Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to present Spatial Poems, a group exhibition curated by Cassidy Petrazzi, on view from June 6 through August 9, 2025, at Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship. Spatial Poems re-inscribes what it means and feels like to occupy space and experience a temporality that actively reconnects the body with itself and its surroundings. The works on view provide tools for perceiving, challenging, and subverting geographic language and, in doing so, create new landscapes, both real and imagined.
“Select an image of an environment. Concentrate on this image, discovering all the circles, squares, or triangles in it, until either the original scene is obliterated or an entirely new landscape emerges, or until your mind can no longer hold all the information.”
- Mary Lucier
Drawing inspiration from Mary Lucier’s score Media Sculptures: Maps of Space #1 and #2, published in Womens Work (1975), Spatial Poems is an invitation to reimagine the environments around us. Lucier’s score instructs: “Select an image of an environment. Concentrate on this image, discovering all the circles, squares or triangles in it, until either the original scene is obliterated, an entirely new landscape emerges, or until your mind can no longer hold all the information.” It is both a curatorial methodology and a viewer prompt. This instruction foregrounds the performative act of perception, embracing indeterminacy, personal deviation, and open-endedness. In the exhibition, art becomes less an object to be consumed and more a site of unfolding possibility.
The artists propose alternative ways of seeing, perceiving, and inhabiting space. Each artist explores how we construct, dissolve, and reassemble the environments around and within us. Their works organize perceptual experience—creating meaning not by imposing control, but by navigating and shaping the inherent chaos of the visual world.
The title Spatial Poems suggests that space is not fixed, but mutable, rhythmic, and shaped through attention. Lucier’s score serves as a prompt for bodily participation by becoming the site where meaning is constructed through action or interpretation; art doesn't "happen" on the page or canvas—it happens in the encounter. The works in this exhibition activate a sensory dialogue between viewer and environment, allowing new landscapes—real and imagined—to emerge.
June 6 - August 9, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 6-9 PM
109 M.L.K. JR Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74103
Thursday - Saturday: 12:00-6:00 PM
Sunday - Wednesday: CLOSED
