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from the issue of April 26, 2007
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Sheldon offers preview of statewide exhibit
Before embarking on a 14-month tour of galleries across Nebraska, the 2007-2008 Nebraska Statewide exhibition, "Flow," opens in May at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
| | FLOWING - The statewide exhibition "Flow," organized by the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, includes "Bay/Sky Provincetown" a chromogenic print by Joel Meyerowitz. The exhibit will be at the Sheldon from May 4 to Aug. 19. Courtesy photo.
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An opening reception for the exhibition will be 5 to 7 p.m. May 4, at the Sheldon. The public is invited to this free event.
Symbolizing purity, sustenance, tranquility, power, movement and continuity, water is a source of life as well as destruction and death. Its surface serves as a metaphor for self-reflection and contemplation. Humans rely on water and take it for granted. We pollute it, misuse it and fight over it. It is easily accessible and inexpensive to some while nearly out of reach to others.
Artists with an affinity toward nature, especially landscape painters, have chosen water as a primary subject because of its reflective beauty and emotive qualities. Water was a central theme of the Provincetown painters and the San Francisco Bay Area figurative artists. The Impressionists gravitated toward water's abstract, impressionistic qualities. Artists whose work is included in the show are: Joel Meyerowitz, William Theo Brown, Wayne Thiebaud, Neil Welliver, Harry Callahan, Nebraska's Alice Cumbow and others.
Approximately 25 paintings, photographs, sculptures and prints from the Sheldon's permanent collection will travel to nine communities across Nebraska after the exhibition closes at Sheldon Aug. 19. Statewide Arts Connection, Sheldon's teacher training project will offer workshops in conjunction with the exhibition in four communities.
"Flow" is organized by Sheldon Statewide, an outreach program of the Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon and UNL. Since its inception in 1987 the program has reached 275,000 people with exhibitions in 24 communities.
For more information - including a list of communities the exhibtiion will visit - go online to www.sheldon.unl.edu or call 472-2461.
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