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Show 4E The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday, July 24, 1983 scene Jhe-'ar- i I fltoaatibncmarks fine sculpture, watercolor show LEV'' W "& ' fc'4.;,; !'! ' H ii . . is ByCC-- By George Dibble Tribune Staff Writer Youve probably never read an ode to a sleeping mouse but there is one in bronze by sculptor Lyman Whitaker at the , . ' . BountifulDavis Art Center where his works as well as watercolors by Laura Mehmert are being shown through Aug. 14. Imagination and a fine range of creative skills mark this com- bined show. Excellent Portraits The sculpture includes two excellent portraits, Peggy, in highly polished bronze, and Virginia in a soft patina studies that attest the insightful ability of the artist to endow this medium with life and vitality. With the watercolor brush, aquarellist Mehmert presents an engaging and aspirited rendering of in bright, fluid passages that maintain a consistent statement of the painters intent. There are kinetic pieces in the sculpture and clocks that sweep the wall with gleaming hands that lend a haunting reminder of the cf time that does wait. Brass Timepiece All, however, are slightly less startling than a large brass timepiece with a fascinating oversized second hand that resembles a tightrope walkers wand. There are highly polished panels that move with airy suspension and a curiously devised machine that spouts water, turns wheels, drips and gurgles with soft notes like a phantom calliope tuning up at a carousel. Aptly titled, Luna Park, it is a device that consumes electrical energy rather than the other way around. Another timepiece follows a more conventional design with a case of natural wood. A herd of "Quadrapeds, catches a highlight that repeats its stylized forms. There are also miniature mustangs that scramble over a natural rock base. Of his work, Whitaker says he wants his sculpture to attract and sustain peoples attention long enough for them to explore the piece. The conclusion they draw is their own. My goal in sculpture is to create the illusion long enough so the process of exploring occurs. I want people to enjoy my art and become involved in the process "Ni-col- water, turns wheels, drips and gurgles with soft notes like a phantom calliope. Luna Park, is an aptly titled sculpture designed by Lyman Whitaker, that spouts Works by Utah women artists wanted for exhibit museum Aug. Friday is the deadline for Utah artists interested in participating in the second Utah Women Artists exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus. women 11 from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. La Mar Harrington, former director of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle, will judge the competition. The exhibition is open to all Utah women living in the state, with only works in the various painting media being accepted. All entries must be framed and ready for exhibition. Sponsored by the American Association of University Women and the Hand delivered works will be accepted at the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a $1 entry fee per work and two works per artist is the maximum allowed. All entries not accepted may be be picked up at the museum, a $300 Best in Show prize will be awarded as well as three or more $100 awards of merit. Academic awards from state universities consisting of one quarter's tuition to an art department will also be made, plus a $500 purchase award. The works selected will be displayed Aug. 6 through Sept. 11. The museum will also choose 25 works from the show to travel throughout Utah following the musuem exhibit. Art calendar Halltide Gallery, room AC 1 13, University of Utah Medical Center, watercolors and collages by Mrs. Woody Renzettl through July 31. Hours: weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Holladay Branch Library, 2150 E. 4800 South, wildlife paintings In transparent watercolor bv Lanl Nielson through July 31. Hours: weekdays, 9 o.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Intermountain Society of Artists, Salt Palace. second floor rotunda, through Frldov (July 29). J. Christensen Gallery, 103 Social Hall Ave., original oils by K. Stats, J. Mehr, S. Froerer ond LOu Jene Carter; watercolors by Randl Wagner, ZZ. Bills, H. Miller, and R. Johnson; drawings and etchings by J. McConkle, S. Mumford, A. Van Suchtelen and P.M. Newhouse through July 31. Hours: weekdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m,, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kimball Art Center, Main Street, Park City, Math Gallery, watercolors by Noal Betts; Little Gollery, photographs by Peter Kredenser, both through Aug. 17. