Most exhibits have original works of art available for sale at the conclusion of exhibit dates. Prices available upon request.
 

Native American Exhibition

July 1 - August 25, 2011

This collection of historical William Soule photographs will be featured along with Oklahoma Native American Artists Tony Tiger, John White and Annette Sinesio. Soule, a Civil War veteran, made an important series of Native American portraits at Fort Sill, Oklahoma between 1868 and 1874. Tony Tiger is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma and of Muscogee Creek and Seminole descent. He is the Director of Art and Assistant Art Professor at Bacone College. Tiger uses paint, photographs and three dimensional materials to investigate and expound on the human experience. Artist John White is of Cherokee lineage, was born and raised around the plains Indians of Anadarko. White, a watercolor visionary, draws upon his imagination and boyhood experiences of fishing and camping for the majority of his work. His major shows include Red Earth, Texas Indian Market, Colorado Indian Market and the Southwest Rendezvous. Annette Sinesio, a ceramic artist, received her Master’s Degree of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. Growing up around a mother of Mohawk decent and a step-father of Cherokee decent greatly influenced her artistic creativity. Sinesio works mainly in red clay, creating hand built sculptures primarily of slab and coil construction.

Jim Dodson

August 30 - October 12, 2011

Ardmore native Jim Dodson creates unique pieces by incorporating simple, geometric shapes and found objects; both natural and man-made, into sculpture with a modernistic approach. Materials for his works range from various mixed metals, including mild steel, stainless steel, bronze, copper and titanium.

Ed Freeman

August 30 - November 5, 2011

California-based artist Ed Freeman will feature a selection of digitally altered photographs from two series, Desert Realty and Urban Realty, in his exhibition at the Goddard Center. Most of Freeman’s photographs focus on roadside structures abandoned by human interest and resuscitated to their original iconic value by Photoshop. As a photographer, Freeman was influenced by Bernd and Hilla Becher who were postwar German photographers who documented the decaying factories, water towers, houses and other structures of a vanishing industrial infrastructure.

 Chance Dunlap

Opens October 14, 2011

Chance Dunlap is well known in the North Texas/Southern Oklahoma art circuit. His current body of work stems from his passion for natural history, industrial revolution technology, and cultural artifacts where vintage toys, unusual plant forms, antique fishing lures, obsolete farm equipment, and many other objects become his points of departure. He strives to give his sculptures a livelihood and personality of their own with each standing alone by itself in terms of craftsmanship and form while giving overall presence to the entire body of work.
 

Oklahoma’s University
of Science & Arts

Seven State
Biennial Juried Exhibit

November 15 - December 17, 2011

Closing Reception:
Saturday, December 17 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Art Gallery at Chickasha, OK received 255 entries for its Seven-State Biennial competitive exhibition of media. Artists who reside in Oklahoma or one of the six contiguous states – Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico or Texas – were invited to submit. Sculptor Jesús Moroles curated an eclectic mix of 45 colorful works in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, mixed media, and photography.

Tracy Jarmon

December 22, 2011 - January 28, 2012

Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 22, 2011 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

New Orleans’s artist Tracy Jarmon incorporates religion and spiritual symbolism in his paintings and collages, which use a combination of acrylics, oil pastels, spray paint, and other mixed media. Jarmon currently has two exhibitions in the French Quarter; one at Milk Studio and another at Studio 831. Flooding from hurricane Katrina destroyed Jarmon’s workspace and most of his paintings. Some unfinished works and other works ready for sale were left floating in floodwater for days. Jarmon managed to salvage and restore some of the pieces, integrating the stains and watermarks into the finished works.
 

 Rob Vander Zee

February 1 - March 9, 2012

Virginia based artist Rob Vander Zee paints fantastic worlds filled with imagined plants and mutant human-like creatures. He uses a complex layering system of oil glazes to achieve surfaces that offer both depth and luminosity. His work expresses his fascination with how science is reshaping life on Earth. He majored in both painting and drawing at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and went on to obtain his M.F.A. from Michigan State University. He studied with Larry Blovits, a painter who taught Old Master’s techniques in oil painting. Vander Zee was influenced by 17th century Flemish still life, and by figural paintings of the 1980’s.

Annual All Schools Exhibit 2012

March & April 2012

Each year the Goddard Center showcases the artwork of students from area schools in its Annual All Schools Exhibit. This event is always a community favorite. In keeping with its mission of providing art education for the youth of south central Oklahoma, over seventy art education scholarships are awarded annually during this exhibit. Receptions are held for elementary, middle and high school art students, and are highly attended by hundreds of parents, grandparents and numerous family members.

43rd Annual Juried Exhibition 2012

May 8 - June 2, 2012

Each year artists from Oklahoma and surrounding states submit hundreds of entries to the Goddard Center’s Annual Juried Exhibit. Over $1,000 in cash prizes are awarded.