Cassandra Coblentz, curator at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art for six years, will give a talk on contemporary painting in the Carson City Library at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Preceding the talk, at 6:15 p.m., there will be an informal reception for the guest lecturer, according to the Capital City Arts Initiative. The event is part of the ongoing series of illustrated public talks known as Nevada Neighbors put on by CCAI.Coblentz will discuss how contemporary painting is influenced by cultural references, abstraction and pattern, representation of space and digital media. She will relate these trends to work by various …