What to do in Oklahoma on Oct. 13, 2009
Today’s featured event:
See the exhibit “On the Road: Midwestern Landscapes,” a collection of paintings by Oklahoma artist Jeff Dodd at the Governor’s Gallery on the second floor of the state Capitol. The exhibit is on view through Nov. 29.
A native of rural Western Oklahoma, Dodd has been painting realistic portraits and landscapes for nearly 30 years. Drawing since he was a child, Dodd received his formal education from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with a degree in commercial art. After a brief stint as a student at Wichita State University, Dodd relocated to New York City to study drawing at the Art Students League under noted teacher Tony Ryder.
However, it was only after he had moved to Santa Fe in 1991 that Dodd first began painting. He credits his greatest influences as Rembrandt, a renowned artist of Realism; Monet, the “father” of Impressionism; and Francis Bacon, an Abstract Expressionist painter.
“My art means everything to me,” says Dodd in a news release. “Artists give a part of themselves to that which they create.”
Dodd, who was born in Kingfisher and lives in Enid, regularly travels from his home in northwestern Oklahoma to southwestern Kansas. His long journeys, which span 800 miles of prairieland, provide this self-described “obsessive painter” countless hours of inspiration.
Dodd also counts workmanship as an important component in his work. He was commissioned in the 1990s to create two murals, titled “Oklahoma Black Gold” and “We Belong to the Land,” to commemorate the oil and gas and agricultural industries of Oklahoma. These paintings are permanently on display on the fifth floor of the Capitol.
Besides his permanent art at the Capitol, Dodd’s artwork has been commissioned and installed at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa as well as the newly built Norman Regional Hospital HealthPlex.
The Governor’s Gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
For more information, go to www.arts.ok.gov.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
-BAM
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