several metal classes taught by Havener.
"He was a great student who was really hardworking and had a lot of good ideas," Havener said. "I think he's a real good craftsmans who can put it all together, a really talented guy."
Lucas said the title "Nazia", "pro-
tection of mausae," could have different implica-
tion.
"The panel suggests to me the feeling that one gets when a catastrophe is just about to happen," he said. "Anxious and immediate are words that relate to it."
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hours vary — "Cheyenne Bottoms: Biology of a large marsh," an exhibit presently shown at the Museum of Natural History.
7 p.m. - "Anatomy of a Murder" watch this 1959 film starring Jimmy Stewart and George C. Scott in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Admission is $2. Tickets are the SUA office on level 4 of the Union.
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'Nazia' a glass mosaic by KU graduate Paul Lucas
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