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Show Page B10 Thursday, February (., Hut- Park Ret on) Irtr TT Other sides: Artists examine their personalities by KIC K BKOLG1I Record staff writer In a sense, both painters featured this month at the Kimball Art Center are divided people. Donal C. Jolley paints scenes of Southern Utah, where he spent his early years. And even though he lives in California and figures he sees the Utah buttes perhaps every five years, images of the area recur even when he paints other topics. Summit Park resident Jim Schnirel is vice president of administration ad-ministration at Utah Technical College. Col-lege. Me labors over personnel, schedules and budgeting by the Utah Legislature. But in his spare time, he paints the colorful, passionate paintings on display in the lower gallery of the Kimball. During February, Parkites and patrons of the arts can see the other selves of these two men.. Donal C. Jolley Jolley lived at Zion National Park until he was 10 years old. His father was chief ranger at the park and his ancestry on both sides of his family reaches back to the pioneer days there. "I'm not the straight-arrow Mormon people might think I am, but I'm proud of my heritage." Nowadays, he goes back only occasionally, oc-casionally, several times for family funerals. His relations, he said, are "all lined up in the cemetery in Spr-ingdale." Spr-ingdale." The region stayed with him, however. His display at the Kimball features some extraordinarily vivid views of the area. The ridges of his mountains assume a bold symmetry, sym-metry, under rumbling clouds, searing sear-ing sunlight or dark twilight. His landscapes can be fantastical or playful. In one painting, a Navajo woman in the foreground seems to loom as large as the mountains. And conversely, the ridges of the mountains moun-tains in back seem to be assuming a human profile. For Jolley, the Southern Utah area is not a desert. It's a simplified form of landscape. "It's like a nude landscape, land-scape, like looking at the skeleton of landscape." he said. In a geographical sense, he said, it is also wrong to call the area a desert. Only the southeast corner of the state is barren. Jolley said he isn't confined to Southern Utah. He is a painter of the Southwest. ' Yet he doesn't choose to live there. He and his wife reside in the San Bernardino Mountains of California Califor-nia a region that doesn't interest him very much as an artist. "What can you do with a forest of pine trees?" Between Zion and Califoria, he made several stops. His family moved mov-ed him at age 10 to Boulder City, Colo. He attended Brigham Young University in the mid-'50s, but his school years were interrupted by the .? I p if? t r rrf r "Morning at Acoma" is an acrylic created by Donal C Jollev. r 4 Donal C. Jolley lived in Zion National Park until age 10. Army, which drafted him and sent him to Germany. "They sent me to radio school, all the while me kicking kick-ing and screaming I was an artist." Eventually, he ended up in the psychological warfare division, doing do-ing illustrations for leaflet drops behind the Iron Curtain. He graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in commercial art and got a job in the aerospace industry in-dustry drawing presentations for the military and Congress. But he began to dream of becoming becom-ing an artist, instead of going through the repetitive chores of industry in-dustry art. "It wasn't boring, but it lost the challenge it had at first." About 15 years ago, he said, he took a year off. leaving his job cold turkey to see if he could make it as an artist. More and more, the dream became a reality. Today, Jolley does more than landscapes. His painting, "The Farrier," Far-rier," is an atypical canvas in the Kimball exhibit, since it shows his work with naturalistic human figures. The display also has at least 1 Jim Schnirel is a Summit Park resident. one visual double entendre. In the painting, "Three Part Harmony," a landscape also resembles a reclining reclin-ing nude figure. Though friends accuse him of being be-ing a subversive painter, "1 don't do ii deliberately very often." He is aware, though, of how much his childhood home permeates his work. By way of explanation, he says, "Everybody is more influenced influenc-ed by their early times. " Jim Schnirel Before Jim Schnirel became noted lor work on canvas, he worked on concrete and steel. He attended the University of Oklahoma in the late TiOs, which was then under the direction direc-tion of Bruce Golf, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. "It was one of the most progressive pro-gressive schools of architecture Ihen. Golf said, 'We're going to slretch you out, to make you think of things you never thought of before.'" He taught students to treat a building as a three-dimensional object, ob-ject, as a sculpture. They learned to I t - lUMf" m. k I i i """ ri I ,Li III! Sufi I J Jim Schnirel, vice president of administration at a local college, paints realistic water- colors, like this house, and also experiments on rice paper. For Jolley, the Southern Utah area is not a desert. It's a simplified form of landscape. It's like a nude landscape, like looking at the skeleton of landscape he said. A few of Schnirel's paintings are realistic depictions of Park City homes. But even there, he said, 1 don't copy the house. I try to bring out something that somebody else doesn't see.' apply light, form and color to a building. It was a good grounding in visual design. Schnirel. a native of Geneva, N. Y.. graduated from the University of ( Iklahoma in 1959 and came to Utah the same year. In 19(i2. he began his association with Utah Technical College. Col-lege. And in 1980. when he became acting president for a year, he turned turn-ed to painting, which had always interested in-terested him, to balance out his regular tasks Over the years, he also has worked lor several Salt Lake City architects, ar-chitects, designing and doing water-color water-color renderings. Several were residential projects, but one small recreation building he designed can be spotted near the Salt Lake Coun try Club, at the edge of the golf course. Its unique roof is only a quarter-inch thick. Schnirel uses watercolors, which fit his schedule as a part-time painter. "I like to get ideas out as quickly as possible," he said. It takes him from 15 or 20 minutes to two hours to produce a work. A large collage in the Kimball exhibit took eight to 12 hours. His Kimball work shows a range of style. A few paintings are realistic depictions of Park City homes. But even there, he said. "I don't copy the house. I try to bring out something that somebody else doesn't see." In other paintings, you can see a realistic object, but the stronger statement comes from the color or form. A bouquet is a delicate but dazzling burst of yellow. In a single flower, purple is launched like a rocket toward the upper portion o( the painting. "I like to bring a lot t feeling to a painting," he said. Finally, there are the collages, quid explosions of color against a black background. It's a puzzle to find Schnirel's st vie. and he himself doesn't have an answer. His mode is experimental. For instance, a few of the paintings are done on an Oriental rice paper called "masa." In the future, he wants to try mixed media. "I want to stay open." he said. The Donal C. JolleyJim Schninl exhibits will be on display at tht Kimball Art Center through Feb. 21 0000000000000000.000? SOTSIlTRIitmSflT " 9 S V U v joopeoooooooooooooooo OOOOOOOQOQQQQQOQQy fOQOwOQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQOQQQQQQQQQQQQQQl HV Cinemas OUT OF AFRICA MURPHY'S ROMANCE YOUNGDLOOD See display ad for times. 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