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Show t i x Page 12 Navarro Speaks A smiling and friendly Hector Navarro, who speaks very little English, talked to f HI (ATTLE MY This Week's Special Soup, Salad Bar, Baked Potato. . . $3.95 Steak for Two $11.50 All Dinners Include Chuck Wagon Salad Bar Baked Potato Good thru February 8 649-7071 j402Maji cbarlie LIVE MUSIC Across from City Hall on Historic Main St. 649-7250 a Newspaper reporter, who speaks no Spanish,, Sunday during the Kimball Art Cen- it Expresso & 7 Days 5:30 - oyster fresh oysters, scallops, alaskan snow crab, breaded fried oysters, tempura vegetables, artichokes On Art ter opening of his one-man art show. Navarro, 40, artist-in-residence at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, has been shown internationally in major cities throughout the United States, Europe and South America. With the aid of interpreters inter-preters Bernardo Sahagun and Patty Sahagun, sister of KAC director David Fernandez, Fer-nandez, Navarro communicated com-municated his theories of art. "In school I had an in-clinationa in-clinationa toward art," said Navarro. The artist started pen and ink sketches while working ,for a printer during his high school days. He taught high school math and was a student in a college prep program, attending fine arts school in the afternoon. Navarro, an architect graduate of the University of Guadalajara, now serves as professor of architecture, visual arts and composition Cappuccino a Week 10:30 bar At IIIM ' M. rhnr STAt ';; ' ' WM i PI? T ' I tXi Mexican artist Hector Navarro creates reversible rever-sible photos to suit different moods. at the university. A great many of Navarro's works wore the little black "sold" dot early Sunday. His works are acrylic on 649-9998 the Silver King Club aluminum and wood. Navarro also works with metal sculptures, most of which were too heavy to transport to the U.S. The artist began experimenting ex-perimenting with materials early in his graphic art career. He began doing pictures pic-tures in aluminum that he had first done on paper. He .strove to find new and innovative in-novative ways to use materials. Navarro's works make use of relief. He reaches for a union of sculpture and painting. pain-ting. The professor tells his students to make a choice of "a lot of roads" in their pursuit pur-suit of art. "How can you process what you learn from these experiences into your own way of thinking?" he asks them. Navarro's paintings have no titles. "Painting is not literature," he commented. "It's up to the viewer to translate the work and bring his own feelings to it." Navarro went over to one particular work with a smile and inverted it. It was signed at both ends. "This way the viewer can turn it in either direction depending on his mood," he explained. Many of Navarro's works make use of contrasting colors as well as black and j white. They often portray an abstract figure of a human head. "The face is the most ; expressive part of the person," per-son," Navarro contends. The Navarro exhibit will be on display at the KAC through February 16. les 1070 South Main Salt Lake City, Utah 521-4444 KAC Guild Meets At a Thursday, January 26, meeting, Kimball Art Guild members discussed the Christmas workshop, upcoming shows, a high school invitational and a fund-raising raffle. Christmas Shop Fifteen craftsmen participated par-ticipated in a December Christmas Shop which added $360 to art center funds. "The workshop was successful suc-cessful for a start," commented com-mented guild president Tina Lewis, "but next year we hope to start earlier and get more people involved." High School Invitational The first week in May the art guild will coordinate a high school invitational art show. Small neighboring high schools in the Coalville, Kamas and Heber area, along with Park City High School, will be asked to send approximately ten pieces of representative art work to be hung in the gallery through May. Honarary works will be granted awards during the show. More Art Guild Help at KAC The KAG members discussed ways in which the guild could participate in art center activities. Some ideas included doing a show from beginning to end, helping with the solicitation of students for art center classes, and working with Park City reservation centers cen-ters to create cohesive programs, tours and workshops for visiting convention con-vention groups. Election of New Officers The guild members will elect a nominating committee commit-tee to choose officers for the upcoming year. The terms of current officers expire April 1, the first year anniversary of the organization. President Tina Lewis has been gathering charters of the Salt Lake Art Center and the Utah Symphony Guild to aid the group in drawing up official by-laws. "When we first got started we just plowed ahead but now we feel it would be help-' ful to establish rules of -what & we can and can't do and how to go about certain procedures," said Lewis. LIVE BAND FRIDAY AND SATURDAY TRI-CITY FLIERS Thursday Nights: Dance Contest - Serving 25 Cent Beers on our sun deck overlooking the historic Silver King mine See trail map for location CARLESON Cadillac Has an excellent selection of the front wheel drive Eldorado and Eldorado Biarritz. COMPETITIVE LEASING wmm WW By Jay Meehan KPRQ Radio "Triskaidekaphobia" will shortly be gaining validity among Utah's music buffs. This particular par-ticular phobia is the fear of the number "13,' and, as most are aware, originated in the distant past. Here is how it relates to the present. Three separate concert promoters in Salt Lakg City have decided that the best cure for drought is a flood. United States Concerts, io conjunction with "Feyline Presents" in Denver has booked Don Williams into the Salt Palace The Associated Students of the University of Utah has booked the great Tom Waits into thjjj Union Ballroom on campus. And finally, Mar shall Marinakis is bringing in the super-ho Vassar Clements Band to Uncle Alberts. No under normal circumstances this would bring cheers from local afficianados. But these, ml friend, are strange times. All three concerts arg scheduled for 8 o'clock on Monday, February if; Hence: triskaidekaphobia. The Doc Watson concert of January 21 at th Univeristy was sold out and super. Arriving late Doc and the boys had to forego the sound-check) but they helped the man at the mixer-board get it together between songs with the result much more than adequate. Jim Ringer and Mary Mcj Caslin opened the show in a superb fashion; theiir Utah debut being outdone only by Kenny Soares fantastic brownies. Jim and Mary like them, tooj Things are starting to jump again at the Car 19. "Spaghetti and Jazz" are back on Sunday afternoons, af-ternoons, starting at 5:30 p.m. J.D. Moffatt and Kevin Johansen will form the nucleus of the combo, with others joining the famed guitar-duo for "jam-sessions." "Lightning Leroy and the Badland Band" were here last week and will return Feb. 13 (triskaidekaphobia again) for a week. s As far as "what have you done for me lately?" now appearing at the Car 19 (through Saturday night) is the much discussed "Max Appleseed,:" a recently formed quartet from the San Jose area. They describe their music as "bluegrass, ballad, and light rock." The next couple of weeks will feature "Gasoline Alley," the Jim Sowards dsLeslie Perry duo; the return of Lightning Leroy; the "Possum" foursome; and Cher Herj-drix. Herj-drix. I Over on the "backroom'Vjazz side, J. D.. arid Kevin are to be joined by yocalistepffipiaji on Friday nights Feb. 3 and 10. Locals afe;iefl-couraged afe;iefl-couraged to participate early in the week. At the Gondola Building Beer & Set-ups Served Located High on the Mountain Join Us for Happy Hour Cash Prizes 1 31 |