News Release

Stillwater artist sees an Oklahoma on the move

June 25, 2007

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ann Dee Lee
Public Information Director
Oklahoma Arts Council
(405) 521-2931
anndee@arts.ok.gov

Oklahoma City, OK –  “Oklahoma is about movement,” said Stillwater artist Lynn Schwartz. In her exhibit on display at the State Capitol,Schwartz paints with layered colors that illuminate and shade the places, faces and objects significant to our home state.

Her exhibit, Movement: Oklahoma Heritage to Horizons,is on display in the Governor’s Gallery at the State Capitol through August 17. Curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council, the Governor’s Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the State Capitol and is open Monday through Friday from 8:30-5:00.

Schwartz believes that painting is a moving process. Her goal is for the viewer to stop and see an Oklahoma on the move. Using broad brush strokes to represent the wind sweeping across her landscapes, she paints rapidly, capturing rhythmic qualities in her work.

Her exhibit is dedicated to her mother, Celesta Frost Rippeto, age 102, who was born in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory. Born in Oklahoma City, Schwartz can remember how familiar a crayon felt in her hand and her wonder at making marks and shapes on paper. Her early memories include a love of nature and changing seasons. Through her Edgemere and Harding School days, she stained paper with iris petals and grass to make her first “landscape.” 

She furthered her study of art and art history earning a Liberal Arts Degree from Pine Manor in Wellesley, Massachusetts and earned a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma where she studied under Eugene Bavinger and John O’Neil. Through the years, her works have been shown in numerous gallery exhibits and accepted by art collectors in the realm of realism, impressionism and abstraction as well as non-objectivism. She is a signature member of the Kansas Water Color Society and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Schwartz lives in Stillwater with her husband, Jim Cox, and son, Phillip Justin Schwartz.

For more information about this exhibit, contact the Oklahoma Arts Council at (405) 521-2931 or scott@arts.ok.gov.

THE OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL
The Oklahoma Arts Council is a state agency whose mission is to improve lives through the arts by promoting and sustaining a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education and economic vitality for all Oklahomans.

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