The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1980 Page: 23 of 24
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Art
Now there's a whole lot of Love at the Rice Museum
Clockwise from above: "Park Avenue
Doorbird" (1964) in steel and cast iron; "Little
Elephant" (1959) built from steel and leather;
and "Just Another Day...Working on Plan C"
(1975), a welded steel construction that's 9 3/4
inches high.
Jim Love Up to Now: A Selection
Rice Museum
Through November 16
Jim Love's art is personally
expressive, meaningful, and it's for
everyone to enjoy. Luckily for the
viewer, it's not like so much of the
art that now lingers in this country;
one need not know the artist's
biographical history or be
endowed with a superior aesthetic
sagacity to understand. Rather, a
feeling of the man who created
these works is expressed tyhrough
them, and an unmistakable aura of
humor, penetrating intelligence,
and social'awareness surrounds his
art. Love uses peices of junk to
create manifestations of this
culture's most secret qualities. As
Donald Barthelome indicates,
"Love, an urban archaeologist,
makes his discoveries in the
detritus of an industrial society."
A distinctively American artist,
Love nevertheless creates shapes
which people of all backgrounds
will recognize as one thing or
another. "Coat-Hat-Umbrella
Rack", a construction of pipes
fitted with screw on caps, appears
to be an anomalous coat, hat, and
umbrella rack. The title of this
work implies one perspective, but
the materials used force the viewer
to realize that this is no otdinary
rack. Is it a pretty piece of junk or a
utilitarian object accidentally
placed in this museum? Marcel
Duchamp would certainly call it a
"practically" ready-made since
it's a variation of that theme, but I
hesitate to imagine Diichamp's
reaction to Love's "Ready-Maid"
— this "maid" is one that would
have difficulty cleaning anyone's
house!
Each of these works is a
statement bearing multiple
meanings, and an art enthusiast
will find obvious influences (and
references) to many of this
century's well-known artists. I
found "Imaginary Portrait:
Dubuffet to be an exacting
abstraction of the essential
qualities which characaterize
much of Dubuffet's painting.
Likewise, "The Misfit" and
especially "Untitled" are
representitive of Paul K lee's
curiously rounded faces. But both
of the two Love works just
mentioned are not merely copies or
illustrations of Dubuffet's or
K lee's art, and a knowledge of
either one of these artists is not
necessary to enjoy Love's
abstractions; his work is inspired
and original at the same time.
In the same vein, Love uses a
bicycle seat as a major element in a
few works which remind one of
Picasso's "Bull's Head". Picasso
combined handlebars and a bicycle
seat to create a likeness of a bull's
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head. Love pays tribute to the seat
in his work "Untitled, 1960". The
piece is simply an old bicycle seat,
slanted towards the ground,
mounted on the top of a long
cylinder which tapers towards the
top. m
Another kind of sculpture ap-
pearing in this exhibition is "Tree
for Set of 'Waiting for Godot'It
was used in the Alley Theater's
1959 production of that play. The
tree is located in a darkened room
and situated on a large wood
panelled floor. Benches have been
placed around this work which
deserves some quiet meditation.
It is not easy to find just one
favorite in a single display of
works as rich in quality as this one,
but "Flower for the Bath" is really
ingenious. The four pronged
porcelain handle used on
antiquated sinks remembles a
daisy, it is attached to a slightly
wavering pipe which projects from
a small base. Two single pronged
knobs, one for hot and one for
cold, are attached to the pipe mid-
way between top and bottom. This
work is sensitive, touching, and
humorous.
Jim Love's work derives
inspiration as well as information
from many artist's work, and the
materials he uses, what most
would consider to be old pieces of
junk by themselves, are not an
artist's normal materials. Nuts,
screws, bolts, and pipes, are things
we see everyday, but few can see
them in any way other than as
parts of machines, and on a larger
scale, as parts of this industrial
society; Love gives us a refreshing
perspective of that often un-fun
world.
—Chris Castaneda
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1980, newspaper, October 10, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245450/m1/23/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.