Carrie Fudickar
Artist Statement, Fiberglass Frontier
Fiberglass Frontier explores the phenomena of simulated history within American theme parks. Simulation has become a popular entertainment venue as well as an accepted exhibition tool for museums and historical sites. The existence of themed restaurants, shopping centers, and housing developments is now so commonplace it has become easy to overlook. The theme park is the most exaggerated of these spaces. It deliberately obscures itself from the outside world, discouraging comparison to reality. Further, it promotes its own legitimacy by fusing real histories into its artificial environment. The myth town of the American theme park is set perpetually in the late 19th century, intrinsically linked to the Gilded Age’s exuberant optimism, expansion, and industrial growth. This project documents seven major theme parks, cataloguing how history, myth, and entertainment coexist within the gates of the fiberglass frontier.
www.carriefudickar.com
Artist Biography
In 1999, Carrie Fudickar began photographing the cultural landscape while studying at the University of Colorado at Denver. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2003, Carrie became an Adjunct Professor of Photography at the Oklahoma City Community College. Currently, she is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Oklahoma and will complete that degree in May 2008.
Carrie’s work centers on observation and documentation, exploring ideas such as consumerism, environmental concerns, and the simulated experience. In 2005, Carrie won the Curator’s Choice Award at Momentum in Tulsa and was then awarded the Michael Hoffner Award at the 2006 Momentum in Oklahoma City. Recent exhibitions have included Gilcrease: The Museum of the Americas in Tulsa and the 2007 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition in New York. In 2007, Carrie was awarded a University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate Research Grant to complete her thesis project, Fiberglass Frontier.
Education:
M.F.A. Candidate 2005-present Photography University of Oklahoma (May 2008)
B.F.A. 2003 Photography University of Central Oklahoma
1998-2001 Photography University of Colorado at Denver
Experience/Professional:
2006
Photographed Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Historic Places for Preservation Oklahoma with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Oversight of traditional darkroom at the University of Oklahoma. Duties included supervision of undergraduate volunteers to mix photographic chemicals and maintain equipment.
2005
Archivist for the Brett Weston Archive, a privately owned collection of the photographs of Brett Weston. Duties included handling of vintage photographic prints, organization and cataloguing of images, observance of environmental controls, aiding in the selection of images for donations, publications, and exhibitions.
Exhibitions
2007
Chelsea International Fine Arts Competition, New York, NY, Juror: Tina Kukielski, Senior Curatorial Assistant, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
12x12 Invitational Art Show & Sale, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City
2006
Survey of Outstanding Student Work from the University of Oklahoma School of Art, Gilcrease: The Museum of the Americas, Tulsa Oklahoma
1440, Lightwell Gallery, Norman Oklahoma
Graduate Show, Lightwell Gallery, Norman Oklahoma
Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Curators: Steve Liggett, Artistic Director for Living Arts in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dr. Susan Caldwell, University of Oklahoma Art History Professor
2005
Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Curators: Bryce Brimmer, Rogers State University and Sarah Williams, Untitled [Artspace]
Reverse Intake (a multi-media collaboration), Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, Norman Oklahoma
2003
University of Central Oklahoma Senior Exhibit, Donna Nigh Gallery, Edmond, Oklahoma
Polaroid Exploits, Donna Nigh Gallery, Edmond, Oklahoma
2000
Denver Civic Theatre Art Exhibit, Denver, Colorado
2000
University of Colorado at Denver Student Art Show, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Awards/Honors
2008
Society for Photographic Education South Central Region Scholarship for National Convention (to be held March 2008 in Denver, Colorado)
2007
University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate Research Grant
2006
Michael Hoffner Award at Momentum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2006
Mesta Festa Art Festival, Curator’s Award for Photography
2005
Robert H. Monroe Memorial Scholarship 2005-present
Sooner Heritage Scholarship 2005-2006
2005
Curator’s Choice, Tulsa Momentum
Shane Brown
Artist Statement, Boundary
From the time I began sixth grade through graduating high school, I crossed over the line that separates Tulsa County, where I lived, into Osage County, where I attended Skiatook Public Schools. I would not become aware, until many years later when I began my academic and photographic pursuits, that I had also been crossing over from Cherokee Territory into The Osage Nation Reservation. During the many years of my personal and photographic explorations of the state of Oklahoma, I have discovered that it is a state of nations and territories. The place in whole is comprised of sections that have been piecemealed and rearranged for centuries. Oklahoma is a place that is as geographically diverse as it is geologically varied.
