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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Huskies glad to be NCAA hosts

By Todd McMahon | March 17, 1992

Talk about playing in familiar territory. The NIU women's basketball team may be the most fortunate of the 48 teams in this year's NCAA Tournament. On Wednesday, the Huskies will have their first opportunity to reap the fortunes. Although they're seeded...

Flames burn NIU at M-C tourney

By Wes Swietek | March 16, 1992

Everything about last week's Mid-Continent Conference Tournament was too quick for the NIU men's basketball team. Too quick, as in too quick of an opponent in the opening game against 3rd-seed Illinois-Chicago and, as a result, too quick of an exit. The...

Softball squad goes 7-14 on road swing

March 16, 1992

Although the NIU women's softball team started its 21-game Spring Break with a 6-14 mark, the Huskies ended the trip with a 3-0 victory over the No. 4 team in the Midwest Region—Southern Illinois. Yesterday at the Texas A&M Aggie II Invitational,...

Students must pay

March 16, 1992

Unlike regular season games, NIU students will have to pay $3 for a seat at Wednesday's NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament women's basketball game between NIU and Louisiana Tech at Chick Evans Field House. Tickets—$6 for adults and $3 for students—will...

Tumblers peak

March 16, 1992

Although the NIU women's gymnastics team has not yet reached the top of the mountain yet, the Huskies are nearing that peak meet after meet. Last Tuesday, that became evident when the squad's 188.6 mark gave NIU the blue ribbon at the University of California-Santa...

Mid-Con Tourney notes …

By Wes Swietek | March 16, 1992

Wisconsin-Green Bay dominated the conference honors announced at the beginning of the tournament. Tony Bennett was named Player of the Year while his father, Phoenix head coach Dick Bennett, was named Coach of the Year. Tony Bennett was also named First-Team...

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By Todd McMahon | March 16, 1992

Imagine walking into a dimly lit cave. Your senses heighten as you look around the dark area. Engulfed in silence, you become entranced by your surroundings.

Your eyes focus on the brightly-painted abstract artwork on the walls. You stumble onto sculptured figures resembling artifacts. You exit into an open area filled with paintings portraying mounds created by ancient societies.

In actuality, this is not an adventure into a cave, but an art show in the Holmes Student Center gallery. This particular show was developed by four graduate students in art at Northern Illinois University. Their work is on display until Friday, February 12.

"Ring of Seven," represented by oval ceramic figures colored with pink, white and gray were placed on a slanting wedge. This piece was created to resemble ancient artifacts, said sculptor Dave Harton.

Harton developed his fascination with artifacts while on digs in Mexico, Japan and the Middle East. Being frustrated by restrictions placed on removing artifacts from a site, Harton decided to create his own.

This particular piece was developed by implementing a combination of methods. Harton sculpted the upper portions of the bowl-like structures by hand and shaped their bases on the wheel. Harton then painted the white and gray structures with pink paint, because he liked the effect.

"Hopefully, the viewer will see things that he/she wants to see," Harton said of his work. The sculptor has received several comments on the particular forms of the objects he created. One viewer said "Rings of Seven," projected a religious image, while another said there were sexual connotations in this piece. Harton said someone even suggested he use the seven "bowls" as jello molds.

Dave Reninger created a well-designed painting with "Incubator." The painter employed the concept of depth and texture with a patterned background. Organic matter is pieced together using a complementary color scheme dominated by bright yellow.

The painter said the piece was symbolic of its title. With the use of color, texture and organic subject matter, there is a certain warmth emitted from the painting that can be compared to his other works in the show.

"It (art) is like music where you have a simple phrase and repeat it in a lot of ways," said Reninger.

After setting up the show, Reninger and King Siu discovered the former's subject matter in a painting resembled the design placed together in a sculpture by the latter.

Siu, a first-year graduate student in painting, utilized organic matter by designing charred wood, shaping iron nails and growing live grass in his sculptures because he considered this particular art to be tangible and personal.

Originally from China, Siu expressed the effect different surroundings have on his artwork. He said the certain characteristics associated with climates in the spring and winter create a strong influence on his visual perception and taste.

Siu said he is intrigued by the grass in the spring and charred wood in the winter. The simplicity of the subject matter adds to the effectiveness of his organic sculpture. "I don't want people to associate my work with some narrative content."

However, painter Wes Kramer brings narrative content together using an abstract, boldy simplified process. Kramer's eight paintings depict mounds created by ancient civilizations in the Midwest.

His work is abstract, yet the story behind the mounds and the forms that exist or have existed in ancient history is basic to the universality of society, Kramer said.

"What's interesting to me is people here made mounds. And almost every society in the world, made mounds, pyramids or Stonehenge," he said.

The separate efforts of the four artists represented in the relationship between the artwork and the surroundings adds unity to the overall experience.

NIU gymnasts have work planned for West Coast

By Laura Higgins | March 5, 1992

The Huskie women gymnasts are heading west over Spring Break—but fun in the sun will have to take a backseat. With a triangular meet Tuesday at University of Santa Barbara and another competition Friday at California State University- Fullerton, NIU...

Huskie wrestlers preparing for shot at national tourney

By Fred Konrath | March 5, 1992

The moment has finally come for the individuals on NIU's wrestling team. That moment is The NCAA West Regional, which determines which wrestlers will travel to Oklahoma City, Okla., to compete with the best wrestlers in the nation at the National Tournament...

Softball squad gears for busy Spring Break

By Roger Moreano | March 5, 1992

Starting Friday, the NIU softball team will spend its Spring Break in Texas and Indiana as the Huskies open the 1992 campaign by playing 21 games in 10 days. NIU's first 20 games will take place in Texas, including two tournaments at Texas A&M. NIU...

Huskies three away from NCAA

By Wes Swietek | March 5, 1992

The NIU men's basketball team is, potentially, three games away from an NCAA bid. Standing in the way are seven familiar foes. As NIU prepares for the Mid-Continent Tournament at Cleveland this weekend—with its accompanying automatic NCAA bid for the...

Future Huskies earn accolades

March 3, 1992

NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel and his staff have gone 4-for-4 as far as instate recruiting is concerned. Hammel signed four players from the state of Illinois in the November early signing period, and the quartet made various All-State honor...

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