News Release
America Meredith At The Crossroads
January 18, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ann Dee Lee
Public Information Director
Oklahoma Arts Council
(405) 521-2931
Oklahoma City, OK – America Meredith is a Swedish-Cherokee artist who blends traditional styles from Native America and Europe with pop imagery of her childhood.
Her exhibit at the Oklahoma State Capitol, At the Crossroads, will be on display in the East Gallery at the Capitol from January 15 through March 25, 2007. Curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council, the East Gallery is located on the 1st floor of the Capitol and is open every day from 8:30-5:00.
Meredith’s influences range from the Bacone School of painting, the Arts and Crafts movement, 60’s cartoons, to Mississippian shell engravings. She says she tries to incorporate these different traditions and connect them to her own life and times.
“Common threads run through these schools of art – a love of nature and beauty, an awe of the unseen world, a flattening of space and time, and bursts of quirky humor. My work negotiates the space between the Native and non-Native, the urban and rural worlds, as well as the interactions between humans, animals, plants, and spirits,” explained Meredith.
Meredith works in pen and ink, serigraphy, monotype printing and beadwork, but her primary focus is painting – in acrylic, egg tempera, gouache, and watercolor. She earned her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from the University of Oklahoma. For the last 11 years, she has exhibited her work throughout the United States and Europe and has won awards at the Heard, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Indian Market, as well as at numerous competitive shows.
For more information, contact the Oklahoma Arts Council at (405) 521-2931 or scott@arts.ok.gov.
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