Great Plains Art Museum exhibits David Sebberson's landscapes

            The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present the exhibition, "Glimpsed Space; Forgotten Place," by David Sebberson beginning Aug. 2. The exhibition will run through Sept. 22 and the artist will be present for a First Friday reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 6.

            Sebberson, a professor of art and department chair at St. Cloud (Minn.) State University, was raised near Oakland, with his father farming and mother teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. The Plains of his youth, contrasted with the landscapes he returns to now, have greatly shaped his art and mindset. His unique style combines minimalist landscape paintings with sculptural structures. Traces of human activity punctuate the landscapes, such as architectural elements or remnants of an agricultural history, and bring to focus not just the land but its cultural inhabitants.

            "Abstraction and geometry (being) counterbalanced by horizon and sky reflect the way we've shaped the plains into a place -- a poetics of space choreographed in horizontal and vertical, object and concept, surface and dimension, flatness and depth," Sebberson said. "The work meditates on the continuities and discontinuities of the place where I grew up and the space that remains."

            The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., is open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions). There is no admission charge. For more information, telephone 402-472-6220, email, visit http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.shtml, or contact museum curator Amber Mohr at 402-472-0599 or by email. 

Writer: Amber Mohr