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Show Local artist association celebrates centennial with show at Kimball Center by Nan Chalat The Park City Artist Association (PCAA) is offering a tribute to the centennial with its current show at the Kimball Art Center. In the exhibit 35 artists share their visions of Park City in a variety of media from stained glass to batik. The show, which fills both the Main and Little Galleries, opened Sunday. The show deserves attention, not only for the quality of the artwork on display but also because it represents repre-sents a new spirit of cooperation among the local art organizations: the Park City Artist Association, the Kimball Art Center and the Gallery Owners Association. Although this is the third annual Park City Artist Association Show at the Kimball, it is the first time the Gallery Owners Association has offered of-fered awards to the participating artists. According to Darrell Meyer of Meyer Gallery, the award-winning J pieces were selected Dy a panel of representatives from seven local I galleries. "We were impressed with a lot of the work and there were some difficult choices to make," a M ml nil 7ArrjprV - iv- ! - ' i, i f . a A I f'.t i ; A . v .V - '. Dean Hovey won Best of Show ribbon with his porcelain relief of Historic Main Street said Meyer. The Gallery Association's Best of Show ribbon was awarded to Dean Hovey for his porcelain relief of the historic buildings on Main Street. Hovey is a draftsman at J.J. Johnson John-son and Associates and has been a PCAA member for three years. The relief, inspired by the centennial theme, represents a departure from Hovey's previous pen and ink work.. But his attention to realistic detail is still apparent in this faithful ren--dition of the Car 19, City Hall, Dolly's, the Alamo and the Egyptian Theatre. The Association also offered five Best of Category ribbons. The watercolor award went to Diane Balaban for her painting "Snowbound." Although Balaban has been busy in her role as director of the Kimball Art Center, she said that she could not resist making a contribution to the centennial show. "I got up at 6:30 a.m. to paint before work and then I came home and painted until dark," she said. Watercolorists Jossy Sheya, Barbara Bar-bara Brook, Patricia Enk, Nancy Smith, Suzanne Reynolds, Judy Taylor, Sally Rosenblatt, Abbie Whitney, Joan Chesnutt, Stephen Hedgepeth, Jan Richins, Jim Schnirel and Shirl Groesbeck are also represented in the show. David Chaplin earned an award for his acrylic of a local construction worker. "I think the construction workers are today's Park City miners," he said. Trisha Arentz, Anna Spiess and Marilyn Stillman presented a number num-ber of different approaches in the oilacrylic category. The sculpture ribbon went to local artist James Stewart. His clay sculpture of a group of miners in the Daly Mine Cage is one of the high points of the show. In the Little Gallery, Ed Hunt won the Gallery Association's photography award. Hunt printed a photograph of Old Town on textured canvas to give the image an antique look. In another photograph Hunt photographed three vintage trucks on Daly Avenue through a mesh filter to achieve a similarly soft old-time old-time effect. His historic outlook was offset by more contemporary work by photographers Rich Pogue, Sandy Taylor, Pat McDowell, Tim Shoulder and Bobbi Abramson. Three purchase awards were also given by Kimball Art Center trustees in the form of guaranteed sales before the show's opening. David Chaplin received a purchase award from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed. Bonnie Deffebach received one from Mr. and Mrs. Rick Prince and Diane Balaban earned hers from Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilde. An additional honor went to Peg Woolf who won the Park City Artist Association poster contest with a batik entitled "The Creole Mine Boys." The commemorative PCAA centennial poster featuring Woolf 's composition is available for $20. Other noteworthy pieces in the current exhibit include Roger Fuller's lighthearted sculpture, "100 Years and Still Digging." As part of the sculpture Fuller used an authentic authen-tic piece of Park City sewer pipe and topped it with a tiny jewelry backhoe. Linda Gerdes contributed a stained glass rendition of the Blue Church Lodge, Chris Geer built a wood and glass curio cabinet and Pat Cluff added a pair of porcelain vases adorned with skiers. Bill Kranstover assembled a Park City collage and Mark Johnson entered en-tered several leather pieces. Holly Rom also joined Peg Woolf in the batik category. Paintings of a variety of Park City scenes dominate the Main Gallery, and the Little Gallery is given over to photography. Emerette Atzet's painting of the Miner's Hospital stands out among the watercolors and Jerry Honeywell's wildflower photographs also deserve special attention. at-tention. According to Meyer the photography was particularly hard to judge because the subject matter ran the gamut from scenery to human interest, from contemporary skiers to historic scenery. "It is hard to compare opposites," he said. The Park City Artists Show will be on exhibit at the Kimball Art Center through Aug. 2. |