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University Press
Wednesday, October 2, 1991
UPcoming
Oct. 2
SSCC Movie: “The Freshman,” SSC Perch, 8 p.m.
Oct. 2-23
Three Art Dept. Alumni Exhibition: Michael Kennaugh, Rick
Lewis, Paige Menefee, Dishman Art Gallery.
Oct. 3,4,5
“Waiting for Godot,” Studio Theater, 8:15 p.m.
Oct. 4,5,11,12
“The Fourposter,” Jan Dehartog’s warm comedy by Beaumont
Community Players at Jefferson Theater, $10.50, 8:15 p.m.
838-2191.
Oct.4
Linda Hefner lecture, University Theater, 10:10 a.m.
Oct. 5
Lamelle Harris in concert, Julie Rogers Theater, $5, 7 p.m.
833-1426.
Oct. 5-26
“Seasons, Moon, Yin, & Egos” by Belan Woo-Siy, Art Studio
Inc., 838-5393.
Oct. 7
i The Lewis Family bluegrass gospel music singers, Port Neches-
j Groves High School Auditorium., 7:30 p.m., 727-2177.
k Oct. 8
SSCC movie: “Godfather II,” SSC Perch, 8 p.m.
* Oct. 9
‘ Woodwind Studios Recital, Recital Hall, 4:30 p.m.
v Oct. 9
\ SSCC Movie: “GoodFellas,” SSC Perch, 8 p.m.
, Oct. 9
Glint Black concert with Merle Haggard and Lori Morgan,
Montagne Center, 880-8615.
Oct. 9
i “Ticket deadline for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” musi-
, cal comedy in a dinner theater format, Hip Pocket Players of
First Christian Church of Port Arthur, $5, 962-7714.
Oct. 27
i
C & C Music Factory and Rhythm Syndicate, Montagne Center,
1 $18 floor, $16, $13, 7 p.m., 880-8615.
University Press student management plans to publicize upcom-
ing events of interest to Lamar students and faculty. Submissions
may be mailed to UP entertainment editor, P.O. Box 10055,
University Station, or brought to 200 Setzer Student Center.
Godkin memorial exhibition opens Friday at Dishman
Photo by Janha Smith
One of the works in the Godkin memorial exhibition that opens at the Dishman Art Gallery Friday at 7 p.m.
By Craig Clark
UP staff writer
An exhibition dedicated to the
memory of Lyle Godkin will open
this Friday at 7 p.m. in Dishman Art
Gallery. Godkin, who painted in the
art department for several genera-
tions of students, was regarded as
both inspiration, and support for
those working around him.
Three Lamar graduates, Paige
Frailey, Michael Kennaugh and
Richard Lewis, have lent their most
recent works to the gallery for the
memorial exhibition.
Individuals who are able to attend
the opening reception will be treated
to an impressive array of drawings,
collages and paintings in three dis-
tinctly different styles.
The work is indicative of the piv-
otal point at which each of the young
artists finds himself. Frailey and
Kennaugh completed their masters’
degrees last year. Lewis is nearing
the completion of his. Each of the
artists is in the process of developing
a style which he may call his own.
Frailey, who is displaying her
graduate thesis work from Texas
Christian University in Dallas, uses
broad gestural sweeps of pink, red,
green and blue pigment to compose
the tempestuous realms of her paint-
ings.
The counterposed sweeps of the
brush create a feeling similar to the
furious activity one finds around the
center of a hurricane. The forceful
collisions, turns and arcs of pigment
gradually build and define the formal
elements of the compositions. The
eye of the viewer is tossed about like
a cork on a stormy sea.
Vague, abstracted human and
dog-like forms gradually materialize
in the storm of activity transpiring on
the dark background of the canvas.
Both forms function as motifs
throughout Frailey’s work.
The dogs may be identified as
metaphors for the ominous calm
behind the colorful storm.
Sometimes they appear as a direct
threat, as in the oil paintings; some-
times the dogs are juxtaposed with a
deer-like form and take on a less
threatening quality, as in the col-
lages.
Frailey employs the sublime in
her expressionistic paintings. The
human figures, which are defined and
consumed by the activity of the
storm, may be seen as figurative
examples of man in relation to a
threatening, chaotic universe.
According to Frailey, the universe
of her paintings and collages has two
basic themes. Thematically, the
paintings are primarily concerned
with rescue. The collages, which
were originally intended to be part of
a large book, have a basic theme of
provision.
