Past Exhibitions

Photo: Ken Crowder, Disobedient Planets, photograph Audrey Schmitz, Window for the World, photograph

August 25 to September 29, 2006
TURN: Photographic Images by Ken Crowder and Audrey Schmitz

With their Artsplace exhibit, TURN, artists Ken Crowder and Audrey Schmitz will present recent photographic images that result from “following their senses.” Their works result from making choices - electing to take a turn in the road in anticipation of what may be revealed on the journey. This childlike sense of discovery underlies their optimistic search for balance and order in the world, even though the harshness and intensity of modern society often overpowers the senses.

Audrey and Ken approach the clutter of the world by applying a visual filter in order to see in a new way, to face a new direction, and to turn their camera on a subject in ways that are unique to each of them. Within this individuality of vision, a fundamental shared sensibility and aesthetic is revealed from this couple of eighteen years. This exhibit is made possible with the assistance of ConocoPhillips, Head Country Barbecue, Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Nicholas Kyle, Santa Fe No.35, acrylic on canvas, 48' X 36"

July 7 to August 18, 2006
Recent Work by Nicholas Kyle

Recent Works by Nicholas Kyle opened July 7 and ran through August 18, 2006. Nick Kyle extensively explores a variety of two and three-dimensional mixed media. Color has always been a central theme in his work. His large colorfield landscape paintings and mixed media constructions have been in twenty-six solo exhibitions and over sixty group shows.

His work is in many private collections including the State Art Collection of Oklahoma, Tinnin Fine Arts Center at Three Rivers Community College, the Mabee-Gerrer Museum and the Nestle Purina Corporate Collection. He is currently represented by the M.A. Doran Gallery in Tulsa, the Locus Gallery in St. Louis, the Ascencio Design Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, the Gallery 219, Tubac, Arizona, and Chicago, Ill.

Kyle received a BA in 1965 from the University of Central Oklahoma and received an MA in Painting and Design in 1972 from Purdue University. He is currently Chair of the Art Department at Missouri Southern State University.

This exhibit is made possible with the assistance of Pat Mulligan and George Ferguson with AG Edwards and ConocoPhillips.

Sue Moss Sullivan, “From the Roof” Hand-woven waxed linen, pressed, metal hanger, 58" X 11"

May 19 to June 30, 2006
MESSAGES: Recent Work by Sue Moss Sullivan

Sue Moss Sullivan is a fiber artist living in Oklahoma City. She has studied weaving and the textile arts since l972. Her work has evolved from traditional tapestries, shawls and afghans to woven and shaped sculptural pieces for the wall or in three dimension. She continues to study the history of textiles which strongly influences her work, whether weaving, collage, or mixed media.

She writes about her upcoming exhibit at Artsplace: “Most cultures proclaim messages and announcements through signs, banners, or letters. These pieces are my interpretation and abstraction of this practice. Woven waxed linen presented alone, with papers, or simply knotted and twisted, is the latest stage in my evolution with textiles.”

Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally. most recently in the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s biennial exhibition VisionMakers which opened on March 11 at the Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton and at the Wichita Center for the Arts in Wichita, Kansas.

Kreg Kallenberger, Osage Moon, glass, 13"x8"x4" Grant McClintock, Birch Lake, photograph, 11"x18

April 7 to May 12, 2006
BACK TO THE OSAGE: New work by Kreg Kallenberger and Grant McClintock

Oklahoma artists Grant McClintock and Kreg Kallenberger have received wide recognition in their respective fields of photography and glass sculpture. Working from the Hundred Monkey Ranch and Studio near Pawhuska, they return to their roots for this exhibition, exploring the enduring beauty and allure celebrated by Woody Guthrie as the land of the great Osage.

Over the past two decade, Kallenberger has received international acclaim for his sculpture. His work has been widely exhibited and is represented in dozens of museum collections including the American Craft Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs-Lausanne, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

Grant McClintock is a native Oklahoman with family roots in the Osage. McClintock has been a photographer for forty years. He has published two books of photographs, Flywater and Watermark. In Flywater, the magic and majesty of the Western North American fly fishing experience is captured with consummate skill through the photography of Grant McClintock. While in Watermark, you will find the unforgettable record of a unique odyssey--a stunning photographic and written account of fly fishing past and present in the eastern waters of North America. McClintock is currently the artist in residence at the Hundred Monkey Ranch.

This exhibit was made possible with the assistance of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

February 24 to March 31, 2006
Ceramics by Laurie Spencer
Masks by Patrick Riley

Laurie Spencer of Tulsa, OK creates ceramic sculptures which are fantastic hybrids of vegetable forms. There are also duo-toned whistles inspired by Pre-Columbian pottery from Columbia. Through wind and sound, the mysterious space within the vessel is given a voice. Spencer teaches at Holland Hall.

Patrick Riley is a nationally recognized mask maker and artist. He has exhibited masks and presented masks workshops in many places including the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and the Fairtree Gallery of Contemporary Craft in New York City. He is on the Oklahoma Arts Council's Artist in Residence Program. He teaches in the Oklahoma City School system.

Both artists have exhibited their work nationally and have works included in museum collections in the United States. Opening Reception is Friday, February 24, 2006 at 6:00 to 8:00 PM.