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Show Park ( ily News Thursday, March 24, 1983 Page B7 V ...... yiTinnnn us? inf" 77jree 0 Reynolds9 paintings are self portraits. "It's always easy to get myself back into the same pose, 9 9 she said. 4 'And my rates as a model are cheap. 9 9 anted: a house with north windows k . s ",,, ' - X ' 1 . I 5 ' ' 1 .. , $ ;pr ' Urn.' . V 1 ... " ' . -gf f y r if . 4 aw t ' V"' ; ; Kathryn Reynolds by Rick Brough Everyone in Park City knows you should buy a house with a southern window win-dow to soak in the sunlight. Who'd be crazy enough to ask for a light from the north? nor-th? Kathryn Reynolds did. When she was shopping for a second home with her husband, she asked the realtors for a window to the north. "They said, 'You're crazy, you'll be too cold,'" she recalled. It may be bad for heating, but it's good for painting. North light is the most consistent, day after day, she said. It is valuable in composing her meticulous oil still-lifes. Reynolds' oils are currently current-ly on exhibit at the Old Town Gallery. Also displayed are the batiks and watercolors of local artist Holly Rom, and the adobe art of Holly Haas. Kathryn's paintings focus on stationary objects an urn, a stuffed bird, a collection collec-tion of fruit. These "models" won't move while you're painting them. But the shadows, which are also an important part of the artwork, wi7( shift, so she only has a few hours each day to work on a painting. "Small works will take me 4 or 5 days, and the larger paintings, three weeks," she said. At her home in ParkWest, she has an east window and a south window to give her light. Occasionally, she will work simultaneously on a "morning painting" and an "afternoon painting." "They sell lights that are supposed to idupifti daylight, but I don't know about that," she said. After several days, her fruit and vegetable "models" start to decompose. decom-pose. "For one large paint ing. I needed several bundles bun-dles of broccoli," she recalled. She's a modern artist, she said, drawing on imagery from past masters. In the 19th Century, she pointed out, paintings often showed a cornucopia, the "horn of plenty." In one work at Old Town, she has fruit spilling out of a paper bag, and calls it "Bag of Plenty." She used the paper bag image for two reasons. It has a modern, contemporary look. And it's a flexible shape. "With people, you place them in clothes, or "drapery." Every time the person moves, the lines of the clothes are different." So. too, with a paper bag. Reynolds said she is very interested in portrait painting. pain-ting. In the classic portraits, she said, humans long dead are as alive as people we see on the street. Three of the paintings in the show are self-portraits. While she paints with her right hand, she explained, she keeps the rest of her body rigid in a mirror before her. "It's always easy to get myself back in the same pose," she said. "And my rates as a model are cheap." In addition, one painting is a camouflaged self-portrait. Look closely at the pair of glasses in "Reflections," and you'll see Reynolds reflected in one of the lenses. In a small portrait, she painted herself as a Ver-meer-style woman, but in the background are the straight lines and squares of a modernist, Mondrian. It illustrates one function she believes art should serve! A painting is often a "dialogue" between artists, Reynds said it contrasts two sfyles, or it shows one paintfer asserting himself with jf the technique of another. 11 WtfTKfmkk. ti f ' J''' " ''' i i i ' , " i I l , , iiyiiiill iilf' lni "jj millHi mi i -linn -I I -' harf- r- in in null iikii fa M mi Replenish your retirement resources for tomorrow and defer taxes today with First Security's IRA Tax Deferred Savings Plan! First Security's IRA Tax Deferred Savings Plan can help you flow into an easy retirement and tap into a big tax break on your 1982 Federal Income Tax Return. Be sure you get your 1982 Tax Break. Open or complete your maximum annual contribution into your account before April 15, 1983. Act now and you can defer up to $2,000 off your individual taxable income or up to $4,000 for a working work-ing couple. You pay no fees and your money is protected. Pay no charge, commission or maintenance. Your money is insured by the FDIC and backed by $4.6 billion in resources. Open an IRA Tax Deferred Savings Plan now. Early withdraw! is permitted, but Federal regulations require a substantial interest penalty when this occurs. First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. First Security Bank of Idaho, N.A. First Security State Bank First Security Bank of Rock Springs Each depositor is insured to $100,000 by FDIC A work should do more than make artistic