Tires, nails, rope, plaster and tar have traveled to Oklahoma

Centerfold: USAO Seven-State Biennial
Part II - Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12, 2008

Leslie Powell Foundation and Gallery
620 SW D Avenue
Lawton, OK 73501

Mixed-media wall hanging wins competition. A radical mixed-media wall hanging that has the impact of a nightmarish nocturnal landscape by Houston artist Kathryn Kelley has won the...first place award in the Seven-State Biennial exhibit.

Numerous rusty nails, hammered into a tar-covered board become a starry night sky over a "darkling plain” of slashed tires and burned, tar-blackened, fraying rope in Kelley's "The Shadowlands.” John Brandenburg, NewOK, November 207.

Two of my works, The shadowlands and I hate the idea of surrender, were selected juror by Paul Medina.