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   from the issue of March 25, 2004

     
 
Exhibition makes sense of the ‘Senses’

An exhibition at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery allows visitors to explore how our minds process the art-viewing experience. “Making Sense of the Senses: The Body, the Brain and Modern Art” is now open and will run through May 30.


Morgan Russell’s Synchromy No. 2, To Light from Synchromy in Blue-Violet Quartet, 1912, oil on canvas mounted on board. This...
 
Morgan Russell’s Synchromy No. 2, To Light from Synchromy in Blue-Violet Quartet, 1912, oil on canvas mounted on board. This work is on exhibition through May 30 as part of the “Making Sense of the Senses: The Body, the Brain and Modern Art” display at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.

 
Organized by Will South, curator of collections at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this exhibition of 17 paintings examines the interest of early 20th-century artists hoping to create a common language through art. The artists sought to communicate content without reference to specific objects and relied instead on juxtapositions of forms and choices of colors that might evoke responses inherent to perception and thus communicate across cultural boundaries.

Among the works that are featured in “Making Sense of the Senses” are Henri’s Night, Fourteenth of July; Battle of Lights, Coney Island by Joseph Stella; and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Blue Nude.

South will offer a presentation on the exhibition at 5:30 p.m. March 30 in the Sheldon Auditorium. The program is $3 for Nebraska Art Association members, $5 for non-members and free for students.

For more information, contact Jessica Kennedy, 472-1197, jkennedy7@unl.edu.


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ARTS HEADLINES FOR MARCH 25

Exhibition makes sense of the ‘Senses’
Ingraham’s work of ‘Skins’ on display at Hillestad
Event celebrates graduate student work March 29
Film festival starts April 1
Guys and Dolls opens April 8
Kees event to benefit Libraries
Now showing at the Ross
Preview tonight of Emma Goldman
Sheldon to offer free Family Day
University Theatre sets 2004-05 play schedule

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