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Show Park CHy News Friday, April 1, 1983 Page C3 . " t 1 &v .- . '. . :: : :.. ": " "i ' , h :.; -: -- - 4-' ' " - , - . "Going Nowhere," a watercolor by Mike Burns. New Kimball exhibits offer wide range of styles, mediums '' & i-T' Xl ;T Sculptures, drawings, paintings and ceramics will be highlighted in two new exhibits scheduled to open at Park City's Kimball Art Center Easter Sunday, April 3. Ten artists from Alpine, Utah, will be showing their work in the Main Gallery, while Seattle painter Mike Burns and Wyoming ceramist Bruce Denhert will be exhibiting in the Little Gallery. Both exhibits are on display through May 4. The 10 Alpine artists are Frank Riggs (sculpture and drawings), Dennis Smith (sculpture and drawings), Gary Smith (paintings and drawings), Trevor Southey (sculpture, paintings and drawings, Michael Graves , (paintings iM prints), Gary" Blosch (ceramics), Joseph Linton (architectural models and drawings), Neil Harlock (sculpture, drawings and paintings), David Adams (paintings and sculpture) and Roger Davis (ceramics). The 10 artists are not all native Utahns, although in the late 1960s, they were students together at Brigham Young University. Most of the group moved to Alpine, Utah, around 1975. The group last exhibited together in June 1980 at the Salt Lake Art Center. They are currently scheduling more group shows and are planning to exhibit around the country. Mike Burns last visited Utah when he was a guest instructor in-structor at the Kimball Art Center's Summer Arts Institute. In-stitute. A number of the paintings to be shown in the exhibit, taken from the Utah area, will include deserted old houses, barns, gas stations, cars and the Heber Creeper. "Some people see my paintings as nostalgia, but they're not. Nostalgia painters pain-ters always add something to thg .subjec tp show it in., some sentimental light not' as it actually was, but as they think it should have been. My paintings show things as they really are," he said. Burns received his B.A. degree in art from Seattle Pacific University. After graduating, he worked as an illustrator for the Boeing Company and then as an illustrator for the V.ashington Army National Guard, during which time he designed the Raven Patch, the insignia for the 1st In fantry Division. He has been a self-employed artist since 1968. In 1980 Burns was awarded the Art Association Award as a member of the Rocky Mountain National Water-media Water-media Society. He is also a member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Northwest Water-color Water-color Society. His work has been shown around the world, including at an invitational, group exhibition at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Furthermore, his work is included in the permanent collections of Utah State University and Brigham Young University. Burns was featured in the May 1974 issue of American Artist magazine and the book, 40 Watercolorists and How They Work, by Susan Meyer. He also appeared in the 39th edition of Who's Who in America. Ceramist Bruce Denhert works with stoneware, por-celai- and terra cotta. "At present, I'm trying to integrate in-tegrate 'sketches' of nudes and so forth into my work which I feel bridge a gap between art and craft," he noted. Firing, glazing and decoration hold the most interest in-terest for the artist. He says the challenge of trying to use many different forms helps him constantly change decoration. Denhert owns and operates a small production pottery studio with his wife in Lander, Wyoming. The artist ar-tist first learned to throw clay from his parents. From 1976 to 1978, he studied with Rudi Autio at the University of Montana. Since then, he served as a production potter pot-ter at The Clay Pigeon in Macon, Georgia, and as an assistant to the ceramics faculty at the University of Southern California's School of Music and the Arts: Last summer, he taught again for USC in Idyllwild. He was recently profiled in Susan Peterson's new book, Young American Potters. There will be an opening reception honoring all of the artists Sunday, April 3 at the Kimball Art Center from 3 to 5 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Kimball Art Center hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. (Formerly Don Brady Associates) Interior Furnishings & Design v ". lis i j Park Meadows ria:a BIJg., '.O. Ho. W9, Park City, Ut 84060 801-64-4044 Re-locating "nO Main St. Park City, Ut See our exciting models at The Cache Ridgeview Condominiums Chatham Crossing 310Marsac Fawngrove The Pinnacle Kimball Klassic raises $2,500 More than 40 Parkites raced and dined on March 22 in a fund-raiser which earned $2,500 for the Kimball Art Center. The fund-raiser, known as the Kimball Klassic, involved in-volved a dual slalom ski race and an awards dinner. The race was held on the Clementine run at the Park City Ski Area. Forty-two people participated in the race and were divided into seven teams. Each team was given a handicap, based on abilities, and trophies were awarded to the team for the fastest adjusted time down the course. After the race, competitors competi-tors dined at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley. The cost for both the race and dinner was $75 a person. The idea of the combination combina-tion race and inner was generated at a recent Kimball Kim-ball Art Center board meeting. meet-ing. Board members Brad Olch, Hick Beck, and Steve Dering chaired the race. Kimball Membership Director Di-rector Peggy Black called the Kimball Klassic a success, suc-cess, although they would have liked more participants. partici-pants. She said the Kimball Art Center is planning several se-veral other fund-raisers for the spring. ;jili1: f.jii!.j!!!rhlliSirwa! t slit-.ittifff i Mi iUnt There's Only One Thing That Gets Stein Off the Slopes . . . Hi His Restaurants Stein skis off the Bird's Eye Run at Deer Valley right Into his world class Lodge. He might order our heaping roast beef sandwich in the Birkebeiner Restaurant or the delicious roast goose with apple and prune stuffing in the Glitretind Gourmet Room. Apres ski, Stein always enjoys a drink and our famous potato skins in the Troll Hallen Lounge. 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