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The Student Portfolio of Mark D. Wittig
April 26,
Opening 5:00 – 7:00
Gallery Talk at 6:00

Does the educational system willingly adapt to include the artist or does the system turn its back on them? Does it ever search out their knowledge? Does the job market (ever) do the same? Does our society at large put labels on the artist and push them to the fringes of society? As a teaching artist am I part of the problem or part of the solution. Come and find out at this one night only display of work from the student portfolio of Mark D.Wittig. The show will be a mix of Mark’s past and present students.The artist that will be part of this show will use photography, installations,new music, and performance art to create a one time only event at the Myers Gallery at Living Arts of Tulsa. You must come and be part of this event with us.

 



A Restorative Place:
The Butterfly Lantern
Installation by Tulsa Artist Yiren Gallagher,
Opens May 1, 5-9pm and continues
through May 22 at Living ArtSpace.

The lantern exists in Chinese culture as part of a complex relationship between known and unknown. The Artist’s giant lantern is placed centrally – signifying the end to a trip, where things are meant to be, where they are placed, the elements combined in a mystical world. As a result, the lantern is not a monument but a traveling device.  The lantern is covered with a translucent skin, imbued with butterfly spirits; this lantern is an inwardly compelling talisman, and acts as a guide to lost souls, ending their endless traveling.
 
“My motivations for this project have their roots in the human story, the collective memory of our past.  In 1991, a monsoon flooded Bangladesh, devastating the country. 100,000 people died, their swollen bodies floated on river currents until coming to rest on the shore, most were helpless children. Disappeared in 1991, installed along a very short section of a Taiwan beach, was an environment I developed as a response to this situation.”
 
In the modernized, urban world where humans have lost a sense of the interconnectedness between death and all that exists around them, this installation attempts to draw each viewer into this journey of the Lantern where one can experience transformation as awareness and restorative understanding of nature.

 

 

        The Myers Gallery is a program of Living Arts of Tulsa which features work by innovative artists needing a venue to exhibit their thought-provoking works, but due to the non-traditional nature of their work have not been able to do so. These presentations include both site-specific installations and gallery exhibitions at Living Art Space and in various locations around Tulsa in order to expand the city's exposure to contemporary art forms. The Myers Gallery Committee reviews proposals each November for the following year's program.
For more information go to Call for Entries.

The gallery space is 75' wide, 30' long, and 12' high and is essentially a large white box with spot lighting which is very flexible in its ability to accommodate unusual works of art. The space is very adjustable with ability to move walls

. Send all information to Living Art Space,  308 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120  
 for further information, contact Steve Liggett at  918-585-1234 or email steve@livingarts.org