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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 SPRING GRÜV Park City Mountain’s Spring Grüv will run from March 24 through April 8. Events, which will feature live music and family-friendly activities, are free and open to the public. For information, visit www.parkcitymountain. com. SIP AND PRINT AT OLD TOWN CELLARS Kimball Art Center will present Sip and Print, a printmaking and spirits event from 6-8 p.m. at Old Town Cellars, 890 Main St. The event is open to ages 21 and older. To register, visit kimballartcenter.org/classes/sip-printold-town-cellars. PARK CITY FILM SERIES: NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE ‘FOLLIES’ The Park City Film Series airs Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical “Follies,” presented by National Theatre Live and directed by Dominic Cook and Tim Van Someren, not rated, at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. Saturday’s screening will start at 8 p.m. and Sunday’s screening will start at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for Park City Film Series and Friends of the Park City Library members and $10 for students. For information, visit www. parkcityfilmseries.com. PARK CITY GALLERY ASSOCIATION’S GALLERY STROLL Park City Gallery Association will present its monthly gallery stroll from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, March 30. More than 20 galleries around town will host artist receptions, demonstrations and more. For information, visit www. parkcitygalleryassociation.com. ‘CELEBRATE JC CONCERT’ FUNDRAISER A concert fundraiser for Julie “JC” Chamberlain, owner of Park City Sports Massage, will be held from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, at the Elks Lodge, 550 Main St. Admission is a $20 donation. The evening will feature live music, a silent auction, an opportunity drawing and family-friendly games. For information, call 712-330-5822 or email patroldiva@yahoo.com. ARTIST WILL PAINT THE TOWN IN PLEIN AIR, C-3 www.parkrecord.com FATHER AND DAUGHTER MAKE TASTY DISHES, C-5 C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, MARCH 28-30, 2018 New exhibit visually serenades art lovers Montgomery-Lee show features Thompson and Bradshaw works SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Art lovers will find some new attractions when Montgomery-Lee Fine Art opens its new exhibit featuring the works of oil painter Dean Bradshaw and multimedia artist Eric Thompson Friday night. The evening will kick off with a reception at 6 p.m. and both Salt Lake City-based artists will be on hand to talk about their paintings, mediums and subjects. Bradshaw does what he loves Dean Bradshaw got into art in a roundabout way because he didn’t want to become an orthodontist like his father. “He wanted me to take over the practice, and I went through all of that pre-med crap and just about died doing it,” Bradshaw said. “I got my start in furniture design because I was working my way through college.” Bradshaw landed a job working under Andre Liardet, who is considered by some as one of the world’s most famous furniture designers. “He had a store in Beverly Hills and I got a good dose of what creativity was all about,” Bradshaw said. “I saw that as a pathway faster than going through eight years of school.” Bradshaw decided to start his own company, Bradshaw Design, and become a full-time furniture maker. “I did that for a while, and while I was successful at it, I got bored,” he said. “So I decided to pursue a fulltime painting career and asked my son to take over the design company.” Bradshaw, who is known for his nature and landscape paintings, had dab- bled in painting and would do a few each year while he designed furniture. “I knew I could do it, and I would take workshops from two of my mentors -- [artists] Steve Songer and Robert Moore,” he said. “I also would spend a lot of time outdoors.” Bradshaw’s medium is oil on canvas. “I like oils much more because I’m so attracted to color,” he said. “I love colorful textural paintings, and my goal was to get to the point where I could do that.” He also likes oils because they take longer to dry. “There is the ability to put down quickly what you see and what you feel and then come back to it, because it takes days to dry and play around with it,” he said. “I tried watercolor a few times and knew that wasn’t going to work. And after I tried oils, I didn’t want to do anything else.” Bradshaw enjoys working with a palette knife. “Not only does a palette knife save me from cleaning brushes, it’s a more direct way to paint,” he said. “I like picking up color and directly laying it on the canvas. You can make a mess and sometimes things work out.” Thompson enjoys a challenge Eric Thompson is a unique artist in that he specializes in three mediums -oils, watercolor and egg tempera. “I have to flip my brain around when I shift from medium to medium,” he said. “That can be painful because sometimes I will go from doing washes with watercolor and then move to egg tempera and have to remember to build up the work.” The different mediums allows the artist different ways to express himself. “It’s interesting because I always come to the mediums intuitively when I think of what I want to paint,” he said. Please see Exhibit, C-10 COURTESY OF MONTGOMERY-LEE FINE ART Dean Bradshaw’s “Crimson Delight” shows the artist’s preference of using a palette knife to apply the oil to the canvas. The work will be among the new pieces on exhibit at Montgomery-Lee Fine Art. Actors will speak from ‘The Mountaintop’ L.A. Theatre Works production will come to town on Saturday SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Taking L.A. Theatre Works’ rendition of Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop” on tour through the United Statesaround the 50th anniversary year of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an honor for actor Karen Malina White. The two-person play, which is scheduled to be presented by Park City Institute on Saturday at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, is a fictional account of a meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (Gilbert Glenn Brown) and Camae, a maid at the Lorraine Motel (White), the night before King’s assassination by James Earl Ray. “We are blessed to go across the Please see Production, C-2 PHOTO BY KIRK RICHARD SMITH L.A. Theatre Works and Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg present “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall, starring Gilbert Glenn Brown, left, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Karen Malina White as Camae, a maid at the Lorraine Motel. |