Paul Walsh
Oklahoma Heartbeat
February 14 - March 31, 2019
Featuring Barbara Scott, Janetta Smith and Patricia Triplett
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- The Heart’s Uprising
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- On a Wing and a Smile
Barbara Scott
“Being human is living as matter and spirit merged. Material creation is so beautiful yet bitter – so many questions in a world perishable and subject to time.
“Yet the human spirit not only rises daily to face what the world demands for survival, but also ceaselessly reaches for transformation towards what endures beyond the physical.”
Pack Mules, Offshore Fishing and Farming
For Barbara life, as a child, began unsettled moving every year or two with her family. Then at eighteen, she hitchhiked to California. During the following years she lived in Taos, New Mexico taking pack mule teams down into the Rio Grande for trail maintenance, doing offshore fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts and farming in North Dakota along the Canadian border.
She has lived and worked in Oklahoma for more than 30 years. Loving the earth and the feel, weight, colors and textures of its organic materials, she explores their use in sculpture; where wood, stone and bone have life and can speak.
More Narrative Possibilities
Barbara’s sculptural work is contemporary, figurative and at times abstract. In addition to freestanding sculptures ranging in size from one to over seven feet tall, she’s also begun creating sculptural wall hangings that open up the use of multiple elements for even more narrative possibilities. She does this work with organic materials, especially wood.
A Capacity for Transformation
Barbara believes that wood is the perfect material for reflecting the human circumstance. It’s alive, warm and flesh like. What might seem like flaws or weaknesses in the material, actually give each piece its own individual uniqueness and beauty.
“It ages, but that too deepens its story and process through life. It is temporal but with incredible strength and endurance through time. Wood seems such a common material, but it like us, has the capacity for transformation into wholly new forms of beauty and meaning beyond the physical.”
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