JRB Art at the Elms’ May exhibition 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday JRB Art at the Elms 2810 N. Walker Ave. jrbartgallery.com 405-528-6336 Free One of the most immediately striking aspects of an ongoing local art exhibition wasn’t necessarily planned in advance. The latest exhibition at Oklahoma City’s JRB Art at the Elms […]
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Summer Guide: OKCMOA exhibit highlights Works Progress Administration projects
The Complete WPA Collection: 75th Anniversary runs through July 2.
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Steve Boaldin makes a statement in Oklahoma’s art scene
Boaldin’s paintings depict cowboys at work in the American West.
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Painter AK Westerman and silversmith Nancy Jackson team up for Turn
The Project Box exhibit draws from themes in fantasy and the surreal.
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Work of O. Gail Poole lives on after death
Local artist Nicole Poole shows off her late father’s work in O. Gail Poole: Flora and Felines.
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Tripping out
Arizona artists Oliver and Spencer Hibert bring their uniquely psychedelic paintings to the Womb. BY BECKY CARMAN 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 commuter, the swath of rainbows and pink […]
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A joyful vision
Photo: Mark Hancock “I certainly want to do all I can to advance John’s vision. He was a community-builder,” Belt said of her husband, who died in March. That’s a vision tied up in John Belt’s desire to provide Oklahoma City with an arts district, being an anchor for the Paseo Arts District, promoting artists […]
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Beast master
Max Ogan — or Maximus, as he likes to be called — is surrounded by giant monsters and giant robots in his Plaza District studio, Bomb Shelter, but he’s not running for cover or summoning twin fairies for help. It’s all part of his latest exhibition, Machines vs. Monsters: Final Wars, his tribute to kaiju, […]
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How the West was 10
Over the past decade, Adelante! Gallery has built a reputation — in its Paseo Arts District home and beyond — for fine Southwest, Western and contemporary art. For its 10th-anniversary exhibit, gallery owner Cynthia Daniel Wolf said she is excited to continue that tradition with Art of the West, which opens with free receptions Friday and […]
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Banned in the USA
O. Louis Guglielmi’s Subway Exit (1946) When the topic of artistic censorship is raised, odds are that works cited include Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ or just about anything by Robert Mapplethorpe. The United States government, however, in that golden era of anti-Commie paranoia, arguably did the best job of it by the disbanding and dismantling […]