Frailey has achieved a blend pf
expressive style and intrigue in her
paintings. The various levels of activ-
ity depict the human form in a con-
stant state of flux with the universe.
The figures are not liberated from,
nor are they condemned to, the dark
realm of the chasm over which they
exist. The viewer is left with a set of
questions concerning the relationship
of nat.ure and man.
Kennaugh, who received his mas-
ter’s from the University of North
Texas in Denton, has also been work-
ing to establish an individual style
and vocabulary in his work. The
paintings and drawings of Kennaugh
are an exploration of his ancestral
roots.
Kennaugh said he considers the
drawings in his “Aceldama” and
“Millenium Way” series to be the
most important work he has in the
show.
‘The ‘Aceldama’ series is tying in
my ancestral past on the Isle of Man
with being in Southeast Texas,”
Kennaugh said. “The series is about
two friends who have recently passed
on, John Nicholson and Lyle Godkin.
“Nicholson belonged to the World
Academy of Watercolorists and was
from the Isle of Man,” Kennaugh
said. “He committed suicide when
he was 70. He and Lyle were total
opposites.”
Kennaugh uses a cuneiform shape
as the foundation for several of the
drawings. Various elements, ranging
from an image of the head of
Nicholson to a quatrefoil, are drawn-
over the cross.
The "Millenium Way" series is a.,
compilation of objects that symbolize
the memories and experiences of the
artist over the past few years.-
Kennaugh said that the drawings
were in process for a year and a half
before they were complete. He
referred to them as a diary of his
experiences and travels throughout
Europe and on the Isle of Man.
When asked about the old Celtic
and Roman heads in the drawings,
Kennaugh described their signifi-
cance.
“Certain, images have a resonance
to them, and these are powerful
images,” Kennaugh said. ‘These are
an important visual turning point for
what I want to do with the paint-
ings.”
Rick Lewis, who is currently
working on his master’s, is exhibiting
a Series of floral and “Studio
Landscape” paintings. He has also
done a series which incorporates bits
and pieces of Chinese newspapers in
See DISHMAN, page 6
Holden shares observations
during Poetry Day readings
By Mark Bankston
UP news/features editor
“Poetry is the art of noticing
through words,” Jonathan Holden
said Thursday as the featured speak-
er for Lamar’s annual Poetry Day.
Holden shared his own observations
with the full house that attended the
event held in the Spindletop Room
of the Gray library.
Reading from his collections
“Leverage,” “The Names of the
Rapids,” his most recent, “Against
Paradise,” and the forthcoming
“American Gothic,” Holden zipped
through 13 relatively short selections
which ranged in topics from sex to
war to Peter Rabbit.
His first poem, “Liberace,” con-
cerned the deceased pianist and Las
Vegas performer who Holden said
could have been invented only by a
society such as America that hates
the feminine in men.
The most poignant of the baker’s
dozen Holden delivered was a selec-
tion titled “Elizabeth,” which drew
from events in the poet’s life.
Holden explained that he and his
wife Gretchen had tried to adopt a
Korean child whom they named
Elizabeth from a photograph. But
the child fell ill before the adoption
could be processed and died in an
orphanage in Seoul.
Undaunted, Holden and his wife
tried again and were successful in
adopting another daughter, Alanna.
Holden read from his upcoming
book “American Gothic,” including
a selection he called his “Desert
Storm poem.” Echoing a familiar
sentiment — make love, not war —
“Gulf: January 17, 1991” centered
around a couple who seek solace
from the distressing images on tele-
vision of the first air raids on
Baghdad by having sex.
The high point of the reading
was Holden’s performance of his
poem “Cassandra,” a dramatic
monologue about an actual woman
who has been locked away in an
insane asylum because of her
prophetic insistence that a black
hole will someday devour the earth
and everything in it. The poem
refers to the prophetess of Greek
legend, Cassandra, who foretold the
fall of Troy, but whom no one
believed.
Other selections included two
poems about poetry. “Rereading Old
Love Letters,” Holden said, touches
on his belief that even a non-writer
crafts words into something really
meaningful when he wants to get his
feelings across to someone he loves.
A poet’s primary purpose is to try to
make words mean something,
Holden said.
“Peter Rabbit,” a recounting of
the classic nursery tale about the
thrill of disobedience, conveyed
Holden’s opinion that “you notice
things much more when you’re
doing something naughty.”
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