From Deseret News archives:
Art within 'Proximity'
Eclectic artists from BYU shine in S.L. show
"I announced to all the studio faculty what was going on and told them it would be fun to do it together," said Ostraff. "We don't show together often outside of a faculty show. And then I realized that people in Salt Lake may not be familiar with the faculty here, so I became kind of excited."
The BYU art professors are an eclectic group, tied together according to Ostraff only by their physical proximity to each other, ergo the show's title.
"By Proximity" includes work by Von Allen, Wulf Barsch, Gary Barton, Brian Christensen, Bryon Draper, Peter Everett, Wayne Kimball, Robert Marshall and Bruce Smith.
Allen studied at Syracuse University (M.F.A., 1983) and has
Barsch's pseudo-cabalistic, didactic renderings and his influence on students at BYU have been legend since the 1970s. Born in Reudnitz, Bohemia, and educated in Europe and America, Barsch joined the Y.'s art faculty in 1972. He has several paintings in "By Proximity," all in his trademark style, but "Magic Square" is particularly nice.
Taking his M.F.A. in ceramics at Washington University in St. Louis, Christensen is a sculptor who thrives on giving his finished pieces a sense of history, as if they were at one time functional. His exhibition piece "Cauldron" is an excellent example of a work made to appear practical, and yet is not.
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What great art work! Especially that bronze and stone piece!
Sharon | May 12, 2009 at 10:06 a.m.
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