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Show THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, I tali, Tuesday, January 30, 1 W6 Page C4 Arts; Weddings SAN r4 i N.M. Being a painter from the finest artistic bloodlines is for Michael Hurd a "pleasant a lens to be revered, nightmare" then refracted or rejected. His grandfather was American master N.C. Wyeth, whom Hurd resembles. His mother is painter Henriette Wyeth. His father was New Mexico artist Peter Hurd; Andrew Wyeth his uncle, Jamie PATRICIO, . xm J.R. Frisby Alison Anderson Anderson, Frisby , : ! V 1 But watching generations of art being made also has demystified the process, he says. "There is no real glory in watching the process. The glory is within the painter's brain." The idea for the series he is doing on the West had been germinating since he was a freshman driving to Stanford. From southern New Mexico across Arizona, through Southern California and up the coast, he is retracing his steps. Hurd expects perhaps 50 paintings from it. "It is an odyssey for self and country, this amorphous thing we call America, and it (the West) really is me. I love going East, but it's not my soul." America, he finds, is becoming homogenized into a sameness, but says Hurd,. There V no escaping it now. His paintings have been shown in some individual things survive.' "One of the things I'm trying to do is to reach into this growing museums around the country. New Mexico magazine named him 1995 Distinguished Artist, featuring 12 of his oils and watercolors in its 1995 calendar, from the dunes of White Sands to his mother's garden. Hurd has the family gift of seeing; he identifies images that mean something. Light translates out of his paint much the way it does from his mother's. But there is a structure and composition reminis- - wave of homogenization and spreading mediocrity and pull out those isolated areas that suggest something real about the people or trying to save it or country savor it." Unfinished on his easel is a lonely picture of Refugio Beach, near Santa Barbara, Calif., with palm shadows, morning mist and a solitary woman. The painting will be done, he says, when he captures "r'. ill Steffens, Hebner m Steffens, daughter of Donna Hird of Provo, married Alex Hebner, son of Ginger and Alan Turner of Provo and the late Mark Hebner, on Friday Jan. 26 in Springville. A reception honored the couple that evening at the Kolob Stake Kristal Center, Springville. The Daily Herald wedding policy Because of the high volume of weddings in the area, announcements are published on a d basis and either a - wedding or engagement announcement will be printed, but not both. Wedding announcements must he received at the newspaper one week prior to the desired publication date. Lite announcements accompanied by a photograph will be accepted and held for publication after the event. Information on events that occurred more than two weeks earlier will not be printed. Information on weddings must be submitted on a form available at the Herald office. Announcements are published free of charge; there is a processing fee of $8 for photographs. Golden weddings announcements and photographs are published without charge. We reserve the right to edit all first-com- first-serve- Burnt out? Try taking life one step at a time Ways to save and use time keep going in and out of fashion. In the 1970s and '80s, super-mowas supposed to do everything, smile and be sexy too. Well, reality has a way of rearing its insistent head. Its message: Forget it! Well, forget most of that exhausting mindset, at least. Now, more time management types, celebrities corporate gurus and even athletes have a new, more wholistic approach. Books used to be written extolling the virtues of doing the most number of things at once. Take the average morning. Instead of just getting up and getting ready, we were supposed to do household chores and plot business strategies simultaneously. Those of us who didn't plum burn out did get just a little crispy around the edges. Now, rather than folding laundry with your toes as you brush your teeth, standing under a warming light so you don't have to waste all that time drying yourself, why not slow down and do one thing at a time. The lastest mandate in manlives is aging our the mantra "stay in the e, time-squeez- ed moment." That means paying attention to what you're doing. That means doing one thing at a time. That means not worrying if your mind darts all over. That's its nature. But you don't have to stay tethered to a note pad and pencil to make notes of everything that ., ; ; . ' w AP Photo near Santa Barbara, Calif., is part of a series of Artist Michael Hurd shows a work in progress during an interview in his San Patricio, N.M., studio in November. The painting of Refugio Beach images painted by Hurd during his travels across the West. counterweights against technology, he says. "It deepens your humanity. I "What's wonderful," he says, line charcoal initial "is to put that really think in this increasingly on a piece of paper and watch the technical world, we need things h that have tremen- -' calligraphic note that it makes and that are be able to read something into it, to dously a lot to do with the processes that go on demystify it and not be afraid of the process of making a bad line." within the human mind, still Art is one of the few remaining uncharted and unknown." her in just the right way. His grandfather suffered "agonies of introspection and insecurity," he says, but the grandson doesn't agonize over unwanted results. He just moves on. "You can be frozen by fear of doing something bad," he says. He says that may be partly why he waited so long to begin painting to protect against freeze. that early low-tec- ultra-high-te- New drug seems effective on parasites perfect. 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A reception will honor the couat ple that evening from 6:30-8:3- 0 The Colonial House, 187 W. Main, Lehi. The bride-to-b- e graduated from American Fork High School and LDS Seminary. She also graduated from Dixie College and The Bry-ma- n School. She is employed as a dental assistant. Her fiance graduated from Virgin Valley High School and LDS Seminary. He served in the Brazil Sao Paulo North LDS Mission and is a student at Dixie College. Bridal attendants are Jana Anderson, April Long and Lindsay Frisby. Attending the groom are CM. Peterson, J.D. Frisby and Jake Frisby. ... I kind of a familiar, cordial mare nightmare. You've got to take that lens off the camera. You really do. It's an easy vernacular to fali Wyeth his cousin. Fearsome footsteps. Michael Hurd drove off in a different direction. He majored in political science at Stanford University, toured with a a late 1960s version of group sold industrithe Kingston Trio al real estate in Chicago and ran the family ranch here. But he was always quietly gathering material for paintings, based on his travels across the West. Hurd, who turns 50 Feb. 16, hid from his artistic destiny until he was 30, when his father recognized his talent in a portrait he only later learned was done by Michael. His father had urged him to avoid a career in art, while his mother encouraged him. "I think I was scared to death to step into the arena, into the fray," t ' "Being derivative or being close to being derivative is something that haunts everybody, but I think the reality is there's a string of evolution. It's inevitable that you're affected by the people who came before you." He has been awed and intimidated by the achievements of his Wyeth-Hur- d antecedents. "It's kind of a pleasant night- third-generati- i ... cent of his late father. By RICHARD BENKE Associated Press Writer 256-165- 6. For AP Special Features self-limiti- i. 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