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6The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, April Chapel Hill exhibition explores artistic boundaries By JESSICA YATES SfaffWHter Many artists spend their lives 'searching the depths of man's soul. But two local artists, Sally Prange and Elizabeth Pringle, are working in the opposite direction to recreate the edge of man's world, as seen in the art show "Reaching for Edges in Clay and Painting, which opened Sunday at the Horace Williams House. Both artists are nationally recog nized, according to Meredith Fried man, manager of the Horace Willi ams House. Pringle has exhibits at the Portfolio Art Gallery in Colum bia, S.C., and also has works in the NCNB Collection. Prange has obtained international status through shows in Europe and Japan. In addition, some of her works are on permanent display at the Smithson ian Institute in Washington, D.C. The works of the two artists are more different than similar. Prange uses the medium of porcelain to make sculptures, vessels and wallpieces. Her collection is characterized by alterations of the rims and edges of the pieces. She also uses a variety of metal-oxide based glazes to create differences in color and texture within a work. In contrast, Pringle uses acrylic paint on canvas and paper to express her ideas. She focuses on the percep tion of landscape, generally depicting a field, forest and sky. Her works typically use, in her terms, "organic colors to portray the lack of defi nition landscapes often present. Despite the differences, Friedman maintains that the two collections are related. She described Pringles works as "reaching for spatial relation ships. Similarly, she said, "Prange is pushing the edges as far as they can go. The two artists are appar ently seeking to transcend conven tional techniques to discover their own unique styles. "We, as artists, are exploring, not just settling for a photographic image, Prange said. "I think Amer Lab production dramatizes the If the story of love were merely the story of two souls coming together in the dark, love stories would be dreadfully dull. Lovers, however, bring with them a baggage of social considerations, implications and ramifications that act as barriers to their love, and it is the conflict between the lovers and the barriers, between two people and their society, that sparks our interest in the story. Every love story is intrinsically political. Caryl Churchill's "Fen, Lab Theatre's current production, is a good example. It tells the story of Frank and Val. Frank drives a tractor on the Fens flat land in eastern England, regained from the sea. He is separated from his wife and children. Val loves Frank but is married and is the mother of two girls. She leaves her family for Frank. Their affair is stifled by the poverty in which they live, a vicious circle which imposes on their lives a struggle to survive, making romance a foreign, ludicrous idea, possible only in a world of dream and fantasy. Frank cannot live on what he's paid, and his employer is not sympathetic; Val cannot bring herself to leave her children, and in any case they don't Depressed and Need Help? The Department of Psychiatry at UNC-CH invites you to participate in a drug study that can provide inpatient and or outpatient treat ment. Men and Women (ages 18-35) with clinical depression can receive without ex pense, a diagnostic interview, physical exams, eye exams, ekgs, clinical lab tests, and possibly free anti-depressant medication. For more information on how this program can help you or someone you care about, call Robin Dean at 966-4476. Intrigued by "Wall Street"? Thinking of a career on Wall Street? 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The color combination used for each painting is distinct. Rather than using primary colors, she relies on what she refers to as organic colors, or earth and sky tones. Her painting "Windy Hayfield Sunset, for instance, features cool, receding blues, while, at the same time, it is intensified by warm reds. Pringle said that in using both at the landscape borders "you can really manipulate space. Pringle is familiar with most of the landscapes in her paintings, as they depict either a place where she grew up or simply a place where she spends time. The landscapes fascinate her, she said, because "in terms of forest edges, I think in terms of the tran sition from field to forest. The meshing in from one plane to another is interesting to me. This foundation for her works can cause them to be ambiguous in places, especially in relation to the more specific objects in some paintings. "These are abstract enough for you to decide about certain things, though in many, water or rocks are implied, Pringle explained. But, she added, "I don't mind you seeing my paintings as abstractions. Abstractions are the basis for much of Pranges collection. Prange works with ceramics, as she approaches visual art, using three dimensions rather than two. The vessels and bowls are made of porcelain with an overglaze. Gold, platinum and other metals are incorporated into the pieces. The result is a very colorful vessel, since the porcelain by itself is white. Roderick Cameron Theater have enough money between them to go anywhere. Following the plight of the lovers, the play examines the lives of the people around Frank and Val: The women who pick up stones in the fields with Val, Frank's boss who sells his land to the government because he cannot afford the taxes, Val's little girls, a teenage girl who writes poetry and her stepmother who abuses her and toward the end of the play makes a pass at Frank. Common to all is the frustration of their desire. Two songs in the play express these desires, which, range from a child's wish to become some one glamorous ("I want to be a hairdresser when I grow up") to the vaster yearning expressed in lines from Rilke's "Duino Elegies." And as a metaphor for all these desires stands the lovers' dream of romantic hap piness, beautifully shown in a scene in which they dance a slow waltz and a Charleston. 1-800-937-9191 Phone anytime send $17.95. check or money V zip V V. S. "WNWW,',1.1.'.'.,', .'