Hansen museum unveils sculptures exhibit

By SHIRLEY HENRICKSON

Special to The Hays Daily News

LOGAN -- This week, the "Ostrich Eggs Series by Lenne' Nicklaus-Ball" from Katharine T. Carter and Associates, Kinderhook, N.Y., is being taken down. The exhibit displayed costume jewelry and ostrich eggs.

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum is proud to present "Ultra-Realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan." This showing is part of a national tour through a two-and-a-half year period containing five full-size figures, two torsos and 10 portraits. The tour was developed and managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Mo. This exhibit will be on display from Friday through Oct. 4.

Internationally recognized artist Marc Sijan with his life-size realistic sculptures has been featured in more than 40 one-man museum exhibitions, half of which set attendance records. One museum director boasted the attendance was even greater than a recent exhibition they had by some fellow Degas. The work has been described as homage's to humanity. His startlingly lifelike representation of real people is considered the leading contemporary example of realistic sculpture. Far from static, the security guard, dancer or lounging ladies present a cross section of American life -- a frozen sense of motion, rather than in inert passivity.

The August artist of the month is Roy Jessup from Oakley. Jessup has many beautiful watercolor paintings on exhibit and for sale.

Museum hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays and holidays. There is no admission fee. For more information, contact Shirley Henrickson at (785) 689-4846 or visit www.hansenmuseum.org.

Shirley Henrickson is director of the Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum in Logan.