![Artist Dan Garrett stands in front of his metal sculpture at [Artspace] at Untitled. Photo by Helen Grant](http://okc.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-1.46.38-AM-250x140.png "Screen Shot 2012-01-11 at 1.46.38 AM")
I met Dan Garrett at a fried chicken restaurant attached to a gas station while talking with a friend about Damien Hirst. This is funny in hindsight, considering that Garrett is the most down-to-earth artist I’ve ever met. He seems almost too grounded and earthy to be a professional artist, but his affable nature [...]
Carving out an unlikely niche of vibrant arts activities at NW 12th Street and Western Ave., Istvan Gallery prepares to celebrate four years in business with a reception this Friday. Owned and managed by Stephen Kovash, Istvan Gallery is one of four art galleries in the enclave known as Urban Art, which also includes Rick [...]
The Girlie Show was as busy as ever Friday night as attendees filed into the OKC Public Farmer’s Market off Klein St in OKC to shop the booths of new and returning female crafters and artisans. Even in The Girlie Show’s 8th year, the organizers kept the mix fresh and lively. The line wrapped around [...]
Ah, Oklahoma City in the fall: once empty box stores are temporarily reborn as Halloween supply stores; changing foliage and college football supporters compete to fill the landscape with reds and oranges; outsized pumpkins roll onto outsized lawns in historic neighborhoods. There’s something invigorating in the air. With another oppressive summer behind us and [...]
[Contributing writer, Daniel Page, pens a follow-up to last week's preview piece of the art event Horrorgasm: Pain, Pleasure, and Decadence in the Heart of Norman.] The Form and Function Lab in Norman is not a scary place under normal circumstances. It is located between Forward Foods and McNellie’s on Main Street. Residing above these [...]
Ghosts, he half thought; these are ghosts. I’m spying on the past, being re-run in front of me. The thought propelled him from hiding. If his assumption was correct then they might vanish at any moment and he wanted to drink their glory down in gulps before they did. –Clive Barker, The Great And Secret [...]
The Dustbowl Arts Market is steadily becoming something of a local tradition. Located on Campus Corner near the University of Oklahoma, the market is the collective effort of three friends, Reese Truesdell, Katie Huskerson, and Dana Scott. Most local arts fairs attract vendors from a nationwide circuit, but the Dustbowl Arts Market has built a [...]
Recently, drivers along Broadway Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City have noticed the progress of a mural, painted over two blank white faces of a two- story empty building on 9th Street. With flourescent pinks, radiating diagonal lines, graphic black-and-white eyeballs, and lots and lots of pink- its happy chaos is impossible to miss. This [...]
While still in high school near San Diego, photographer Narciso Argüelles had a chance encounter that he describes as one of the most influential of his life: He met a man who had just been hit by a car. Injured but still able to walk, Argüelles asked if the man needed help, and he recognized [...]
Critics of public funding for art often compare the money spent on works of art to lost jobs, as if these two things are in contrast: how can a government purchase art when we are facing an economic recession that results in layoffs and unemployment? In Oklahoma, a budget shortfall of $500 million is often [...]
