6The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, October 4, 1988
Established artist
By CLARK BENBOW
Staff Writer
Want to forget about that math test
. you just failed?
Go see Lila Katzen's exhibit, "Wall
Sculpture: 1978-1988," featured in the
Carolina Union Gallery until Oct. 14.
You probably won't be able to walk
-through the Union and ignore Huge
pieces of contorted metal lunging at
you from three walls; her art forces
the art-contemplating mood. If Kat-
; zen's works of aluminum, stainless
; steel, brass and bronze don stop you
in your tracks, theyH surely affect
your thoughts.
Before you can stop yourself , youH
be thinking, "How can she bend steel
;: that way?" or remembering the
ancient Mayans, or picturing that
'great studio apartment you're going
to own where youll hang something
like Katzen's "Frieze" on one of your
display walls.
If you are moved by Katzen's
Sculpture, you're not alone.
.. Queen Elizabeth II was impressed
by Katzen's work when she saw her
free-standing sculpture in the VIP
..'room of the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
' airport. The royal family of Saudi
Arabia was so thrilled with their
.already extensive collection of her
work that they commissioned her to
create a huge sculpture to hang from
- their ceiling. Recently, art apprecia
tors at Fordham University in New
York and at the World Expo in
Brisbane, Australia, have also
admired Lila Katzen pieces.
' And that's hardly all of it. Since
her first exhibit of paintings in the
, Baltimore Museum of Art in 1955,
. Katzen has not only gained interna
' tional recognition, but has also
created a niche for herself in the art
community. Critics constantly
acclaim her work while awards and
grants reward her talent and dedica
tion. The scope of her influence is
barely comprehensible; one could
write a book about her past exhibits
and accomplishments.
As granddaughter of acclaimed
artist Harry Schultz, Lila Katzen's
history as an artist almost begins at
.the womb. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
the budding artist was eventually to
study at the Cooper Union and at
the Arts Students League in New
York City. She also boasts having
studied with Hans Hoffman, a name
commanding great respect in contem
porary art circles.
Earlv in her career, Katzen was
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praised for her paintings. As her
career progressed, however, she
moved from medium to medium
almost as fast as she moved from idea
to idea. Claiming to be one of the
first. artists to use acrylics' and oil
compatible acrylics, Katzen also
experimented, with conventional
media, such as oils and watercolors.
But painting wasnt big enough for
Lila Katzen. "My paintings got bigger
and bigger, and I realized I needed
to express myself in a larger medium,"
Katzen told a group attending a
reception in her honor last week. Her
progression to larger, more expres
sive media is discussed in Elinor
Munro's "Originals: American
Women Artists": ". . . she produced x
drawings, plays, costumes, commer
ical art, paintings, and sculpture . . ,
she won acclaim in the 1960s with
her plastic assemblages and environ
mental sculptures involving ultra
violet lights and fluorescent liquids,
suggesting the mystery of forms
flashing into existence."
Around 1964, Katzen decided
plastic and fluorescent lights still
didnt fully express whom she was
becoming. "I wanted my art to come
out of the .wall and into the room,"
Katzen said. So she began to con
centrate on sculpting. An ardent
admirer of Pablo Picasso and David
Smith, Katzen again experimented
with various sculpting materials,
settling on metals in 1970 because of
their eternal quality. Her paintings
were too ephemeral, Katzen said; she
wanted her art to withstand time's
test, "like the Rock of Gibraltar."
Taking a break from the enormous
patience required for working with
metals, Katzen still sketches and
paints to find gratification in the
immediate expression of an idea.
Katzen didnt stop with wall sculp
ture. She claims her work "goes in
two primary directions: (interior
works that explore) relationships to
architecture and contained spaces,
like walls and rooms; or exterior, free
standing works that deal with the
open environment."
Occasionally, poetry is written,
dances choreographed or music
composed to accompany her large
scale exterior pieces "to create
scenarios that deal with the space
around the sculpture and that relate
to the work," Katzen said. For
example, musical pieces and dances
recalling Mayan imagery will be
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performed in December when three
of Katzen's large sculptures are
erected in Lincoln Center in New
York City. She is currently working
on these pieces.
Katzen was pleased with the way
her collection, "Wall Sculptures:
1978-1988," turned out in the Caro
lina Union Gallery. "This is one of
the few galleries where an entire
collection of mine can be shown in
one room, as a whole," Katzen said,
adding that she feels the panorama
effect flatters her work.
Visitors to the Union gallery are
the first to see this particular exhibit,
as the pieces in the show have never
before been displayed together. "Each
(sculpture) represents a different era
of influence on my art," said Katzen,
whose interests are widely varied.
With Islamic, Baroque, Mayan and
Grecco influences in one exhibit, one
sees the truth in Katzen's statement:
"I never know where my art is going
to take me."
Referring to the pervasive Mayan
influence in her most recent work,
Katzen said, "Art is for the most part
influenced by Western and European
cultures, when (many don't realize)
Mayan imagery and kind of concepts
are so basic to our own hemisphere."
Her interest in ancient Mayan
culture rose out of her visit to Mexico
in 1980 to visit Mayan ruins.
Although her trip was not a search
for inspiration, Mayan imagery
began to creep into her sculptures and
has now become an integral part of
her creative mind.
Mayan themes were first noted in
the Carolina Union Gallery's 1986
exhibit, "Ruins and Reconstruc
tions," which Katzen said were
directly influenced by the post
classical period of Mayan history. In
"Wall Sculptures: 1978-1988,"
Mayan imagery again prevails in
works such as the "Enigmatic Hacha
Mask" and "Tunjo Visage with
Crown."
