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Residency Artist Sarah Hearn

Symbiotic Cooperation

Statement: Lichens are unusual composite organisms that exist only through symbiotic partnerships between fungi and alga or cyanobacteria. Taking my cue from this collaborative gestalt, Symbiotic Cooperation explores the power and impact of collaboration with other people and is dependent on public participation. Lichens have been collected and submitted internationally. Each sample received has been: identified, described, scanned, photographed, drawn by hand and added to the display. The display will change as discoveries are made and new lichens added. Upon the exhibition’s completion, these samples will become publicly accessible for future study at the University of Central Oklahoma and the Oxley Nature Center herbariums. Bio: Sarah Hearn is a visual artist and citizen researcher who explores the ways in which our culture uses the constructs of science and art as powerful systems of belief. Originating in photography, her artwork combines endless possibilities of mixed media including drawing, collage, sculpture, sound, video and installation. www.instituteofaquaticresearch.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Symbiotic Cooperation: Concept/OK Residency Artist Sarah Hearn OVAC Blog Post - Sarah Hearn: Mimicking Symbiotic Organisms OVAC Blog Post - 8% of the Earth's Surface: Sarah Hearn OVAC Blog Post - You Are a Scientist? Concept/OK: Sarah Hearn View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Residency Artist Gregory Ruppe

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Statement: Commonplace among households, the piano occupies a space of both reverence and burden. It is simultaneously cherished and unwanted. Its historical presence is bound to a collective memory that resists our willingness to discard it, though its typical inactivity reduces the object to an impractical piece of furniture inhabiting dead space. Using the piano as metaphor for greater social constructs, things will never be the same takes an indeterminate position to question our nostalgia for the past, our relationship with the present, and the potential of activation when relinquishing control to the unknown. Bio: Gregory Ruppe is an artist, writer, and educator from Houston, Texas. Utilizing a broad range of mediums including castings, drawings, video, and sound to create installations and project-based works, his work has been exhibited regionally and internationally. He is also a founding member of Fort Worth based art collective HOMECOMING!. gregoryruppe.com Additional Links: OVAC Blog Post - Probing Collective Memory: Gregory Ruppe View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Residency Artist Narciso Argüelles

Heaven Spots

Statement: Heaven Spots is an old urban art term that refers to high areas on buildings where street art is done; it also references the perils of working on such hard-to-reach sites. Public art has a long tradition in the Mexican culture that I—and the many Mexican-Americans in Oklahoma—belong to, from the Aztec murals, the frescoes of Diego Rivera, and the 1960s Chicano murals. My art reaffirms my culture and also protests injustices by reinterpreting familiar objects and icons in an unexpected manner. House Bill 1804 is an example of the anti-immigration climate in Oklahoma that I fight against. For me, this is part of my culture. This is not Street Art. Bio: Narciso Argüelles is an artist and educator who grew up in Mexico. His art has been exhibited all over the world including: the Ninth Biennale of Sydney, Australia and the First Johannesburg Biennale in South Africa. Argüelles’ goals include the promotion, preservation, and celebration of Mexican, Chicano, and Indigenous art. nastudiosokc.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Heaven Spots: Concept/OK Residency Artist Narciso Argüelles Crosses Borders of Identity and Art OVAC Blog Post - Life at the Border: Narciso Argüelles OVAC Blog Post - Narciso Argüelles' Disclosures: Concept/OK Residency OVAC Blog Post - Multilayered: Narciso Argüelles KFOR - Is This a Great State or What? segment with Narciso Argüelles View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Romy Owens

A Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow

Statement: I feel disconnected from nature, and I sense I am not alone. I am surrounded by plastic, glass, steel and concrete. I spend more time in front of a flickering screen than I do outdoors. The bright golden haze on the meadow is controlled by a corporation, and my inability to access the unadulterated landscape makes me incredibly nostalgic. Bio: Romy Owens is a contemporary artist living in Oklahoma City. She spends most of her time taking photographs and sewing them together. romyowens.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange OVAC Blog Post - Composed Emotional Landscapes: Romy Owens View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Jason Carron

Don't Think About It

Statement: The command "don't think about it" is generally an inward command to ourselves. It is a popular coping mechanism we use to overcome many things. Giving ourselves the permission to ignore or overlook something can relieve internal conflicts and stresses. Although this mechanism is usually criticized, it is necessary because of the overwhelming amount of information available. This artwork provokes thought (as most artworks do), but at the same time it outwardly rejects thought. This puts the viewer in an ironic situation. The moving, monstrous heads create a facade which seems to discourage entry. The best thing is to turn back and do not think about it. Bio: Jason Carron was born in Perryville, Missouri and now lives in Kansas City, Missouri. He enjoys education and is currently studying at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His interests include contemporary art, traveling, coffee roasting, Miles Davis jazz, outdoor activities, recycling, and atmospheric science. jasoncarron.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Geoffrey Krawczyk

