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‘Art Now: The Soul is a Wanderer’ opens at OK Contemporary
by okcfriday
Robert Clements, the president of the Board of Trustees of Oklahoma Contemporary, and his wife Sody; Art Now Opening Ceremony Honorary Chairman Annie Bohanon; OK Contemporary Director Jeremiah Davis and patrons Glenna and Dick Tannenbaum. The Opening Celebration broke all records with over 700 people in attendance.
Oklahoma Contemporary marked the opening of “Art Now: The Soul is a Wanderer” with a lively evening full of music, food and cocktails.
The opening of the biennial exhibition, which highlights new and recent art from a selection of 600, takes its title from a line in the poem, A Map to the Next World by 2019-2022 United State Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. Working across painting, sculpture, video, installation, performance, photography and ceramics, 13 artists draw inspiration from the poem to capture moments of passage, reckoning and renewal.
Attendees explored the interactive Learning Gallery, where they drew their own maps to the future using artist Isa Be Rodriguez’s prompts and listened to a recording of Joy Harjo reading her poem, A Map to the New World.
The exhibition is on view through Jan. 15, 2024.
Above: Lori Burson, Robin Fields and Michelle Tibbs. At right: OKCPHIL Executive Director Brent Hart and Kirsten Reynolds.
