LIVING WITH ART BLOG

For the 12^th consecutive year, JRB Art at The Elms will host its popular New Year’s Day Brunch celebrating the New Year and present its inaugural opening for 2015, ‘WHITE II.” This exhibit will feature the work of 25 well known artists, who at the gallery’s request, have created paintings, sculptures, wall hangings and objects that explore the various shades and tonalities of white. A jazz trio featuring Evangeline as the vocalist will assist in celebrating the New Year with their special brand of music. The “White II” exhibit will also be featured during the Paseo First Friday Gallery walk from 6:00 until 10:00 PM, Friday, January 2, 2015 and will run through January 30, 2015. The Gallery’s 2015 Art Calendar will be available throughout the month of January.

A broad and varied selection of collectible prints and drawings will be on display throughout the month of December at JRB Art at The Elms, an award winning gallery located in the Historic Paseo Arts District. The holiday show opens on Friday, December 5^th with a reception from 6:00 until 10:00 pm.

Ford Beckman, a painter who rose to prominence in the New York art scene of the late 1980's, died Tuesday at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 62. The cause of death was a heart attack.

Holly Wilson, one of five premier Native American artists that have earned the coveted title of 2015 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art announced today. Their work will be honored with a $25,000 unrestricted grant and a major group exhibition which will open one year from today Nov. 14, 2015.

A trip to Paris, France with all its architectural grandeur, expansive boulevards, monuments, secret gardens, charming restaurant and bistros, incredible light, and art treasures serves as inspiration for a new series of paintings by Denise Duong.  These narrative multi-media paintings will be featured at JRB Art at The Elms in the historical Paseo Art District along with the surrealistic animal portraits of Timothy Chapman.  The exhibit openings with a reception on Friday, November 7^th from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at 2810 North Walker.  Also on view at the Gallery will be photographs from North and South Korea and China by Mark Edward Harris.

JRB ART at The Elms ushers in Fall with two color packed solo shows featuring “Painting West” by Carol Beesley and “Aerial Landscapes and Floral” by Dallas artist, Bob Nunn. “We exhibited Carol and Bob together in 2012 and the response was so great that we decided to do it again,” states Joy Reed Belt, Director of The Elms. “Both of these artists have a very distinctive style, are masters of composition and color, as well as being superb painters,” continued Belt. The exhibitions will open on First Friday, October 3^rd at JRB Art at The Elms in the historic Paseo Arts District. Both exhibitions will run through November 1, 2014.

Carol Beesley and Bob Nunn featured in individual exhibits at JRB Art at The Elms in October.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ---“FINDING CLARITY,” an exhibition of acclaimed photographer of architecture, Judith Turner, will open on First Friday, September 5^th at JRB Art at The Elms in the historic Paseo Arts District., Turner’s work has been featured in many publications and is in the permanent collection of several institutions including: The Getty Center, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, the Eastman House Collection; the International Center of Photography, The Tel Aviv Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA----JRB Art at The Elms will have two concurrent solo shows, entitled “THE SYMBOLS WITHIN US,” featuring mixed media painter and photographer Janet O’Neal and the feminine form paintings of Behnaz Sohrabian for its August exhibition. The shows open on August 1st during the First Friday Gallery Walk, in the Historic Paseo Arts District. The opening, which is open to the public at no charge, is from 6-10:00 pm. can be seen throughout August.

JRB ART AT THE ELMS

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU

TO VIEW THE SCULPTURE AND

HEAR AN ARTIST TALK GIVEN BY

DON NARCOMEY

Friday, July 18, 2014

5:30-7:30pm