Exhibitions of sculpture and photography that draw upon Oklahoma’s land and people for their inspiration were exhibited in Oklahoma City. Untitled [ArtSpace] showed the simultaneous exhibitions Fault Lines, featuring new work by Oklahoma City sculptor Don Narcomey, and Roger Mills County, showing work by Moore photographer Josh Buss. For Fault Lines, Narcomey created vessels based in the tradition of woodworking that include curves, bends and material imperfections, resulting in uniquely modern sculptural forms. Buss used medium format film photography and a crisp, realistic style to record the people and landscapes of Roger Mills County.

Fault Lines and Roger Mills County were part of Untitled [ArtSpace]’s year of Oklahoma-related exhibitions in honor of Oklahoma’s state centennial. Narcomey’s work for Fault Lines was made of reclaimed woods indigenous to Oklahoma. “I draw references from my environment as well as the materials that I work to create a correlation between those things and our everyday lives,” Narcomey said. Buss’ photographs of Roger Mills County gave insight into the past and present of this rural Oklahoma county where the population is steadily decreasing. Buss said: “Roger Mills County is a place largely shaped by people who no longer live there. During the past one hundred years, the population of the county has declined from 12,000 to 3,000. These photographs are of the people and things that remain.” The work of both artists respected and referenced a sense of history while incorporating innovative use of materials and compositions to create a complex view of art and life in Oklahoma today. Untitled [ArtSpace] Artistic Administrator Betsy Barnum said: “I hope this exhibition gives visitors a unique sense of Oklahomans’ creative relationships to the land and their surroundings.”

Don Narcomey is a sculptor living in Oklahoma City. He grew up in Edmond and received a Bachelor of Arts in painting at Central State University (now UCO) in Edmond, OK. Narcomey’s work focuses on mixed media sculpture and one-of-a-kind furniture constructed of domestic and exotic hardwoods. He has exhibited extensively throughout Oklahoma and the surrounding states and has won numerous awards in juried exhibitions.

Josh Buss, who grew up in Elk City, Oklahoma, south of Roger Mills County, is mostly self-taught as a photographer. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Buss has spent the last two years making photographs and selling them at fine art festivals around the U.S. He has won several festival awards and is currently working on a series of portraits of independent professional wrestlers, as well as the Roger Mills County series. Buss makes his home in Moore, Oklahoma, with his wife Sherry and two dogs.

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