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m, to 6 p.m., Sunday, noon to 5 p.m, Lodge at Snowbird Gallery, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Conyon, printmaking by Royden Card through Aug. 31. Hours: open continuously. Lumiere Gallery, 559 E. South Temple, watercolors, oils, and drowlngs bv Steve Fawson, Ed Maryon, Royden Card, Edith Roberson, Michael Coleman and other regional artists through Aug. 31. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 am. to 5 p.m. Multi-Ethni- c High-Ris120 S. 200 West, "Quilts Old and New," from the Utah Quilt Guild through Thursday (July 28). Hours: weekdays, 9 am. to 4 p.m. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of- Art, Utah State University, Logan, selections from the collection of Mr. ond Mrs. Edward Clyde ond Zlons First National Bank collection exhibit. Hours: weekdays, 10:30 o.m. to 4 30 p.m,, Wednesday, until 8 p m., weekends, 2 to 5 p.m. Reception Friday (July 29), 6 to 7:30 p.m. Phranque's Gallery of Fine Art, 2735 S. 2000 East, prints and posters by Norman Rockwell, Robert White, Frank Erickson, Reyes, and Michael through Aug. 31. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple, Mbln Gollery, "Utah 83: Upstairs Gallery, "Young Exoresslons," winning entries of Polaroid's national "Children's Instant Pho- contest Including 11 phototography" graphs by children In Utah through Aug. 28. Corridor Gallery, paintings by LeConte Stewart Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 o.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Symphony nights until 9 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Admission, $1.50 adults, 75 cents, students. Seniors and children under 12 accompanied by on adult, free. Sandy City Hall Art Gallery, 440 E. 8680 Alvin Gittln Gallery, Art and Architecture Center, University of Utah campus, annual U. of U. student show; painting, drawing, graphics and sculpture through August 31. Hours: weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art Barn, Reservoir Pork and Finch Lane, "Tanzan In Salt Loke City: An International Exhibition of Postal Art," through Sunday (July 24); graphite. Ink and oil on paper by Carol Friday (July 29) through Sept. 4. Reception Friday (July 5:30 8:30 to 24), p.m. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., SatBurch-Brow- n urdays, Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. Artists Workshop, 115 Trolley Square, four artists producing works Including metal fabrication by Robert Hyde, lewelry bv Lex Warburton, sculpture by David Lemon, and leatherwork by John Gallo through July 31. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Arts and Brass Gallery, Trolley Square, oils and ocrylles by Jerry Owen, James Olson, Jean Farris, Karl Schwemmer, Marie Mlklus, John Mlklus, Diane Turner; furniture bv Randy Cole through July 31. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Associated Utah Artists, Salt Palace, second floor, Spring and Summer Show through Aug. 15. BounfifulDovis Art Center, 2175 S. Main, Bountiful, On or Off the Wall," watercolors by L.A. Mehmert; sculpture by Lyman Whitaker through Aug. 14. Hours: Monday, 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, 10a.m. to5 p.m., Sundov 2 to 5 p.m. Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, ceramics and textiles bv 25 Southern Utah artists through Aug. 27. Hours: weekdays, 10 o.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 1 to 7:30 pm., Sunday 1 to 6 p.m. 24 N. 300 Brigham City Museum-GallerWest, Brigham City, Main Gallery, 11th nual Quilt Festival, antique, new, traditional, contemporary, crib and standards through July 31. Hours: Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 1 to 7 p.m. Conven Gallery, Alto, Little Cottonwood Canyon, batiks by Carryl Brown through July 31. Hours: Saturday, 3 fb 8 p.m., Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Cliff Lodge Gallery, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon, sllkscreens by Kris Bllllngton through July 31. Hours: open continuously. Ecdes Community Art Center, 2580 Jet- terson Ave., Ogden, statewide lurled competition, work by 119 Utah artists through Aug. 5. Hours: weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m , Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Glendinmng Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, "Ansel Adams: National Parks and Notional Monuments," 15 wilderness photographs through Aug. 5. Hours: weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m South, oils and pencil drawings by James Olsen through Friday (July 29); acrylic . landscapes by Wilma H. Potter Friday (July 29) through Aug. 26. Hours: weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Southam Gallery, 50 E. Broadway, cavalcade of western art, paintings and sculpture bv Klmbal Warren, Ned Young, Bill HIM, At Rounds, Tom DeDecker, John Jarvis, Kirk Randle, Elva Malln, Don Ricks, Winfred Gelsler and Jonathon Bronson through July 31. