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Film photography and one-of-a-kind books have been the focus of this personal work. Recently, the artist has used digital color work to depict the landscape and interior spaces. The exhibit contains work in all three forms.
A Minnesota native, Lisa Bang Hoffman graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College. She did supplemental coursework at the University of Minnesota but completed her MFA at UNL in 1995. Bang Hoffman has taught as an adjunct at UNL, Doane College, and Concordia University, including courses in design, drawing, and darkroom photography.
Bang Hoffman exhibits work nationally and internationally including Nebraska venues: the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Fred Simon Gallery (Omaha) and the Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney). She received the Nebraska Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award in 2004, the Gaudi Medal from the Institut Municipal D’Accio Cultural (Reus, Spain) 2005, was a finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, (York, UK) and exhibited in the Berlin Foto Biennial in 2016.
Works are available for viewing and purchase August 1-31 on Fridays-Sundays from 12-5 p.m., or by appointment (text to 531-289-9569).
The exhibition is funded with support from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and donors to the non-profit WallSpace for Artists and Audiences. More information at wallspace-lnk.com, wallspaceforartists.com, on Facebook or lisabanghoffman.com or @lisabanghoffman on Instagram
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The Karen & John Janovy Emerging Artists Exhibit presenting “When Is Today”
with work by Dawson Adams & Brian Garbrecht
Heads,” concrete & cast bronze, Dawson Adams
July 5 – 27
(Closed July 4)
Reception Friday July 11, from 5 – 8pm
1624 S 17th St, Lincoln, NE 68502
Parking out front or in the gravel lot north of Conner’s Antiques.
“When is Today” includes sculptures by Dawson Adams, a fourth-year UNL Studio Arts major, and photographs, drawing, and videos by MFA candidate Brian Garbrecht. A Second Friday public reception July 11 from 5-8 p.m. will feature the artists and honor the Janovy’s support.
“Untitled,” carved wood column, Dawson Adams”
Dawson Adams’ work came from responding directly to the stone, wood, concrete and metal materials he used. Adams worked concrete construction for ten years before attending university. He notes, “the sculptures became a way to explore what form might communicate beyond the limits of language in an evolving search for shape, feeling, and presence.” He is currently treasurer of both Sculpture Club and Pickleball Club UNL.
“Static Cling,” video & still image, Brian Garbrecht
Brian Garbrecht says his work examines “memory, repetition, and cultural obsolescence through the language of analog media.” Using legacy TVs and installations to display his videos, Garbrecht reanimates fragments of 1990s TV and domestic experience. These interventions highlight the tension between personal memory and mass-produced media. “The work is a meditation on cycles—of consumption, of care, and of forgetting,” often created in collaboration with his mother, Paula, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease. Garbrecht earned his BFA from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He received the 2025 Cather Graduate Excellence Award from UNL, among other recognitions.
“Screenshot,” Brian Garbrecht
Works are available for viewing and purchase July 5-6 from 12-5 p.m., then Friday-Sunday 12-5 p.m., July 11-27 or by appointment (text to 531-289-4620). Second Friday reception July 11 is from 5-8 p.m.
This exhibition is funded by longtime educators and arts supporters Karen and John Janovy of Lincoln, in partnership with the non-profit WallSpace for Artists and Audiences. More information at wallspace-lnk.com, wallspaceforartists.com, or on Facebook or Instagram.
“Shooting Stars,” Brian Garbrecht
A word about the Nebraska Arts Council: Although this fiscal year’s grant applications have been reviewed and decisions made about grants that should begin July 1, there is no word from the Federal Government about when or if funds from Washington will be forthcoming. We will continue to feature the logos in recognition of these important friends.
Normally we’d say that we’re funded in part by the Nebraska Arts Council and the Cultural Endowment and by donations from folks like you who value what we’re doing at WallSpace-LNK. Help us achieve our goal of raising $15,000 in community support for 2025.
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Loosely Assembled II
featuring the work of the late
Dave Stewart
and fellow travelers
John Spence, Roger Bruhn, Jeff Chadwick & Michael Farrell
with special guest appearances by
Janet Eskridge, Todd Brown & Brad Krieger
June 6 – 29
1624 S 17th St, Lincoln, NE 68502
Parking out front or in the gravel lot north of Conner’s Antiques.
Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart was a custodian at Hastings College when he began creating assembled objects and other works of art in 1988. Along with Stewart’s idiosyncratic assemblages, works by John Spence, Roger Bruhn, Jeff Chadwick, and Michael Farrell reflect each artist’s creative impulses to assemble objects in complex and enigmatic ways. None of the artists were formally trained to make “boxes.” But they all assemble pieces that convey beauty, mystery, tragedy, faith, joy, and whimsy.
Dave Stewart
“Loosely Assembled II” is presented in cooperation with Kiechel Fine Art, which has loaned some Stewart works. The exhibit includes photographs of The Burlington Rooms, an art installation Stewart created above the Phelps Art Gallery he and his wife operated for 20 years in Hastings.
Dave Stewart
Karissa Johnson, Curator of the Museum of Nebraska Art has observed, “these artists demonstrate the value of paying attention to the objects around us and the intricate ways common objects carry meaning in our lives.”
This airplane is the legendary piece that launched Dave Stewart’s artistic journey. Learn the improbably humorous story behind it at the exhibition!
John Spence
Roger Bruhn
Jeff Chadwick
Michael Farrell
orks are available for viewing (and many for purchase) Friday-Sunday 12-5, June 6 to 29 or by appointment (text to 402-429-3684).
This exhibition is also supported by a Program Grant from the
and by donations from folks like you who value what we’re doing at WallSpace-LNK.
Help us achieve our goal of raising $15,000 in community support for 2025.
https://www.wallspaceforartists.com/
Visit with us about various ways your support can be directed to specific artists or projects and ways to maximize your tax advantages when making a donation.
“My Life in Color, New and Selected Works” by Brad Krieger
May 2 – June 1
Square 1
Burn Strip
This exhibition will showcase paintings from the last two years as well as a survey of select examples of the last twenty years of work. Krieger notes, “As an artist, I am most interested in what is on the easel. I love the process. A painting that needs work is all I could ever ask for. Each series of paintings runs its course, the best are set aside, and it’s on to the next. I take a great deal of inspiration from materials: watercolor, oil paint, pastel, graphite, etc. each has its own intrinsic demands.”
Weights and Measures #3
“For this show, I relied on the curatorial skills of my friends Daniel and Elizabeth Nelson to go through the stacks and drawers and pick out some of the best from my collection. It was great to look through older work with their eyes.”
T-Bone
Krieger holds an MFA from UNL and has taught at Doane and Nebraska Wesleyan universities. “I have spent a good amount of time experimenting with how to apply color; brushed, poured, blended, rinsed, blotted, erased, etc.; and how to make line, control edges, how to create shape and space…The work has no predictable outcome. You just have to be there.”
Forest Flower
Viewers can “be there” Friday-Sunday, May 2 – June 1 from 12-5 p.m. or by appointment. Email bkrieger@allophone.com to arrange a time to see the work and converse with the artist.
Monolith
“My Life in Color” is sponsored in part by Daniel and Elizabeth Nelson.
This exhibition is also supported by a Program Grant from the
and by donations from folks like you who value what we’re doing at WallSpace-LNK.
Help us achieve our goal of raising $15,000 in community support for 2025.
https://www.wallspaceforartists.com/
Visit with us about various ways your support can be directed to specific artists or projects and ways to maximize your tax advantages when making a donation.
“Native Wars/New Perspectives”
Aerial Images by Bill Ganzel
April 4 – 27
Blue Water Site
This exhibition will showcase large format color photographs, many of them aerial, of sites of conflicts between indigenous people who were already living here and the other groups who were trying to colonize this land, to eke out a living using the land in different ways. Ganzel notes that violent confrontations among small groups quickly evolved into military campaigns that by 1890 had decimated native peoples.
Wounded Knee Massacre Grave, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
“What remains today of places where pitched battles were fought are often prosaic landscapes of farm or ranch land. There may be an historic marker along the highway, most often barely noticed and passed at lightning speed. But that was the point – to make the land into farms in the European tradition and using new technologies.”
Little Bighorn Battlefield, Crow Reservation, Montana
These images are part of a project that include sites across Nebraska and other parts of the American West.
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska
Viewers are encouraged to view the work and offer their perspectives on the images and their history, and how those impacts are still felt today. The work is available for viewing and purchase Friday-Sunday, April 4-27 from 12-5 p.m. or by appointment. Email bganzel@ganzelgroup.com to arrange a time to see the work and converse with the artist.
Plum Creek Site