Yang, Lockhart featured at OkEq
(Tulsa, OK) The November Oklahomans for Equality (OkEq) showcase and exhibit of local artists at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center (621 E. 4th Street in Downtown Tulsa) will feature the works of May Yang and Jason Lockhart in a combined show beginning with a reception on Thursday, November 5th from 6-9 p.m. and continuing throughout the month.
May Yang is a Tulsa based artist, printer and designer. She works with printmaking and mixed media techniques to produce work that processes the information overload common in our digital age.
She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. Continuing her interest in collaborative printmaking, May attended the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, NM and earned her Professional Printer Certificate. In 2010, May was a Momentum Tulsa Spotlight artist and has participated in a number of juried and invitational group shows.
Yang said of her art: “In an increasingly digital age, we are constantly exposed to a stream of information. The image manipulation that occurs in my work is a method of processing the information overload commonly encountered in our lives today. Borrowing themes from the remix culture that is so prevalent in popular music, I “sample” bits and pieces of pre-existing images, transform them through my methods of manipulation and reassemble them into new works. These finished compositions represent both old and new, personal and global, design and fine art.”
Jason’s work is eclectic – he says: “Inspiration finds me from no specific source. Things just seem to pop out of the background noise of everyday life, so I take those things and arrange them in interesting compositions. Primarily I’ve been working with acrylics and generally am finding my ‘worlds’ consisting of fonts, buildings, and strange pushes-and-pulls.”
The show begins with a reception on Thursday, November 5th from 6-9pm where there will be a door prize drawn of the artist’s work; the show continues throughout the month. www.okeq.org.
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