NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 8, 2008
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ann Dee Lee
Public Information Director
Oklahoma Arts Council
(405) 521-2931
anndee@arts.ok.gov
METAMORPHIC PATTERNS EXHIBITED AT THE STATE CAPITOL
Oklahoma City, OK -- Norman artist Carolyn Faseler strives to make her paintings look effortless by working the painting over and over — sometimes as many as 20 times. Her exhibit, Metamorphic Patterns, will be on display in the Governor’s Gallery at the State Capitol through October 5th, 2008. 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.
Faseler uses the square and rectangle to construct images she sees near her home in Norman, scenes in books she has read, plus sketches and watercolors from her travels.
“I consider my first impression to be the most honest. I strive to create tension that I want to build up by combining geometric shapes with fast gesture marks. I spend many hours taking chances and in the process risk disaster. If strokes turn out to be wrong and indecisive, I get out the gesso and start again. This may take several tries but I keep going until I get the offending section right. Colors and shapes will change many times during a painting session. When everything works well together I know the painting is finished.”
As a teenager, Faseler thought she would be a fashion designer or illustrator. When she attended Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, commercial art was not offered but a fine arts program was. There she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and then her Master’s degree from Fort Hays Kansas State in Hays, Kansas. She has traveled to many countries and visited her share of great museums.
Her works of art have been exhibited in Chicago, Beaumont and Brownsville, Texas as well as numerous Oklahoma galleries. These include the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha; the Firehouse Art Center, the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History and Mainsite Gallery, Norman; Leslie Powell Gallery and the Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton; Norick Art Center, Oklahoma City University and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, as well as the David White Artists’ Colony, Colón, Costa Rica.
For more information, contact Ann Dee Lee, Public Information Director, Oklahoma Arts Council, (405) 521-2931 or anndee@arts.ok.gov.
ABOUT 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 the development of a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education and economic vitality for all Oklahomans.
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