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Show Sabat's stained glass is a study in light and texture ; ' .i t. ;'-.';ii4:.";:'.'i: v Jirfe- 7- I Although Utah artist Wade Sabat 's stained glass exhibit is on the small side, with nine framed pieces and as many leaded-glass lamp shades, each piece is as unique as a painting and seems to ask for the same thougliful attention you'd give a composed oil. The display opened in the Kimball Art Center's Lower Gallery Sunday and will continue through Feb. 27. Hung against a black backdrop with natural daylight filtering through, the framed pieces j bordered in simple wood are carefully-chosen mosaics of glass and web-like lead. The quality of that glass whic is hard-to-cut ! bulleye, according to Sabat ranges from lucid and brilliant to opaque and swirled (life the first stir of cream into coffee). The range of shades seems to work to give each piece texture and depth, something like daubs of paint on canvas. For this exhibit Sabat has chosen foreign scenes, often exotic and tropical, and sometimes some-times offering a diversion from the natives-and-canoe postcard fare implied by the titles. "Roundhouse Cuzco," for instance, in-stance, gives you a cavernous shed framing trains in the foreground, with shadowy stretches of track in the middle distance shading away into a background city-scape. Although grays and blues predominate, slashes or lively orange and red save the scene from somberness. In addition there are dreamlike dream-like views of Toledo, Calcutta, Mexico and the Yucatan. "Toledo 1" is full of deep gem-like gem-like purples in a vision of the ancient Spanish walled city cut by a pedestrian bridge and crowned by an almost -iridescent castle. In "Tolum," a brooding tomb (a player's idea of the "Dark Tower'' game's salvation piece? (gathers shadows in a jungle grove under a stormy sky (the swirls in the glass create a turbulent look here). In contrast, "Canyon in Autumn" is bright, translucent blend of sunny gold and orange. If you want to throw a little light on the subject, the leaded-glass leaded-glass lamp shades, a Sabat specialty, can help you out with a bouquet of originals. A series of dome-, cone- and pagoda-shaped shades are named for the flower that dominates the piece iris, daffodil, sunflower, and water lily although Sabat throws in one textured beauty called "Seascape" (very touchable and spartanly oriental) and a delicate Chinese landscape. Sabat, who owns a gallery and workshop in Salt Lake, will be present at a delayed reception next Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Kimball Art Center. Stained glass artist Wade Sabat created this luminous seascape lamp shade of leaded glass. |