We all know the old adage, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” But how often is it the cover art that reaches out from the shelf and grabs you? How often are we unsurprised to find that the artwork on an album’s packaging perfectly meshes with the music locked inside? Celebrating that relationship […]
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Coming home
There’s just something magnetic about Oklahoma City, but one natural-born wayfarer and multidisciplinary artist didn’t realize it until she headed west three years ago. Traveler, artist and OKC native Jamie Pettis has remained connected through art since moving to Phoenix in 2010, and her work is currently exhibited for the third time in her home […]
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What have you done?
Distinguished professor and contemporary artist Michael Ray Charles from the University of Texas at Austin will judge the juried show and choose the recipient of the T.G. Mays Purchase Award. Each year, the university issues multiple cash prizes and chooses one student to receive the award and add his or her work to the permanent […]
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Jingle spurs
Donna Howell Sickles Christmas comes early this year to the Adelante! Gallery. There are a few slight changes, however: the reindeers are being replaced with horses and the Santa suits with cowboy hats, and the toys are being left behind in favor of handmade saddles, bronze statues and Southwestern landscapes. It’s all part of Adelante!’s […]
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SEE IT: Wayne Coyne interviews Oliver Hibert for OKG
Bad Trip launches 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Coyne’s Oklahoma City artspace, The Womb Gallery, 25 NW Ninth St. Admission is free. Tripping out During the summer of 2011, the landscape of downtown OKC changed forever when a humble building on Ninth Street transformed into a brilliantly colored and vaguely offensive landmark. For the common […]
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Happenings the week of Nov. 12, 2013
A Fresh Take: William S. and Ann Atherton Art of the American West Gallery, showcasing the Museum’s permanent art collection in 10 newly reinstalled exhibition spaces. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 N.E. 63rd, 478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. Allan Houser and His Students, in celebration of his 100th birthday, this exhibit features works of Allan Houser […]
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Out on a limb
Lesley Hensley, owner of the new art gallery Grease Trap, recently came into possession of numerous mannequins and mannequin parts. As she and Kerry Myers, the gallery’s marketing director, sifted through them, an innovative idea arose: Give them to local artists and let the results form an art show. “Each artist gets to do as […]
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Happenings the week of Oct. 29, 2013
A Fresh Take: William S. and Ann Atherton Art of the American West Gallery, showcasing the Museum’s permanent art collection in 10 newly reinstalled exhibition spaces. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 N.E. 63rd, 478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. Allan Houser and His Students, in celebration of his 100th birthday, this exhibit features works of Allan Houser […]
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Sea change
Jann Jeffrey was looking down from a boat into the ocean and found herself hypnotized. Once back on land, it was something she wasn’t able to shake. For the past few months, she has been quietly trying to recreate the colors and shapes of the moving water that transfixed her. It was an obsession that […]
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Blinded with science
Kyle Van Osdol Artists are, by nature, visionaries. They interpret the world around them in their unique way, allowing us a different perspective on things commonplace and extraordinary. The new exhibit at Science Museum Oklahoma’s Satellite Galleries is what happens when the newest, shiniest technology is put in the hands of those who make art. […]