OCR Text |
Show SUSC Art Major exhibits Handiwork The highly imaginative works of Southern Utah State College art major who currently works on Saturday morning cartoon layout animation, will go on exhibit Thursday at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The senior art portfolio of Roy Allen Smith will be exhibited at the SUSC gallery from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. weekdays, and from 1-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. His show will run through Febraury 28 with a display of African beadwork which is being made available to SUSC through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Ser-vice. A public reception will mark the opening of the two shows Thursday evening. It will be held from 7-9 p.m., sponsored by Friends of the Gallery. Smith's portfolio includes 18 pieces, primarily drawings, water colors and prints, with some oils and acrylics. "Roy's work is very expressive, highly creative," Anderson said. The SUSC student works in Salt Lake City, doing cartoon car-toon animation for such companies as Hannah- Glen D. Anderson, chairman of the SUSC Department of Art, shows unidentified student Roy Allen Smith's oil painting pain-ting "Sickle." Smith's student exhibit will hangn in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, FEb. 7-28. Barbera, DePattie-Frelery, and Ruby and Spears. He is also doing illustrations for a California-based firm to be used in children's books and filmstrips which are being marketed nationally. "Art, to me, is a won-derfull won-derfull tool, especially in terms of communication," Smith ' says. "All of the things I was taught, about what art is and can do, have been reinforced beyond anything I had conceived of before." "The power and uses of applied art," he says, "have been exciting to explore." Smith is a native of Overton, Nevada, who graduated from Moapa Valley High School in 1973. Before transferring to SUSC, he attended Brigham Young University for a year where he met and married his wife Elizabeth. The couple has two children, Michael and Laura. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Val D. Smith, Overton. |