by Brian Boucher for Artnet News, published August 12, 2019

Areas of vivid acrylic paint, sketchily outlined with charcoal, create a dynamic interaction, in paintings by Janice Mathews-Gordon.

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All My Sisters — on display through Aug. 31 at JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave. — features paintings inspired by family history and the persistence of the women’s rights movement. Witnessing women | Arts | 

OKLAHOMA CITY - Longtime Oklahoma City resident and beloved artist, Rebecca Wheeler, will be exhibiting her latest collection of paintings, “Woman Revealed,” at JRB Art at The Elms in The Paseo during the month of July 2019. Recently, realizing that the strength of her work has progressed so that layers of paint give way to reoccurring images which suggest and project the essence of being a woman, Wheeler has created an entire series of female nudes.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Longtime Oklahoma City resident and beloved artist, Rebecca Wheeler, will be exhibiting her latest collection of paintings, “Woman Revealed,” at JRB Art at The Elms in The Paseo during the month of July 2019.

There is a nice interplay between the larger, looser works and smaller more focused abstract acrylics of Beth Hammack. Hammack’s “Birds Utopia” show of paintings is on view through May 31 at JRB Art at The Elms gallery, 2810 N Walker.

An abstract artist attempts to reflect the issues of a “Divided” country in one of three new shows at JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N Walker. The artist is Janice Mathews-Gordon, whose acrylics are on view with mixed media paintings by Carlos Tello.

Animals seem to both inhabit and come out of clouds, waves, objects or merely swirls of graphite, in the large drawings of Haley Prestifilippo.

Prestifilippo has a show of her “Powdered Graphite” drawings, with an exhibit by Douglas Shaw Elder, at JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N Walker.

“Past, Present and Future” is the title of a show that looks back, as well as to the here and now, and future, in work by well-known and emerging artists.