Boundary is a continuation of an ever-expanding photographic record of the people and the natural and cultural landscape of Oklahoma. This particular body of work, rather than being expository as with other photographic groups within the larger framework that I have created, is at first unexplained—seemingly simple pairings of anonymous landscapes. The requirement that the viewer engage in exploration of the location of the scene to gain explanation ensures that the observer will discover that they are indeed viewing both sides of one of the many boundaries that exist within Oklahoma. These borders may exist between historical territories, such as “No Man’s Land” (present day Beaver County and the easternmost county in the Oklahoma Panhandle), and the Cherokee Outlet (a swath of land stretching across northern Oklahoma, comprised of many counties and Indian Territories and is also a territory that once belonged to the Cherokee Nation and is often confused with the Cherokee Strip, which is actually a two-mile wide strip of land in Kansas running the length of the historical Cherokee Outlet along the Oklahoma/Kansas border), or the photographs may present territorial boundaries, such as that existing between the Apache/Comanche/Kiowa Territory and the Cheyenne-Arapahoe Territory in western Oklahoma. Boundary serves as a “chapter” within the larger context of my photographic efforts within Oklahoma. The informative nature of this group of photographs is commensurate with the larger archive of my Oklahoma work in that it provokes the viewer to consider the cultural, economic, social, emotional, and political circumstances that exist in this state and that these conditions know no boundary, rather, they exist in centers, and often overlap. The project exposes boundaries as place, and the photographs compel one to consider the nature of that place and the role it plays in establishing, maintaining, and changing the cultural landscape of Oklahoma.
Shane Brown, Artist Biography
Shane Brown is an Oklahoman and award-winning photographer working in documentary, fine art, editorial and commercial photography. He is currently earning a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Oklahoma, which he will complete in May 2008. He received his B.A. in Liberal Studies with an emphasis on creative writing and sociology from Oklahoma State University (2005) and an Associates in Applied Science of Photography Technology from Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee (2001) where he was awarded the outstanding photography graduate award.
A regular contributing photographer and contributing editor to Oklahoma Today Magazine, Shane has received the Society for Professional Journalists Gold award for Magazine Photography and the International Regional Magazine Association Inc.’s Silver Award for Feature Photography. His photographs are also included in many private, corporate, and museum collections including: The Oklahoma State Art Collection (Oklahoma City, OK), The Great Plains Art Museum (Lincoln, NE), BJ Oil Services (Houston, TX), Kirkpatrick Oil (Oklahoma City, OK), as well as The Cherokee Nation (Catoosa, OK). He has received grants from the Oklahoma Visual Artists’ Coalition and the Lew Wentz Foundation. Recently, Shane has begun working in the arena of documentary film, shooting stills for The Flaming Lips: U.F.O.s at the Zoo, Okie Noodling 2 (in post-production), and worked as associate producer on an upcoming documentary about the Oklahoma State Prison Rodeo.
Shane’s primary focus is meaningful documentation of the people, places, and cultural events in his home state. Exploring the convoluted history of Oklahoma by revealing its manifestations in the present, the photographs from his long-term Oklahoma-based projects reveal the photographer’s vision of what the state is really about. Regularly utilizing sly wit, Shane has a contemplative and insightful eye for capturing moments from the theater of the absurd that exist in Oklahoma. He realizes that the extraordinary is not confined to Oklahoma alone, but appreciates recognizing the “Other” in the place where he grew up. Wherever he might find himself, Shane is always at work creating photographic records of life—whether through formal studies, evocative records of beauty, enlightening expositions, or plain strange scenes—Shane prefers to combine these elements within a body of work.
