Lincoln’s newest fine art gallery is now a non-profit 501-c-3 corporation!

After our first two and a half years as a single owner gallery space to showcase my work and the work of like minded artists we’ve now created a non-profit corporation in order to be more inclusive. With new exhibitions opening monthly and special events, screenings, gallery talks and receptions, this will be a place to experience and engage with art, artists and ideas. And it’s got what every artist needs more of – WallSpace-LNK.com

Consider making a tax deductible donation to support our work going forward. 100 % of your gift will be used to help artists other than me afford exhibitions and to connect with new audiences. Thank you!

Retirees who have to take annual Required Minimum Distributions from their IRAs can opt for a Qualified Charitable Distribution gift that counts as a portion of the RMD and can have distinct tax advantages. Check with your financial advisor about how this could work for you. And let us know if we can help.

Our Federal Tax ID: 99-0650832 Mailing address WallSpace for Artists & Audiences, 1624 S. 17th St. Suite 300, Lincoln, NE 68502

– Michael Farrell

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Our hours are:

Friday, Saturday & Sunday from noon to 5 pm. First Friday evenings to 8pm and special exhibition receptions as announced

or by appointment. text 402 429 3684 or email mfarrell.1st@gmail.com

We’re at 17th and Sumner. Parking out front. Next to Conner’s Antiques.

News

• American Abstract Expressionist Painter

  A special exhibition of work by nationally renowned abstract expressionist painter
  
  Carol Haerer
  (1933-2002)

  opens Friday, October 2  & continuing Fridays through Sundays, noon to 5pm until Sunday, Nov 1.

   

  The exhibition and a scholarship fundraiser for the UNL School of Art, Art History & Design has been organized by the late artist’s sister, Mary Ann Sullivan of Lincoln.  

  

   

  The artist’s sister, Mary Ann Sullivan, will be in attendance at a First Friday opening reception from 5-8 p.m.
   

   

   
  Carol Haerer spent her childhood in North Platte and graduated with a BFA from the University of Nebraska in 1954. A 1955 Fulbright Fellowship took her to the Sorbonne in Paris from whence she traveled and painted across many Mediterranean cities for two years. This experience influenced her life’s work. Her lyrical abstract paintings may connote luminous water reflections, ancient cityscapes, and geologic formations. 

   

  

   
  

  After receiving her MFA from UC Berkeley, she moved to New York City. From the 1960s-1990s many of her paintings received considerable critical attention from art critics, museums, and galleries. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988. A solo exhibition of her “White Paintings” at the Sheldon Museum of Art in 1998 explored some of her monumental works. Her work is held by Guggenheim and Whitney museums in New York, the Sheldon Museum of Art and MONA in Nebraska and other museums and private collections. 

  

  Haerer continued to create until her death in 2002. 

  Select works will be available for purchase with all proceeds going to the support fund for fine art graduate students held at the University of Nebraska Foundation.  

  

  The Carol Haerer exhibition has been curated by 
  Elizabeth &  Daniel Nelson.

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• “Captured Moments in Time,”by Liz Shea in September.

