Past Exhibits
January 2010: Progress/Experience: Sculpture by Mick Tresemer"The abstract wood sculptures are inspired by the natural progression of time and communicate our physical experience in our everyday life. The repetitive quality of the work illustrates our movement through time and acts as a record of what has happened in a specific instance. Through abstraction the communication of the artwork can be taken to a universal level, allowing the work to be interpreted differently by the audience’s life experiences. My intention is to create an interaction between the audience and the work, detracting their attention from personal or public issues and creating recognition with the object offered in the present time."- Mick Tresemer |
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December 2009: iiwiiIt is What it isIt Is What It Is - better known as iiwii, highlights emerging artists working throughout the Oklahoma City area, including: Sam Dillehay, Robert Davis, Jr., Sarah Engel, Michael Hayes, Robyn Janloo, Parker Johnson, Max Koller, Jacob Potter, Ben Poynter, Katie Swank and Mark Zimmerman. |
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October 2009: Urban Gorilla: Photography by Catherine CarterUrban Gorilla: Photography by Catherine Carter is a collection of photographs of gorillas from zoos around the country.Catherine Carter started photographing gorillas during a trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo with her brother in 2007. "I love gorillas, so we stopped to look at them for quite a while. The youngest of the group at that time (Bom Bom) was very active and I had a blast snapping photos of him pestering the older members of the group. He was just like a child!" Carter wanted to continue photographing gorillas, so she started visiting other zoos around the U.S. "I want to show people what they don't see in their 5-minute visit with these gorillas at the zoo. I don't think people realize how delightful and expressive gorillas are," she says. Gorillas are an endangered species, threatened by deforestation and the bushmeat trade. In order to bring attention to this situation, a portion of the exhibition sales will benefit The Gorilla Foundation/Koko.org (TGF). TGF is a non-profit organization devoted to gorilla conservation, research and public education. Many people know about Koko, the gorilla who learned American Sign Language and has a vocabulary of over 1,000 signs. TGF is an advocate for the humane treatment of captive gorillas and is working to increase conservation efforts for gorillas in the wild. TGF is also working to establish an ape preserve in Maui where their gorillas can roam in a setting closer to that of their natural habitat. For more information about TGF, visit www.koko.org. |
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June 2009: Eye of Photography: Photos by David ParkerDifferent PerspectivesDifferent Perspectives is what I call the style of shooting things from an unordinary angle, from a view that is not seen from the normal standing position. Or something not caught by the common eye. I position myself close to the ground or let things loom over me. I also get on top of and beneath the subject. I try to frame the shot in an artistic way to provide a different look at the focus point. Element Earth Element Earth is a collection of images from nature that strive to escape the confines of traditional landscape photography. I try to form nature in to concentrated art. I also consider Element Earth to be metal as it also to come from the elements. I also look for movement and things that capture the viewer’s attention. I try to make the subject larger than life. These shots are framed to offer the viewer a stolen glimpse of natural beauty. Full Framed Macro Full Framed Macro photography is my favorite way to take pictures. Intricate textures often catch my eye. And I will position the camera as close as possible because I feel that the macro perspective is the best way to capture the tactile feeling of each one. There are so many textures in the world. Filling the entire frame with the focus point makes it stand out that much more. The shots do not begin or end, they are just in your face. |
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May 2009: WORD, a language-based exhibition featuring multimedia works by OU art studentsFeaturing Samantha Dillehay, Sarah Engel, Gray Hale, Michael Hayes, Bryce Holland, Robyn Janloo, Hays McEachern and Jacob Potter |