EDUCATION
2005-Present UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, MFA, PHOTOGRAPHY (Will graduate in May 2008)
2005 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, BA, LIBERAL STUDIES —concentration in English-creative writing and Sociology, Stillwater/Tulsa, OK
2001 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY-OKMULGEE, AAS, PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGY, Okmulgee, OK (Outstanding Photography Graduate)
1995 LOUIS F. GARLAND DOD FIRE ACADEMY, Goodfellow AFB, TX
1993 TULSA TECHNOLOGY CENTER, GRAPHIC DESIGN, Tulsa, OK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Money the Hard Way: Photographs of the Oklahoma State Prison Rodeo, Nemo Design, Portland, OR (Scheduled for March 2008)
Boundary, Mainsite Gallery, Norman, OK (Scheduled for April 2008)
Chisholm Trail, Malinda Berry Fischer Gallery-Oklahoma State University Foundation, Stillwater, OK (Scheduled for April 2008)
Money the Hard Way: Photographs of the Oklahoma State Prison Rodeo, Joseph Gierek Fine Art (www.gierek.com), Tulsa, OK (Scheduled for August 2008)
2007
Descriptions of Faith, JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK
2005
Great Plains Schema: Photographs of the Cultural Landscape, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
Great Plains Schema: Photographs of the Cultural Landscape, Oklahoma State Capital, Oklahoma City, OK
2004
Great Plains Schema: Photographs of the Cultural Landscape, Joseph Gierek Fine Art (www.gierek.com), Tulsa, OK
2003
Shane Brown: Photography Exhibition, Conoco Gallery, OSU-Okmulgee, Okmulgee, OK
Giant Voice, Invitational Featured Artist, www.GetUnderground.com
2002
Sight Unseen—Photographs by Shane Brown, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Rural. And Other Places, The Art Gallery, Drumright, OK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Seeing Indian, Untitled [Artspace], Oklahoma City, OK (Scheduled)
2006
Exhibit Untitled, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Image Makers: The Oklahoma Today Photography Exhibit, Oklahoma State Capitol—North Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Café City Arts Calypso, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1440: And Variations Thereof, Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma School of Art, Norman, OK
2006
Graduate Exhibition, Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma School of Art, Norman, OK
The Holiday Show, Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, OK
2005
Philbrook Landscape Exhibition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Café City Arts: Some Like it Hot, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Artists’ Coalition, Oklahoma City, OK
2004
Relocation Celebration: New Work by Gallery Artists, Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa, OK
2003
12 Days, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK
The Uneven Show, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK
5X5, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2002
Body Parts, Apertures Gallery, Tulsa, OK
5X5, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Water, Water Everywhere, Apertures Gallery, Tulsa, OK
(Best of Show Award)
2000
A Monkey of Muscle and Mean—Photographs: Shane Brown, Artwork: Scot Nobles, The Bowery, Tulsa, OK
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2006
Society of Professional Journalists, Magazine Photography, Gold
2005
International Regional Magazine Association, Inc., Feature Photography, Silver
2004
The Rocky Mountain Writers and Photographers, Scott McKenna Memorial Scholarship
Oklahoma Visual Artists’ Coalition, Creative Project Grant
2003
Lew Wentz Foundation-OSU, Lew Wentz Undergraduate Research Grant
2001
Brass Ring Awards, First Place and Best of Show, Color Photography
2000
Brass Ring Awards, Second and Third Place, Color Photography
COMMISSIONS
Photographs from the Cherokee Nation’s Cultural Landscape, Commissioned by Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Tahlequah, OK, 2004
Oklahoma’s Endangered Places 2005, Commissioned by Preservation Oklahoma Incorporated in accordance with a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Oklahoma City, OK, 2005
PERMANENT AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Oklahoma State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
Kirkpartick Oil Company, Oklahoma City, OK
Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Tahlequah, OK
BJ Oil Services, Houston, TX
OCT Equipment, Tulsa, OK
PUBLICATIONS
Brown, Shane, and Chad Love. Trail Drive. Oklahoma Today November/December 2007: 138-147.
