By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jan 27, 2011, at 2:56 PM Updated on 1/27 at 2:59 PM
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I got the chance to meet the artist Dennis Oppenheim, who died Friday at age 72, some six years ago, when the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville hosted an exhibit of his work.
The show, "Indoors, Outdoors," focused on Oppenheim's public art projects -- a good number of which never got past the proposal or model stage.
He visited Oklahoma a few days prior to the show's opening, and I remember the World's photographer wanting to get a photograph of the artist in an outdoor installation titled "Domestic Quarrel." Oppenheim crouched down amidst the fiberglass panels that made up the house-like structure -- and the Oklahoma winter wind started kicking up, making the panels swing and smack and shatter.
It got to the point that Oppenheim was getting a bit nervous about being inside his own work of art -- an ironic attitude, since films of Oppenheim inflicting minor injuries to himself were of his early work.
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