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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15713 NEWCOMERS OF GREATER PARK CITY MONTHLY COFFEE Mary Comey from Recycle Utah will speak at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, during the Newcomers of Greater Park City’s coffee event at Park City Community Church, 4501 N. S.R. 224. The event is free and open to the public. For information, visit parkcitynewcomers.org. HOWARD JONES AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE Synth-pop and electronic-music pioneer Howard Jones will perform through Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Sunday concerts will start at 6 p.m., while the rest of the shows begin at 8 p.m. Tickets for Tuesdays through Thursdays run from $39-$59. Friday tickets run from $45-$65, and Saturday and Sunday tickets run from $53-$69. For information and tickets visit parkcityshows.com. SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES LOCAL ARTISTS SHINE AT 2019-20 SEASON, C-3 WINTER SHOWCASE, C-5 www.parkrecord.com C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, FEBRUARY 12-14, 2020 Oil artists explore new realms in Western Art in Montgomery-Lee Fine Art exhibit Painters will be at the opening reception set from 6-9 p.m. Feb. 15 SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The term Western Art refers to work that depicts the landscape, wildlife and history of The West, and Montgomery-Lee Fine Art gallery expands the boundaries of the genre, said oil painter Jared Sanders, who along with fellow oil painter Sherry Johnson will open a new exhibit of their works this Saturday at the gallery. “Montgomery-Lee and Park City itself, while located in a Western Art market, pushes the envelope of what Western Art is, so what they show are the not-so-typical landscapes or subjects,” Sanders said. While Sanders’ works are composed mostly of barns in various conditions set within simplified landscapes, Johnson’s art zeroes in on the skulls of wildlife, including but not limited to cattle, goats and deer. Sanders and Johnson, who will attend a free artist reception Friday at Montgomery-Lee Fine Art, took time to discuss their art during two separate interviews over the past few days. COURTESY OF JARED SANDERS Jared Sanders’ oil painting “Defiant” shows the artist’s eye for finding the asymmetrical aspects in a barn. The work will be among the paintings by Sanders and Sherry Johnson that will showcase at Montgomery-Lee Fine Art Saturday. RE-BISONING THE WEST AT THE SWANER ECOCENTER Kurt Repanshek, an award-winning journalist and author of “Re-Bisoning the West: Restoring an American Icon the Landscape,” will give a presentation at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Swaner EcoCenter 1258 Center Drive and Kimball Junction. The presentation is about a forward-thinking approach to returning bison to the West and improving the health of ecosystems. To register, visit swanerecocenter.org. PARK CITY FILM: ‘DARK WATERS’ Park City Film will present Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters,” rated PG-13, from Friday, Feb. 14, to Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. Friday and Saturday screenings will begin at 8 p.m. Sunday’s screening starts at 6 p.m. Corporate environmental defense attorney Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo) has just made partner at his prestigious Cincinnati law firm in large part due to his work defending Big Chem companies. He finds himself conflicted after he’s contacted by two West Virginia farmers who believe that the local DuPont plant is dumping toxic waste in the area landfill that is destroying their fields and killing their cattle. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $7 for senior citizens. For information, visit parkcityfilm.org. The horns remind me of wood or the bark of a tree that I climbed when I was a kid...” Sherry Johnson and Jared Sanders exhibit opening When: 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 Where: Montgomery-Lee Fine Art, 608 Main St. Cost: Free Web: montgomeryleefineart. com Cost: Free Sherry Johnson, oil painter Johnson finds the bare bones of essence Johnson, who has been represented by Montgomery-Lee for a little more than a year, has been painting skulls of domestic and exotic beasts for years. “I think the fascination with skulls came from my childhood,” she said. “I grew up in Orem, Utah, on a farm and spent a lot of time in nature. I would hike the Wasatch mountains and remember coming across sun-bleached bones of animals.” For some reason, these skeletons resonated with her, and she began drawing bones, and eventually adding color to them, while attending art classes at Utah Valley University. “I’ve had to ask myself many times about why I would want to paint a dead animal,” she said with a laugh. “I just find the shapes beautiful. They are simple. They are organic.” Johnson’s favorite skulls to draw are ones with horns or antlers. “The horns remind me of wood or the bark of a tree that I climbed when I was a kid,” she said. “They are like the branches I used to swing from.” The painter uses photos or real skulls she finds, buys or borrows as guides with her art. “I’ll compose the image at first, before I started painting,” she said. “I go in with a drawing first that is really tight. Then I’ll come in with a contemporary approach and start laying down my color.” One of the recurring challenges Johnson faces is deciding what background color will go best with the skull. “I do wrestle with that quite a bit,” she said. “Sometimes it will get to a point where I will put the painting aside and come back to it with fresh eyes in a few days,” she said. Johnson’s go-to medium is oil paint. “When I was at art school, I took a variety of art classes in mixed media and watercolor,” she said. “But for some reason, I’ve settled on oils, and I love the richness of colors they offer. I love the way you can manipulate the paint to create a variety of effects. I feel there is more freedom.” Johnson uses a brush instead of a palette knife. “While I use a brush, I also use the other end to do some scratching on the painting,” she said. “I come in with Please see Exhibit, C-10 COURTESY OF SHERRY JOHNSON Oil painter Sherry Johnson is fascinated by animal skulls, as seen through her realistic painting “Wildebeest.” Her draw to skulls is the result of living on a farm in Utah County during her childhood. serving only the best to Park City since 1992 r e s t a u r a n t YOUR VALENTINE ASKED US TO REMIND YOU. St o p b y t o g r a b s o m e f e s t i v e f a v o r i t e s o r g i v e u s a c a l l t o p l a c e a s p e c i a l o rd e r! 1 7 5 0 Iro n Ho r s e Dr. | 4 3 5 .6 47 . 2 9 0 6 w w w.w i n d y r i d g e b a ke r y. c o m g r o u p G R A P PA • C H I M AYO • WA H S O G H I D OT T I’ S • S U S H I B LU E • B I L LY B L A N CO ’ S WI N DY R I D G E C A F É • WI N DY R I D G E B A KE R Y |