Art

Main Gallery Exhibits

Entrance located in the lobby of Memorial Hall

August 28 - September 26, 2012

Sheldon Statewide Exhibition - “Railroads and the Making of Modern America” The exhibition comprises artworks from the Sheldon’s permanent collection, including a rich array of paintings, prints, and photographs by artists such as Roy Ahlgren. This year’s show is centered on the railroad’s significance to Nebraska. The exhibition is an ideal way to foster interdisciplinary connections between art and history.

October 8 - November 2, 2012

Neil Jussila
If a painting or drawing brings forth a memory sensation or, leads to a spiritual realization then to that end its intent is achieved as a meditation on the enchantment of color and the infinite loveliness of being. Neil Jussila paints by sensing what he does, without much pondering or reasoning. The intent is to create a painting with an uncanny, classical presence, which is spiritually felt.

February 11 - March 15, 2013

Chadron State College Faculty
Recent work in a variety of mediums from CSC Art Faculty Laura Bentz, Richard Bird, Mary Donahue, and Nancy Sharps

Gallery 239 Exhibits

Entrance located on the second floor of Memorial Hall

August 28 - September 26, 2012

Jason Godeke - “Totems and Monsters”
Totems and Monsters combines’ familiar, machined, idealized versions of humans with freshly hewn figurative aspects that is crude and flawed. In a fantasy world supposedly uninflected by civilization, how would we really fare?

October 8 - November 2, 2012

Marc Deppe
Even though the demands of everyday life and social inevitably find their way into the artist’s creative process, drawing is a means of separating, grounding oneself, and preserving a space for contemplation. Through discipline and commitment to developing visual forms, it is possible to reflect on one’s experience while remaining critical.

January 7 - February 1, 2013

Alejandro Mazon
Even though the demands of everyday life and social inevitably find their way into the artist’s creative process, drawing is a means of separating, grounding oneself, and preserving a space for contemplation. Through discipline and commitment to developing visual forms, it is possible to reflect on one’s experience while remaining critical.

February 11 - March 15, 2013

“Counterpoint” - A Print Portfolio The concept for this portfolio is to explore the idea of balance through the process of collaboration based on the premise that one of printmaking’s strengths is its ability to expand its boundaries and transform, thus ensuring its survival as a viable medium for creative arts. Each participating artist selected a partner working in any other media or discipline, therefore expanding the act of creation, and linking with those in other fields of expertise. Working in pairs, collaborators created a single print that reflects the poem ‘Objects” by Gertrude Stein. The culminating image manifests the vision and influence of both contributors.