Arts

Oklahoma City photographer E. Marissa Lane captured the innocence, beauty and magic of Oklahoma City children and created a collage that will be on display all month at Sauced, 2912 Paseo. Lane took most of the photographs during Paseo’s annual Midsummer Fairie Ball, but other images capture the children around her home and church. She’s […]

Artists take many different paths on their way to unearthing inspiration for their work, and an upcoming exhibit at MAINSITE Contemporary Art features two differing routes: one obsessive, the other intuitive. DOROTHY MOSESDorothy Moses’ collection, titled “Intuition Inspiration Perspiration,” is a series of portraits and abstracts that started with background and grew organically from there. […]

The figures in Fernando Botero’s sculptures and paintings are fat. In Botero’s world, big is absolutely beautiful and it’s coming to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Saturday with the unveiling of “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero.” The traveling exhibit of nearly 100 pieces will run through Dec. 2 as it sheds light […]

that first fateful time had pulled him into worlds beyond humanity. Devastated Stevie is having none of it, and Vikki Simer skillfully takes this powerful character to the end of the line. The funniest and most volatile scene, after she has just found out, leaves the viewer both exhilarated and exhausted. Winner of the 2002 […]

Blue Apples Gallery is hosting a new exhibit called “Within Individual Frames of Reference,” with works by Ginger Barton, Carolyn Chandler and Almira Grammer. The exhibit will be on display through Oct. 28 at the Blue Apples Gallery, 800 W. Rock Creek, Suite 117, in Norman. Grammer’s acrylics are locally oriented and influenced by her […]

Living and working together is not easy, and when that work is art, logic holds that it would be only a matter of time before any relationship so tightly tethered would snap. Matt Seikel and Denise Duong have managed to thrive, though, as they work out of the same studio in the back of their […]

The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition is putting one square foot in front of the other to raise money at its 18th annual “12×12 Art Show & Sale.” More than 150 Oklahoma artists took on the challenge to prove that bigger isn’t always better by creating their own masterpieces to fit the 12-inch-by-12-inch dimension limitation. These […]

It feels like homecoming at Jewel Box Theatre right now. Kicking off its 50th season of shows, artistic director Chuck Tweed was able to gather nearly all of his original cast for its opener: a reprise of the theater’s most produced show, “Nunsense.” Even Mark Croston’s original choreography is intact. Writer Dan Goggin’s comic crowd-pleaser […]

Worn photos and family albums discarded in estate sales or sold to thrift stores: Jerrod Smith sees art in these aged images of past generations. “They have a preexisting life to them, which I like,” Smith said. “It’s been touched before, it’s been held before. I’ve found photos and birth certificates in thrift stores. I […]

Journalist M.J. Alexander is celebrating centenarians across the state with her “Salt of the Red Earth” photography exhibit in the Tulsa World Gallery at the Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Center, 1400 Classen Drive. Alexander’s exhibit features photos of 35 Oklahomans and their thoughts about life, love and living to be 100. For this project, Alexander traveled […]