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"Portraits" at the PAC
Published: 12/10/2009 12:43 PM
Last Modified: 12/10/2009 12:43 PM

"The Last Performance," by B. Cooper

First of all, full disclosure: I have been a friend of three generations of the Cooper family for many years, and Bryan Cooper once was in a class I taught at the church we attended together.

Even so: the art that Bryan Cooper creates is developing into a most distinctive body of work.

Cooper's art mixes media to almost extreme levels. He sculpts figures in clay, paints them, sets them against original backgrounds, then photographs them. The results are unique: images that create all sorts of illusions – photographs that look like paintings, flat images that have an almost 3-D sense of depth, subject matter that can be at once whimsical, poignant, even a little creepy.

A good portion of that work in on display through Dec. 21 in the Gallery of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 101 E. Third St. The show, titled "Portraits: The Art of B. Cooper," has 30 of Cooper's images, along with a case that hold some of the clay figures he uses in his images.

The gallery is open whenever the PAC's main lobby is open, which means 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and whenever there are performances going on in the Chapman Music Hall.

Some may be familiar with Cooper's work from his poster image for the 2006 Mayfest, the season brochure for the 2007 Light Opera Oklahoma season, and the cover of the PAC's program magazine Intermission.

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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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