A&K Fine arts candidates’ work on display in EMU By Julie Decker £mcrald C'onlr ><ulor ( urrcnllv on display in tin1 I Ml' ( .alhirv am works b>, I m versitv Hai liclor of l ino Arts stubnots The .tnnii.tl HI A show brings llio I.iloiit within tin' I’nivrrsilv ili'p.irlmi'iit to tile public s .it tnntion Review Various artists |oiu tom'lbet to offiT an i-xhibit of miM'tl mi di.i and nii\ril sub|i't t matti'i that ch.illcnni' tin- pert I'ptions and toasi' the srlisrs llnahrrni Wahab displays "Planus and Plain's from " rim Hook ( )t'.' a Imok about Ills jiasl Wahab drsi rilx's bis past as onti that is gone so far awns now that it almost stifius likn a diffcri'iit lift'll mi' in somi'oni' eise's Iilf span \\ .1 hat) livid m Afganistan and (fills uf "a place so df'vas I.ili'd and destroyed by war that lor the 111v;11 al sifI• ■ of me none ol these sweet memom s make sense The stories and images of I’lanes and I’lanes speak to t lie v fewer with Iears and hopes They depit t nightmares and memories hut maintain a dominant theme of sun ival I wrote tills hook so that I won’t lose tom h with that time of ms life and the life of ins I on nil \ lietore the wai started tearing us apart W aliah said 1 w<int to i r\ hut that wmild mean I have given up hope I have not Lithographs and etchings by Kick Simpson also address the problems of society, but Simp son foi uses on the six nil ills he sees m the t hiited States after living abroad for .1 number of years "I now live in .1 culture whir li values tog business and 1 ominerr e o\ er a clean environ ment I lie right-- of \ iolent i riminals ovei those of tin’ll victims .ind which fms taken .111 apathelii slant e on erlur .1 lion w lor h has produi nd an en lire generation of fum lional il lileiales who no longei i oil! mand eilliei er onomir, or 1 ul lural respect throughout the world ' Simpson said Simpson's images portray ins concern with the current state of sor iet\ Simpson maintains that Ills images are not meant to he pleasing, hut rather .ire in tended to he thought provnk mg I'iglires are represented 111 tin- process of decay and meta morphosis with amliiguons forms suggesting human life in Cat's Meow Jazz & Blues Corner Gift Certificates! k Special Orders Gladly! In the Fiflhpcarl Shops FiftM & P(ar( • EuqiNi 686 8/42 r 20% Sale does not include: coursebooks. Him processing, tobacco products, class rings, academic regalia, computers, software tennis balls, and items already priced as sale merchandise as well as some electronic equipment which is already priced extremely competitively No further discounts, cash register sales only, limited to stock on hand Main store at 13th and Kincaid only ■ ART SUPPLIES ■ GIFTS FOR GRADS ■ SPORTSWEAR ■ OFFICE SUPPLIES ■ LUGGAGE ■ COSMETICS J ■ BOOKS UO Bookstore A ' 1 • 346 4331 its distortion Titles sued) as "Before the I .ill." Hl.ii k Angel " "U'aste land' and "Blind laith" sug gest Simpson's distaste and im pat ient.e with the modern i\orld and a selfish so< iet\ Simpson said he wants to turn over the rooks ot soi ial filing computer application and later began to si an photo graphic images to imitate the appearance of sound images These images are then paint ed with vvaleri olors. creating works th.it e< ho sound, vet they are personified into portraits of figures that seem to come alive 7 wish to evoke the ancient, ritualistic use of mask as mediator of universal spir it.’ — Karen Baxter convention .ind show the un derbellv. the mot cause of so ( ial interaction Karen Maxtor < hose to ex plore her world through a 4 x 5 view camera in an effort to ex amine her "personal mytholo g\ and tin- nature of identity Baxter's Anima s Vision Se ries" includes several silver gelatin selenium toned prints Baxter said her constructions "point to the contradictory semhlanc e of permanence and the transitory in both content and proc ess Baxter uses porcelain port rail masks as primary subjects in her stdl lives, some of svhic li are self-portraits In the photographs the mask is a silent face passive allow mg itselt to he manipulated by the photographer and the im posed imagery l*ivcred sub jei ts give a densits to the pho digraphs as detail emerges from shadow s and drapers to appeal m (|uie! simple 11\ I w ish to evoke tin- am ient i itualistii use ol mask as medi ator ot universal spit it the ide a! ol persona as mediatoi ol selt and sot lets and the perspei live id soul as mediatoi ol hod s matter actual its and mind spirit and idea said Baste! I lelell M Khun presents hel Sound to Image" col lei lion ot works as examples ot art in spued by tec hnologs Klein was an exploration ge ologist in the oil and gas indus 11 x in the turn's and early 1'tHtiS in Texas where she ana Is /ed hundieds ol elei trii al logs representing rocks and their pin sit al properties "Black cursed lines on a svhite background represented ioi ks that I s\ <ui 111 never sec said Baxter Baxter began to pi.is ssdli a Mai Kei ordei a sound sail! within the entangled lines of the sound-inspired images. Shelley Hubert also uses a computer as an inspiration for her art Hubert uses a Macintosh computer to create composi tions using form, pattern and value "The computer is especially useful for layering forms and applying shades with patterns. I explore many options in de sign before deciding how to edit the different combinations of design elements into the fi nal arrangement." Hubert said (lolleen Hemphil creates de signs using a lilai k and white photo-copy mat hine Henphil uses repetition of identical or similar images to t reate large format composi lions that invite the viewer to explore the work as a whole or in individual pier es Suzanne I Hughes presents her woik with silkscreemug in the form of subtle intriguing portraits and compositions of figural forms Works such .is "I’ixehited Stone Watt hers" and ' I ixat ed" seem to represent minds .it work and a quiet intensiU of froth the artisl and the sublet t matte i (Catherine I )e I a g e offers works using a variety "I media "Simply Apples" anti Sim ply Apples 2' are i rented using oils and ink wasti to form the still images Deluge also displays works w ith t hart oal and t ut papei 1 at h ai 11st part a iputing in this exhibit offers the vieuei a unique appoint ti to inteipref ing the worhl around them The works are intriguing m then quality and in their sub jet 1 matter The HI A show w ill lie on displ.w in the I Ml' (alien for the remainder ol the term LETTER PERFECT JOO Efti Memorial Union • 146 4.1HI • Typesetting • Paste- Up/Layout • Design/Consultation • PMT's/Transparencies