University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, May 1, 1990
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Promoter champions Kansas artists
The Associated Press
WICHITA — Don Lambert in a cheerleader for Kansas artists who celebrate the state.
"So much of the art we see these days could have been produced any place," said the Topeka-based freelance art promoter. "I'm concerned and especially interested in the Kansas artist who is aware of what's going on nationally but has chosen to depict Kansas.
"They are pioneers going against the trend. Lambert, 39, a former newspaper reporter, is nearing the end of a statewide tour delivering a lecture titled "15 Kansas Artists: Exploring Their Kansas Roots."
Funded by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities and the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, the tour schedule included Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka, Salina, Wichita, Havs, Pittsburg and Kansas City, Kan.
Hays, Managing Director of the Lawrence Art Center, was surprised that some attending Lambert's lecture were being exposed for the first time to some of the artists.
"They hadn't seen Phil Epp's landscapes with the billowing clouds or Marilyn Grisham's weavings." Evans said. "I had seen this work, and I guess I just assumed everybody had."
Lambert shows more than 70 slides of examples of work by the artists. The pieces encompass a broad range of styles and media.
Grisham's striking fabric landscapes incorporate metallic threads that shimmer like morning dew on grass in the Flint Hills near her EL Dorado home.
Stan Herd's spectacular "crop art" projects involve as many as 20 acres planted to depict scenes or people.
Photographs by Terry Evans of Salina show the virgin prairie in contrast to plowed fields.
And the painted landscapes produced by retired
University of Kansas art instructor Robert Sudlow
prompt viewers to want to see what he saw for them-
selves.
"He has blazed the trail for two generations of landscape painters," Lambert said. "He has become very successful because his paintings have encouraged us to look not only at them but also at the landscape."
Sudlow focuses on the Flint Hills and rural areas around Lawrence.
The seed for Lambert's lecture was planted 10 years ago, when a friend suggested some Kansas artists "were depicting the state in quite beautiful and meaningful ways."
"When you go to Santa Fe, you see there is a look to the art," he said. "The pottery, the paintings, the weavings; they all have the feel of Santa Fe."
they have the feel of sand. "It's not as pronounced. It's much more subtle. But there is the same kind of unity of feeling with much of the art produced in Kansas."
art produced in Kansas.
Lambert's lecture starts with a short introduction to
Kansas art history and the image residents and outsiders
have of the state and its people.
have of the state and have of the land. During the slide show, he talks about Kansas landscape artists who are in touch with being products of the land themselves.
"A lot of us living here think this state is special," said Evans. "The artists think it's special. Unfortunately, you're often more of an authority when you leave home."
The response to the lecture has been gratifying Lambert said.
Vernon Brejcha, a Lawrence glass blower, has attracted comment with his pieces suggesting the germination of seeds and limestone fence posts.
"What we see with artists like Vernon is very sophisticated, well-trained people who are incorporating bits of Kansas into their work," Lambert said.
Consequently, their work is very popular," he said. "It triggers something in Kansans. We feel good looking at it."
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