Who knows what the future holds
for an artistic genius like Lila Katzen?
No one knows exactly, but success
is a good guess. It seems she masters
whatever she tries. Her creativity
continues to flow after decades of
productivity. Lila Katzen is unlike a
lot of artists who "get burned out."
The artist said "the work still holds
a tremendous fascination" for her.
"Fascinating" also describes Lila
Katzen's work well from the viewer's
perspective.
AUBURN, Ala. Notes, musings
and observations from the Deep
South ...
From the Supper Club off Inter
state 85 to Harry's on the other side
of town, they take their football
seriously down here in this otherwise
conservative, sleepy little town. And
for someone who thinks that college
football is the best sport there is, it's
like being five years old and left alone
in Toys R Us.
No wonder the Tar Heels stayed
in La Grange, Ga., instead of Auburn.
If they had stayed here, they surely
wouldVe felt the heat of intimidation,
for all the glass storefronts were
awash in navy and orange, and signs
littered the campus buildings and
even the chain-link fences that
encircled Jordan-Hare Stadium.
And if UNC had tried to escape
the rude welcome by driving away
from the campus, the Tar Heels
would probably have run into a car
or two with its windows painted over
with the tales of destruction that
awaited the team on Saturday.
"Tar and Feather the Tar Heels,"
one said. Another had a fraternity
logo followed by "Beat the Goats". . .
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Chris Spencer
Asst. Sports Editor
But enough of the town. North
Carolina took a beating Saturday at
the hands of the No. 4 Tigers, 47
21. But it couldVe been worse. Much
worse.
Unlike last year, when Auburn had
to reach deep down and pull out a
20-10 win over a scrappy Tar Heel
team in Chapel Hill, the Tigers came
out from the start and pounced on
UNC, exposing the one area that they
had a most definite edge speed.
"They were slow on film, but we
felt they would play us differently and
be up for us," said sophomore
tailback Stacey Danley, who finished
the game with 88 yards on just eight
carries, including a 33-yard touch
down run in the third quarter. "They
came in slow, and we took advantage
of us."
That difference in speed showed up
everywhere, from the Tiger defensive
line to their wideouts. But strangely,
the only scoring damage done by
Tiger flankers came on two beautiful
reverses by senior Freddie Weygand
and junior Alexander Wright.
Wright's run came at 9:13 in the
first quarter after Jonathan Hall had
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thrown an interception from the Tar
Heel 13. Wright swept left to right
after taking a handoff from Danley,
and he needlessly turned on the
afterburners for those mere 13 yards.
Weygand got into the act on
fourth-and-one from the Tar Heel 34.
But whereas Wright had to elude a
couple of Tar Heel defenders, Wey
gand had all the green space he
wanted in front of him.
The Gadsden, Ala., native, whose
33-yard touchdown pass late in the
game last year sealed the Tar Heels'
fate, said he was surprised by what
the Tar Heels gave him.
"They play a three-deep zone,
which keeps the defense from getting
beat deep, but it gives up the short
stuff," he said. "We started off getting
the short stuff, and then we were able
to go deep."
Another impressive wideout was
diminutive ' freshman Shayne
Wasden. The 5-foot-9, 176-pounder
hauled in three passes for 56 yards
Saturday, and he almost made a
sensational, one-handed grab in the
back of the end zone.
. "I was surprised they didn't play
more man defense," he said. "I think
they were scared to get beat deep
. because of our speed."
That cushion that the Tar Heels
gave up on defense helped Tiger
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quarterback Reggie Slack more than
anyone else. He finished the day 22-of-30
for 229 yards and no intercep
tions, strengthening his hold as the
SEC's leading passer.
"We tried to take advantage of
what they gave us," he said to an ever
expanding group of. reporters. "We
knew certain things would be open,
and we hit our receivers there."
But the most sober thing about the
impressive offensive showing is that
the Tigers played without their two
best players, running back James
Joseph and wideout Lawyer Tillman,
who sat out the game because of l?g
injuries. '
"We wouldVe liked to have Lawyer
and James out there today," Slack
said, "but we know that if we execute,
it doesn't matter who we have because
we will be successful" ;
But don't think that everything
turned to gloom for the Tar Heek,
because there were a few bright spots
Saturday. ;
One was the return of sophomore
wide receiver Reggie Clark, who had
been sidelined since the 31-10 loss at
South Carolina because of the strong
play of freshman Eric Blount. He
finished the day with two catches for
50 yards and ' one touchdown, tops
among Tar Heel receivers.
Clark entered the game late in the
third quarter, and after a Hall pass
intended for him floated out of
bounds, he lined up on the left side
on the next play, a third-and-nine
from the Tiger 24, hooked across the
end zone, and with Tiger cornerback
John Wiley draped all over him,
hauled in Hall's pass for the Tar
Heels first touchdown.
But Clark wasn't through, and he
saved his best catch of the day
the best catch on the field Saturday
for the fourth quarter.
The Tar Heels had driven from
their 13 to the Auburn 33. On third-and-eight,
Hall lofted one down the
left sideline that looked underthrown.
But Clark, behind two Hger defend
ers, reached over them and snatched
the ball away, leaving the Auburn
fans to cheer for the great catch. -
"I felt much more comfortable
playing receiver today," he said.
"After the South Carolina game, I
was down, just like all the other fellas
were. I had been working extra in
practice with Deems (May) and
Randy (Marriott), and that's helped."
With the toughest part of their
schedule over with, the Tar Heels
have to be ready for their second
season, the ACC schedule. Maybe
they have picked up on that killer
instinct that their four previous
oppponents showed the first month
of the season.
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