I think we found the home for the next OK Fashion Week kickoff event.
Yesterday, KFOR's Lacey Lett infringed on our turf and broke the news that Hipster Boo Boo is opening an international contemporary art gallery in downtown Oklahoma City. It's called the Sloan Installation Gallery, or "SIG" for short. If you just want to call it "Eye Roll," that's probably fine.
The gallery is owned by Christina and few other wealthy people who probably have rich parents, own an oil company and / or owe Governor Fallin a favor. It's curated / directed by Christina's Pink Pony bandmate, boyfriend and Carles from Hipster Runoff impersonator Steven Battles.
The gallery will feature a mix of international and local installation artists. It will also be a community meeting space for people who are really out of touch with the real Oklahoma City community. Here's the KFOR report:
Governor Mary Fallin’s daughter, Christina, is helping take art to the next level right in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City.
Christina Fallin is showing her creative side at the new Sloan Installation Gallery.
“Everybody talks about Oklahoma experiencing a renaissance. We’ve seen lots of small businesses open up,” Fallin said. “This is kind of an expansion of that, and we`re just further adding on to each other’s creativity and entrepreneurialism.”
Fallin says she saw similar art during her travels around the world.
“I’ve kind of seen this art throughout my visits to other countries,” Fallin said. “My thought with this gallery was `how can we bring that art here? How can we make it more accessible to Oklahomans?’”
The gallery mixes international works with local art.
“They`ve all like stepped up their game. We all do better and we all try harder when we all have something to look up to,” Fallin said.