references, referen-ces, of course. "I'm trying to bring out several levels. I'm not successful yet, but I'm working toward it," she said. Reynolds calls herself a modern artist, but also enjoys en-joys painting objects with the old realist style. "It has not necessarily all been done before," she said. She painted in high school, but in college she was torn between literature and art. When she attended Scripps College at Claremont, Calif., she chose literature. But when her husband attended graduate school in New York, she turned turn-ed seriously to art. "I left home at 7 every day, and finished at 10 at night," she said. Other mediums besides oil haven't been so productive for her. She tried watercolor, but found it was about as congenial for her as well, oil and water. Watercolor relies more on spontaneity, she said. "Once you set it down, it's done," she said. An early sculpture class led to misadventure. In those days, she said, the students were given inexpensive salt blocks to practice on. "Working with the salt, your hands would get very sweaty, the chisel would start slipping," she recalled. Reynolds started taking the salt blocks to work by her dorm. "I was working outside, chipping away," she said, "and I noticed the salt was falling over the flowerbeds. Now, I had just learned in history that the Romans destroyed their enemies' fields by sowing them with salt. Here I was, killing all the plants around my dorm!" Reynolds only began painting pain-ting seriously nine years ago, at age 25. Art is a field, fortunately, where late bloomers can prosper. "It's not like I'm a ballet dancer starting at this age," she said. "A lot of people paint until they die." Kathryn Reynolds doesn't know what "her style or technique will be like, if she's still working 40 years hence. "I don't care as long as I have an eye and a hand that works." Holly Rom Park City artist Holly Rom is skilled in watercolor, the wax technique called batik, and pastels. The first two mediums make up her exhibit at the Old Town. She is also taking a water-color water-color and pastel to the 59th National Springville Salon, which opens this Saturday. Out of 700 applicants, she was among 112 artists accepted accep-ted for the event, she told the Park City Newspaper. In brief, she said, batik involves in-volves painting with wax on fabric. The artist "waxes out" certain areas of the fabric, then applies dye to it. The waxed areas resist the dye but then the wax is washed out and that area can be dyed another color. The process is repeated depending on how many colors the artist desires. One of the skills in such a process is controlling the dye to get a fairly precise image. Rom has been working at it for 11 years i can control people's faces in my work, which is the ultimate.'' If you look at the batiks, you may often notice a seamy, wrinkled look in the paintings. Rom calls it "the characteristic crackle'' of batik. When the fabric is crumpled to go into the dye bath, she explains, this creates cracks where the dye concentrates. "When you have cracks all over, it gives a nice unity to the work," she said "I find the random happenings interesting." in-teresting." One of the bigger challenges she cites is "Zion Rock Wall" a three by six-foot six-foot painting in the current exhibit. She used a long stretch of more expensive silk fabric. "I didn't know if the subject would come off." she said. Her current emphasis is on batik, pastels, drawing, and watercolor. The last she had been working on for some 2 1 to 3 years. In watercolor, she admires 'Edward Hopper and especially seeks to emulate Winslow Homer. The Reynolds-Rom-Haas exhibit is scheduled to run through April 13. Theatre technicians wanted at Egyptian Park City Performances is looking for people who are interested in learning about and working in technical theatre at the Egyptian. Meetings are currently being held on Wednesday evenings at 7 o'clock. If you've ever wanted to run a light board, a sound board, be a stage manager, build or paint a set, or just find out what goes on backstage before and during a show, come to the Egyptian. No previous experience ex-perience is needed. If you can't make the meeting at that time or if you have any questions, call Steve Hunt at 649-9371. PARK CITY Tonight BONG SHOW Outrageous skits, musicians, singers, dancers, air bands welcome Register at the bar after 5:00p.m. or call 649-4146 $100 PRIZE Friday SHALAK0 Country Rock Saturday m CANNON Sunday JOHN BAYL&Y Monday Tuesday Exotic male dancers : Go Go girls Monday & Tuesday March 28 & 29 -8 p.m. JOEE. BOOTS BAND Wednesday, March 30 Sat., April 2 ROGER EDDY GROUP Jazz rock from Monterey April 6 &7 NORTON BUFFALO Happy Hour 6:00 to 7:00 and 12:00 to 1:00 a.m. 649-4146 |