Breaking Bread, Marks & Musings and Main Street: Carnival Found
Gallery I: Breaking Bread - Poetic City Visual Arts
Poetic City Visual Arts - Breaking Bread is the sixth annual collaborative exhibit hosted by Poetic City Visual Arts, a creative collective of Black artists based in Oklahoma City. The artworks in this year’s theme, Breaking Bread, reflect on the significance of serving and sharing meals with others. Artists include Betty Refour, Erica Nkechi, Rico Young, Rochelle Cole, Tiffany Nicole, and Sunee Rice.
“Sharing a meal is one of the oldest and most trusted ways we create connections. For many communities, gathering around food is a form of cultural resistance… Century-old recipes become weapons in the fight against gentrification and systemic erasure.
Gathering around food offers us a chance to tell stories, mediate conflicts, and feel seen. Whether seated at the dinner table, in line at the cookout, or dividing a box of takeout with your roommate, the food offers more than physical nourishment. The meals offer an opportunity to bridge divides.
Breaking Bread honors the powerful everyday act of preparing, serving and sharing meals. The works in this exhibition explore the many layered meanings of food and highlight the impact of shared meals and celebratory occasions where food plays an integral role.”
- Sunee Rice, Curator and Artist
Displayed in Gallery I through June 26th, 3024 Paseo
Fix Me a Plate! - Betty Refour, $950
JABEE - Rico Young, $150
Mass of Greens - Rochelle Cole, $500
Something New - Erica Nkechi, $1,650
When Life Gives You Lemons - Sunee Rice, $350
Picnic on Sunday - Tiffani Nicole, $400
Gallery 2: Marks & Musings- Aztrid Moan, David Hertzel and Todd E. Clark
Marks & Musings, by artists Aztrid Moan, David Hertzel and Todd E. Clark, is a compelling exhibit infused with the vibrant spirit of Oklahoma City (and) that celebrates the raw beauty of human experience and our connection to the world around us.
Hertzel’s striking lino-cuts and textured sculptures embrace imperfection, while Moan’s layered prints and mixed-media pieces incorporate natural materials to tell powerful visual stories. Todd’s colorful depictions of cowboy kitties and rodeo clowns evoke memory and emotion in a way that feels both safe and lively. Together, their exhibition encourages viewers to slow down, look closely, and rediscover the charm of authentic, handcrafted, and playful imagery.
Displayed in Gallery II through June 26th, 3024 Paseo
Esca - Aztrid Moan, 16×20”, $215
Yee-Hawtie Dottie - Todd E. Clark, 48×48”, $2,750
My New Red Boots - David Hertzel, $299
Gallery 3: Main Street: Carnival Found - SJ Barrymore
“Where Are You From?” begins with a familiar question, one that rarely has a simple answer. As a Guatemalan and Peruvian artist and designer raised in Oklahoma City, Sofia Arenas reflects on how home is shaped across places, languages, and people. Through mixed media and recycled materials, she tells stories of where she comes from and how meaning takes form over time. The work reflects on how we come to understand where we’re from, and how we carry it within us, shaping who we become.
This body of work explores ideas of home through repetition, material, and form. Symbols such as flowers, butterflies, mirrors, and everyday objects appear across pieces in different mediums, echoing how memory and meaning evolve over time.
Felt, foil, print, and found materials are used to emphasize care, process, and transformation. Each piece contributes to a larger story shaped by personal history, cultural inheritance, and lived experience.
Displayed in Gallery III through June 26th, 3024 Paseo
Sj Barrymore - no. 1
Sj Barrymore - no. 2