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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 23-25, 2011 C-5 The Park Record ANSWERS FOR TODAY • Continued from C-1 Styles on display Cohen said if he didnt take one tile at a time during the process, his projects would overwhelm him. "Sometimes a work I'm doing will have up to 100 tiles, and my friends will ask me how I keep focused," he said. "I tell them I have to think I'm working on one painting at a time, because if I think about the whole thing at once, it is daunting." "Fragments" was the logical step Cohen took in the development of his style, he said. "I was doing a lot of things with square and rectangle elements," he said. "That probably has something to do with the fact that I was a graphic designer before, and I found it was a great way to express myself. "I initially thought I would explore this process for a while and move on, but there's really no limit to I can do with it," he said. "So here I am 10 years later doing the same thing, but with different subjects." Chris Gwaltney: Eliminating the figure and introducing the abstract R A R E V 1 C E E E O C R U N T Do you keep up with technology? Shouldn't your Dentist? Dr. Brandon McKee has continually upgraded to top of the line technology to provide the most comfortable, conservative dental treatment. IMAGE COURTESY JULIE NESTER GALLERY Chris Gwaltney said his works, such as "Gate Series/'above, uses contrast to capture viewers. 'Taint does things that you Gwaltney was trained in can't anticipate," he said. "It classic figure drawing, but has will drip. It will interact and argue with another color. since changed his direction. "For example, a blue and an "As the figure became more more subordinated in the orange will argue with each abstract surroundings, and other because they are complebecame more ambiguous in my mentary colors, but if you're works, I started to enjoy look- using a grade-out blue and a ing at the abstract elements of dusty orange, all of a sudden, the paintings," he said. "So, you have these subtleties that when I decided to let the figure are emphasized in the paintgo and think about color and ing." Those subtleties allow composition, I found it so Gwaltney to choose between a enjoyable." People get comfortable subtle contrast or a stark conlooking at figures in paintings, trast in a particular place in the Gwaltney said. When the fig- painting, he said. "Because the eye goes to ure is absent, the. painting's essence is hinged on the marks the area of highest contrast first, you can decide where you and coloring. want the viewer to enter the "You begin asking yourself, 4 painting." 'Is it an aggressive mark?' Is it That's how Gwaltney a benign mark?'" he said. "Or is the color relationship manipulates the viewers eye. "If I want them to start up between a series of marks high in the picture plane and benign, stark or aggressive?' then drop down, or if I want That's what fascinates me." them to enter on the right side Gwaltney also likes how the paint can surprise him. instead of the left side, all I need to do is introduce a strong Called at Gallery MAR dark-to-light contrast or aggressive contrast where I want them to start." Gwaltney said sometimes the experience of looking over his paintings puts his viewers in an uncomfortable position. "I use formal devices to move the eye around and make the painting have a flavor to it, as opposed to having a figurative devise," he said. "To me figures in my paintings now seem false and manufactured. Letting the figure go was nervy and scary and butterfly inducing, but I really like it and I'm proud of the new works." Still, Gwaltney had to work hard to change his style, and even now he isn't comfortable laying down some lines and calling them good. "What I am is an editor," he said. "I put in bands and bands of color and then look at them and say, 'You're too garish/ and paint them out one by one. The art is the result of the selective process - what I choose to leave in and what I Call for a free consultation or visit our website @ parkcitydental.net choose to take out, instead of planning it out." The works of Jeff Cohen and Chris Gwaltney will be on display at the Julie Nester Gallery, 1280 Iron Horse Drive, starting Friday, Feb. 25. An opening reception will begin at 5:30p.m. and will coincide with the monthly gallery stroll. Admission is free. Dr. Brandon McKee Park City Dental Associates 'f l 8 3 0 Prospector Ave, P.C. 435.649.6066 435.649.9371 EGYPTIAN THEATRE the mgenan. spam scam scam iisursday, February 24-Sunday, February 27 "Plate Help! I im the bencficiiry to i fortune of 30 millios dollirs, isd I need your wiiUoce to collect tic mosey"? Ever wonder who is sending you (hose emails, ind who responds? This it the tne-slory of one min'i aiae-moith correspondence with t spamsummer, u d its kilirioai resnlts! Caktref: (25 Aiv / $30 Disr UPCOMING SHOWS Submitted by Gallery MAR Gallery MAR features new paintings by Fred Calleri. Born in Maryland, Calleri has slowly moved Westward towards his current home near the beaches of California. On his way, he earned an Illustration and Graphic Design degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and settled for some time in the mountains of Arizona. Calleri has been interested in art throughout his life and since childhood has been a gifted draftsman. Calleris early influences were Renaissance painters and the Masters of the early 20th century. Using vintage reference photos, live models, and imagination, there is no limit to Calleris creativity. While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go. It is through this distortion that Calleri injects his images with a mysterious and intriguing quality. Viewers and collectors can't help but smile at his cast of characters. In this new body of work, Calleri has begun the evolution towards a smoother balance of the representational alongside his quirky distortion. Meet the artist at a reception from 6 to 8p.m. on Friday, Feb. '25, This exhibition will hang for two weeks. 1 D E R IMAGE COURTESY OF GALLERY MAR Fred Calleri's "Your Majesty" SELLOUT Frliiy Kirch 411 • Satiriay Hmh 8th, 2011 8:30PI (tfnrs lien at 8:00 PI) TWO NIGHTS QNLYt ttck.tlck, BOOH! Frliiy Much 11th - Sutfiy larch 27th, 2011 Fll • SAT: 8:00PM (Hart lies at 7:30 PI) SUN: 0:00PM (tars apei at 5:30 PM) $20 ADVI $23 D00I - leierved Seatlig $30 Ciiaret k fiilctiy far Bullets a i i m r $18 ADV * $20 D0OI - leseml SciUiJ $25 CaharatftBalctiv far Bislaest i i t m r ally. 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