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from the issue of January 12, 2006
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Dashper exhibit opens Jan. 14 at the Sheldon
An exhibit exploring 25 years of New Zealand artist Julian Dashper's concept-based creations opens Jan. 14 at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Titled "Midwestern Unlike You and Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper," the exhibition will be at the Sheldon through March 26.
The exhibition focus is on the creative process; how an artist uses ideas, traditions and limitations to produce original art. Born in New Zealand in 1960, Dashper was influenced by art produced in New York in the late-1950s and 1960s. But distance made his interaction with American art difficult, and he makes the filter of reproductions and fragments through which he experienced American art a subject of his work.
Dashper employs a variety of media (painting, sculpture, photography, video, ready-made objects and sound) in his art, which reflects a modest, pared-down aesthetic that encourages viewers to have a contemplative art experience. In some instances, such as a phone ringing unanswered in a basement phone booth, there is no art object at all, only the viewer's imagination that becomes an object of reflection.
The public is invited to a panel discussion about the exhibition, beginning at 4 p.m. Jan. 13. Also, Sheldon curator Dan Siedell will discuss the Dashper exhibition in his "Let's Talk Art" lecture, which is open to the public at 2 p.m. Jan. 15.
Additional information is available online www.sheldon.unl.edu.
GO TO: ISSUE OF JANUARY 12
ARTS HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 12
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Faculty exhibition opens Jan. 23
Kruger hosts ethnic 'Barns of Nebraska'
'New Perspectives' on display at Great Plains Art Museum
Repertory Theatre auditions are Jan. 15
Royal Philharmonic opens Lied's British Festival
Wine tasting event features Kooser
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