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Shades of summer abound at new PS:Gallery show

Housed at 1025 E. Walnut St., Perlow-Stevens Gallery looks like a bakery shop, with an assortment of Susan Taylor Glasgow’s delectable glass cakes looking delicious enough to eat sitting in the front window. Once inside, the summer colors continue with new work by local artists Glasgow and Joel Sager; regional artist Brian Smith; and national artists Bob Maes, Rob Williams and Mary Beth Yates.

Jennifer Perlow, co-owner of the gallery, said the summer show, which will run for three months, is bright, upbeat and full of energy. “I never intentionally hang work with a theme, but maybe … subliminally” the summer show “speaks to the season.”

A St. Louis artist, Smith’s work “screams color and energy,” Perlow said. “It’s not too aggressive, but it’s certainly powerful work.”

Smith started his career creating landscape paintings but has evolved into abstraction, though the work still holds a nature-inspired presence. His canvas is painted with a mix of shapes, marks, textures and dissonant colors, seemingly without order but able to work in harmony.

“It can be interpreted as a sense of place or space, a window into a world,” Smith said.

Although his work is titled with names of specific places, such as “Darnah” and “Narva,” they’re places Smith has never been. He said he’s not painting based on those places but with a more intuitive sense.

Another body of work Perlow said speaks of summer is Denver artist Williams’ “retro florals.” His kaleidoscopic array of painted floral shapes pops off the panel, displaying a method somewhere between abstraction and realism. Williams, owner of an advertising agency for three years, said his switch to fine art was a way for him to slow down.

“The reason I paint flora is that it represents good,” he said. It’s about “recognizing the small things, and that’s what’s really meaningful.” He wants to present the audience with good energy and a comfortable feeling, one that doesn’t necessarily need to be explained. “It’s those small things that once they accumulate, not your car or house, … that make you who you are.”

Maes, also from Denver, is a mixed-media artist who creates intriguing, untitled works. Most of his canvases use muted colors with sometimes only a hint of hue. “I’m trying to create a painting with depth of space,” Maes said. “And I’m trying to create a mood of serenity.

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Ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America, ahead of then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice and former first lady Laura Bush. Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films.

Roberts was born in Atlanta, Georgia, at Crawford Long Hospital (now Emory University Hospital Midtown), to Betty Lou (née Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts. Her maternal great-grandmother immigrated from Sweden. Her parents were Baptist and Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother Eric Roberts (from whom she was estranged until 2004), sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, and nieceEmma Roberts, are also actors. Julia’s parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, off Juniper Street in Midtown. While her mother was pregnant with Julia, she and her husband ran an acting school for children in Decatur, Georgia. The children of Martin Luther King, Jr. andCoretta Scott King attended the school. As a thank-you for their service, Mrs. King paid the hospital bill when Julia’s mother gave birth to Julia. Julia’s mother filed for divorce in 1971, with the divorce being finalized early in 1972. The family moved to Smyrna, Georgia in 1972, where Roberts attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School. Her mother married Michael Motes and had daughter Nancy Motes in 1976. Julia’s father died of cancer when she was ten.

In school, Roberts played clarinet in the band. She wanted to be a veterinarian as a child. After graduating from Smyrna’s Campbell High School, she headed to New York to join her siblings and pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Clack modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes. She reverted to her original name “Julia Roberts” when she discovered that a “Julie Roberts” was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild. Her niece Emma Roberts, whom Roberts used to take to movie sets when she was a young girl, has joined her father and aunts in the acting business.

Roberts has had reported romantic relationships with numerous famous men, including Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, . In August 1990, Roberts and Sutherland announced their engagement, with an elaborate studio-planned wedding scheduled for June 14, 1991. Roberts broke the engagement three days before the wedding. Roberts subsequently went to Ireland with Jason Patric, a friend of Sutherland’s. On June 25, 1993, she married country singerLyle Lovett. The wedding took place at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana, near where Lovett was appearing on tour with his band. In March 1995, the couple separated, and subsequently divorced.

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