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A fine art gallery located in the depot district of downtown ardmore, ok
(580) 798-5046
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Featured Artists
Alan Burris
Alan Burris is a well-known visual artist working primarily in ceramic sculpture. His artwork has been featured in numerous art galleries and has received awards on the state and regional levels. Pieces from his ‘The Ancient Ones’ sculpture collection can currently be found in multiple offices at the Oklahoma state Capitol and
Carolyn Arcure
Beads are condensed capsules of information, each with its own beauty, history and culture. Collecting handmade beads worldwide, Carolyn Arcure assembles them into Storybeads. These take many forms as unique jewelry, bookmarks, shrines and other blessings, all accompanied by tags and booklets telling their stories.
Christina Harmon
Chrissi Harmon Jewelry specializes in contemporary jewelry design made by using traditional metalworking techniques bringing quality and craftmanship to each creation. All pieces are hand fabricated, and hand finished using sterling silver, 14kt or 18kt gold, Argentium Silver, and genuine gemstones. Each piece is unique in both stone and craft, and handmade so no two are ever exactly alike.
Featured Artists
L. A. Scott
L.A. Scott paints abstracts. He explores the convergence of paint, music, and energy. His pieces are composed to music and often the repeated musical selection will become part of the title.
Sharon Burris
Sharon Burris is a fine art photographer. Most of her work is printed on reflective aluminum, giving it a rich, luminescent depth not found in traditional paper prints. She works with what she calls "composite photography," the layering of elements of several self-taken photos to create a multi-layered work that invites viewer interpretation and closer inspection to find the multi-faceted details within the piece.
Barbara Meikle
Barbara Meikle has been an artist from childhood, sketching the horses she loved and to care of in order to ride. Her bright and vibrant work includes horses elegantly in motion or the expression of whimsical donkey or the dynamic beauty of the Western landscape.
Featured Artists
The Art of Africa - Desiree Reed, Curator
Nestled amid rough terrain and lush green land lives the Native Kamba people of the Eastern Plains of Kenya. These people are known for their authentic and artistic flare depicting everyday life in their village and surrounding areas. Each of the Authentic African Batiks are on pure cotton fabric with painting from various artists from the Kamba people.
Suanne Wamsley
For more than 25 years, Suanne Wamsley has loved horses and enjoyed great success painting the magnificent animals. Since childhood, her love of art and a natural attraction to horses have melded into an extraordinary talent. Working in colored pencil, she captures every detail of her subjects and brings to life the qualities that make horses some of the most beloved animals on earth.
Traci Wright Martin
Traci Wright Martin is a charcoal and mixed media artist. The overall narrative in her portrait and figurative work addresses the idea of representation, weaving contemporary realism with abstract design elements. Her approach to mixed media utilizes charcoal as the foundation and brings combinations of paint, patterned paper collage and other experimental techniques to the finished design.
Featured Artists
Jeremy Lowe
Hand-made custom wire sculptures of various animals. Jeremy won the International Art Award of 2008 from the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
Featured Artists
Denise Dorn
The batik artwork of Denise Dorn combines indigenous patterns, different landscapes sky and exotic plant, birds and figures with southwest subjects. Her work incorporates fanciful and even mystic elements while still being recognizable. Underlying her subject matter is a connection to nature.
Rob Mattson
Over the past 30 years, the work of Rob Mattson has involved multiple genres and subgenres within the realm of editorial visual story telling. His work has been published in newspapers throughout the world, mainly in the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. Aside from periodicals, Mattson's work can also be found throughout the America 24/7 book project, via Florida 24/7, and Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, Sixth Edition. Mattson has twice earned the national honor of being AAEA's Photographer of the Year.
Rory Combs
Rory Combs grew up in an area rich in Native American history and has been intrigued by the Native American culture since childhood. Dignity is an attribute that he finds most appealing in his Native American subjects, and what he strives to convey in his sculptures.
Gregg Gibson
Gregg Gibson is new to Ardmore. He has been interested in photography all of his life but became serious after he retired a few years ago. He likes to take digital photos and manipulate them using a program called Photoscapes. Gregg likes to take pictures of his wife, Patricia's art and make them into something new.
Featured Artists
Patricia Gibson
Patricia Gibson recently moved to Ardmore from Florida. She believes artwork is a reflection of her soul. The unique encounters and education throughout her life feed her ideas. She believes art is a process to create, enjoy, experiment and relax. Patricia's favorite materials and techniques include baling wire, batik painting and mosaics using broken pieces.
Bob Bowser
Bob Bowser is a wildlife photographer. His love of nature began when he was a small boy growing up in a midwest rural community. He has captured stunning photos of wildlife in their natural habitat. His work is printed on acrylic and canvas bringing the smallest details up close, drawing the observer's eye into the photo.
Lori Snowden
Lori Snowden has had a natural love and appreciation for art, in all forms, for as long as she can remember. She continues to expand her boundaries different techniques and mediums. Her passion is to create her own variety of artwork.
Jeffrey L Gullett
Jeff has over 20 years experience working with glass and his work has been featured around the globe. Working in architectural and residential applications no challenge is too large or small. Whimsical fun with glass left over from larger projects created "The Bird". Lighthearted and guaranteed to bring a smile.
Lee Bocock
Known for her innovative compositions in oil and acrylics, Lee Bocoks's paintings demonstrate masterful draftsmanship, an unerring sense of spatial composition and design and a bold exploration of new dimensions in color and texture. Her artwork exhibits the iconic connection of humanity to animals and the environment, the visionary presence of the mystical and the cultural traditions of the past.
