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Art 365 2008

Preview of the Art 365 Documentary film, Produced by Melissa Scaramucci & Cacky Poarch of Crazy Diamond Productions, for OVAC

ART 365 THE FILM



Synopsis
In March 2007, a new project from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition selected 6 artistic proposals from 134 entries to receive $10,000 each for creating a new body of work in one year. These Oklahoma artists would receive not only funds, but professional support from a curator who provoked and encouraged the artists to flex their creative muscles. With vastly different projects, a year that keeps getting shorter, and intense installation challenges, ART 365 documents a unique time and people committed to the artistic community.
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ART 365 THE EXHIBIT

Dates & Locations
_March 14 – April 26, 2008, Untitled [ArtSpace], 1 NE 3rd St, Oklahoma City
_Portions of the exhibition ran simultaneously at:
May 29 – June 14, Liggett Studio, 314 S. Kenosha Ave., Tulsa
May 29-June 27, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, 2930 E. 5th St., Tulsa
_August 24, Art 365 Documentary Screens at Oklahoma City Museum of Arts Noble Theatre, 415 Couch Dr., OKC, 2:00pm
_October 15, 2008 - January 11, 2009, Legion Arts at CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA

Participating Artists
Sarah Atlee, Norman
Betsy Barnum, Edmond
Joseph Daun, Oklahoma City
Ashley Griffith, Oklahoma City
Darshan Philips and Aaron Whisner working collaboratively as Live4This, Tulsa
Liz Roth, Stillwater

Catalog
To view the exhibition catalog online, please click here. (7.87 MB PDF)

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Guest Curator
Diane Barber, Co-Executive Director and Visual Arts Director, DiverseWorks, Houston

Art 365, a new exhibition from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, offered six Oklahoma artists a year and $10,000 to hone their unique approaches to art and to develop a body of work that expresses their identities as artists. Sarah Atlee, Norman; Betsy Barnum, Edmond; Joseph Daun, OKC; Ashley Griffith, OKC; Liz Roth, Stillwater; and Darshan Phillips and Aaron Whisner, Tulsa, in a collaboration called Live4This were each selected from a statewide call for proposals. Their individual points of view combined with their artistic talents granted them a place in Art 365, an exhibition of art produced during their year of work.

Each of the artists worked individually with curator Diane Barber and used the opportunity to focus intensely on progressing their bodies of art work. The artists represent a diverse cross section of art in Oklahoma, with painting, printmaking, mixed media and interactive sculpture all represented. Ashley Griffith, for example, created detailed grids of photographic images, one of which is a documentation of her life for 365 days. Betsy Barnum used a series of prints and paintings to document the growth and changes that took place in her life over the year. Sarah Atlee’s project is called Normal, OK, and includes portraits of fictional people inspired by the names of places in Oklahoma. Joseph Daun used consumer products to create functional and interactive large-scale sculptures that explore the ideas of drive and ambition. Darshan Phillips and Aaron Whisner (working collaboratively as Live4This) worked on wall-size paintings meant to trigger memories of childhood, ranging from freedom to the possibilities of play and fun. Liz Roth’s project is entitled America 101 and includes 100 small oil paintings of typical but not iconic images from all 50 states, juxtaposed with a bill-board sized painting of an iconic American commodity.

Diane Barber, Co-Executive Director and Visual Arts Curator for DiverseWorks in Houston, curated the exhibition. Art 365 is funded in part by the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Oklahoma Arts Council, Allied Arts, Kirkpatrick Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Jean Ann Fausser.

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