Brown, Shane. This Way Up. Oklahoma Today January/February 2007: 7, 39, 46, 48, 52, 66-67 (essay and photographs)
Brown, Shane. Oklahoma Today November/December 2006: 13, 79, 100.
Brown, Shane. Linear Village. Oklahoma Today July/August 2006: 5, 6, 23, 34-41, 57-59.
Brown, Shane. Cimarron Review 156 (2006): Cover
Brown, Shane. Cimarron Review 153 (2005): Cover
Brown, Shane. Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Spring/Summer 2005
Brown, Shane. Featured Artist, Six Photographs, Cimarron Review 149 (2004): 49-52.
McCune, Louisa. Plains Spoken. Oklahoma Today September/October 2004: 62-67.
Brown, Shane. Cimarron Review 143 (2003): Cover
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brandenburg, John. Photographs Preserve A Vanishing Culture. The Oklahoman. 11 May 2007: 13D
Brandenburg, John. Artists With State Ties Accent Looking Indian Exhibit. The Oklahoman.
18 May 2007: 15D
Hepp, Alma. JRB Art Presents… MidCity Advocate, 03 May 2007: 13.
Martin, Charles. Today, Yesterday. Oklahoma Gazette, October 2006: 48. Faytinger, David. The Oklahoman, 01 October 2006: 8E
Watts, James D. Tulsa World, 14 September 2006: D6
Coppernoll, Carrie. Oklahoma’s Endangered Places. The Oklahoman. 01 February 2006:13A
Brandenburg, John. Art Review. The Oklahoman. 27 January 2006: 19D
Cozby, Angela. OAC Launches Rural Oklahhoma Artists’ Inventory Project. Oklahoma Arts, Fall 2005: 11.
Saiymeh, Ayschia. OSU Achievement Report From the System CEO & President, 2004: 6
Krebs, Candace. Photographer Captures Essence of Great Plains, AgJournal 26 November 2004: 12
Owens, Romy. The Cultural Landscape of Shane Brown. Art Focus Oklahoma,
November-December 2004: 4-6.
Johnston, Tom. Developing the ‘Eye’. OSU College of Arts & Sciences Magazine 2004: 25.
Watts, James D. Seeing For Miles and Miles. Tulsa World 14 October 2004: D3+
Young, Cory. Gallery to Feature Photographer’s Work. Tulsa World 13
October 2004: Midtown 3
Brown, Shane. Interview with Craig Day. The News On Six. CBS. KOTV, Tulsa. 22 Oct. 2004
Brown, Shane. Interview with Christine Bielawski. Oklahoma News Report. PBS, OETA, Oklahoma. 09 Sept. 2004
Shahid, Parves. Rural Oklahoma Photographed by Student, The Daily O’Collegian 23 April 2004: 5A
McCormick, Janice. Shane Brown: Transforming the Ordinary, Cross Currents of Oklahoma September/ October 2002: 7-8.
Watts, James D. Sight Unseen, Tulsa World 04 July 2002: D4
Professional EXPERIENCE
2000-Present
Freelance Commercial/ Editorial/ Portrait Photographer (Clients include: Oklahoma State University System, American Indian Cultural Center, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Oklahoma Today Magazine, Particle Design Group, O’Neill Marketing and Communications)
2007-Present
Associate Producer, Money the Hard Way: The Oklahoma State Prison Rodeo (Documentary Film in Post-Production)
2006-Present
Contributing Editor, Oklahoma Today Magazine, Oklahoma City, OK
2006-Present
Freelance Location/Prop Scout (Clients include: ESPN Magazine,)
2006-Present
Film Production Photographer in Association with Field Guide Media (Projects include: The Creek Runs Red, 2006, The Angriest Man In the World: Winnebago Guy, 2007)
2001
Commercial Photography Internship, Opulence Studios, Las Vegas, NV
1999-2001
Photographer, Urban Tulsa Weekly, Tulsa, OK
Photographer, Infinity Press, Tulsa, OK
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2006 Lecture/ presentation of photographs from the central Great Plains presented to “Westerners of the Cross Timbers,” Charles M. Russell Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Visiting Artist Lecture and Presentation, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2005 Lecture/ presentation of photographs from the central Great Plains presented to “History of the Great Plains” class at the University of Oklahoma.
