Serial/Series Title

Degree Department

States

The Europeans

Two figures in the foreground, seen from the chest up, comment on European angst. A figure in silhouette exits by a set of stairs. Bright yellow light illuminates the exterior of the gallery in which the people in the foreground stand. Talk bubbles are used for the figures' comments. A poster on the wall depicts German Expressionism. The style is like that of cartoons and graphic novels. The colors are bright and flat.
Date: 1995
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Excuse Me

A male figure in the foreground looks at something on a woman's desk. She is seated and holds a telephone receiver. Behind her is a man looking closely at a painting on the wall. The woman states, "Excuse me, these are private papers." The painting on the wall consists of squares of different colors. The man in the foreground is painted in a dark pinkish red tone.
Date: 1998
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dancing Between the Hunt and the Hearth

The large vertical painting consists of a nearly black ground with words and numbers in a light colors. Along the bottom edge is a highly textured surface with the words, beauty and duty, repeated across the bottom edge. Arrows and calculations appear across the dark field. In the upper right is a gold square and some gold splashes of color and texture.
Date: 1992
Creator: Cheal, Susan
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

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 in this image shows one of the "Stretchman" murals, the "Wound" man mural, two leg splints and two welded triangular frames.
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. In this view can be seen the video projection on the rear wall of the swimmer Esther Williams. In the foreground, suspended from the ceiling is a tube raft and netting.
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 image shows the wall mural that depicts sperm, hand saw, bowling pin, float and netting.
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 room of the installation has a video projection on the rear wall and in the foreground a setting that includes netting hanging from ceiling with an inflated tube hanging above an iron, a striped marker, two coffee pots and various other items.
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 word replicate in rubber letters, lab cages are seen beneath one of the murals depicting a man's face stretched out and distorted.
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. In this view, there are two murals visible with the words eliminate and replicate spelled out with rubber letters. In the foreground is a platform with several chairs and in the background is a boxing ring with a gurney and a strapped down punching bag.
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 one of the murals with the "Stretchman" with rubber letters beneath spelling replicate. Above the letters are many lab cages. On the table in front of the mural is a microscope.
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 two murals of the "Stretchman" as well as the complexity of the building in which the exhibition took place. In the background, stairs, a second level and pillars of the building are visible.
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 shows murals of the "Stretchman" as well as the rubber letters spelling, assimilate. In the foreground is a blue table with two bottles on it.
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. Ears of corn and test tubes are seen in the detail view of the installation.
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 shows ears of corn and a microscope on a black rubber topped table. The glass slides contain miniaturized bio-ethical questions that can be read under the microscope.
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. In the foreground is a microscope and many glass slides containing miniaturized bio-ethical questions on a black rubber topped table. On the wall can be seen 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 view is of the entrance signage to the exhibition.
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 entrance signage is visible and a portion of the first part of the exhibit with a found Dinosaur National Park entry sign, a piece of rooftop, and metallic highway tape. The installation included the entry, seen here, a Highway Room, Campground, Hallways that included the myths of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur written on the walls. Also included were the Communication Room, Boxing Room, Float Room, Dressing Room, Telephone Room, Waiting Room, Braille Book Room, and the Nest Room.
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 image of the "Stretchman" was repeated several times within the exhibition.
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 detail view shown here is an armature or a trampoline form folded in half and suspended 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. 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