Artist Talks
"Threaded Discoveries: The Intersection of Fiber Art and Science"
Work by Shannon Conley
Evening event - 5-7 p.m. April 8
Previous Artist Talks & Programming
Held on March 23, 2023, featuring the work of three artists: Virginia Wagner, Sarah FitzSimons, and Kyle Larson.
The show strived to illustrate the ties between the artist’s view, the writer’s voice, and the filmmaker’s perspective in the current climate of political upheaval, unprecedented weather events, and deadly viruses. Dystopia translates as “bad place” from ancient Greek, with the traditional interpretation of dystopian art forms as bleak warnings of the dangers of totalitarianism and how it leads to disaster. In many dystopian works, the viewer is presented with brutality or immoral circumstances that tend to offer an exaggeration of humanity’s fears. Dystopian narratives allow their creators to take threads of current reality and push them to their limit — apocalyptic climate change, coup, nuclear war, etc.
Art-o-Mat - Clark Whittington
Jan. 9 - March 3, 2023
Artist talk at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 23
Featuring art-making stations and approximately 300 works from the Art-o-Mat/Artists in Cellophane repertoire on the gallery walls.
Artist Clark Whittington installed his art in the summer of 1997 at a local cafe in Winston-Salem, NC. Alongside paintings, he used a recently retired cigarette machine to create the first Art-o-Mat, an original art vending machine, to sell his black and white photographs mounted on blocks for $1 each.
Positive engagement led to the machine staying longer than the show and Artists in Cellophane artist collective was formed to keep the project running. Now, as the sponsoring organization of more than 100 active machines in various locations throughout the world, the mission of AIC is to encourage art consumption by the innovative combination of art and commerce. AIC believes that art should be progressive, yet personal and approachable.
6 p.m. March 24
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11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021
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2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021
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5 p.m., Sept. 9th, 2021
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Feb. 23 through Aug. 12, 2021
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Recent Exhibitions
Jan. 3 through March 29, 2024
Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are Houston-based interdisciplinary artists creating an ongoing series of fifty installations made in response to little-known pre-Stonewall queer histories from each state. This multi-decade endeavor draws from recent groundbreaking academic work, the artists’ own archival research, and significant time spent learning from and collaborating with local LGBTQ community members.
Performance lecture at 6 p.m. Feb. 29. RSVP via call or text 210-838-7465 to reserve your seat.
May 15 – Sept. 1, 2023
In our fifth year of this annual printmaking show, our curatorial team was the creators this time, with the installation of a site-specific, ephemeral work in the Norick Art Center for the summer. This team of artist friends, Alexa Goetzinger, Emma Difani, and Virginia Sitzes created and installed an environmental and ephemeral print-made sculpture in the gallery. Connect: Collect is a national print exchange for artists working with traditional, analog processes that annually seeks to connect printmakers across great distances. Each of the 30 printmakers in the yearly exchange is selected through the application, by the project organizers, to create a unique edition of prints. Read more on the Connect: Collect website here.
Art-o-Mat - Clark Whittington
Jan. 9 - March 3, 2023
Featuring art-making stations and approximately 300 works from the Art-o-Mat/Artists in Cellophane repertoire on the gallery walls.
Artist Clark Whittington installed his art in the summer of 1997 at a local cafe in Winston-Salem, NC. Alongside paintings, he used a recently-retired cigarette machine to create the first Art-o-Mat, an original art vending machine, to sell his black and white photographs mounted on blocks for $1 each.
Positive engagement led to the machine staying longer than the show and Artists in Cellophane artist collective was formed to keep the project running. Now, as the sponsoring organization of more than 100 active machines in various locations throughout the world, the mission of AIC is to encourage art consumption by the innovative combination of art and commerce. AIC believes that art should be progressive, yet personal and approachable.
Jan. 10 through April 1, 2022
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Jan. 4 through Feb. 22, 2022
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Oct. 21 through Dec. 3, 2021
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May 10 through Aug. 6, 2021
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March 1 through April 16, 2021
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Jan. 28 through Feb. 22, 2021
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Jan. 6 through Feb. 19, 2021
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Connect : Collect — Print as Object
Oct. 21 through Dec. 3, 2020
Featuring a video projection light installation by Chad Mount - “Meadow Rhythms“ with a grant from the Kirkpatrick Family Foundation (in partnership with Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma Contemporary).
Undisclosed Image • Brenda Biondo / Carol Golemboski / Meggan Gould / Martin Venezky / Ariel Wilson / Curated by Andy Mattern
March 9 through April 9, 2020
This exhibition features five contemporary artists whose work questions and extends photography in surprising ways. The exhibition’s title is a nod to the influential book The Edge of Vision by Lyle Rexer, which presents numerous artists working at the boundaries of lens-based practices. In this time of ubiquitous images and familiar pictures, these artists find novel pathways to meaning through invention, play, and subversion of the medium’s long-held conventions.
Ocean Object • Sarah Fitzsimons • Feb. 12 through March 6, 2020
Jan. 7 through Feb. 7, 2020
5 p.m., Dec. 5, 2019
Regarding the Discarded • A Site-Specific Installation by Carrie Dickason • Sept. 15 through Oct. 17, 2019
Regarding the Discarded is a site-specific installation, evolving between September 15 - October 17 at the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery of Art. Over the course of the month-long project, Carrie Dickason will work and engage with students of OKCU, in weaving locally scavenged and collected materials into a large, suspended, sculptural tapestry. Students are invited to bring materials that they’ve found or collected, to be physically incorporated into the project. Weekly workshops will include fundamental textile processes that will be employed in the construction (and could be incorporated into student’s own future works), as well as conversations about the interconnectivity between consumerism and ecological systems. The resulting installation will reflect the shared efforts of the students and community of Oklahoma City University.
Exhibit open July 8 through Sept. 6, 2019
Opening reception 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9
