“They say, ‘You don’t love America, man; you hate it so much.’ I’m like, ‘Au contraire, player; I love America so much I loved it even before it was called America!”
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It is difficult to pin Pérez’ work down to a single style, but he will give it a name when he has to.
It is difficult to pin Pérez’ work down to a single style, but he will give it a name when he has to.
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FRINGE’s Annual Group Show runs through May 30
FRINGE, a local women’s artist group, holds its annual show at The Project Box.
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Photography, painting, sculpture intertwine in Art Connections
In Your Eye Gallery celebrates diversity with an exhibit of five local creators whose works represent a wide range of mediums, styles and subjects.
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Artist Kelli Folsom painted the Oklahoma sunrise for 30 straight days
The sky was cut in half, Oklahoma City artist Kelli Folsom remembers. One half was a brilliant hot pink, and the other was the dark blue-gray hue of an approaching thunderstorm.
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OKC student discovers butt music
Twenty-year-old Oklahoma Christian University music student Amelia Hamrick is the first to transcribe the tune. Bonus: She’s also the first to play it. That’s right, she’s the first to play a song that’s hidden in a centuries-old painting, according to a news release posted to the university’s official website. And she gets the humor of […]
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Arbuckle up
Fishin’ When Sulphur native Skip Thompson began painting in 1980, she had no idea that 34 years later, her artwork would be exhibited in the Governor’s Gallery at the Oklahoma State Capitol. At the beginning of her instruction with her first teacher, Maude Landsford, there were some testy times because Landsford was a tough teacher. […]
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LETTERS
The Nazis stole this beautiful impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro during the occupation of France during WWII. Yes, we understand that there is an antiquated court ruling in Switzerland that denied the painting to the owners because the established timeframe to make the claim expired. This whole court decision is arbitrary and unclear. What is […]
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Velvet underground
“It has its own set of rules, but painting on velvet produces a unique result that, much like the material itself, envelopes viewers in a rich, smooth, luxurious pocket of gooey satisfaction,” he said. Before working on velvet, Lawson spent a decade creating work for his Pareidolia series featuring surreal, organic forms designed to be […]
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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 […]