Programming and Events
MEMBERS’ PREVIEW DAY
Friday, February 19, 10 am-5 pm
As an exclusive benefit, members are invited to preview this original, new exhibition before it opens to the public! Admission is free for members, and timed-entry tickets can be reserved online to guarantee entry at the desired time. Not yet a member? Join today to visit during Members’ Preview Day on February 19!
VIRTUAL PUBLIC EXHIBITION LECTURES
New Sensation: The Story of Op Art
Wednesday, March 3, 6 pm
$5 for members; $8 for non-members.
Joe Houston, artist, curator, and contributing author for the exhibition catalogue
This presentation explores the cultural and art historical context of the 1960s that gave rise to a radical approach to painting, which made the viewer’s own perception the central subject of the art work. While Op art seemed to emerge overnight on as a fully-fledged international art movement, Joe Houston traces its deeper origins and makes the case for its inevitability in the continuum of modernism.
Optical Conscious: The Art of Bridget Riley
Saturday, April 10, 2 pm
$5 for members; $8 for non-members.
Frances Follin, PhD, art historian and contributing author for the exhibition catalogue
One of the most successful artists of Op art was Bridget Riley, who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic after her work appeared in the exhibition ‘The Responsive Eye’ in New York in 1965. Interest in Riley’s 1960s’ work, and in Op art more widely, has been revived over the past decade, which followed years of critics saying her works had “no content” and did “not lend themselves to intellectual exploration.” This talk will consider how Riley’s work from that period can be read in relation to the Cold War, the increasing impact of science and technology on everyday life, and conflicting desires both to embrace materialism and to reject it in favor of a more spiritual basis to life.
VIRTUAL SPECIAL EXHIBITION PROGRAM
The Science of Seeing
Wednesday, March 31, 7 pm
$5 for members; $8 for non-members.
Maria Lim, MD, ophthalmologist, with Bryon Chambers, Manager of Public Programming
Explore the physiology of the eye, learn how we see, and study visual processing in the brain while considering the art on view in the special exhibition Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies.
VIRTUAL SPECIAL EXHIBITION TOURS
These virtual, guided tours will provide highlights of the current special exhibition. Pre-registration required. Purchase tickets at okcmoa.com. $5 for members; $8 for non-members.
Thank you to our generous exhibition sponsors!
Devon Energy Corporation
Oklahoma Humanities
Dean McGee Eye Institute
Leslie and Clifford Hudson
Mrs. James C. Meade
Marty O’Brien and Lisa Gordon
Jennifer and James Weinland
Lawrence H. and Ronna C. Davis
Drs. Paul and Amalia Silverstein
Kirk Hammons
Nancy and Jim Seely, In Honor of Cynda Ottaway
Credit: Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) (American, born Japan 1935). C-182 (detail), 1965. Acrylic on canvas. Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds from the Beaux Arts Society Fund for Acquisitions and the Pauline Morrison Ledbetter Collections Endowment, 2016.064, © Tadasuke Kuwayama