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Show 11 P.O.MI c.opy i V 41 k Q T"" O oTl yL 1 1 PageBl Thursday, February 10, 1983 ? m. rr i ' if ,U 1 1 ?t f i II tVJ.' i' ,VT; ttf vl : L- WEI, .: M'uji n'cy Catered Cuisine We cater: Specialty items include: Private dinners and parties Home baked break & pastries Hors D'oeuvres Trays Terrines pates Skiers Picnic Lunches Quiche fresh pastas Gourmet Appetizers crepes and more for your .speca Valentine Linzer Hearts and Meringue Mushrooms ' Chefs: Lauri McCoy, Ned Tilson Park City, 649-1683 Salt Lake City, 531-1592 r 1 "Cross-country," a watercolor by Cecile Johnson. Fxihriman, Johnson Kimball exhibitors unveil wide range of styles, subjects by Rich Brough -In subject matter, Jerry Fuhriman's paintings at the Kimball Art Center don't venture far out of the West. But in style, he's exploring far and wide what he can do as a watercolor artist. Fuhriman's work at the gallery varies widely in style. There are conventional conven-tional rural scenes; desert vistas laid in with broad, expressionists ex-pressionists strokes; or canvases with chaotic, speckled colors. Surprisingly, Sur-prisingly, almost all were done in the last 90 days. "The diversity is not a function of having done them over two years or five years," he said. literature into his work. For "Night Country Crash," he overlaid a passage taken from author Loren Eisley. "The first time I wrote it in, I felt badly about it. It almost became too personal," he said. "Then I thought, 'What the hell.' "Some people will say, 'This person is sick.' But art has to communicate something." Fuhriman is the department depart-ment head of landscape architecture ar-chitecture at Utah State University, and most of his painting, he said, has been done around the Cache Valley. But he has frequently frequent-ly traveled to the Southern 4 7 want to see if I can capture that power in five strokes of a brush rather than 20,000." Jerry Fuhriman As a watercolorist, he sets an unusual challenge for himself. His goal, he said, is to capture a landscape's image with as little brush-work brush-work as possible. "I want to see if I can capture that power in five strokes of a brush rather than 20,000," he said. He's getting into techniques that would draw protests from many artists. For instance, his painting "Stuble Sheen"-gold enamel laid over water-color water-color would dismay the critics, he noted. "I take an expensive piece of watercolor paper, spray gold paint on it, apply pigment," he said. "Then I realize, 'I got a $25 piece of paper here. I better do something with it.'" The painting, he said, becomes a dialogue between the work and the artist. "The pigment begins to react with the colors and the water, and strange, unusual things begin to happen," he said. In his work "Arroyo," he applied the gold spray, and the subsequent paint, he said, started to work into 1 shape like an arroyo. u gully. "The pigment started and I ran after it " In the past year, he done more to !ncorxi.te desert, often on landscape consulting jobs. "I spent a year-and-a-half in Arizona with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working on a computer-assisted planning plan-ning process," he said. His background in professional landscaping helps him to understand an area he wants to paint. He can see how the area was created, its erosion pattern, plant material, and its "aspect" (the arrangement in relation to the sun), he said. "I wasn't trained as a fine artist. Maybe that's why I'm a maverick," Fuhriman added. He works on canvases that are larger than normal watercolors. His clouds or the faces of rock cliffs appear ap-pear as large swirling shapes of color. Yet one of his favorite paintings is called "Magpie Nest." He said, "I like to have this 30" by 40" canvas where the focal point . is this nest covering one-quarter nu h Said Fuhriman. "'I'm part ting what I want in pain' Wile JuliHson FHIuu exhi'',!'! ' Jiilit;.'"