Final week for City Arts’ Seed Reef

This week will be the last for City Arts’ immersive exhibit dubbed the Seed Reef Immersive Installation.

Seed Reef was the vision of artists Malcolm Zachariah and Emma Difani, whose shared love of material, nature, and experimentation utilized their individual practices of printmaking and kirigami to construct an immersive paper environment. The exhibit allows visitors to walk through an “underwater” environment full of colorful sea life, as well a seeing the a reef bleached and damaged by pollution and the consequences of climate change.

Visitors are encouraged during their visit to “seed” the damaged reef by constructing their own corals and reef inhabitants to add to the installation.

Both artists also received assistance in this project from local artists including Andrew Hicks, Dale Coons, Summer Gardner, and Theresa Sacket, who created new sculptural pieces for the installation.

In total, 2,000 hours were invested into this project, with $12,500 invested in the project. A total of over 5,000 people visiting the exhibit including various elementary students.

“City Arts hosting Seed Reef has been such a rewarding experience for our organization,” said City Arts Executive Director, Terron Liles. “We absolutely loved having the community come through the exhibition and are so excited to use this opportunity to achieve our mission of teaching and promoting the visual arts!”

The final day for the exhibit will be on Saturday, Feb. 18. Those wishing to visit can go to the John McNeese Galley on the south side of the City Central building at 400 E. Central Avenue. Hours for Tuesday to Friday are 12 pm to 6 pm, Saturday hours are 12 pm to 4 pm.

The following are artist bios provided in a press release by City Arts: – Emma Difani is a visual artist originally from Albuquerque, NM, living and working in Oklahoma City. She received a BFA with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. An arts educator as well as creator, Emma teaches paper and print arts at Oklahoma Contemporary, Artspace at Untitled, The Oklahoma Children’s Theater and Oklahoma City University. She is an active member of the Factory Obscura Collective, ART GRP and the Radical Intersectional Print Guild. Emma co-founded Connect:Collect, an annual international print exchange seeking to highlight and connect printmakers in Oklahoma with artists around the world. Her work uses the obsessive layering of printmaking to examine the complex relationships between the natural and constructed environments.

– Malcolm Zachariah is a bridge-builder making connections between art and science. Based in his hometown of Oklahoma City, Malcolm experiments in several media including ink drawing, watercolor, ceramics, and over 25 years of kirigami (cut and folded paper) sculpture. Self-taught while studying biochemistry (BS, University of Oklahoma), Malcolm draws on motifs from the macroscopic (rainforests and coral reefs) and microscopic (cells and molecules) worlds. He has recently explored the diverse relationships among life forms, including our own species, through printed kirigami installations made in collaboration with Emma Difani. Malcolm is active in the Oklahoma arts community, in exhibitions and serving on the Art Group OKC collective’s leadership team, while also promoting diversity and inclusion in art.

Kenneth Proto

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