  The exhibition includes newly-created work inspired by nature, music, and Liz Shea’s strong background in textile design. Her work has evolved into a new world, focusing on and exploring the intuitive and rewarding art of assemblage. Most recently, genre scenes have captivated her creative attention, leading in an artistic direction which ultimately inspired the creation of a unique assemblage collection portraying detailed episodes of mid-20th century characters which capture their charm and distinct personalities within a variety of settings incorporating both vintage and antique elements.   Over the past quarter century, Liz Shea-McCoy has spearheaded Lincoln’s first public art project, Tour de Lincoln (Bikes), and established a foundation for the arts devoted to advocating, supporting and Preserving the Arts in Lincoln, NE. Beginning in 2021, Liz focused her historic preservation and fundraising efforts on saving, restoring and reinstalling the Pershing Mural within Lincoln. As a life-long educator, Liz also continues her work as a Teaching Artist with the Nebraska Arts Council.     Assembled objects and work on canvas are available for viewing and purchase Friday through Sunday, September 4-27 from noon to 5 p.m.   The exhibit is supported by The Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Contributors to WallSpace for Artists and Audiences and Give to Lincoln Day provide additional funding. 1624 S 17th St, Lincoln, NE 68502 Parking out front or in the gravel lot north of Conner’s Antiques.  Here’s the lineup of artists committed from now through 2026 and into 2027! In 2026: Carol Haerer; Dave Read; David Jacobo. And in 2027: Pawl Tisdale; Quentin Fortney/Brigham Larrington; John & Karen Janovy; Tom Meyers; Dominique Ellis;  Assemblage Artists John Spence, Tom Rickers & Jeff Chadwick; Michele Tilley & David Harvey; Michael Farrell; Robin Smith; William Dawson & Friends; and Bob Hall. ARTISTS: we are now booking most months in 2028.

• “Platte Passages: Shared Stories from our Home Watershed”  Friday, August 7 – Sunday, August 30

  

  
  
  
  Five photographers from the Platte Basin Timelapse (PBT) project will be featured 
  
  Dakota Altman, Ethan Freese, Mariah Lundgren, Carlee Moates, and Grant Reiner.
  
  Each with deep roots in Nebraska and the Great Plains, they will share images reflecting years spent exploring the rivers, prairies, wetlands, wildlife, and communities of the Platte Basin. Accompanied by the artists’ personal commentary, every image offers a passage into their connections to a moment and place in time. 
  
  
  
  “Our goal as conservation storytellers is to inspire care for our land and water and connect our neighbors up and downstream through the power of story,” the PBT producers note. Remarkable beauty, diversity, and resilience is revealed through images of alpine trout streams, braided prairie rivers, networks of dams and reservoirs, sweeping grasslands, vibrant wetlands, working ranches and farms. An incredible array of plants, wildlife, and people are intertwined over 90,000 square miles. PBT’s work supports habitat conservation and bridges the gap between scientists and the public, underscoring the vital need to protect and restore habitats across the Platte Basin and beyond. 

  
  

  
  The Platte Basin Timelapse (PBT) project was founded in 2011 by conservation photographer Michael Forsberg and veteran Nebraska Public Media producer Michael Farrell to use timelapse photography to set a watershed in motion and to answer the question:Where does our water come from? 
  
  
  
  Still and moving images taken with cameras on the ground and aerial images captured from planes and drones have been woven into important stories delivered in person, online, and through traditional and social media.
  
  
  
  Work is available for viewing and purchase Friday through Sunday, August 7 – 30 from noon to 5 p.m. More details about the artists and their works are on Facebook and Instagram and plattebasintimelapse.com

  The exhibit is supported by The Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Contributors to WallSpace for Artists and Audiences and Give to Lincoln Day provide additional funding for the gallery.

  

• New work by Three Emerging Artists

  

  Ani Sargsyan, Oliver Estes,
  & Israel Mendez Lopez

   Friday July 10 through Sunday August 2

   

  Painting, ceramics, and sculpture developed while studying at the UNL School of Art reflect the artists’ creative exploration of their distinct experiences and cultural backgrounds.

  

  Ani Sargsyan was born in Vanadzor, Armenia, and spent the early years of her life in the United States. Sargsyan’s body of work incorporates painting, drawing and transfer processes to uncover themes of distance, memory and fragility while celebrating Armenian identity through confrontationally hopeful and reflective outlooks. The Armenian genocide of 1915 fragmented culture and created distance between Armenians and their lands. This fragile quality emerges in her work through the transfer process as it scars elements with tears, holes and rips. Using acrylics and transfer processes, she uncovers Armenia’s rich history and culture by referencing the symbolism and motifs of ancient Armenian manuscripts. By merging these elements with personal experiences and observations from the ongoing conflict in the region, her compositions bring to light the encounters of contemporary Armenian life.

