Karin Hodgins-Jones,  “Tug”

Juror, Rand Elliott of Elliott + Associates Architects in Oklahoma City selected “Tug” by artist Karin Hodgins-Jones from a pool of national submissions. The piece utilizes a 6.5 ft. x 25 ft. lycra panel installed on the gallery floor that will be manipulated by strings through series of motors and pulleys suspended 30 ft. above the gallery floor. Viewers will be able to experience the piece from the gallery floor and the 3rd and 4th floor viewing spaces that surround the gallery.

Mrs. Jones describes this piece as “an exploration into using string as the tenuous line of connection between the mechanical and the pliable. Having always been interested in language translation, the near omnipresence of machines in contemporary life and the common memory of elemental or organic movements in landscape, bodies or plants, my work creates systems that harvests these elements to create simulations of elemental or organic movement”.

Jean Lancri

Distinguished French art historian, theorist, and painter

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For more than a decade Lancri has served as the chair of the prestigious Department of Art and Art History at France’s flagship public university, the Sorbonne (Paris I–Panthéon). He is the author of two highly-considered volumes treating the art of  Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Bruegel, Fragonard, Manet, Seurat, and Klee. He is also a distinguished and prolific painter in his own right whose work has been featured in over 40 solo exhibitions in France, England, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Turkey, Russia, and the United States, During the exhibition, Lancri will spend a week in residence at the Fred Jones Art Center to share his knowledge and expertise with students in art and art history and with the broader university community.

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