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Show One Man Show Opens at Center ' i 5 w nil Randall Rosenthal I ties, but they are intricately textured by many hundreds of human-like forms. His innovative use of color and shapes, work together to form an exciting visual field. After living in Santa Barbara, Calif., for several years, he moved to Sandy, Utah, where he currently resides and paints. Randall Rosenthal, Salt Lake City artist, will open a one-man show of his paintings paint-ings on Sunday, January 13 at the Kimball Art Center. The show will run through January 31. A reception will be held in his honor on Sunday, January 13 from 3 to 5:00pm. Randall Rosenthal was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. At 9 years of age, Rosenthal had his first exhibit, in The Woodmere Academy. A graduate of the Carnegie Carne-gie Institute of Technology in Fine Arts, Rosenthal has shown his unique paintings in such prestigeous galleries as the Emily Lowe, Hempstead, Hemp-stead, NY, Faulkner in Santa Barbara, CA, Carnegie -Mellon in Pittsburgh, Selected Select-ed Artists Galleries, NYC, and JASA Gallery in Mun-ich. Mun-ich. . ' ,:iV; Rosenthal's canvasses are often massive, almost as murals, with minutely detailed de-tailed conceptions and are very creative reflections of the social atmosphere of our time. The eccentric Salvador Dali viewed his exhibition in 1974 and was inspired to write "Bravo" in the guest book. In 1976, the artist, while living in Santa Barbara, was channeling his physical energies, en-ergies, when he wasn't painting, into surfing. While showing i Munich, he became be-came involved with skiing for the first time in the Austrian Alps. His love for the ocean was overshadowed at least temporarily by his intense feeling for the snow which is evident in the subject matter of his new paintings. His large dynamic waves have evolved into soft white slopes and gentle shadows. At first glance, the paintings appear to have photographic quali- |