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Show Page No. 6 The Signpost Monday, September 25, 1989 YVi n ... -. ? rr r The Arts CorziKg Attractions... A weekly calendar of the lllilprts on ' 'campus Ttni Sept, 23 x Utah Symphony presents?: "From Amsricana to Broadway": at 8 p.m. )n: ? the Val A. Browning Center lor the Performing?: Arts. For licta! into, call 399-9214. Tickets ate afflo available one hour prior to theshowx w the Browning Centet box office: ?: Prices?: range from $5 - $13. WSC students with valid? LD. tecieva halt price admission 20 minutes ? before show time;i;:;-: Danief t. Martino? director "of the Off ice of Cultural Attain, win preview tfieevent in (oom?; Tue. Oct 3 The Greek tragicomedy Helen will pray at 7-.30p,rrt. in tne Browning Center's ;: Austad tne.-so". A comedy : wUh serious! undertones?? i! features "the !are that launched a thousand Ships:?:?:??:;:;:-:-??:?:???: TictetS: are$2 general admission or $! fcr sjucnti.:?:?:?:?;??;:?:?:?:?:?.:?:?:?:???:?:: Mon.Sept.2S A photbenhib'ri. Feces, opens?: today in lha Ccdteft Art Gallery and Tun9:: through Frl.. Oct. 27. Oner a! prims by some ; o) the most influential photographers ot the : 20 century are ondisp lay. Admisstonis free,? as isfheopening reception Sept. 2B!rom 6:30 : Wed. Sept 27 Set Sept 30 The Swedish? fi rm My Lite as aOog, a comedy about a boy's; : struggles to maintain a sense of numof n spite of hfs mother's terminal illness, win show : Wed. & Thu. at 8 p.m. ,wrth two showings Frt?: & Sat, at 7 p.m. and & p-m.:;:?:;::?;?;?;?:?:?:?:?:?:?: 1 a I C4 -J UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "From Americana to Broadway" GOULD American Salute Romany Life WEBBER Phantom of the Opera Showboat: Scenario for Les Miserables GERSIIWIN An American in Paris FOSTERLEYDON Foster Suite BERLIN That Beautiful Rag WSC student By Paul B. Johnson Arts editor of The Signpost This summer was a particularly colorful one for Darin Anderson. For two months starting in June, he spent many long hours slapping brushes and squirting glue to complete the large, vivid collage of colors that now adorns the face of the Collett Art Gallery. He was the designer and primary worker for the project, "Faces" exhibit at gallery V". ftr "Ken Moody, 1983 (courtesy the Robert By Paul B. Johnson Arts editor for The Signpost "Faces," an exhibition of photographs depicting the expressiveness of the human face, opens today in the Collett Art Gallery. "It's an opportunity to see a lot of interesting pictures," said N Symphony Ballet ASSOCIATION Thursday, September 28, 8:00 P.M. $5 to $13 Browning Fine Arts Center Ogden Christopher Wilkins, KERN Orchestra HERBERT Panamericana: Morceaux Characteris-tiquesPolonaise from Serenade for Strings gives Collett which was a result of an effort by the Visual Arts Department to commemorate Weber State's centennial year. A special project class, named "Art Upfront," drew a dozen participants who each submitted their designs for the decoration of the building. Anderson's was the chosen work, and his fate for the summer was sealed. "Every moment I had time to do it, when I wasn't at my job or going to school, I worked on that," Henry Barendse, curator of the gallery. The exhibit offers a "very broad theme," he said, "from official portraits to almost snapshots." The exhibit focuses on works of the 20th century, primarily American, Mappiethorpe estate) Barendse said, and features faces both famous and not. Forty-one photographs by as many artists are on display. The photographs are drawn from the collection of Hallmark Cards, Inc., of which Keith Davis is the curator. "Like saying landscape,' the idea of 'faces' is broad and open," Davis said. "It's really a nice way (see FACES page 7) For More Information or Tickets 399-9214 2580 Jefferson Ave. Conductor gallery a colorful facelift Anderson said. "I didn't get any sleep, but it was worth it." However, the long hours took their toll. "Sometimes I felt like I'd been run over by a bus," he said. From a distance, the final mural, which stands about 11 feet high and 69 feet wide, looks like a triangular pattern of interwoven colors, and may appear quite simple. But Anderson feels that a closer perspective reveals the truth. "It changes immensely from point to point," he said. "You get up close and it's a complicated mess." About 2500 feet of wooden strips, each about an inch and a half wide, are attached to several large plywood panels which make up the mural. Thirty-five different colors alternate and blend throughout the work, providing, as Anderson said, an "optical mix." There is an illusion of many more hues, he explained, because individual colors change in appearance according to the colors that border them green next to black looks different than green next to yellow. The project can appear deceptively simple in more ways than one. At first, Anderson didn't think it would be all that difficult to construct. But now he knows differently. "It was an ordeal," he said. "I thought I was never going to get it done." It all started out with the class itself, Art Upfront. Anderson's design, he said, was "totally different from anybody," in a field of competition which ranged from sculptures to those who "were actually taking the building apart." An extra effort may have brought him the award, as he was the only person in the class to construct a full-scale mock-up, investing several hours WELCOME COl Take the first step in the right direction. Come let us help you explore challenging student nurse, graduate nurse and experienced nurse career opportunities. Discover our unbeatable benefit package including 100 tuition reimbursement with no commitment. Contact: Deborah L. Miyazaki, RN, BSN University of Utah Hospital 50 North Medical Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84132 Phone (800J44UofU) Kqual Opportunity Employer and his own $200 to build the model at home. Once done, he decided to bring the mock-up, an actual size plywood panel, to school. He . -v- X Darin Anderson, WSC junior, designed the mural outside the Collett Art Gallery. loaded the project up in a borrowed International pick-up, and roared off under the dark of night along the back roads in hopes of avoiding a confrontation with curious traffic officials. "It was hanging out all over the place," he said, shaking his head as he added a gasped, "Holy smokes, that thing must have weighed a ton." The frantic midnight run paid off as Anderson earned the award. "A lot of times students can't even enter these contests," he' said. "It was really a great opportunity for me, a junior in the art department, to be able to do this project." He soon set about constructing the mural in the art building. Piece by piece he painted the strips and glued them to the plywood panels, then hefted the parts outside. There, he and his assistants struggled to hoist the parts into place as Anderson dangled from narrow scaffolding (see GALLERY page 7) -- ! |