!! has t' t-'t ' ' ' ' a jiiei some of the great events of Olympics history. When the U.S. hockey team beat the Russians at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, Johnson was on the sidelines, reacting both as fan and painter. "I was yelling and screaming and painting," she recalled. Johnson has no problem either finding a market for her sports paintings. During the last winter Olympics, she said, she was constantly busy painting. "I thought the hockey match would be the most exciting, ex-citing, and it was," she recalled. She was actually broadcast over Canadian television during the game. The network focused on American coach, Brooks, and on Johnson drawing the coach, then simulcast both images'. Her two most popular events are in skiing downhill and jumping. jump-ing. "I like skiing from the beautiful standpoint, but something like that," she said, pointing to a bobsled scene, "is easier to get the crowd in." In many of her paintings, the mountains loom high., over the human activity below. But the humans aren't unimportant. "They give a dimension to the mountains. You can see how big the mountain bowl is if you see those tiny figures of the skiers at the bottom." In the painting "Snowbird," she sketched the mountain scene on an impulse to catch the morning morn-ing light around the peak. The athletes, of course, move even faster through her paintings. The skill is to give them the proper size and speed. "I've painted so many of them now, I usually know what I'm going for," she said. The exhibit also includes her recent paintings of Old Town and Deer Valley in Park City. Johnson has painted paint-ed other resort towns, but she said the Park City distinction is "That it's the most actual town, the most real. The whole thing is a piece." She continued, "They may seem like symbols now, but you shouldn't let your historic places go. I've done so many paintings of places that aren't around now. People will say, 'That building is gone now, but your painting of it is nice.'" Fuhriman's Utah views and Johnson's Park City vistas will continue on display through March 3 m Pdaa vnuEV fiWS mm mm mm cit.-un. Feb.12-13 Factory representatives from Rossignol, Salomon, K2, Pre, Lacroix, Authier and Pure Gold will be on hand to help you select just the right skis to try at no charge during these two days at Deer Valley. If you find a ski you'd like to buy, JANS will deduct the cost of your Deer Valley ski pass off the price of the ski ! Join us for JANS DEMO DAY at Deer Valley February 12 & 13. dLTL Park City: 1700 Park Ave. Deer Valley: Snow Park Lodge For more information call 649-4949, 649-8770. (Crepehe & Kitchen Imports Espresso Bar Special luncheons served daily. 649-3054 7a.m. -6 p.m. Open Daily at Park Village on the Ice Rink Level AUERY GUIDE, '4 i, ? i v .V t s . t-7 " '" ,m i,""iM1J I is An acrylic on linen titled "The Champion" Cham-pion" by Cecile Johnson now on display dis-play at the Kimball Art Center. Park City Gallery of Contemporary Art. 515 Main St. Open 12 to 6 daily, except Monday. Featuring foreign imports, international art posters, handicrafts han-dicrafts and paintings by local artists. Complete supply of artists' materials. Lave classical guitar by Bob Weisenfeld 4 to 6 Saturdays. The Art Network is a recently formed artist's cooperative consisting of twelve local artists whom equally share expenses and donate their time. They represent many mediums including photography, ceramics, .printmaking, sculpture, jewelry and leather work. Poets, writers and musicians are invited in-vited to share their work with the public. We welcome everyone. Stop in any day between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Located in the old public library, 520 Main St. 649-4462. Old Town Gallery, 1101 Park Avenue features original traditional and contemporary art in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil; etchings, lithographs, serigraphs; sculptures in bronze, silver, lead, steel, marble, wood; ceramics, potters; by local, national and international artists including: Philip Barlow, David Chaplin, Farrell Collett, Peter Ellenshaw, Richard Erdman, Peter Max, Ella Peacock. Monday Mon-day - Saturday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sunday noon - 6 p.m. The Family Jewels, 591 Historic Main Street, regularly features Western prints as well as area scenes by local artists. Posters galore cover the walls of the Poster Parlour. These latest edition graphics change weekly. Ready-made frames and custom picture framing are also offered. Open daily 10-7, Sunday noon -5:00. Kimball Art Center offers a variety of educational and cultural events throughout the year. Exhibits currently feature sports paintings by nationally recognized watercolorist Cecile Johnson and landscapes land-scapes by Utah State University's Jerry Fuhriman. The Center will present Park City Cabaret '83 (or the Silver Queen Strikes Again), a musical revue, February 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 for Kimball Art Center members and $15 for nonmem-bers nonmem-bers For information and reservations, call 649- J |