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Modern Farmhouse
Modern farmhouse interiors have many characteristics of what we know as traditional farmhouse design. On the other hand, things become more simplified and clean without losing their character.
Featured Artist | Julie Sneed
Julie Sneed is a local Tulsa artist with a contemporary take on animal and abstract art. Julie Sneed's art has a heavy focus on cattle ranch animals and lifestyle. Muted colors and minimal figures of animals give Sneed a simplistic yet eye-catching style.
Sunday Selects | Creating Visual Memory
Brandon Reese incorporates forms, texture and shapes in his sculpture that are repeated over and over again. The visual remnants of family, home, and the circle are all parts of his visual memories. Bernd Haussmann's work focuses on visual memory too, pairing forms that may not belong together in such a way as to have the viewer merge those shapes, colors and textures.
Minimal Elegance
The minimalist style makes an easy, beautiful living space out of any home. But it takes work to fight those decorating urges a lot of us have collected over the years. Find decorating and styling through Abersons to keep a clean sleek style inside and outside the home.
Featured Artist | Morgan Robinson
Morgan Robinson is an artist from Stillwater, Oklahoma working primarily with wood and metal. Perfecting his skills working as a custom cabinet maker then traveling to Japan and learning traditional methods of wood working used for centuries has refined his art.
Sunday Selects | abstract expressions
Bill Claps work illustrates the universal roots and common elements that are shared by all cultures, often referencing art history and language. Brenda Zappitell is inspired by the traditions and methods Abstract Expressionism. She feel a strong affinity for artists such as Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, whose work also emphasizes action and emotion over ideas. Like these artists, Brenda strive to capture fleeting images in an improvisational “alla prima” style.”
Geometric Aesthetic
Geometric art is the visualization of one or several geometric shapes, meant to create a visual sensory experience. The art is abstract, futuristic, and often colorful, portraying the created shapes in ways you never imagined possible.
Featured Artist | Mark Jackson
Mark Jackson has been a photographer for 30 years, always creating and making. In 2017, he began experimenting with his own approach to art and printmaking - “I realized I was onto something because the art I was making was like no other photography and art that I had seen before"
Sunday Selects | Deeper Tones
Deborah Colter uses subtle layers and hidden memories peek through in her artwork. Her work speaks of a path of discovery; it speaks of the unknown, of the pure pleasure of form, of line, of color. David Skillicorn explores complex spatial and color relationships through the use of texture, organic line, and sensuous fields of color. In mixed media works on canvas, Skillicorn creates sophisticated, intuitive paintings alive with surface texture, lush paint of vibrant colors in bold strokes over atmospheric passages. Skillicorn’s paintings breathe elegance, calm, joy, and exquisite beauty.
Statement Maker
Be Bold! Make a statement with your home and your wardrobe. Playful colors, strong lines draw the eye and make a memorable impact. The great thing about statement art is that it works well with any interior style, whether that’s antique, vintage, Nordic, minimal or modern.
Featured Artist | Ken Tate
Ken works with abstract painting forms and taps into something almost primordial – something archetypal. He is drawn to color and shapes and taps into pure uncontrollable creativity. His mixed media celebrity portraits are very unique impressions of the image and the individual he is working on. He has been commissioned to do over 60 celebrity portraits and even does corporate commissions as well.
Sunday Selects | Grassy Greens and Sunshine Yellows, Colors of Spring
Mark Jackson's artworks are generally focused around places, the human figure and curious objects. They walk a delicate line between the abstract and the real.Mark has spent the last several years developing a silver suspension technique for applying image to panel. The process is complex and destructive, giving the image a painterly quality. These images pair wonderfully with curated objects and furniture. Jennifer Wagner's visceral compositions are expressions of texture and layering of geometric shapes and forms. Jennifer sees these compositions as expressions of communities.
Works on Paper
Paper is one of the great artistic chameleons. This easily accessible material that’s used everyday can also be transformed into crafting incredible, gallery-worthy works of art.
Featured Artist | Hunt Slonem
Hunt Slonem is well know for his distinct neo-expressionist style. Highly influenced by nature around him, such as his 60 pet birds. This has led to him being best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes.Slonem continues to draw great inspiration from history, forging palpable connections to the past through his art.
Sunday Selects | Spring Rain
Spring Rains bring soft colors and textures to the landscape. Bernd Haussmann, AK Hardeman and Jen Bradford all derive a sense of color and spatial relationships from nature.
Love All-White Interiors and Styling
Want to keep things simple and sleek? All-white interiors will never be outdated and can always be molded into something new. Timeless all-white styling while including texture to add warmth and variety can reinvent a space.
