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Art Faculty Gallery Exhibition Closes with Saturday Reception
by Rebecca Heard
managing editor
What We Do: Faculty
Art Show is closing with a
reception in the Ira M. Taylor
Memorial Gallery of the Frost
Center of the Visual Arts on
Saturday October 28 from 5
to 6:30 p.m. The exhibition
features the art of five faculty
members: Mike Jones Martha
Kiel Steve Neves Tony Berry
and Linda Fawcett.
Each has presented works
with ideas and subject matter
than most interests them.
"The photographs in this
show are from Rome" Martha
Kiel said. "I am intriqued by
the rooftops of the houses
and the interesting plains of
the buildings. To me these
abstracted forms are more
interesting than people or
animals."
Tony Berry who teaches
ceramics has several earth-
enware items in the show.
"I get a great deal of sat-
isfaction from making art that
people use in their everyday
life" Berry said. "A well made
coffee mug for instance is ide-
ally both beautiful to see and
comfortable to the touch."
Linda Fawcett uses oil on
canvas as her media of choice
for her paintings.
"I build fairly thick can-
vases and paint the image to
wrap around the edges for the
purpose of maintaining an
interesting tension between
realistic painting style a pic-
ture as traditional illusionis-
tic window and modern self-
referential object stretched
canvas as object that happens
to have paint attached to it"
she said.
The purpose and mean-
ing of the work varies among
the artists.
"Although I generally
have an intended message I
want viewers to feel free to
find their own" Fawcett said.
"I believe that viewers bring-
ing their own stories into their
viewing to be a vitally impor-
tant role for art enhancing
its ability to connect people
with each other or perhaps
to help individuals recon-
nect with something inside
themselves."
For Steve Neves who
teaches drawing and sculpture
classes each piece is another
opportunity for growth and
learning.
"There are often though
not always several layers of
meaning in my work ranging
from commonly recognized
imagery to relatively eso-
teric mythological religious
and historical references" he
said. "I hope that people who
view my art will allow them-
selves to wonder what in the
world is going on. Even if you
don't figure it out at least
you're thinking."
Ideas can come slowly
through much labor or inspi-
ration may come in the blink
of an eye.
"It can be just about anything.
This morning I noticed a lot of
monarch butterflies fluttering
over the road. Of course many
of them were ending up on
vindshields. While paused
at a stop light I saw one land
on a yellow plastic reflec-
tor that the highway depart-
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Clockwise from Top Left:
Bat Pot raku by Tony Bevvy;
Lure hand-colored linoleum by Steve Neves;
Kinzie oil on canvas by Linda Fawcett;
Various prints of logos and other images created in Adobe Illustrator by Mike Jonesj
Trevi Fountain Rome digital photograph by Martha Kiel.
Photos by Rebecca Heard.
ment puts in the middle of the
road" Neves said. "I bet from
twenty feet up they look a lot
like sunflowers especially if
you are seeing through tiny
butterfly eyes. I found this
interesting and a little sad. I
might use this as inspiration
for an artwork somehow."
The art faculty are always
working on their own proj-
ects as well as teaching their
various classes and somehow
manage to balance the two.
"Art is a way of life for me
besides a career and I firmly
believe in its value to and
important role in maintaining
a healthy society" Fawcett
said. "I feel very lucky to be
so satisfied with what I do for
a living."
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