The OKC Museum of Art exhibit showcases Fritz Scholder s penchant for challenging the popular, cliched portrayals of Native Americans in the fine art world.
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Although it is only a little larger than a shoe box, the interlocking cubes in Robert Bruce Stevenson's acrylic sculpture "Optical Construction" appear to extend into infinity, while the perfectly positioned concentric circles in Tadasky's "C-182" seem to spin like the giant record the painting resembles.
"It's almost like you can't tell if you're receding into a tunnel or if you're looking at a pyramid and it's going out that way," said Curator Catherine Shotick, waving at the lemon-hued canvas of nesting cubes that is Richard Anuszkiewicz's "Soft Yellow." "He was really just playing with the basic geometric shapes and color contrast in getting this effect.