COCKTAILS: 5-6PM ARTISTS TALK: 6-7PM

THE ARTIST TALK EVENT IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Norman Kary & Marilyn Jolly are making a trip to Oklahoma to give an Artist Talk at ARTSPACE! Both of these artists find stories or a sense of human perseverance and frailty in the scavenged materials that are incorporated into their artworks. Norman and Marilyn employ found materials and objects as evidence of humor or pathos in the human condition. Well-worn surfaces are suggestive of use or repeated attempts. Sometimes, playful juxtapositions or arrangements express serendipitous moments of insight. These scavenged materials are used just as paint or new wood or other more traditional art materials would be used to create a work of art, but also retain the resonance of time, history, and human touch.

Each of these artists’ approaches is somewhat different with slightly different motivations, but the work together engages in an interesting conversation about how our possessions reflect our human condition through the material world.

Both of them will be at ARTSPACE to talk about their style of art, how it evolved, and the process they went through to get to where they are now. There will be time to get a drink, look at the exhibition, and get to listen and converse with both artists.