NEWS/PRESS

This fall, JRB Art at The Elms will be showing two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring the bronze sculptures and photographs of Holly Wilson and the expressionistic paintings of Behnaz Sohrabian. The Exhibit opens on Friday, November 13th, from 4pm to 8pm. Guests are required to wear masks and no more than 10 guests will be admitted in the Gallery at one time.

Brunel Faris (1937-2005) was a native of Oklahoma City who received his MFA in Painting from the University of Oklahoma. As an artist, teacher and arts administrator, Brunel Faris was closely involved with the arts in Oklahoma for 40 years. A founding member of the Oklahoma City Arts Festival and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Faris was Chairman of the Art Department at Oklahoma City University and Director of the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery in OCU’s Norick Art Center. Brunel participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions in the United States and abroad. His work is represented in the Oklahoma State Art Collection, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, The Philbrook in Tulsa, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Arts Council, the Mabee Gerrer Museum, the Melton Collection, the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, as well as in many private collections in the United States, Mexico, Israel, Germany, France and Italy.

David Phelps is a critically acclaimed, internationally collected contemporary sculptor. Phelps creates large and small scale bronze sculpture for galleries and public art commissions. He was raised on his family’s farm in California’s central valley, received his BA from Humboldt State University in California and MFA in Sculpture from The University of Oklahoma. After a residency at the Kohler Co. Arts in Industry program, he began his current work of figurative bronzes, partially submerged in the ground plane. His works are represented in many public and private collections across the United States, as well as in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

Karl Brenner, "Owieler Ridge, Peak of Fall," 2019, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in., $960

Beth Hammack is an Oklahoma City artist whose work is in several important private and corporate collections. In creating her abstract paintings, she combines a loose graphite drawing style with a layered and sometimes geometric application of color. Beth graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics. She has also studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the London City School of Arts. Following graduation, Beth spent her early career as an interior designer and in the 1980’s was the founder and principal designer of a national sterling jewelry line named ZAGAL. She credits her interior design experience as giving her the ability to visualize how her work will relate to and enhance the physical environment in which it is placed.

Katherine Kerr Allen was born in Brainerd, Minnesota and raised in Oklahoma. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Graphic Design & Illustration and received her MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She is a full time studio artist, with studios in Oklahoma and Minnesota. Katherine’s work is held in museum, private and corporate collections. It has been exhibited Nationally and Internationally in venues including: Stanford University, Florida Atlantic University, University of South Florida, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, American Embassy, Belize, Taiwan National Living Center, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute, China, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Academy Art Museum at Easton, Maryland.

JRB will feature the work of Denise Duong, Gabriel Friedman, and Rebecca Wheeler in current exhibition, Continuum: The Indefinite Progress of Existence. We will be open from 4pm to 8pm on Friday, October 2nd. Masks are required and entry number will be limited to 10 at a time. The gallery will be open Tue-Sat 11am-5pm for the remainder of the exhibition, and by appointment - call 405-528-6336, send us an email or Facebook message. We encourage you to experience our wonderful new exhibitions! 

"This small series of cave paintings are from my fascinations with the Lascaux cave in the south of France. The more I read, the more I wanted to know about these prehistoric paintings. They expressed themselves with paint that told their life stores. Georgia O’Keefe said, “I find that I have painted my life things happening in my life without knowing it.” For these people they knew this was their only way to tell about their stories. The Lascaux Cave had led me to this work. There are many unexplained symbols and I have used their symbols in this art and created my own cave paintings."