Aug 18 Thursday
For the first time in the region, Oklahoma Contemporary presents a monumental outdoor sculpture by Gonzalo Lebrija, one of the best-known contemporary artists living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Breve historia del tiempo (2020) is a 2,500-pound Plymouth Duster that appears to be suspended vertically over a pool of water. The sculpture is on loan from Mexico City’s famed La Coleccion Jumex. On view through March 27, 2023.
Breve historia del tiempo is presented in association with the exhibition La casa que nos inventamos: Contemporary Art From Guadalajara.
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/GonzaloLebrija
Image: Gonzalo Lebrija, Breve historia del tiempo.
100 years of wedding dresses, photographs, accessories, and more are on display now through August, Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm; closed Sundays and Mondays. A variety of stories about the couples--from the bride who was pushed around Cushing in a wheelbarrow (a local custom) to the groom who was in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1945, there's a story to appeal to everyone!
Stillwater History Museum member Dale Ingram has a unique collection of vintage movie posters, sheet music, comic books, and more—all having to do with Oklahoma. Since Dale’s collection would not all fit in one Stillwater Collects case, we decided to create a full exhibit. The first section of the exhibit focuses on the Land Run. Subsequent sections contain more state-related pop culture materials, many rare and forgotten. An interesting way to experience Oklahoma history!
The newest exhibition at the OSU Museum of Art in Downtown Stillwater highlights 22 works of art acquired by the museum from 2019 to 2021. Chosen by our collections manager, these pieces expand the museum’s holding to over 6,000 objects. Visitors to the exhibition will find a range of artworks, from famed New Yorker illustrator and cartoonist Saul Steinberg to Western landscape artist Wilson Hurley, whose impressive paintings can be seen at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Also featured in this show are a handful of celebrity photographs, including a melodramatic 1930s Greta Garbo taken by Golden Age Hollywood photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull.
Admission is FREE!The OSU Museum of Art invites you to experience a portion of its ever-growing permanent collection through this latest exhibition, made possible in part by the generosity of donors and OSU Museum of Art Advocates.
The Holiday Market will feature many hand-crafted and collectible items including but not limited to: handmade quilted items, home decor, accessories and jewelry, knitted hats and scarves, custom handmade jewelry, hand thrown stoneware, pottery and ceramics, ornaments, decorations, photographs, puppets, handmade cards, felted gifts, kids books, handcrafted dolls, for holiday, graduation shopping and other life celebrations.
Traveling from Aspen Art Museum, the exhibition Nature, Sweet Nature, by renowned artist Maren Hassinger, has been reconfigured to respond to the grounds of Oklahoma Contemporary. Nature, Sweet Nature is comprised of two installations constructed with galvanized wire rope. Garden and Paradise Regained will each stand in rows at relative human scale; one near the entrance to the art center and the other within the Sculpture Garden. Garden's uncoiled ends fan out like tall ornamental grass while Paradise Regained is comprised of lengths of industrial rope leaning in a single direction. The movement evoked by the slightly curving lines creates a kinetic effect. Rendering the metal malleable, Hassinger references the movement of reeds, grass and the wind itself. In particular, the dance of shadows cast on the ground by the curved lines of Paradise Regained will track the movement of time through the course of the day and over the year that it will be installed at Oklahoma Contemporary. The accessibility of the Sculpture Garden to visitors entering the building provides a space for what Hassinger underscores as “our tenuous relationship to nature,” connecting each viewer to what might be fragile or responsive in the interdependent nature of our ecosystem. Image: Maren Hassinger, Garden, 2020. Wire rope and concrete (144 units), 61.5 inches tall. © Maren Hassinger. Photo by Simon Klein, courtesy Aspen Art Museum.
Focusing on the artist’s body of work over the last 20 years, John Newsom: Nature's Course presents large-scale, richly textured, oil on canvas paintings of flora and fauna. The exhibition will include the brand-new, 9 x 18 foot Nature’s Course and Homecoming, another new painting referencing Oklahoma. Newsom’s work layers and combines elements of Abstract Expressionism, minimalist geometric shapes and hyperrealistic representations of animals to create complex allegories of the natural world. The mid-career retrospective of the Oklahoma-raised and New York-based artist runs March 24 to Aug. 15. Image: John Newsom, Love Flies In, 2005. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Explore the distinct cultural backgrounds that coexist at this crossroads of the country. Featuring more than a dozen contemporary artworks, Destination Oklahoma expresses the beauty and charge of cultural connection, reflecting on the patterns of migration that have long shaped life in the state. The exhibition, which includes photographs, drawings, paintings and graphic works by a handful of artists living across Oklahoma, engages questions of cultural hybridity that converge in the state.
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday | 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday | Closed Tuesdays and holidays
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/DestinationOklahoma
Image: Skip Hill, Checkers. Image courtesy of the artist.
Sci-Fi Movie Buffs are invited to join us August 18th at 6 PM for our final installment of the Summer Sci-Fi Film Series to explore the Mariana Trench after a mysterious earthquake devastates the area. Something dangerous lurks in the waters and threatens the underwater drilling and research laboratory as the cast works to come up with a plan to insure their safety. Will they make it out alive? Popcorn and Drinks will be provided courtesy of the Friends of the Stillwater Public Library. Registration is required for this event. For more information and to register, visit http://library.stillwater.org/register.php
Zen Renew is designed as a "Working In" style exercise class. In our modern day of high stress and constant demand, this practice helps bring balance to the nervous system and calm the mind. Everyone will benefit from adding this type of exercise to their routine! For those with health concerns such as high blood pressure, auto immune, thyroid, and a number of other conditions, this type of exercise is a must to bring balance back to the body. Zen Renew improves flexibility and focus using stretching, Qigong, breath work and a guided meditation all designed to increase flexibility and mental clarity. For more information visit: http://www.mindandbodyfitness.net/blog/2020/11/6/zen-renew-improve-your-focus-and-gain-clarityCost: $15 Single Class Pass $39 Video Membership & Weekly Zoom class Purchase your single class pass and show your receipt at the door: https://checkout.square.site/buy/XPHM2GC7VK4FDNPJHTGYBATS Purchase a monthly membership for access to our video library for viewing anytime: https://checkout.square.site/buy/X7EWBPRBZSFNLCCP4QUGXVNB
