OKC artist Paul Medina finds beauty among the thorns in Artspace at Untitled exhibit

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Will work by Paul Medina at Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE 3.

“Roses and Thorns: Finding Natural beauty Between the Sorrows,” is the evocative title of a solo display by Paul Medina at Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE 3.

The longtime Oklahoma City blended media artist, who will give a gallery speak at 6 p.m. June 24, reported the clearly show contains his Amulet Collection and Briar Sequence.

Working with grief, all Amulet will work are created of very low fire clay, acrylic paint, metal and copper, Medina pointed out. Greeting us is an 11-foot-tall, ceiling-hung amulet, celebrating his late mother, accomplished in gray with dull pink roses, and a crown of thorns and roses base.

“I wanted to make a long lasting bodily tribute … for me, not the world,” Medina mentioned.

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But as he continued the sequence, it started to be about “triumphs, revelations, great adore, even births,” as well as “all-important losses,” he included.

© Image presented by Artspace at Untitled
Operates are on exhibit by Paul Medina at Artspace at Untitled.

Medina stated the amulets had been partly inspired by the cultural perception in three fatalities — a single when a person dies, the second at burial, and the 3rd “when our loved 1 is overlooked.”

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Finished in deep blue or crimson, gold, bone white and black, his lesser wall-hanging amulets, have a potent totemic experience, bringing to brain skeletons and odd objects.

Medina mentioned the Briar Collection was centered partly on his childhood strategy of acquiring “a refuge amid the thorns.”

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Flowering and thorned branches appear to cross, both of those safeguarding and barring us, in his Briar paintings on canvas, employing acrylic paint, varnishes and wooden stains.

Turquoise, brown and green branches and leaves, festooned with thorns and compact, multi-colored flowers, give a fall sensation to his “Briar #2.” Much more nocturnal is “Briar #3,” in which two crows or dark birds, are perched on inexperienced and yellow branches, in entrance of a big, oval, moon-like orb.

Even much more dramatic is the distinction involving vivid crimson and black flowers, and weighty, thorny, red-brown, material branches, in many operates, referred to as “Roses at Midnight.”

The Medina clearly show is really suggested in its run via July 31, at the downtown Artspace at Untitled gallery. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays by Saturdays.

Call 405-815-9995, or go to http://shield-us.mimecast.com/s/Hd1tCXDXZof49P2PLC6ncqx?domain=1ne3.org for facts. 

This write-up originally appeared on Oklahoman: OKC artist Paul Medina finds attractiveness amid the thorns in Artspace at Untitled exhibit