Statement: Breaking Bread is a performance art piece that seeks to address the reality of Native and non-Native America today. The title refers to the act of eating as ritual for dialog. Both our common heritage and the challenges of today’s environment demand serious consideration and sharing a meal is an excellent way to begin. Part dinner party, part political action, the idea is to come together as people and frankly address the difficulties that stand in the way of mutual progress.www.breakingbreadproject.com Bio: Geoffrey Krawczyk was born in Oklahoma in 1978. In 2006, he completed his BFA at the University of Oklahoma and received his MFA at the State University of New York – Buffalo in 2010. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at South Western Oklahoma State University. www.geoffreyk.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange OVAC Blog Post - Breaking Bread: Geoffrey Krawczyk View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Garry Noland

Statement: I mark time and make things by building up layers of material. It has been a fundamental occupation of mine for as long as I can remember. I think of my grandmothers’ rag rugs and quilts made from scraps of old cloth. They wouldn’t have called themselves artists but they did what artists do: transforming material and experience into new identity and function. I am finding out what the correct level of finish is in each work, the whole body of work and what goes with what. Bio: Garry Noland's exhibits in 2012/2013 include solo and group shows at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS), School 33 Art Center (Baltimore), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), Indianapolis Art Center, The Studios, Inc (Kansas City) and ROYGBIV (Columbus). He earned a B.A. (History of Art) from University of Missouri-Kansas City. garrynolandart.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange OVAC Blog Post - Blamm! Garry Noland View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Cory Imig

Failing Structure

Statement: My work is primarily installation based, placing various ideas in the same space and asking the viewer to draw connections. I organize information, meticulously categorizing everyday situations, interactions among other people, and my relationship to the world around me. After spending a major part of this past year focusing on the idea of curating and the organization of exhibitions, I realized how closely related those ideas are to the work that I produce. I highlight and emphasize patterns of time, whether those patterns exist in my daily activities or are embedded in ideas I find interesting. Bio: Cory Imig is an interdisciplinary artist currently working in Kansas City, Missouri. She has participated in numerous group shows including the Charlotte Street Foundation's Project Space and Spray Booth Gallery along with several residencies including the Vermont Studio Center. Imig is also a co-curator of the curatorial collaborative, Plug Projects. www.coryimig.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artists Charlie Mylie & Lindsey Griffith

72 Ours Together

Statement: There is a card from a deck of propositions, the Oblique Strategies, which reads: "Gardening, Not Architecture." This is how Lindsey and Charlie approach experience creation. They cultivate nourishing moments with interpersonal tools like honesty, receptivity, fearlessness, sincere zeal, and the youthful strength of YOLO [you only live once] in the fertile beds of novelty, intimacy, danger, excitement, desire, and experiments. Lindsey and Charlie have been experimenting with intimacy and playing together across Kansas City since they met in June 2012. Their efforts and findings have been channeled into art projects, a to-do list consultation service, KC Free Skool classes, and a zine, The Sweetness of Raw Fruit. Bio: Lindsey Griffith is a Kansas City artist and performer. She currently creates zines, to-do lists, and visceral experiences for herself and others. She makes sets and performs as Wet Clown on the traveling faux public-access kids show Whoop Dee Doo. Her current to-do list includes making piñatas and a cardboard refrigerator. Charlie Mylie likes to have fun; he finds fun in the educational encounters between the everyday and the absolutely novel. He works in a gallery, teaches art classes at a community center, and participates in the fresh, local educational models of Rad School and KC FREE SKOOL. Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Aaron Hauck

Statement: My work represents my trepidation with consumerism and how it has affected American culture and environment. Material and form are used to create dialog between the banalities of modern consumerism, and their relationship with the environment. The represented forms and the parts used to make them provide visual clues to decipher meaning. While not every piece completely resembles the last, I make similar formal and conceptual considerations with recurring subject matter. I purposely avoid leaving evidence of my own hands in the work. I prefer a machined aesthetic that appears to have been produced by automated assembly. Bio: Aaron Hauck is a visual artist, professor, and designer currently working in northeastern Oklahoma. He grew up in Joplin, Missouri and Miami, Oklahoma. His education includes an MFA in sculpture from Montana State University. He has received numerous awards and grants for his work and has exhibited nationally and internationally. www.aaronhauck.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange OVAC Blog Post - Fabricated Consumption: Aaron Hauck View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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Focus Artist Grace Grothaus

Re(View) in Situ: Tulsa

Statement: In our lifetimes a shift from raw life to life virtually interpreted has taken place. The city, being a physical manifestation of our collective aspirations and our digital tools, is beginning to reflect this shift. With the ever increasing amount of time that we spend on our computers and smartphones (often even while walking, driving or doing other things) we are beginning to live in two planes, the real and the virtual, simultaneously. Have you ever wondered if our virtual lives are beginning to shape our physical reality? Bio: Grace Grothaus’ artworks exist in the intersection between painting, digital media, and screen culture. Grothaus is a past Art 365 artist and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awardee. Her work has been featured in This Land Press, yahoo.com, and has been exhibited from coast to coast and abroad. www.gracegrothaus.com Additional Links: Art Focus Oklahoma article - Concept/OK: Focus, An Oklahoma and Kansas City Exchange OVAC Blog Post - Augmented Landscapes: Grace Grothaus View the full Concept/OK catalog online.

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