THIS SELECTION from the NOC on display at the Eleanor Hays Art Gallery is entirled “Nothing Makes it Work,’ and is a mix of acrylics and watercolors on canvas. The works of the Wichita Falls, Texas, native who earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago will remain on disply through October 18.
TONKAWA — Learning to See Nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas, featuring the work of Chicago-based artist Steven Schroeder is currently on view in the Eleanor Hays Art Gallery on the Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa campus, according to gallery director Audrey Schmitz.
A reception with the artist is planned for Friday, Oct. 12 from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. with Artist Talk at 6:30 p.m.
Schroeder is a poet and visual artist who was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and grew up on the high plains in the Texas Panhandle. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and spent thirty years moonlighting as a philosophy professor at universities in the United States and China.
According to Schroeder, “All the work in Learning to See Nothing was completed within the last several years, but the show is part of a decades-long meditation on the plains. When I tell people that the Texas Panhandle is where I first learned to take nothing seriously, they sometimes take it to mean that I don’t take anything seriously. I take that misunderstanding as evidence of the frequency with which we overlook the significance of nothing, the force ‘that renovates the world’ as Emily Dickinson said.”
“All the paintings in this show — acrylic, ink, oil, watercolor, and mixed media — are abstract in the sense that they seek not to
THE WORKS of Chicago-based artist Steven Schroeder is currently on view in the Eleanor Hays Art Gallery on the Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa campus, with a reception with the artist scheduled for Friday, October 12, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. This selection includes both watercolors and oil on canvas.
Learning to See Nothing remains in the gallery through Oct. 18. The gallery, located in the Kinzer Performing Arts Center, is open from noon – 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, by private appointment, and during evening and weekend events in the KPAC. Admission is free. Contact gallery director Audrey Schmitz at 580-628-6670 or audrey.schmitz@noc.edu for additional information.
Northern Oklahoma College, the state’s oldest community college, is a multi-campus, land-grant institution that provides high quality, accessible, and affordable educational opportunities and services which create life-changing experiences and develop students as effective learners and leaders within their communities in a connected, ever changing world.
Serving nearly 5,000 students, NOC is a public, two-year community college with locations in Tonkawa, Enid and Stillwater. The college is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and offers associate degrees in three general areas: Arts, Science and Applied Science. The associate degree fulfills lower-division course work which is applicable towards a bachelor’s degree.
For more information about Northern Oklahoma College or giving to the NOC Foundation, please contact the development office at 580-628-6208 or visit the NOC website at www.noc.edu.