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• April < Aggielife Page 3 Friday • April 4, 1 997 MR.OCKN'AROUND THE QUAD B-CS, Austin bands to play Northside rock concert By John LeBas The Battalion n most Sunday afternoons, Texas A&M’s "Northside” dorm area quietly bustles with young lovers walking nd-in-hand, a basketball game or two and the hum of coin-operated clothes dryers. ™But this Sunday, Northside belongs to rock ’n’ roll. ■ “Concert on the Quad,” a free concert fea- .turing local bands Lewis, Linus and Jester, e———will bring five hours of music to the green * }$m space between Davis-Gary and Moore halls. To ^ .; Austin bands, The Impossibles and Tuesday Tut Weld also are scheduled to play at the show, Ml RTSi which starts at noon. Bryan Yule, co-chair of the Concert on the Quad committee, helped revive the once-an- nual event. The concert was sponsored by Davis-Gary and Moore halls for several years — Yule is not exactly sure when the tradition began — but did not get off the ground last year. As a music fan, he said the concert is crucial in helping students stay connected with the local mu sic scene. "I wanted to get a lot of bands together at one time so that when people see their names around campus for smaller shows, they could put a name with the music,” Yule said. Yule, a freshman engi neering technology major, said the rock-punk-alterna tive show will emphasize fun over profit. All concert ne cessities except for event se curity and a sound system was paid for with eight dollars, and the bands are play ing for free. Grant Gaston, guitarist for Jester and a ju nior history major, said the concert benefits both music lovers and the bands involved. “Because it’s on campus, it will help open up the music scene,” he said. “It’s good for the bands because we all get the chance to show people what we’re about. It’s also good for the fans because they can get in free and come “Everybody’s music is different and there’s a lot out there for peo ple to hear.” Jeff Truly Bass player for Lewis and go as they please.” Concert on the Quad should help dissolve musical rivalries, Gaston said, even though most local bands already help each other to get shows and new listeners. JeffTruly, bass player for Lewis, agreed that the concert proves music—not egos — should come first in music. “With some bands it’s kind of hard be cause they want to be best band in area,” he said. “But it gets down to everybody do ing their own thing. Every body’s music is different and there’s a lot out there for peo ple to hear.” Gaston said Jester, whose mu sic he describes as “raunchy hard rock,” has played shows with both Linus and Lewis, and said he is looking forward to hearing Tues day Weld and The Impossibles. Kevin Brennan, singer for punk-ska band Tuesday Weld, said he believes Concert on the Quad also will help strengthen musical ties between Austin and College Station bands. “Hopefully it will open it up a lot more in College Station,” he said, “and more bands from here [Austin] will get to play there.” Yule said he also hopes the concert will breathe more life into local music — and the weekend on Northside. “They’re going to hear the music,” he said. “What else are you going to do on a Sunday afternoon?” oh, son FORGOT was still i« ► Art Exhibit Characters tell their own stories in Local Color's Dear Hunter... exhibit ue St.) By Michael Schaub The Battalion Ithough artist Marty Walker is the daughter of a sculptor, she did not in tend to follow in her father’s footsteps. “I mainly went to school to play tennis,” |ie Denton-based painter said. Walker graduated from Southwest Mis souri State University with a photography de gree — she had enough credit hours, and it gave her the background to study art in grad- rate school at the University of North Texas. “I sold my camera the day I graduated,” Walker said. Local Color Art Gallery is displaying Walk er’s exhibit, Dear Hunter..., this month. The xhibit features nine of Walker’s abstract paintings, many of which center around ab stract, humanoid rabbit figures. I The paintings comprised Walker’s master’s thesis at North Texas. I “I was studying Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle at the time,” Walker said. “The anonymity of the animals allowed me to ex plore this paradox between rational thought and intuitional thinking.” Walker said she takes her cue from a dis parate group of influences. “I often look toward classic country music as inspiration for my work,” Walker wrote in her artist statement. “Country songwriters frequently employ verbal contradiction. Even though the narrative implications in my paintings aren’t concerned with drinking beer, heartache and divorce, my formal con cerns are painterly contradictions.” Walker said she also uses themes of juxta position found in the works of contemporary neo-expressionists. “My creative process involves discovering narrative ideas through random applica tions of paint,” Walker wrote, “perhaps cre ating my own tragedy in the beginning stages of a painting.” Walker sees the characters in her paintings as “animated storytellers.” “I paint animals as intuitive players in am biguous space, frequently juxtaposed with products of science, technology and indus try,” she said. Walker said the random process she uses when painting often leads to paradoxes. “The art’s concerned with juxtaposition, filled with contradictions,” she said. Works such as Freedom Fighter, which depicts a bird perched on a chain, display these paradoxes. “My work strives not to be conclusive,” Walk er said, “but to serve as reminders of journey.” Walker said she hopes to show her artwork to gallery owners in Houston, she said. Dear Hunter... is Walker’s first exhibit in the Brazos Valley. Chuck Drumm, assistant director of the Arts Council of Brazos Valley, said exhibits like Walker’s help foster art appreciation in the community. “Local Color Gallery is a nonprofit space dedicated to supporting and promoting Texas artists,” Drumm said. The gallery is at 310 University Drive and is open until 6 p.m. on weekdays and until 2 p.m. on Saturday. Walker’s exhibit will run through April 25. “Tragedy embodies anxiety, fear and un certainty as its primary elements, while time can allow a cathartic synthesis of these events to be transformed into humorous reflection,” Walker said. “As a painter, I have adopted this ideology as a basis for my work.” Jester CONCERT ON THE QUAD The free concert will feature Lewis, Jester and Linus, rock bands from Bryan-College Station, and The impossibles and Tuesday Weld, rock bands from Austin. The show will be Sunday afternoon between Davis-Gary and Moore halls on Northside. Robert McKay, The Battalion Trina Allen, FestiFall Coordinator at the Local Color Gallery, looks at "Dear Hunter...," a piece in a collection by artist Marty Walker. 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