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  • A Sheep and Lamb
    A Sheep and Lamb
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Privately Owned In a courtyard on the west side of First Christian Church, you will find these life-sized bronze sculptures of a sheep and a lamb, “grazing” in the grass. The sculptor is Mary Zimmerman. No sculpture name is shown on the plaque. The City refers to it as “Sheep and Lamb”, but we have named this Waymark “Feed My Sheep” after the Scripture which inspired it.
  • Abner E. Norman
    Abner E. Norman
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Abner E. Norman is a 4′ bronze statue of Norman’s Founder.
  • Acorn and Leaf
    Acorn and Leaf
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Acorn and Leaf is 1 of many bike racks that are a part of a larger series designed to show Norman’s unique aesthetic and cultural identity.
  • African Sunset
    African Sunset
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Randel and Dana Shadid Artist Bio:  I love to create. The satisfaction of making a thought, memory or emotion into concrete form is what drives me.Unlike cast work, my hand and spirit touches each piece from start to finish. It is a challenge to work in such a rigid, planar medium and to give it life and movement. With my work, I endeavor to create, with a minimal line, an elegant beautiful form. It is my hope that those who collect my sculpture will be inspired by the spirit, beauty and craftsmanship in each piece.
  • Air Force Monument
    Air Force Monument
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Outdoor Sculpture
    With Tinker Air Force Base just less than 20 minutes away, Oklahoma City has always been very appreciative and supportive of all of the Armed Forces, particularly the Air Force. This monument in Downtown Oklahoma City is just one example of this. It can be found in the heart of Downtown on the corner of Park Ave and Broadway. Sculpted during the Cold War, this timeless work of art by Leonard McMurry was restored in 2002 and rededicated in 2003. In the man’s right hand he holds the United States Air Force Seal. The 13 stars represent the Thirteen Original Colonies of the United States. The grouping of three stars at the top of the design portrays the three Departments of the National Defense Establishment, Army, Navy, and Air Force. The crest includes the American Bald Eagle, which is the symbol of the United States and air striking power. The cloud formation depicts the creation of a new firmament, and the wreath incorporates the colors of the basic shield design. The shield, divided with the nebuly line formation, representing clouds, is charged with the heraldic thunderbolt. The thunderbolt portrays striking power through the medium of air. On a band encircling the whole is the inscription “Department of the Air Force” and “United States of America”. His rests his right foot on the Earth while his eyes look towards the sky. The eagle above his head mirrors the eagle from the Seal, representing dominance in the air. Written on the marble base it dedicates the monument “to the memory of those Oklahomans who have given their lives while serving their country as members of the United States Air Force and for the working men and women at Tinker Air Force Base, both military and civilian, who have and continue to give of themselves for the defense of the homeland we so dearly love.”
  • All Aboard
    All Aboard
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    All Aboard is 1 of many bike racks that are a part of a larger series that is designed to show Norman’s unique aesthetic and cultural identity.
  • Allie Pierce Reynolds
    Allie Pierce Reynolds
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Outdoor Sculpture
    Allie Pierce Reynolds, nicknamed “Superchief”, was born in Bethany, Oklahoma on February 10, 1917 as a member of the Creek Nation. After a wildly successful career in both football and baseball at Oklahoma A&M, he began his professional baseball career pitching for the Cleveland Indians in 1942, and finished his career with the Yankees in 1954. Reynolds was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.The “Allie P. Reynolds Award” was created in 1998 and is awarded to the Oklahoma high school senior who reflects the spirit of Allie P. Reynolds by maintaining the highest standards in scholarship, leadership, civic contributions, and character. After his career, the Oklahoma State baseball stadium was named after him, a plaque placed at the Yankee stadium in his name, and this sculpture placed at the Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City by Shan Gray.
  • Alphabet Text
    Alphabet Text
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Alphabet Text was created as a commemorative gift for Norman’s 75th Anniversary.
  • Ammonite Fossil
    Ammonite Fossil
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Ammonite Fossil is 1 of many bike racks that are a part of a larger series that is designed to show Norman’s unique aesthetic and cultural identity.
  • Ancient One
    Ancient One
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Barry and Dorene Shadid  
  • Angelic Being
    Angelic Being
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with First Commercial Bank Each one of David Pearson’s sculptures has an individuality and an authoritative presence that creates a relationship between the viewer and the work of art. No matter how contained, cool and elegant the figure, a Pearson bronze projects a classical balance between vulnerability and dignity, between its own inner life and its connection with the human race.
  • Anglers
    Anglers
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with SP Fisher Hall LP Artist bio:  Jane DeDecker has been sculpting the human figure for over thirty-five years.  She seeks to capture moments that reveal truths about the human condition, that, when stripped down to their essence, are understood intrinsically.  As a figurative sculptor, she communicates emotional experience through lyrical compositions that move the viewer.  DeDecker’s sculptures stop life in mid-sentence – somewhere between inhaling and exhaling – and gives it form.  She tells a story through the simple moments that imprint our lives and define us.