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 5:30 p.m. Springville Museum of Art, 126 E. 400 South, Springville, Western Art Guild exhibit and photography by Michael Snelson through Aug. 28. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday until 9 p.m, Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. St. Mark's Tower, 650 S. 300 East, "Printmaking," contemporary prints fiom the Utah Museum o Fine Arts permanent collection through Thursday (July 28). Hours: weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Utah Artist Guild, 1988 S. 1100 East, oils, etchings, lithographs ond watercolors by Charlotte Relne, lithographs by David Lee, watercolors by Gary Collins, Lynn Berryhlll ond Chris Collins, brass work by Salvador Dali, oils be Leroy Nleman through July 31. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah campus, recently acquired works by contemporary Utah photographers through Sunday (July 24). Hours: weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekends, 2 to 5 p.m. Utah Museum of Natural History, UniverNasity of Utah campus, "The Hatch ture's Bounty for Fish," exhibition of western gameflsh and artificial f vs, photographs and other fish related artwork through July 31. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9:30 o.m. to 5:30 p.m,, Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Voris Gallery, Hotel Utah, oils and water-color- s by Conrad Schwlerlng, Harold Farrell Collett, Don Ricks, Ken Baxter, Claudlne Morrow, Mike Hadley, Klmbal Warren, Ian Ramsey, Harold Olsen and Stewart Helndal, Grayce Cutler, Garth Anne Oborn, Rod Serbousek and Lynn Tonerl Ward; sculpture by John Pra-ze- n and Merlin Anderson through July 31. Hours: Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Walker Galleries, Park City vlllaoe, Arcade Level, 1385 Lowell Ave., Park City, sculptures by Stan Johnson, etchings bv Frederic Remington, oils bv Nell Boyle, works by Dali, Colder; other local artists' work through July 31. Hours: dally, noon to 6 p.m. Whitmore Library, 2197 E. 7000 South, watercolors by Rose Zarvos through Thursday (July 28). Hours: Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.mv Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. i, intem-insisten- of exploring. Watercolor Appeal Laura Mehmert finds the appeal of watercolor so compellng that it is almost necessary to master it before it masters you. Confidence results from discipline and that must be sustained with regular doing. If I go a day without doing watercolor I am drawn back to it by a need to push the creative possibilities that discipline provides. She explains the spontaneity and freshness in her work as "The coura kind age to leave what happens of language that asserts itself in the process of reaching beyond formal discipline to intuition. When water and paint fuse with paper the brush may move on while an alchemy of sorts completes the a effect. In two kitchen still-lifemost the claims urgency compelling intense pursuit of the design while water and paint are already arriving at reconciliations that are insured by an intuitive judgment and an accurately managed brush. This is well demonstrated in Lauras Brush, a well designed study in this s, series. A willingness to experiment, to change a particular palette for another and to broaden the subject range, is evident in the vibrant watercolors. "Of course one occasionally encounters a disaster in such progressive movements, she says, "but one should throw it away and go on learning. Both sections of the exhibit are characterized by variety and a willingness to try new ideas. Noel Betts Faces without eyes, arms without hands and a cloud without a mountain to rest on may be as economical as a church without a steeple and even may occur in the watercolors of Noal Betts, San Francisco artist, whose works are at the Kimball Art Center In Park City. Not oversights, such omissions are merely an invitation to the viewer to respond with images of ones own completion. Betts watercolor painting comes off like a poetry reading. You catch nuance