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Show Page B6 Thursday, June 5, 1986 Park Record IV r. TT O MOUNTAIN VALLEY MAINTENANCE MMKB. Cylinders cause of unique art The one to call for spring cleaning! f by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer Call us for your cleaning needs Condo Home Office Cleaning Security Inspections We are reliable 649-2370 "See me for all your family insurance needs." Max O. Vierig 1729 Sidewinder Dr. Prospector Sq. 649-9161 STATE FARM INSURANCE v - v t LVce a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Slate Farm Insurance Companies Home Offices. Bloomington. Illinois Arleen Ruggeri's paintings are familiar, in a way. They are treatments of mountains, seascapes, strata of land. But the technique is nothing you've ever seen before. The pictures pic-tures are composed of a row of painted cylinders, placed from top to bottom of the painting, that together create a subtle but unmistakable image. im-age. Incredibly, the cylinders are painted individually, and then assembled within the frame to create the picture. Ruggeri's watercolor works, exhibited ex-hibited in the Lower Gallery of the Kimball Art Center, look like a view of nature as filtered through a win-dowblind win-dowblind effect. Much of the effect, she said, comes from the cylinders of the painting reflecting their colors off each other. She said she begins by making the cylinders, painting them individually, individual-ly, and then hanging them to dry on a little clothes line. This is a delicate process. Only one side of the cylinder will be presented to the viewer, but suppose the water and the paint collects on the bottom of the cylinder, or on the other side, in a way you don't want? Before she paints them, Ruggeri does a preliminary drawing of the landscape scene she wants to create with her cylinders. The challenge is to combine the painting on the cylinders to create the image she wants. If the image isn't coming together, she makes changes to the cylinders to bring it out. She com- Diabetes is a major contributor con-tributor to heart disease, kidney disease and blindness. So when you support the American Diabetes Association, you fight some of the worst diseases of Jk our time. THE COLUMBINE DINNER PRESENTS C L a B EARLY-BIRD SPECIALS! Save $3 on every delicious entree when you dine at The Columbine Monday through Thursday evenings from 6-7 p.m. The same expert care goes into preparing our fresh seafood, prime rib, and tender steaks from the open grill. ..but early birds will enjoy them at great savings! SUNDAY BRUNCH! What better way to wind down from the weekend than to relax over a sumptuous Sunday Brunch! Enjoy a view of the mountains, and sample selections that range from eggs Benedict, to smoked salmon or crab omelettes, to broiled seafood specialties and juicy prime rib. Join us for a delicious treat from 1 1 :30 a.m.-3 p.m. HAWAIIAN NIGHT! Every Tuesday night, the menu at The Columbine goes tropical! Sip refreshing Hawaiian beverages, and feast on island delicacies prepared by Specialty Chef Nishimura. Savor such Pacific treats as Yakitori kabobs, Chinese pork spareribs, mahi-mahi, pineapple prawns and more from 6-10:30 p.m. Early-bird special applies. Don't miss our coming attractions! Reservations accepted. 649-7062. Piano entertainment nightly from 7-10 p.m. Located at For the benefit of members and their guests. 1 ' "9 :. " Av--'"- zir."'wiiiirr'zzliv - " - . ... M 'if' ' '- ....-!. ..... , '. ... AlMwW - - v' ,.. ! i imlii t.lii,. ---' If ii Tin n ftwmi i j ik, ii J-j, Arleen Ruggeri (left) combines painted paper cylinders to create works like "Mountain Strata", seen here. Note the ripple effect on the picture. pares it to a chess game. "The paper and the water make a move. I make a move," she said. But what happens if you go through the whole process, and at the end the image still doesn't come together. It happened frequently in her early work with the technique. "I lost a lot of them," she said. "My studio is a cylindrical wasteland." The process sounds risky and chaotic, but Ruggeri likes it. "It's fun, because with watercolor you don't have this total control." With the more controlled oil medium, she said, she feels "like I'm digging a ditch." She has experimented with several shapes for her paintings. She has used very small cylinders, spirals and torn paper. Ruggeri even painted on the inside of the cylinder, with the outside painted white , to allow the inner painting to reflect out. She also paints in a traditional technique, but the cylindrical method excited her. "I'm not sure where the shapes are going yet," she said. Wherever she's going, Ruggeri is having fun getting there. The exhibit will run to July 1. Stroud tries not to stereotype the Plains Indians in her art by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer Virginia Stroud said she wanted her art to avoid the stereotyped idea of the Plains Indian the warrior hunting buffalo with his stoic wife following behind. For one thing, she said, the tribes were matriarchal societies. "A lot of the leaders were women,'" she said. For another, Indian life often dwelled on the basics that occupy us all nurturing, providing food or clothes for the home, protecting the family. Those basics are celebrated in her art, currently on exhibit in the Main Gallery of the Kimball Art Center. Stroud has both Cherokee and Creek ancestry and was adopted by a Kiowa couple. Her grandfather was' an orator of the Kiowa tribe, and she was raised in a home where the traditions were discussed around the dinner table. (However, her parents were insistent that their children "walk both roads", she said.) She knows the old ways are still a part of modern life. The Indians in her Kimball paintngs are dressed in traditional garb. But the activities depicted, she said, are the same things she has done as a single parent with her two children. She is striving to depict "the universal feelings of hopefully all people," she said. Stroud said she became a professional profes-sional artist at age 13 , out of necessity. necessi-ty. She lived at the Murrow Children's Home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and money was not easy to get. The Kiwanis or Jaycees donated tickets for movies, she recalled, but if you didn't have your own money for popcorn, you didn't get popcorn. She was encouraged by a Cheyenne artist named Dick West. "He was the first one who told me I could do anything. As I got older, a ? in, I 1 -V V 5 y"' it x.v:." ;' 4 j 4 1" Virginia Stroud depicts a relaxed moment between two Indian women in "We'll Do it Tomorrow." The painting shows the Stroud style of sinplicity, lush patterns and shapes and symmetry, lot of others said I couldn't. " She attended a junior college in Muskogee and the University of Oklahoma. She fell 19 hours short of a degree in art education. (Of her siblings, three have doctorates and two have Masters degrees in either Indian art or history.) But Stroud also holds a distinction. Of the 40 women Indian artists across the country, she is one of only two who are professional full-time artists. She has been criticized, she said, because her painting is not "Indian-looking" "Indian-looking" enough. And she admitted, "I'm not typical anything." Yet she says her work is typical of the culture, especially in the ornate patterns and bright colors that go into in-to her work. Designs and patterns were important to the Indians, she said. They didn't have a written language, so communication was made through pictures. CHIROPRACTIC OUTLOOK v By Donald A. Cofer, D. C fi: rT X MUMJLli TKAUMA A sudden, grabbing muscle pain with involuntary contractions makes you lie down and wait until it goes away. Muscle trauma can be temporary or immobilize you for days. The cause: overused muscles or joints in routine daily activities. Chiropractic heals by relieving pressure of impingement of the structures passing through your spinal cord. Correction of displaced vertebra permits smooth conduction of nerve impulses through your body channels. Treatments include gentle traction, manipulation of spinal vertebrae, loosening of tension on articular facets to restore integrity of your muscular network. Chiropractic normalizes structural relationships to, soothe muscle disturbances. Presented as a service to the community by Cofer Chiropractic and Sports Injury Clinic r Individuals were identified by their beadwork or the cut of their moccasions, she said. That is why the Indians in her paintings have no faces. Stroud is nationally recognized as an important Indian artist. This month, she is due to receive a Master Award from the Five Tribes Museum in Muskogeee. Another institution, she noted, may be harder to crack. The Cowboy Western Art Association does not accept ac-cept Indian painting. It is considered a craft, not an art, she said. But don't be surprised if she is someday accepted in the group. After all, she was once 19 hours short of an arts degree. And, she said, "There's a lot of personal things that have held me back." But it hasn't stopped Virginia Stroud yet. The Stroud exhibit will run at the Kimball through July 1. ParkWest concerts re-set United Concerts announced this week that the Willie NelsonWaylon Jennings ParkWest concert, which was postponed last week, has been rescheduled to July 16. The show was originally set for this Friday, June 6. The promoting firm also gave two new dates for the summer concert series at the resort. Ronnie James Dio has been scheduled for July 10. And Krokus, originally set for May 31, will now appear on July 22. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE American Heart Association |