When Worn

Exhibit Dates: March 2—26, 2020

When Worn features the work of emerging and established jewelers and metalsmiths from across the nation.

When Worn highlights the act of adornment. When placed on the body, jewelry, transforms not only the appearance of its wearer, but it inserts itself between the adorned and audience as a signal and an invitation . . .  read more

Can’t Touch This: Visualization and Technology

Exhibit Dates: April 10-19, 2018
Closing Reception: April 19, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This unique exhibit, including members from the UCO Design Department, represented digital visualization methods in the form of Augmented and Virtual Reality. There was no physical media, only projected or display driven imagery, ranging in scale from phones and tablets . . .  read more

Momentum: Spotlight Artists

Exhibit Dates: March 13-29, 2018
Opening Reception: March 13, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition supports Oklahoma’s emerging artists, aged 30 and under through their annual exhibition, Momentum. This exhibition, curated by guest curator Katherine Brodbeck and emerging curator Bianca Martucci-Fink, includes a survey of 76 artworks . . .  read more

CONTINUUM

Exhibit Dates: March 1-29, 2018
Opening Reception: March 1, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The Melton Gallery is pleased to host the group exhibit CONTINUUM, showcasing the legacy of past and present UCO ceramics faculty Gayle Singer, Barbara Weidell, and Eric Hoefer, and the work of CFAD’s new Dean, Steve Hansen in March of 2018. This dynamic group of ceramists . . .  read more

Mindscape: The Subjective Realism of Steve Breerwood

Exhibit Dates: February 1-22, 2018
Opening Reception: February 1, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Steve Breerwood’s paintings, while varying in subject, all relate back to the relationship with his inner-self, “the space between my own ears.” His oil paintings, which represent both figurative and imaginative scenes of individuals in solitude, blue-collar . . .  read more

Layered Perspectives

Exhibit Dates: November 2-30, 2017
Opening Reception: November 2, 2017 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

In this multiple exposure photography series, UCO New Media Faculty, David Webber, explores the idea of “making something out of nothing” in his photographs inspired by Alred Stieglitz’s cloud series, Equivalents. These photographs start with images from . . .  read more

Synthesis (Re)Action: Aesthetics in the Arts and Sciences

Exhibit Dates: October 5-26, 2017
Opening Reception: October 5, 2017 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

A synthesis reaction is a chemical reaction in which two or more simple substances combine to form a more complex product. In UCO Art faculty Elizabeth Brown’s work, we see the combination of the visual arts and sciences, the creation of works that mirror elements . . .  read more

Brandi Downham: Restructuring Vulnerability

Exhibit Dates: September 4-28, 2017
Opening Reception: September 7, 2017 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

UCO alumnae Brandi Downham opens up the fall 2017 school year with her solo exhibit, Restructuring Vulnerability. Her abstract paintings, both large and medium scale, explore personal identity and emotion through fluid colors, structured lines, and glimpses . . .  read more

Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo

Exhibit Dates: May 15-June 20, 2017
Opening Reception: June 1, 2017 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Consisting of 41 black-and-white photographs taken between 1988 and 1992, the exhibit documents the gay rodeo circuit and the lives of many of its participants in those years. The collected body of work not only serves as a stunning example of black-and- white portraiture . . .  read more

Meditative Spaces

Exhibit Dates: April 6-20, 2017
Opening Reception: April 6 | 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Yoga, meditation and abstract works from Brandon Mitts and Katie Henderson.