Magnificent Bird

Congratulations to Magnificent Bird, who just released their EP with cover art by Amanda Weathers-Bradway. Look for it at Guestroom Records. Great job, guys!

July 30, 2007

	Guest Speaking at City Arts Center, OKC 7.16.07

Last Monday, the Central Art Association invited me to speak at their meeting at the City Arts Center. We chatted about art school, postmodernism, the internet, and gluing pictures together. Thanks for having me, guys!

	Pop Surrealism in OK 3.15 - 4.21.07

Image courtesy of Chad Mount.

Another show, this time with famous people.

I've been invited to participate in a show with Frank Kozik, Winston Smith, Michael Michael Motorcycle, Kathie Olivas, Jamungo, Jared Connor, and fellow locals Chad Mount, Josh Heilaman, Matt Goad and Steven C. Schmidt. (woo!)

The show will be at Oklahoma City's City Arts Center from March 15th to April 21st, with a reception on Saturday April 14th from 6-8 pm. For more info hop on over to cityartscenter.org. Thanks to Clint Stone for including me.

February 8, 2007

	Innovandi 2.2 - 3.31.07

Thanks to everyone who came to the my show. Ash was nice enough to book me for another show in May 2008. Can't wait!

AKA Gallery, 3001 Paseo, Oklahoma City
For more information about AKA Gallery, click here.

Saint Allthumbs (the Second Coming) acrylic on canvas, 2006

Innovandi Adoratonis Parati Nupri Ut Eos Adametis
(Newly prepared objects of adoration made for your viewing pleasure)

February 8, 2007

	Emergent 12.1 - 1.13.07

Mainsite Gallery, Norman OK (click for gallery website)

Here's what the local press had to say about the Emergent show:

"Sarah Atlee is an illustrator who just wrapped up her graduate degree in Rochester, NY. Atlee's utilizing the Emergent exhibition as a way to build name recognition and win her more work as an illustrator.
"'I'm not dependent on art to put a roof over my head, and that coupled with me not being in school anymore and constantly being evaluated has given me a great deal of freedom,' Atlee said. 'If someone goes to a gallery and sees one of my works and decides they want to hire me to do illustrations, then they will have seen what I most like to do.'"
-- Charles Martin, "Emergent-cy!", Oklahoma Gazette, 11.30.06

"Weird, witty and well-handled would be ways to describe the 'saturated images of figures' found in the relatively small collage paintings by Atlee.
"A pale young woman with an ornate hairstyle, wearing a traditional kimono, holds what looks like a cherry in one hand and a pair of modern headphones to her ears with the other in Atlee's 'Sister Station,' for example.
"Offering us protection against klutziness is 'St. Allthumbs,' a visual-verbal composition by Atlee that tells the story of a wild-eyed, cave-dwelling, monkish type who puts back together a large guardian urn, broken by hunters."
-- John Brandenberg, "Emergent Artists Show Varied Works," The Oklahoman, 12.01.06

"Sarah Atlee has a ravishing sense of line and color, seen to perfection in her two Sister Station paintings. In these paintings, indebted to 19th century Japanese woodblock prints, she has caught the defining lines and gorgeous transitions of color that these Japanese printmakers ... made celebrated throughout the West. Atlee has given these works a witty sub-text: these pensive beauties may exemplify a 19th century notion of oriental comeliness, but note the trendy 21st century earphones and look at them again. I was impressed by Atlee's range of media in her works. Some like the Sister paintings are straight acrylic on wood. In others, though, she has mixed acrylics with a superb use of silverpoint drawing and inks. In the instance of Bored Game (she's clearly entranced with puns) and Metatorial, she has used acrylics and collage to create a dream-like, surrealistic peek into strange worlds. Another favorite painting of hers, Stripey Lady, employs oil, acrylic, inks and collage on fabric. Atlee may have to organize her wild worlds and their symbols as she develops over time, but in the meantime she's givng us, the viewers, good value for money."
-- Elizabeth Burr, "Mainsite show features pieces that give the eyes a workout," Norman Transcript, 12.15.06

January 10, 2007