  

  Oliver Estes, from Lincoln, uses raw clay and soda firing to connect material, process, and personal meaning. “In my work I present clay through its full material cycle-raw, bisqued, and fully fired—to emphasize the material’s transformations throughout its life cycle. Shaped through firing processes that I influence but can never fully control, this work explores clay’s intrinsic material behaviors as well as the labor, repetition, and processes that exist within the production of ceramic objects,” he notes.

  

  Israel Mendez Lopez, born in Guanajuato, Mexico uses sculptural work to navigate the complex dynamics of labor, semiotics, and the human experience. His lineage of blue-collar labor and immigrant perspectives drives his work, examining the often-invisible labor that propels our progress. He views these dynamics through an installation-based lens that exists between the logical industrial engineering and the organic, interconnected, mycelial web of humanity and the natural world.
  
  The exhibit is supported by contributors to WallSpace for Artists and Audiences and Give to Lincoln Day.

  The Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Arts provide additional funding for the gallery.
  

  

  ADDITIONAL INFO:
  
  
  Ani Sargsyan received her Bachelor of Art in art from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and a minor in museum studies. She received her MFA degree in painting and drawing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sargsyan’s works have been exhibited regionally both in the United States and Armenia. Using acrylics and transfer processes, she uncovers Armenia’s rich history and culture by referencing the symbolism and motifs of ancient Armenian manuscripts. Her work is guided by a soft color palette and ghostly figures to reference the remnants of these quiet memories.
  By merging these elements with personal experiences and observations from the ongoing conflict in the region, her compositions bring to light the encounters of contemporary Armenian life.
  

  

   Oliver Estes received dual degrees in Studio Art and Art History & Criticism at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Through functional and sculptural forms, Estes uses raw clay and soda firing to connect material, process, and personal meaning. His work has been exhibited at galleries throughout the United States and England, including the Kansas City Clay Guild, Savannah Clay Community, Clay AKAR Gallery, LCB Depot, and others. Oliver was a 2025 Summer Artist in Residence at the Cub Creek Foundation in Appomattox, Virginia.

  

   Israel Mendez Lopez is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing a Bachelor of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has shown work at the Medici and Einsentrager-Howard galleries at UNL. Industrial semiotics and materials become stand-ins for people and systems in this exhibition.

  Works are available for viewing and purchase Fridays – Sundays, July 10 – Aug. 2, from noon to 5 p.m.

• “Pariah Dog: Art from the Fringe” featuring self-taught artist Raul Alejandro in June.

  A big Thank You! to all those who donated during Give to Lincoln month/day. More info forthcoming after we receive our final report from the Lincoln Community Foundation! “Pariah Dog: Art from the Fringe” opens Friday, June 5, at WallSpace-LNK, 1624 S. 17th Street. A public reception will feature self-taught artist Raul Alejandro from 5 to 8 p.m.  Born in Mexico City, he has lived in Paris, New York City, Los Angeles, Oaxaca, Puerto Rico, and Portland. He now resides in Lincoln.  The works of Diego Rivera, Gustav Klimt, Ralph Steadman, graffiti and cave paintings have influenced the artist’s style, but none more than his son’s and daughter’s childhood drawings, which in fact inspired him to become a painter. His work is done mostly on found objects, primarily brown paper and boxes and whatever he can find that will serve as canvas.    Northwest artist and critic Tom Reith notes “Raul’s paintings appeal to emotion and attention with captivating images of subtle beauty mixed with the collective darkness, the duality the artist taps into and grapples with.”   Complete details about the artist and his work is at wallspace-lnk.com. Works are available for viewing and purchase Fridays – Sundays, June 5-28, from noon to 5 p.m. The exhibit is supported by contributors to WallSpace for Artists and Audiences and the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.  We look forward to seeing you in person at the gallery soon! Copyright © WallSpace-LNK, 2025 All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: WallSpace-LNK 1624 South 17th Street, Suite 300 Lincoln, NE 68502