611 Creative & Uptown United LIVE ART REMIX

A full house

of artlovers,

tattooed geeks

and beautiful freaks

at 611 Creative

for an exhibiton

of paintings,

watercolors

and drawings

by Ruth Borum,

Fernando Cassilas

and David Bruehl

The crowd.

talking with photographer Terry LaFrance about his upcoming show. He is also developing a series of images shot while serving in Iraq.

Shout out to DeShan

living and creatin art

down under in Australia.

Artist Fernado Casillas

with Jeri Wensel and

Tony Lacy who aquired

an original watercolor

for his collection.

A Tattoo artist by day,

Fernando with "Flying Tiger"

Ruth Ann Borum's painting is sick..and I mean that as a fan of this talented young artist

Her paintings calls to mind some

darkly lyrical alterpieces

found in the temple

of some obscure Scandinavian tribe

with Pre-Columbian roots.

These new work reach

another level in skill, quality,

scale and price.

"I just draw a line

down the middle

of the canvas and

star drawing and painting

whatever comes out."

"This is one

of the best nights

they have

ever had here."






Up Broadway @Uptown United

Thursday night in The 405 7ish p.m.

In coordination with the screening of the film Beautiful Losers at OCMOA, the crew at Uptown United invited me to collaborate with emerging artist Sean Valli to produce an Art Action mural during the after-party in their space. As we create, paint, draw, pour, drip, collage and develop the project in real time, our process will be videotaped, and the footage will be filtered, manipulated and projected on a large screen to the beats of DJ Ben of the group Esthing. Sean and I agreed to meet tonight and lay down a base coat and some foundations of color on the walls we'll be working on Friday night starting about 10. You always hear people say "there ain't shit to do in OKC, no culture, nothing jumping off round here!..." Well, I called "bullshit" on that and decided to jump in with a group of young, educated, creative, well traveled, tech-saavy indidviduals who have returned to OKC with the benefit of their skills, experiences and outlook,to bring a whole new, positive energy to NorthernDowntown (NoDo)and the developing MidTown district.

Ben is mixing it up on the Korg ES-X, dipping into Prefuse 73 from itunes

"my goal over

the next couple

of years is to have

12,000 MP3 mixes

on the internet.

That should get

me the world record."

"I'm so digging this, man.

The music,

the space,

the energy,

I'm gettin' to paint!

Word."

Sean Valli creates a scrim of texture and color, keeping the process wet!

Skip Hill connecting

with artist Jose

aka "Perilous Joe"

with the money quote..

"Man, I checked

out your work,

stepped in here

tonight,

and thought,

'I've always

known this brother.

Live Art Remix @ Uptown United

24 W. Park Place

Up the alley from Iquana Mexican Grill

Friday night after the screening of the film Beautiful Losers at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.