Art 365

Art 365 is an exhibition from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition which offers five Oklahoma artists a year and $12,000 to create innovative artwork in collaboration with a nationally recognized curator. The artists worked with the guest curator for one year to create a body of original artwork for the exhibition, which opened in March of 2011.

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[ArtSpace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd St, Oklahoma City
March 25 - May 7, 2011
Opening Reception: March 25, 5-8 pm
Meet the Curator: April 7, 6-7 pm
Artist Talks: April 21, 6-7 pm
Closing Reception and Catalog Release: May 6, 5-8 pm

Living Arts, 307 E Brady, Tulsa
July 1 - 22, 2011
Opening Reception: July 8, 5-9 pm

Art 365 2011 Artists

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Grace Grothaus (Tulsa), Synthetic Landscape: The New OK
Grace Grothaus’ project explores contradictions within the regional landscape of Oklahoma, creating a series of critiques in the form of color-rich, three-dimensional built-up abstract landscape paintings. This series of landscapes traces the relationship between organic systems and industrial caused modifications that have occurred over time. She received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Art and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute.

Aaron Hauck (Ada), Transmutations of the Stone Age and "I Generation"
In a visual inquiry into material culture and social history, Aaron Hauck explores cultural constructs, how they are consumed, and the impact on society and the environment. Beginning with an early human tool, the Clovis point, he creatively chronicles the evolution of tools and trade to address contemporary culture’s all-encompassing obsession with technology, gadgets, and accessing information. Hauck received his MFA in Sculpture from Montana State University and he is an Assistant Professor of Art at East Central University in Ada.

Geoffrey Hicks (Tulsa), The Photographer
Re-purposing and likewise re-animating a defunct 5-foot tall, 800 pound robotic arm, Geoffrey Hicks presents a new “worker” now functioning in isolation as its single arm roves, extends, and reaches out, now re-tooled in the role of art producer. Hicks studied at the University of Oklahoma and the California Institute of the Arts.

Liz Rodda (Norman), Tomorrows
With digital video, photography, and drawing Liz Rodda presents a mediation on identity which unfolds in non-linear narratives about possibility, fate, and destiny that include both literal referents, such as fortune tellers, and less literal symbolic tropes like astrology, dreams, and stream-of-consciousness mapping. Rodda received an MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Frank Wick (Norman), Tussin Space
Frank Wick addresses several visual conceits, but most poignant and immediate in this body of work is the notion of futility - a futility that is expressed with a biting and often humorous punch. His sculptural 3-dimensional installation reworks ideas about materiality through form and color, while also reconsidering abstract terrain in the round. Wick received his MFA in sculpture from the University of Miami and his MA in design and BFA in sculpture from the University of Iowa.

Guest Curator
Shannon Fitzgerald is an independent curator and writer. She recently curated the exhibitions Brandon Anschultz: Transmission/Destination for the Center of Creative Arts and Our Commodity: Juan William Chávez, Sarah Frost, Leslie Mutchler for the Regional Arts Commission, both in St. Louis. Fitzgerald was Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis where she curated the exhibitions Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa and co-curated with Tumelo Mosaka the Contemporary's inaugural and traveling exhibition A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad. Additionally, she curated solo exhibitions of new work by international artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Michael Paul Britto, Dzine, Yun-Fei Ji, Larry Krone, Michael Lin, Ruby Osorio, Keith Piper, and William Pope.L, along with accompanying publications, among others. Fitzgerald was Adjunct Faculty in the department of Art and Art History at Webster University, St. Louis. She has published many essays on contemporary artists and has contributed to the art journals Bootprint and Review Magazine. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and a MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Prior to moving to St. Louis, Fitzgerald worked at the Institute of Visual Arts (inova), University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Fitzgerald recently relocated to Oklahoma City and was just accepted as a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

For more information about Art 365, please call OVAC at 405-879-2400.

Art 365 2011 is sponsored by:
National Endowment for the Arts
George Kaiser Family Foundation
Jean Ann Fausser
Oklahoma Arts Council
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Oklahoma Humanities Council
National Endowment for the Humanities
John McNeese and John Richardson
Ad Astra Foundation
Robert and Cara Barnes
Andy and Sue Moss Sullivan
Anonymous
Richard Pearson
Ann Simmons Alspaugh
Ira and Sandy Schlezinger
Sandy and Bob Sober
Carl and Beth Shortt