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Show he Salt D6 Lak « ARTS Sun 00 Musical muse inspires sculptor's art After years in music busine: MaryBrooks considers her newoutlet therapeutic Papier-maché heroes a exhibit, “The @ Mary Brooks’ mixed By Marvin Renznoren ‘alt Lake Tribune 1 art rucif f Moder ay Heroes,” open Wednesday at theLeft k Gallery, 242 200 West, Salt Lake City mation, gallery at be therapy or car erapy inspire art? Well, yes Mary Brooks knows those well-worn paths, but the idea of reating art for art's sake a re nt phenomenon. Music is the music industry For 10 years, Mary and her husband, Jason Brooks, owned Spanky's Pool Hall and Bar, openingits doors to an eclectic variety of music and musicians. Before they were big, Matchbox 2 and Everclear played Spanky The intimate club was known 4s a place where Utah musicians would get the ame treatment as ‘My heart and soul right now gitating my love of mu said Brooks, takinga sip of beer and wiping away beads of weat from her forehead, the porch shade barely making a jent 100-plus-degree heat It’s therapy Brooks, who “dabbled with paint and brush for year finally dove headfirst into her art. She will have her first exhibit Wed. nesda} at the Left Bank Gallery 2A2 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City, a mixed-media showing titled “The Crucifixion of Modern Da Heroes,” dedicated to “musi. cians who have been crucified astar act It my best experience in Utah as a Salt Lake City musi cian,” said James Stewart, who plays everything from banjo to bagpipes. “Maryand Jason were always extremely fair with mu figuratively or literally.” sicians. They never lacked in Brooks uses “crucifixion” to describe the murder of John detail as far as payment was concerned. They were the best.” The Brookses also owned the Lennon,for example, orthe pub: lic condemnation of Sinéad O'Connorfor ripping up a photo Crocodile Lou of Pope John Paul I on television. Brooks formed her pieces with brown foam, papier-maché, Tracy Chapman 1 started Madonna first, in December, and finished her two weeks agi said Brooks. “She has bee a real bitch, but 1 Jearned a lot from her One of Brooks’ artworks is ti dressing-room requirements and pitched her ideas to The Left raise kids alittle wacky, they'll grow up wacky, but in a good way.” sank Gallery and was accepted. ‘The gallery is an artist-run coop- Brooks was raised around artists. In the late 1960s, her other amenities Lake City native erative whose goal is to create an mother and aunt opened the artist’s forum and network. Elizabeth Buel Galléry, where Brooks met and became friends with a diverse group of painters “Mary's work was appealing because it fulfilled our criteria, aid Jim Frazer a gallery mem ber. “We're try ing to find work which may cover art and, forthe interiorof with moss hanging frompapier: machétrees. Post-Spanky’s, the couplere- and sculptors. Although Brooks began to paint, she didn't com not necessarily ap. mit herself fully to art. She married and had chil peal to clientele that commercial galleries offer. She also had a dren. But at age 35, she divorced particular comment to make and found solace in her brushes. from her experiences in the After milesof introspection H@*@*%!! Have prot the corporate world was mind blowing. | was working in food entered the world of 9-to-5. “It was difficult to get this Play it up right, with the right cut and color from David’s. 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O17 a Ook ro Advocate Connie Coyne 257-8782 mN-w service with brown on my finget and blue paint on my hands. “Reliving my experiences from Spanky's has become therapy.” done while working,” said Brooks, who works for Aramark Corp. as a caterer. “Getting into and there'd be a line to the bath. ers, which spell out performers Salt her Left Bank profile, Brooks helped design CD the Crocodile Lounge, created an entire Louisiana bayou complete room,” she said. “I raised my kids the way I was, only there would be artists coming for din ner instead of musicians. If you created from contracts and performance rid. The my life and found the support that | needed to share my art work with others,” she wrote in They weren't alone, but their shoestring operating budget couldn't take the strain and they sold the bars in 1999. “We took a second mortgage on the house so we wouldn't have to declare bankruptcy,” she said. “We did tt the honorable way. We don’t regret a moment. We had more stress in10 years, but there are days when we re. ally miss it.” Musicians would often bunk at the Brookses’ home. ‘They'd get up in the morning Brooks’ creations commemorate the lives of such notables as Lennon and Q'Connor, along with Sid Vicious, Willie Nelson, Elvis Pi Agents,” music, for establish: the finanand inter and meditation, I met the love of state road construction. perfect for making papier. maché,” she said. “It’s really just another form of recycling.” “The a Cajuneat ery that offered live several years. Both ments eventually felt cial hurt of light-rail acrylics, wire just about anything, “The Salt Lake Tribune is tled ie Davey Cuan La/The Salt Lake Tribnone Madonna was theinspiration for one of Mary Brooks’ early sculptures. “She has been a real bitch, but| learned a lot from her,” the artist notes. 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