Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This detail view of the installation shows a small trampoline suspended from the ceiling. Strapped to the trampoline is a pillow. A tall structure holds a see-saw with a chair on each end. Behind this grouping is a chain link fence drawing on the wall.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This view of the installation includes a small room in which a vanity with two chairs has a crown painted on the wall above. Words, directions, are written on the wall for the performers to the right of the vanity table.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This view shows a detail of the vanity table, its light bulbs, three chairs and the text, scripts for the performers, on the wall.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This detail view of the installation shows the directions and dialogue script written on the wall for the performers. A black dress hangs with a pair of white rubber boots beneath. A portion of the yellow vanity table is visible with one chair.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Text in black covers the two walls shown in this view. Hanging from the ceiling is a two-part black form. Over the short wall, the chain link fence imagery can be seen. The wall text is titled, Queens.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation has many elements. In the foreground is a black table with microscope and glass slides on it. In the background is a boxing ring with a gurney in the center on which is strapped down punching bag. Men's dress shirts and a mural of the "Stretchman" is on the rear wall.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation includes a figure pierced with arrows and knives. The artist refers to him as the "wound" man. In the foreground, are two leg splints with suspended latex tubing.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation includes a frame in the shape of a satellite dish from which hangs many paper tags. The satellite dish shape is attached to a three tier stool. Behind the dish shape is chain-link fence type material.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The paper tags that hang from the large dish structure are seen in close detail in this view.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the exhibition consists of a large vertical painting with a dark ground.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The boxing ring contains a gurney on which is a strapped down punching bag. A television monitor playing found footage of alligator gardens and Esther Williams hangs high from the ceiling.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The view is of the gurney with the strapped down punching bag and in the background can be seen two murals of the "Stretchman."
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This detail view is of the strapped down punching bag on the gurney.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Generation Mess

Each of the photographs in this group includes the black and white portrait of a young person layered with walls and words. These photographs were included in the exhibition Parallax Presents: Self-Conceptions, University of North Texas Fine Art Photography Club in September, 2012, in the Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building on the University of North Texas campus.
Date: 2012
Creator: Claes, Ashley
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Woman and Nautilus

The painting exhibits a woman in the center of the canvas. She is surrounded by a bare tree, curved and nestled geometric shapes that create a landscape. Some gray brick shapes are at the woman's left. At her feet is a large nautilus and she cups in her hands a small plant.
Date: 1932
Creator: Compton, Carl Benton
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brooch

The silver and copper brooch is a triangular shape with a triangular shaped opening inside which is a coiled piece of metal with a second coil on one of the corners of the brooch. The surface is shiny and smooth.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brooch and Earrings

The earrings are made of silver circles pierced with off-centered circle cut-outs which are in turn pierced with curlicue ribbon pieces of metal. The brooch is a triangular shape with an opening of a similar triangular shape which is also in turn pierced with a curlicue ribbon of metal. Also on one corner of the brooch is a second curled metal piece.
Date: unknown
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chitter Chatter, It's Girls' Night Out: Seven Years Series

The collage consists of purples, yellows, reds, and blue-green. A large black and yellow checkerboard pattern predominates the right half of the piece. The background is purple with some vertical poles in a blue turquoise color. Some long pink shapes encircle the checkerboard area and divide the composition.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do Ya Wanna Dance?

The foreground is pink and the sky a darker pinkish red. In the foreground is a green table like form and leading to it is a pink and purple striped pathway leading from a blue platform. A yellow and orange cordial glass appears to be dancing with a purple cordial glass. These forms can be seen in this artist's three-dimensional works. Here the glasses appear particularly active. Three green cordial glass shapes are placed on the blue platform and one on the striped walkway. Several small geometric shapes float in the upper right portion of the artwork.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Earrings

The earrings consist of domed circular shapes with a circular opening through which is a coiled piece of copper.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

It's Not Always Black and White

The geometric black, white and gray collage appears to depict a person afloat in the middle of a body of water. However, a shape like this artist has used before for a cordial glass sits atop a set of three steps in the foreground and receding into the distance are planks ranging from white to black. There are some cutouts in the platform that appear to be traps for the seated figure.
Date: 1988
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

It's Not Always Black and White

A two-part shape that resembles this artist's three-dimensional cordial glasses stands in an interior into the floor of which is a rectangular cut out. Into this recess in the floor falls two small triangular shapes. Two windows are on the walls of the interior while a square shape is cut out of the ceiling. The artwork is made up of white, purplish grays and black.
Date: 1988
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Let's Spend Some Time Together, Number 2

This collage features extreme perspective with the piers in yellow and orange moving from the center foreground straight to the horizon line depicted by the blue background meeting the black sky. In the left background area are several green geometric shapes that resemble buildings. A pink orb with a hole in the center floats in the left sky area while a purple one floats in the right hand portion of the sky area. Piercing each of these is a long hollow spear that spills tiny black, blue, white, gray and green circles into the foreground.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library