OSU art instructor to give "Grand" public lecture

Friday, April 11, 2014

OSU art instructor to give "Grand" public lecture

Liz Roth, associate professor of drawing and painting at Oklahoma State Unviersity, will give a public lecture at the Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsaon Thursday, April 17, at 6:30 p.m. Her solo exhibition “Chasm”, which includes paintings and drawings of the Grand Canyon, is currently on view at the center. 

Roth’s lecture will focus on her artistic research process, including studying geology, working from Thomas Moran sketches at the Gilcrease Museum, and pigment studies. She will also describe the sketchbooks and geological studies on view and how they influenced her final works. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. 

In her oil paintings of the Grand Canyon, Roth explores the differences in the quality of the direct visual experience contrasted with visual experience mediated through a camera lens.  Roth also exhibits her sketches, studies, and watercolors to illuminate the artistic process behind her paintings.   

Roth has received numerous prestigious painting grants and has been an artist in residence at several high-profile locations.  Her works have been acquired by many national and international collections, including the Walker Museum of Art, the Museu del Joeguet in Spain, the Museum of Awa Japanese Paper, and the KAIR Contemporary Art Collection.  

Lecture: Thursday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa, Okla.

Exhibition: Chasm

Where: Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa, Okla.

 

When: Runs through May 4, 2014