WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Fall 1999

SHOCK ART

Rejoining the Heart to the Body

We've all done it, stayed up late listening to John Coltrane or Pink Floyd, or whatever made us feel a little sorry for ourselves. We've sat in our wooden chairs in our studios or studies or kitchens while our spouses slept in flannel sheets. We've held a beer or candle or crucifix and studied the delicate architecture of loss that bastard child of memory, prodigal and awake late in the darkness, beating tiny fists against our hollowed guts. We have illuminated loss with...

View From My Studio

"View From My Studio" oil on paper, 7x10' Mika Holtzinger '98 Wichita State painting and drawing graduate Mika Holtzinger created this illustrated painting while attending the 1997 summer session at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Holtzinger is now in the graduate painting program at the University of Oregon-Eugene....

Untitled

"Untitled" mixed media, 18x15" Clay Lohmann '75 The exhibition "Breakfast of Champions: New Work by Clay Lohmann and Julie Green" is showing through Nov. 1 at Trish Higgins Fine Art, 1425 E. Douglas, Wichita. Lohmann, who studied printmaking at WSU under the direction of John Boyd, resides in Norman, Okla....