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April 2009: pretty little things - an exhibition of prints and femmage by Adrienne Laura LalliAdrienne Lalli was born in March 1987 to a doting Italian family rife with Oklahoma swagger. She slept through most standardized tests in high school and miraculously ended up at the University of Tulsa, where she spent two years as a printmaking student before briefly dropping out to live in New Mexico. She returned to school with a great tan after an improvised internship with a master printmaker. In May 2009 she will graduate with a bachelor of fine arts degree and a nicely formatted resume. She is slated to return to the Land of Enchantment this summer to swim in lake Abiquiu and work as a photographer, after which she has no plans formalized.Her senior thesis show, pretty little things, is an exhibition of her work through college, an amalgamation of prints and femmage—Miriam Schapiro’s coined term for feminist collage. This body of work intends to mesh traditional modes and notions of printmaking with a more accessible Hobby Lobby aesthetic; Adrienne seeks to marry six hundred years of print history to glitter glue and ribbon. Thematically, pretty little things vaguely concerns itself with third-wave feminism, thrift, mother- and daughterhood, anxiety, and craft. Adrienne enjoys line dancing, pulling chine collés, running, and online banking. She can give a good backrub, make a great sandwich, and would prove a decent graduate student. |
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March 2009: Nursery Rhymes - Handpulled Prints of Meng SunMeng Sun was born in Beijing, China. She studied Advertising Design at Renmin University in Beijing, but her deeper interest was to illustrate children’s picture books. She went to graduate school to study illustration, and in 2007 came to OU as an exchange student.In Oklahoma, she fell in love with printmaking, especially serigraphy and etching. Though they are exacting arts, requiring careful planning and execution, they are well suited to illustration. Each printmaking technique opens many possibilities, and in combination the possibilities are endless. Sun decided to return to OU for graduate studies. The series of etchings named “Lydia’s Daydreams” is for a story about a girl seeking to express herself through imagination. In one piece, she imagines that her bed is a cloud and that her quilt is farmlands viewed from a great height. In another, she looks into the goldfish bowl in her kitchen and imagines that she is beneath the sea, riding on a shark. The series of serigraphs named “Rosy Cheeks” strikes a more serious note, depicting an unhappy girl’s contemplations of the future. By turns innocently happy, sullen, confused, and wistful, the girl’s expressions speak of the challenging emotions she faces. And in each, a small bird suggests her hopes for freedom. |
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February 2009: Pinatas, Cats, & Snails: The Whimsical Naturescapes of Meg LoweOriginal watercolors, pencil drawings and collages by Meg Lowe Meg Lowe is a self-taught artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from a very musical family. Her late father played bass trombone with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for 42 years and taught at Carnegie Mellon. Her mother was a flutist. Meg herself was a member of the Pittsburgh Recorder Society. She received an associates degree in Child Care and Child Development from the Community College of Allegheny County and worked with children in Pittsburgh for many years, spending several summers working in Chautauqua, New York. She was a member of the Pittsburgh Association for Education of Young Children. In 2001, Meg moved to Norman with her husband Lance and her cat Mischa. While Meg had art classes in middle school and high school, she did not have any additional art training until she began coming to Art for Life classes at Norman's Performing Arts Studio depot location about four years ago. She began working on her own several years ago creating meticulously detailed imaginative drawings filled with fanciful characters in bright happy landscapes. Her keen attention to tiny details distracts her from chronic foot pain she suffers due to neuropathy. Known for the sense of child-like wonder seen in her work, she enjoys designs from her environment and incorporates objects from her home with dreamy fairy tale elements. She creates watercolors, colored pencil and mixed media drawings as well as collages. A member of the Little People of America since 1981, she has been an active member both in Pittsburgh and in Oklahoma. When she is not creating artwork, Meg enjoys making craft items, reading, doing crossword and word search as well as jigsaw puzzles, going to the movies with her husband, playing with her cat, and listening to music. Her current favorites are classical, Broadway musicals, some folk, and easy listening music. |
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December 2008: Worlds from My Window: A Retrospective |
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Sondermusic is pleased to present Worlds from My Window: A Retrospective, featuring artist Solange Arana.
Arana celebrates her 60th year in the fine arts with a retrospective of her work encompassing the last twenty years. This exhibit features imaginative, playful, and often documentary photomontage compositions portraying views from her 9th floor window in Rochester, New York. Since relocating to Norman, Oklahoma in 2006 to be near family, Solange Arana is holding the first exhibit of her work in the Midwest. |