Past Exhibitions

Shane Hemberger Landscape with Beaver Lake, Oil on Canvas, 56” X 56”

November 18 to December 23, 2005
Paintings by Shane Hemberger

From time-to-time, Artsplace Ponca City will spotlight work by young promising artists, and Shane Hemberger is one of those artists.

Shane Hemberger recently obtained a BFA at Oklahoma State University and participated in several group exhibitions. His work usually has figurative and abstract elements simultaneously and covers a variety of subject matter.

Hemberger writes, “My work usually centers on the human figure but often includes, or is exclusively about, landscape and still life themes. My paintings tend to discard larger social and political themes. Instead, they seem to favor a more personal and intimate revelation of self and artistic process and simple pleasure with material and its transformation. My work fluctuates between figurative and abstract elements using thick oil paint in both controlled and dynamic gesture. Each painting is a stepping stone in a continual evolution but without precise intent. Instead each work is an ever greater and complex layering of experience and simplifying of visual form and design.”

His work was included in the 2005 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Painting Biennial, a landscape exhibit at the Philbrook Art Museum in Tulsa and the Emerging Artist Exhibit at the Kirkpatrick Center in Oklahoma City.

 

Gloria Abella de Duncan  "Dreamer from Jaffa" acrylic on canvas 42"x42"

October 7 to November 12, 2005
Paintings by Gloria Abella de Duncan

Gloria Abella De Duncan has an MA from SUNY, Buffalo, and studied with Larry Rivers and John Cage. She has an international career having won major awards, exhibited, and taught in the U.S., Israel, Latin America, Europe, and China. Her work is in private collections, museums and corporations throughout the Americas and Europe. She is currently a studio artist and Lecturer at Oklahoma Baptist University. Her work is included in the collections of Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL, Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia, National Museum, Bogotá, Colombia, Museum of Latin American Graphic Arts, San Juan, PR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Morelia, Mexico. Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, Colombia. Museum of Graphic Arts, Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Steven Brown Skyline Park: Grassy Knoll V5 digital collage pigment inkjet 12"X24"

August 23 to September 27, 2005
Digital Photography: The Manipulated Image
Guest Curator: Kenneth Crowder

Digital Photography: The Manipulated Image was curated by Ken Crowder, a photographer and an instructor at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa. The exhibit surveyed the works of four artist/photographers. Steven Brown, Associate Professor of Art at University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha; Charles Rushton, photographer, Norman; Andrew Strout, Associate Professor of Art at University of Oklahoma, Norman. And Todd Stewart, Associate Professor of Art at University of Oklahoma, Norman. This exhibit is made possible with the assistance of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

CHIEF QUANAH PARKER William Lenny and William Sawyer,  c. 1889-1991, gelatin silver print 20"X16" Courtesy Joe Swalwell

July 5 - August 16, 2005
Photographs: In Citizens Garb: Southern Plains Native Americans 1889-1891

This extraordinary exhibit explores the ways dress—and life—changed for the Kiowa, Comanche, and affiliated tribes during the 1880s and 1890s. Indian reservations in Oklahoma and Indian Territories opened during this era, coinciding with large-scale efforts by the United States government to force western Native American tribes to adapt Euro-American ways. These efforts were meant to "civilize" the native peoples. This exhibit is sponsored by Exhibits USA , a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1972.

June 3 – July 2, 2005
Robert Bubp: Installation

Robert Bubp: Installation

Robert Bubp is a member of the art faculty at Wichita State University. He has participated in four solo and 17 group exhibitions in venues ranging from Wichita to Kouvala, Finland.Geo Logic comprises a parallax view of land use and production. Using videos, steel map paintings and site earth, the exhibit documents and contrasts EPA Superfund sites with large rural lots for sale in Kansas and Oklahoma. The exhibition interrogates and reflects the cultural production of space — how we use land, how we value it, how we categorize and specialize it, and the possibility and responsibilities of land ownership are cause for inquiry. What happens when the land is no longer useful — is it disposable, like much of our culture? The work has been classified into four groups, to reflect the documenting and collecting process. Group A consists of small steel map paintings of large rural lots in Kansas, where land is often in surplus, especially in western Kansas. Group B includes the larger map paintings of degraded sites in Kansas and Oklahoma. Steel suggests a plan etched for permanence; rust and surface materials communicate that the plan has gone awry. Group C is earth from a number of sites. The sod clumps will gradually die as the exhibition progresses. Group D are the two videos, recorded from the car; they use the same audio track and compositional structure, conflating the very distinct land management practices documented in each.
 

Dean Bloodgood "Windfall near Serpent Lake" oil on canvas, 58" by 72"

April 29 – May 28, 2005
Paintings by Dean Bloodgood

Dean Bloodgood received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He moved to Los Angeles where he received his M.F.A. from the University of Southern California in 1960. Bloodgood supported himself with various jobs and developed his painting and drawing. He taught for a year at the University of Illinois and then accepted a position at Oklahoma State University in 1964. Bloodgood retires in the spring of 2005. This exhibit is made possible with the assistance of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

March 18 – April 23, 2005
Paintings by Brent Greenwood and Sculptures by Randy Marks

Brent Greenwood Butterfly Composition N. 2, acrylic on canvas 36"X24"

Brent Greenwood is a Ponca/Chickasaw painter who lives in Edmond. His mixed media paintings derive their inspiration from historical events, emotional or spiritual traditions and his interpretation of Indians in the 21st Century. Greenwood is currently working on a mural for the Ponca Tribal offices in Ponca City. Randy Marks is a sculptor who lives in Oklahoma City. His primary medium is welded he also works in wood and mixed media. Most of his sculptures are abstract; some are abstracted figures. His latest commission was dedicated in October 2005 for the performing art center on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa. This exhibit is made possible with the assistance of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

January 29- March 12, 2005
Women of Biblical Proportions

Patty Hieb "Candance", 22"X22"  quilt

This exhibit is about the women of the Bible, featuring 50 22” x 22”quilts by 47 artists from 22 states. The exhibit was organized by Ruth Harris of Hinton, OK and Chantelle Cory of Broken Arrow, OK, and highlights modern quilt making as an art form, introduces viewers to a group of today’s established and emerging quilt artists, and tells the stories of ancient women through modern artistic impression.

 

December 30, 2004 to January 22, 2005
All That Southwest Jazz, Oklahoma Museums Association

All That Southwest Jazz

This is a photographic exhibit which features Oklahoma legends instrumental in creating the music form that was to become known as "jazz." Narrative text and historic photographs trace Oklahoma blues lineage from Count Basie, who began his climb to stardom from Oklahoma City's "Blue Devils," to Yale native Chet Baker's contribution to the art form.