Critic Sizes Up Artist's Collages
By Derrick Stokes
Remember pasting strips of paper
together to create forms and structures in
elementary school art class? Remember
your art teacher telling you that your
mess, ahem, art work was a collage?
A collage is a composition made of
fragments of different materials stuck
together. It is also the medium that
Lancaster native Jerome Hershey prefers.
His most recent works, titled
"Vessel Series, 1985-Present", grace the
walls of the Gallery Lounge. Hershey
Professor D.J.'s Folk
By Mary Lee Schnable
Do you remember hearing Peter,
Paul, and Mary singing "If I Had A
Hammer," or the Kingston Trio's "Hang
Down Your Head Tom Dooley?"
While those songs may not be true
folk songs, they are examples of a folk
music revival that took place in the
1950's and '6o's.
A member of Penn State Harrisburg
faculty is a person who has a special
interest in folk music.
Dr. John Patterson, Professor of
American Studies, is the host and
producer of "The Chords are Stacked," a
folk music show that airs between 6
p.m. and 8 p.m. on radio station WITF
FM 89.5.
Patterson is also president of The
Susquehanna Folk Music Society, a
Communications Developments
By Debbie Bayura
People will accept new ideas only as
long as they don't infringe on things
they're already doing, Penn State's Dean
of Communications said Feb. 2 during a
speech on campus.
Emmy award winner Brian Winston.
spoke about what forces inhibit
communication innovation. His Penn
State Harrisburg audience heard many
examples of Winston's "Law of
Suppression of Radical Potential."
According to Winston, a prime
example of suppressed potential is the
computer which was first thought of
around 1850 but took more than a
century to become a commonplace
means of communication.
He said overall telecommunications
has had a long and rather secret history.
"The information revolution we are
living through took a long time getting
here."
Music Show
Winston Discusses
attempts to explore "the nature of man,
woman and child, both individually and
in relation to each other." Hershey's
statement sounds poetic; unfortunately,
his works fail to incite any emotion.
Like ugly people dressed in
attractive clothing, Hershey's decorative
frames overwhelm the drab collages.
Instead of enhancing the compositions,
the frames distract the viewer's eye from
the collages.
The collage Flight appears to sprout
wings becoming ethereal and light.
Nevertheless the black, studded frame
steals the viewer's eyes.
group that holds folk dance and music
events in the CUB, usually on the first
Saturday of each month. The group,
which began in 1985, has members from
Gettysburg, York, and Lancaster, as well
as Harrisburg.
Patterson's interest in folk music
began when he was a child near Lake
Champlain, New York, he said, when he
was part of a group of about a hundred
people who would "sit around and sing."
True folk music, Patterson said, is
handed down orally from generation to
generation. You don't really know who
wrote it, and the words may vary in
different localities.
Patterson received a BA in Folklore
from Indiana University, and, following
an interest in the boundaries between
traditional "folk" culture and mass
culture, pursued his Ph.D. in American
Studies.
Winston cited digital audio tape
(DAT) and high definition television
(HDTV) as two current examples of
technological suppression.
The compact disc industry could have
been ruined by DAT technology, he said,
so the use of DAT was halted in 1983
after 84 companies unanimously agreed
to squelch its introduction.
HDTV, television's equivalent of 35
mm cinema film, will take even longer
to be introduced because it must be
transmitted through satellite instead of
the ordinary cable system, Winston said.
In Winston's opinion, we are not in
the middle of a technological revolution.
"Nothing happens fast; it's business as
usual," he said. "Maybe we've reached
our saturation point in the information
revolution and we'll only experience
expansion of existing communications."
Winston's career spans nearly 25
years, and includes six published books
on various aspects of media
Pessimism is another piece that
seems to work. Hershey plunges a knife
like form into a sea of melancholic blue
and black.
Its counterpart, Optimism, hangs on
the wall in despair. Red and black
stripes color a knife like form which
carves itself a place in the cream
background. The awkward color scheme
confuses and disturbs my eyes. I found
Red Motion more appealing though.
In Red Motion Hershey applies his
collage technique to create a fragmented
painting. The parallelogram and
triangles work well within the realm of
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fragmented shapes; never disrupting the
eye-catching red background.
In the largest piece, Dream,
Hershey's bold and even brush strokes
compliment the color scheme. Hershey
cleverly breaks his fragmented painting
into three separate but equally important
components. This triptych is the most
engaging piece in the exhibit.
Hershey's art will divide his Penn
State Harrisburg audience. The exhibit
is definitely for people who think with
the right side of their brain.
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