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Show Gemstone arts on display at BYU galleries A series of art works painted with gemstone colors to express light will be displayed in the B.F. Larsen Gallery at Brigham Young University during May and June. THE PAINTINGS by Alphonso, a South India artist, will go on exhibit ex-hibit May 16 and hang in the gallery through June 25. Admission is free and gallery hours are daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Alphonso got the idea for his current cur-rent show from the words of Cardinal Car-dinal Newman: "Lead kindly light admist the encircling gloom. Lead thou me on. The night is dark and I am far from home. Lead thou me on..." THE WORDS led him to realize that light is not to be taken for granted. As he says, "While rummaging rum-maging through a junk shop some months ago, 1 happened to lay my hands on an antique oil lamp. And when I began to ponder on the multiple mul-tiple purposes it must have served for different generations, my thinking think-ing went berserk." He questioned the forces that generated light, the physical properties prop-erties of light, light's meaning to different people in different social situations and environments and light's relationship to spirituality. "I KEPT finding answers to all these questions as I law awake each night looking into my oil lamp, fascinated as I watched the tall shadows it cast on the room around it. The reactions have been translated into my paintings." Alphonso's one-man shows have been in Bangalore, Madras, Bomba, Ahmedadad, Holland, Japan and the United States. |