Serial/Series Title

Degree Department

[circles, squares, and horizontal lines floating]

The horizontal predominately blue and muted gray fabric artwork includes shiny circles, squares with horizons, and groups of parallel lines that float through the space of the artwork.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[parallel bars, shiny circle, and ribbon]

The red horizontal fabric artwork includes several vertical parallel lines with a ribbon floating behind to create depth. Lines and textures reminiscent of moss hanging from tree branches fill the left and lower portions of the work.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[pink ribbon and pink ball with angles and squares]

This fabric artwork contains a large multi-color V shape with a pink ribbon floating across and behind. A shiny pink round shape floats behind the V shape and three square frames, two in the foreground and one in the background, create depth.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Clouds in the Evening Glow

Wavy ribbons recede into the distance which is encased in a framed gradation of color and in the background a circular opening through which the ribbons reach.
Date: 1991
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[dark blue silk yardage]

The yardage of dyed silk includes vertical blue and brown stripes with circular shapes that resemble eyes or wood knots covering the yardage.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[dyed silk with horizontal washes of color in blues, greens, and pinks]

Silk yardage dyed in horizontal wash patterns in blues, pinks, and greens.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[dyed silk yardage]

Dyed silk yardage in dark blues with horizontal yellow and blue wave patterns are broken with intervals of vertical lines.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[dyed silk yardage]

Silk yardage dyed in vertical linear patterns of oranges, greens, reds, and browns spotted with circular shapes resembling eyes or knots in wood.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[ribbons through the sky]

The horizontally oriented surface designed textile art includes depictions of pink ribbons rippling through the sky into the distant background. At the lower edge is seen a silhouette of a mountainous horizon.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[silk yardage dyed pinks and oranges]

Silk yardage dyed in pinks and oranges with large circular lines and small spots resembling eyes or knots of wood.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[blue and green waves layered amongst gray and brown frames]

Waves depicted in greens and blues within and without several framing devices of shades of gray and edged in brown.
Date: 1992
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[layered silk and organza, bird, wave, and moon shapes]

Layer of organza over silk with depictions of birds in flight and wave shapes create depth in this hanging artwork.
Date: 1992/1993
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[waves and bird-like ribbons]

Underlying horizontal dyed silk with depictions of rolling waves receding into the distance with bird-like ribbons above and in the foreground a framed section of the sea at opposing angle.
Date: 1992
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[frames, circles, and a beach chair]

Many layers of handmade papers create depth along with the horizontal frames and cloud formations in the sky. In the center of the artwork are two collaged depictions of a red beach chair.
Date: 1993~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[framed masked face floating above wavy landscape receding into distance]

Depth is achieved by the diminishing scale of purple wavy lines atop green straight verticals. Floating to the right is a multi-shade brown frame, again with the illusion of depth and inside is a masked face.
Date: January 1994
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

I'll Tumble For You

The vertically oriented painting consists of many textures, colors and motifs. The dark ground is richly textured and covered with words, numbers and calculations sometimes partially obliterated. Two large heart shapes face each other, one in the bottom half of the canvas and the other in the top half. They are also richly covered in texture with letters and numbers. About a dozen forks are attached across the surface of the painting; they tumble from the top to the bottom. Flanking the top and bottom edges are some large X marks with thick top and bottom bars.
Date: 1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mechanical Music

The large vertical painting consists of a dark ground. In the lower portion, five wooden spoons are attached. Along the upper edge is an impression of a hand and a plus and minus sign flank the right and left edges in the upper portion of the canvas. At a diagonal in the lower portion appears a long spatula or spoon shape nestled in a sandy brown area. The surface of the work is complex with numbers, letters and calculations barely visible.
Date: 1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Study for 95-3 and E 95-7

A vertical work with horizontal stripes in light blue and light tan and includes gray to black numbered brushstrokes.
Date: 1995
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Arjuna's Bell

Half of the bowl is decorated in yellow while the other half consists of many closely spaced dark blue rectangular hash marks. On the yellow half of the bowl are many hieroglyphic type marks.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Edo Brocade

The bowl shaped vessel sits atop a matching cushion shaped stand. Both bowl and stand are highly textured with grooved lines as well as amoeba shapes within which curved lines are carved. The colors are pale yellow, pale pink and a dark blue black.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jupiter's Goalee

The white bowl shape is covered with patterned squares filled in with black and blue short hash marks. A sweeping blue transparent overlay shape hugs the side of the bowl as do two horizontally oriented black outlines.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Life on the Moon

The porcelain artwork consists of a cup shape seated on a base. The cup is covered with yellow, gray and black geometric decoration. The yellow sections are textured with linear striations while the gray areas include some squiggly marks that resemble cursive handwriting.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ptolemy's Atlas

The vessel is a tall bowl shape covered with a grooved texture over which are some vertical light blue rectangles that pierce a light purple circle that is textured with curvy lines.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Song Sung Blue

The bowl shape sits atop a cushion shape that echoes the surface colors and textures of the bowl. A circle shape enclosing wiggly lines decorates the center of the exterior side of the bowl. Also around the exterior of the bowl are vertically oriented linear black lines and textural lines.
Date: 1996
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library