and meaning because the ideas and images are not labored, nor are they likely to be flogged to a tired conclusion. Some painting exhibitions invite the slower pace of a dissertation, but Betts concise manner of suggesting, leaving unsaid the more routine of details, makes the viewer a partner in the process. With alertness one is able to anticipate if not actually decide the next brush stroke or color sequence. Essential movements in a figurative theme include a forming mold of space that casts the image of an architectural form; a defining edge or cornice that whets the eagerness of the eye to fulfill the intended image. At times it may be the colorful suggestion of a cargusel waiting only for the eye of the viewer to set it in motion. Forest Animal It may also be the far trajectory of a cloud pattern, a ray of light or the suggestion of a forest animal curving in the direct energy of its startling stride. It is as often a solitary white space setting the confines of a vital crescendo of color or of somber masses of gray in the solemn, regulatory definitions of a concisely pointed brush. It is such an exhibition that relieves thd tedium of a sometimes toilsome explication of the art of painting. The paintings done in Latin America, Europe, the United States and Canada may be seen through Aug. 17. Kredenser Photographs Photographs by Peter Kredenser, Los Angeles artist, are being displayed in the Little Gallery. Both artists have exhibited extensively. A paperweight has no place on my desk where a continuous flow of notes, clippings, memos and sundry builds in urgent mesas and mounds between which valleys and meandering canyons tend to lose some items more cogent than others. Somewhere down below it all is a smooth block of heavy glass whose lustrous depths seem to enlarge the 1 u Salt akf fribtnu Art 2sf colors of a colorful design at its base a paperweight handed down from ancestral sources. Paperweight Collectors But paperweights were not always so ignored. Until the 1950s, according to prefacing notes in a Collectors Price Guide and Catalog, 121 pages published by L.H. Selman Ltd. Paperweight Press 1983 Santa Cruz, Calif., $10, the paperweight had not been produced in significant numbers for more than 80 years. In the 1950s Paul Jokelson, an importer and avid paperweight enthusiast, approached the glass factories of Baccarat and Saint Louis and urged them to revive the classic art of paperweight production. The decline of the industry for some 80 years made it almost a lost art. Rediscovery has led to further production and experimentation. Both contemporary factories and studio artists have created the paperweight renaissance of the last 20 years . . . representing an exciting new generation of paperweights. The price guide features a full color listing of 243 antique and contemporary glass paperweights. There is information on the worlds leading factories and individual artists in Europe and America and the exciting weights they produce, many of which can be found in museums and private collections. The lisfing includes antique weights by the French manufacturers, Baccarat, Clichy and Saint Louis, as well as those created by English and American glassworks. Each of the museum-quality weights has considerable collector value. Modern weights produced by antiques in beauty and value. Featured among the contemporary weights are examples by American artists Rick Ayotte, Ray and Bob Banford, Charles Kazium, Paul Stankard, Delmo and Debbie Tarsi-tano, Victor Trabucco, Francis Whittmore and Paul Ysart. Artists studios such as Orient and Flume, and Lundberg of California are also listed. LeConte Stewart project fun Bountiful center asks for woi Special to The Tribune The Bountiful-Davi- s Art Center, 2175 S. Main, has been awarded a $5,131 grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities to assist in funding a project designed to serve as a historical record of the life and art of Utah landscape painter, LeConte Stewart. The grant will aide art historian Mary Muir in assembling a visual history of the state, including various historical social trends and economic conditions depicted in the Stewart works. A slidepamphlet presentation will also be produced by Ms. Muir and upon completion, will be available for circulation BOUNTIFUL - throughout the state. Anyone with artwork by Mr. Stewart or other relevant documents and corespondence who is interested in assisting with the Mary Muir Project, is asked to call or write the art center as soon as possible. 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