2004 Lecture/ presentation of photographs featuring “Photographs of Oklahoma’s Early Architecture and Cultural Landscape,” given in accordance with Preservation Oklahoma, Overholser Mansion, Oklahoma City Oklahoma.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Joseph Gierek Fine Art
1512 East 15th Street, Tulsa, OK
(918) 592-5432
www.gierek.com
Brad Stevens
Artist Statement, Zero Consciousness
Zero Consciousness is my response to the hyper-sensationalized images of pop culture, which are juxtaposed with social and political issues in contemporary American media. These media sources create a disarray of images from pop culture, social and political issues inadvertently creating a fractured collage of images and stories for their viewers to digest. Images that I am using in this work are those that have recently been portrayed on American media sources within the last few years; world issues that directly and indirectly affect the United States, the world of Hollywood stars, body image, and the most recent commodity that everyone must not live without.
My reason for using still-imagery is to represent the deluge of information fed to the viewer by mass media outlets. Along with still-imagery, I am incorporating dirt, clay slip and cold wax to obtain a surface that creates a layered effect. This texture is a metaphor for the dilapidation of the mental process that the viewer experiences while seeking to absorb the bombardment of images.
Education:
12/2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art
Sam Houston State University; Huntsville, Texas.
08/2005 to present Masters of Fine Arts in Painting
University of Oklahoma; Norman, Oklahoma.
Professional Experience/ Teaching:
2008 G.T.A. University of Oklahoma, 2D for Non-Majors, Spring
2007 G.T.A. University of Oklahoma, 2D for Non-Majors, Fall
G.T.A. University of Oklahoma, Beginning Drawing, Spring
2006 G.T.A. University of Oklahoma, Beginning Drawing, Fall
Experience/ Professional:
2006 -2008 Oversight of the canvas room and woodshop at the University of Oklahoma School of Art. Duties included supervision of undergraduates, supply assistance in building and stretching canvas, and maintain equipment.
Exhibitions:
2008
Survey of Outstanding Student Work from the University of Oklahoma School of Art, Gilcrease: The Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
2007
93rd Annual University of Oklahoma School of Art Student Exhibition, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma.
2006
Survey of Outstanding Student Work from the University of Oklahoma School of Art, Gilcrease: The Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Graduate Show: Lightwell Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma.
2005
Stevens: Emotional Texture & Caillouet: Evolution in Clay
Montgomery College Fine Art Gallery, Montgomery, Texas.
Sculpture in the Round & Off the Wall, Kingwood College Fine Art Gallery, Kingwood, Texas.
2004
Decadence, Alternative Space, Huntsville, Texas.
Sex, War and Pottery, LSC Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
5th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Gaddis-Geslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
2004
Graduating Senior Exhibition, Gaddis-Geslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Juried Clay Club Exhibition, Sofa Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Summer Abroad: Italy Exhibition, Sofa Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
2003
4th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Gaddis-Geslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Erotic Warehouse, Alternative Space, Huntsville, Texas.
Italy Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Art Endowment Scholarship Exhibition, Gaddis-Geslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
2002
3rd Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Gaddis-Geslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Public Commissions:
2003
Medical Center Parkway, Ceiling Mural, Huntsville, Texas.
Honors and Awards:
2007
Visual Art Student Association Award, 93rd Annual University of Oklahoma School of Art Student Exhibition, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma.
2005
Robert H. Monroe Memorial Scholarship, School of Art Scholarship, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Organizations & Committees
2007
Graduate Representative, College of Fine Art, Academic Misconduct Committee, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Graduate Representative, School of Art Painting Faculty Search Committee, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
2006
College of Fine Art Dean’s Student Advisory Council, member, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
2004 to present
Golden Key International Honor Society, member, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
