What to do in Oklahoma on Aug. 10
Today’s featured event:
See mixed-media work by Norman artist B.J. Wood today at the Governor’s Gallery at the state Captiol.
Her exhibit, “Nature’s Sketchbook,” is on view through Sept. 20 in the Governor’s Gallery, on the second floor of the State Capitol. The gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
As a practicing studio artist for more than 30 years, Wood expresses her appreciation and concern for the natural environment through her artwork. The mixed-media artist attributes her affection for countryside landscape as well as close-up views of nature’s inhabitants to growing up on a farm in central Indiana.
“As an artist, my interest in natural history, the environment and its preservation provides motivation for using nature’s discarded items as collectibles in my design process,” she says in a news release.
Her intent “is to focus the viewer’s attention to this fleeing glimpse of nature as one travels thru the landscape. An unimaginable variety of colors, textures and combinations are provided as creative sources for the artist and observer. As a landscape artist, my visual soul is continually fed by observation of commonplace scenes – a lake, distant trees silhouetted against the sky, farmed land and woods. Both the serenity and force of these scenes are apparent in my work.”
Wood earned a bachelor of art degree with honors from Pennsylvania State University and a master of fine art in printmaking and design from the University of Oklahoma. Her work has been exhibited in more than 450 juried and invitational shows throughout the United States and abroad, and her work is in numerous collections. Wood has been involved with the arts as a festival coordinator, curator, museum’s assistant preparator and artist-in-residence. She previously taught at the University of Oklahoma and will be teaching at Oklahoma City University in the fall of 2009.
For more information, go to www.arts.ok.gov.
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-BAM
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