. Prange feels her work relates to Pringle's in a direct but unusual way. "Her edges are within the painting," she said, "but mine are on top of the vessel. She added, "Reaching for edges is a very philosophical, personal thing." The basic characteristics of Prange's works has changed some what over the years. Her most recent technique is to add pieces of clay to the rim of the vessel, creating a fringe like edge. "I do not cut into the vessel, But their love is doomed. It ends in death (half murder, half suicide) and the play follows Val into the land of the dead, inhabited by the dreams of the Fen-dwellers and by ghosts who still suffer the social injustices of the Fens. The production, directed by Maria Earman, achieves moments of beau tiful intensity. As the spectators enter they are shooed away by a boy dressed in rags; in fact, he is scaring crows whose cries one hears, distorted and eerie, over a persistent, disturbing heartbeat. It is a novel, eloquent effect and sets a fitting tone for what is to Diaper giants enter From Associated Press reports CHARLESTON, S.C. A legal battle for control of the nation's $3.3 billion disposable diaper market entered the courtroom Monday with Procter & Gamble Co. and the Kimberly-Clark Corp. in opposite corners. At issue is a patent suit brought by Procter & Gamble, which charges that the design of its highly successful super-absorbent Pampers was copied by Kimberly-Clark in developing their super-absorbent Huggies. The suit asks U.S. District Judge Falcon Hawkins to order Kimberly Clark to stop making Huggies and to remove them from store shelves. Jhtusjnn liil inp?p ppcreriPfiNT I rmnana -I CHINESE RESTfiURfiNT Chinese Gourmet Dinner Buffet eight main entrees All the SHRIMP, BEEF, CHICKEN & ORIENTAL VEGETABLES You Can Eat PLUS Fried Rice, Egg Rolls & Dumplings ALSO, LUNCH BUFFET 4.95 C3 VISA ship? 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Chris Briggs and Jennifer McCray bring to their roles an honest sim plicity which is entirely right for their often dream-like romance ("What are you frightened of? Going mad. Heights. Beauty. Lucky we live in a flat country. ) Sometimes, though, the bleak poetry of the lines is diffused through acting that lacks specificity and tightness, especially in terms of delivery and movement. Other successful scenes include the ones in which Angela abuses her It also requests unspecified monetary damages. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gam ble is the nation's largest manufac turer of disposable diapers, making 47 percent of the $3.3 billion sold each year. Kimberly-Clark, based in Dal las, is the second largest, with about 30 percent of the market. Attorneys crowded the courtroom of the Hollings Judicial Center Monday as opening arguments began in the non-jury trial. Scattered along the jury box were bags and boxes of diapers, with single diapers piled on the attorney's tables. Allen Gerstein, representing Proc ter & Gamble, said his firm came up i Wh ir i Dinner i Buffet i with coupon only expires A2289 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Looking for a scholar Force ROTC has four - year scholarships ill of her ceramics projects "even before I began scuba diving." She utilizes the glaze in many works so that bubbles form in certain sections of the vessel. This effect causes the texture to resemble that of many ocean structures. Prange is displaying two wall pieces, or topographs! These pieces are composed of slabs of clay pro jected from the wall by clay knobs. The topographs are unique examples of visual art in that the shadows created by the slabs can have a stepdaughter Becky. Laura Christo pherson as Angela is compellingly cruel, a quality she achieves by means of deliberate, unrushed and clean-cut acting. Joey Templeton is appro priately vulnerable, without being self-indulgent, as the mistreated Becky. Lisa Freeman is in turn earthy and unfussed as the clothes-iron-wielding Shirley, and rambunctious and ; bouncy as 6-year-old Shona, the terror of the Fens ("Poo bum!" is her war cry). Gretchen Davis begins with a convincing performance as Mr. Takai of Tokyo Company, complete dispute over- with the idea that made super absorbent diapers possible and took out a patent on the development. Super-absorbent diapers are gener ally thinner than regular, more bulky disposables. "We stayed within the system while Kimberly-Clark disregarded and took unfair advantage of the system," Gerstein told the judge in his opening argument. He said that researcher Paul Weisman developed a means for combining wood pulp fluff and super absorbent materials in the diaper so that it could be made thinner but more absorbent. When the new diapers were test marketed in Wichita, Kan., in 1984, "it turned the diaper world on its ear," Gerstein said. He charged that Kimberly-Clark copied the Pampers after the market test, noting that while the firm had been working on such a product they had not had any success. But attorney Blair White, repres enting Kimberly-Clark, disagreed with Weisman's assessment of the case. "This case is about two fiercely competitive companies, each trying to improve baby diapers," he said. And White charged that the patent for the Procter & Gamble diaper is invalid because the firm withheld important test information from the U.S. Patent Office. Interested in campus opinion? Every Student is Eligible for Some Type of Financial Aid Regardless of Grades or Parental Income. We have a data bank of over 200,000 listings of scholarships, fellow ships, grants, and loans, representing over $10 billion in private sector funding. Many scholarships are given to students based on their academic Interests, career plans, family heritage and place of residence. 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With the exception of Christopherson, the acting lapks.texture and variety; it glosses oyer lines and gestures rather than extending them to the limits of credibility! Between successful scenes, the show drags because attention is not arrested in each moment, in each syllable, in each gesture. White contended that the system Weisman developed was already covered in a British patent for super absorbing materials issued to an Italian inventor in 1979. "In order to have a valid patent, you can't be the second person or the 10th person (to invent something). You have to be the first," he said. Kimberly-Clark had been selling tampons and adult diapers with super-absorbent materials as early at 1977, he said. "Kimberly-Clark didn't need les sons from anyone about super absorbent products," White said, noting that "the only things our scientists learned from the Wichita diapers was how not to make a diaper." He said the problem with those diapers was that the super-absorbing material would come off onto the skin of babies. It was a problem Kimberly-Clark was trying to address in its own labs at the time, he said, adding that the firm eventually developed a system of putting the material farthest away from the babies' skin a system for which the company has been awarded a patent. The non-jury trial before Hawkins is expected to last at least three weeks. The suit was brought in South Carolina because Kimberly-Clark has a diaper manufacturing plant in Beech Island near Aiken. Check out every Monday's DTH design SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR i i i STUDENTS WHO NEED p ! I xn
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