  • Angles
    Angles
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Dakil Auctioneers, Inc.  
  • Arc of Peace
    Arc of Peace
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Joseph and Elizabeth Waner Lorri Acott says she always knew she had something to say to the world. As a fan of Helen Keller and her tutor Ann Sullivan, Lorri originally chose teaching special education as the medium to express herself. An incidental invitation from a fellow teacher led her to try making raku pottery – which introduced her to her passion for sculpture. In the March 2009 Southwest Art Magazine article about Lorri, she commented: “Visual art is collaborative. The artist creates the art, and the viewer brings his or her own experiences and perspectives to it.” The partners for this piece, Joseph and Elizabeth Waner, were attracted to both the color and the form of the sculpture, and the invitation to the viewer to imagine their own story about the piece. Is it a man or a woman? a child? what are the birds all about? why are they being released? The setting of the piece in Hafer Park – where it is viewed by Edmond residents of all shapes and sizes and backgrounds and states of mind – sets the stage to re-enforce the artist’s goal for her work.
  • Arrgh!
    Arrgh!
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Caleb & Terri McCaleb, and Scott & Sally Whipple Artist bio:  I grew up just outside of Denver, Colorado, and first became interested in art as a career in junior high school.  I pictured myself as a oil painter in a beautiful studio painting grand landscapes.   Fast forward a couple of decades – after attending Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, first as a biology major and then as an art major.  I met a cute red headed girl at that time and she ended up becoming my wife in fairly short order.  Yea!  Charlie Brown does win sometimes! After our senior year (I left a few classes short of graduating) we moved to Loveland, Colorado, where my family was living.  I worked for a few years casting plaster sculptures that were sold in gift stores throughout the country. My interest was piqued and I got to know some of the prominent sculptors that were getting the Loveland sculpture phenomenon rolling.   With their encouragement I started sculpting the human figure – mostly children.  By that time I was supporting my family as a interior trim carpenter during the day and working on my sculptures in the evening. I was blessed to get into some great galleries, and in pretty short order I was able to support my wife and four children, as a bronze sculptor.  (Somewhere in there I did end up earning my bachelor of fine art degree – my mother and grandmother were pleased to no end.  Never mind that I was already fortunate enough to be making a living as an artist.) By that time my work branched out to include depictions of all walks and ages of people.  The figure in motion was my favorite theme, but I started getting commissions for a wide variety of placements, both public and private, many of them life size or larger.  And more and more I was working with people who lost loved ones.  Often these memorials were challenging because of the circumstances surrounding the losses.  But I always felt honored to be chosen to help in the healing process.   Others were dedicated to past heroes that made substantial contributions to their communities and our country. The central theme of my work has always been to celebrate the gift of life.  My goal is create work that stands on it’s own artistic merit regardless of subject matter. Combining a client’s vision and needs with my own interpretation usually starts out as a challenge but is particularly satisfying.  Those projects are team efforts where we all can win. But what about those dogs and cars?  As a diversion from some of the weightier memorials I’ve worked on in that past, I started doing something more whimsical. Is there any creature that enjoys being alive more than a dog riding with it’s head out of a car window?  I get a smile, and often a laugh, every time I see that.  But I bet they would enjoy it even more if they could drive the car – and classic ones at that! Well, maybe they don’t care what kind of cars they are, but it’s been great fun depicting classic cars with reckless canine drivers and passengers. I plan on continuing with my more traditional depictions of the human figure but also hope to create more in the reckless dog series.   In the past year I’ve also been working on getting in as much painting practice time as possible.  I’m mostly painting in smaller formats: 5 x 7, 6 x 6 and 6 x 8 typically.  The smaller size allows me to try out more ideas in a shorter amount of time that larger paintings would.  My main interest in in the landscapes around us, but I am also having fun capturing images of automobiles while they are on the road. Working them into compositions that are about fine art first – that just happen to have cars in them is the challenge.  That is especially true for cars on paved roads:  how does one make pavement look interesting?  Value changes along with color variations and dynamic lines – those yellow and white lines can be pretty effective in drawing the eye into the picture – and interesting shadows seem to be working.  But no, I haven’t painted any cars driven by dogs yet.  That would be ridiculous! (wouldn’t it?)   Pricing will be coming soon on the paintings.  Most of them posted so far are nearly finished, but I want to make some minor adjustments on most of them.  (Especially on the ones with those paved roads.)  But I wanted to post them now as a generous, encouraging friend is displaying some of them along with one of his classic cars in the Cruise Nite Kearney car show in Nebraska.  Send me a message if you want more information on anything you see here or if you are interested in commissioning a sculpture or a painting.
  • Art Wall
    Art Wall
    Category: Mural
    Art Wall consists of 5 4′ x 8′ panels that are painted by children and artists from the Norman community. The artwork covers both sides of the panels.
  • At the Dance
    At the Dance
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Janice Ponder  
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