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"Marco Sassone: Architecture and Nature" at Price Tower

On this edition of our show, we speak with Marco Sassone, the award-winning Italian artist (b. 1942), who recently opened an exhibit at the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville. "Marco Sassone: Architecture and Nature" will be on view at that museum through December 2nd. Born in a Tuscan village, raised and schooled in Florence, and later a resident of California for many years, the painter now resides in Toronto. Sassone's vivid, sizable, and invariably energetic works --- many of them 5 x 7 feet or larger --- tend to feature layer after layer of thick, heavily applied pigment; they depict a variety of images that alluringly (and maybe even paradoxically) blend modernist perspectives and vantage points with realistic scenes and subjects. (You can learn more about Sassone's show at Price Tower here.) We are also joined on today's ST by Scott Perkins, the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Price Tower.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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