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Show Tuesday. March 30. 1993 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Eight Artist displays work at SIC library BY MATTHEW HENDRY Chronicle Feature Writer ;i ' ! l The Salt Lake City Public Library provides not only a wide selection of books but at the library's downtown location, their Atrium Gallery displays art shows by local artists such as University of Utah teacher Rita Lambros. In order to have their art shown at the gallery the artists first have to survive a selection process. Each year around 10 of approximately 70 portfolios are chosen and the artists have their work displayed for five to six weeks. Currently Lambros, a U. art instructor who teaches through the Division of Continuing -- Education, has her work featured through the first week of April. Lambros moved to Salt Lake only two years ago with her husband from North Dakota. Lambros earned a fine arts degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She then earned a master's degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. "As I was finishing my graduate work, I gradually just got more interested in painting," she explained. Now, Lambros CHRONICLE PHOTOScott Sine Rita Lambros is currently featured at the Atrium Gallery in the Salt Lake City Public Library. n ty and helped to implement the Center trip. "I've talked to several families that had students and they say that they'd like to have them back. My mom says that it's like they're a part of the family. We'll surely miss the students when they leave. "I think that there's going to be Ben-nio- Navajo from page seven known as "kids" managed to escape the corral, she had to run and catch them along with others in the family. "We had to climb under trees and grab these kids," Bigelow said. "I'd seen sheep before, but I had never held and fed them." Jaime Holgate, Maggie Holgate's son, is a local leader in the communi some tears tomorrow when they leave," concluded Holgate. One of the students who stayed with Jaime Holgate, Charley Morrison, had also been on a previous trip. flips back and forth between print making and painting. "I really try to use the mediums that I have at my disposal to express my ideas and what I'm thinking at the moment" Her art work on display at the Atrium ranges from charcoal drawings to colorful oil paintings. Lambros catches different moods and feelings through the different mediums and the shading techniques that she uses. The central figures in her works of art are full of movement, with flowing lines and free angles. Many of her figures are dancing or riding horses. The figures that Lambros creates come solely from her imagination and memory she doesn't use models. Although this is the first time Lambros has shown her work at the Atrium Gallery, it is not the first time her art has been on display. Two galleries carry her art, one in Minneapolis, Minn., and one in Grand Forks, N.D. Several businesses in Minnesota and North Dakota have personal collections as well. Having her art work open to the general public is an aspect of her career that Lambros enjoys. "I don't like keeping it at home," she explained. The one thing a visual artist wants to do the most is exhibit their work. "I don't do this for myself." Although the art field is full of uncertainty, Lambros feels that creating art is important enough to take the risk. Finding extra work to help support herself, her husband and their child have not been a problem so far for Lambros, but the business end of art work has been known to give her a headache at times. Finding buyers and galleries has been a difficult task. "I tend to be more interested in just working, but I am learning how to work with the more practical aspects of the field," she said. Although it did not come naturally to her, Lambros has searched out places to have her work exhibited. When she is not painting, Lambros teaches art through DCE at the U. Most of the students who take her class are not art majors and students. many are "For me it is real exciting to demystify art," Lambros said of the common belief that people were either born to draw or not Although she said some people are born with a talent for drawing, art can also be learned and a person can gain a greater appreciation for art through learning to draw. Although she works for the U., Lambros does not teach on the campus. "I am such a small piece of that entire cog, but teaching drawing and ideas about art are probably as important to me as painting," she stated. The growth that occurs on canvas can be compared to the growth that is seen in students, she maintains. non-tradition- al He helped the Holgates build a corral. "This was just unbelievable," Holgate said. "You learned so much." Bigelow also feels she has learned a lot from the Bennion Center trips. 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