BY JOHN BRANDENBURG, For The OklahomanA display of work by four members of a group formed to advance racial and cultural diversity in art offers a lot of diversity in terms of style and media, as well, in a show at Gaylord-Pickens Museum. Oklahoma City artists in the “Connection” exhibit are Paul Medina, Lebanon-born Samia Allaw Dempsey, Iranian native Behnaz Sohrabian and black artist Nathan Lee, its curator. In the works of Oklahoma City native Medina, calligraphic, graffiti-like, or more abstract ink and fabric dye marks on repetitive, closely packed squares of paper, form impromptu grids, displayed under glass in frames. “The Splendid Blue” of pale washes breaks through a thicket of dark letters in Medina’s work of that title, and a few lightly brushed, iron-red strokes alternate with silvery to black marks in his “Touch of Blood in the Night.” Yellow circles, surrounded by dark squares that suggest slick streets, also create a nocturnal mood in Medina’s “Distant Lights,” while loose, letter-like shapes float freely through the dark in his “Aubergine Scrawl.” A grid of crimson spirals gives a more romantic feel to “When Roses Are Enough,” a 30-by-60-inch composition by Medina. Dempsey grew up in Belgium, Egypt and England, moving to Oklahoma in 2002.Read more on NewsOK.com
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