Paul Medina Art - Home of Oklahoma Artist Paul Medina

Medina has been making original mixed media art for over 50 years. His themes have remained constant through the years. Capturing human truths, the ether that binds us all in countless ways...

Through the late seventies and on into the early nineties, Medina flourished as a gallery artist. He was represented throughout the United States; doing many one and two person shows each year. Besides the many galleries that represented Medina over the years, he also exhibited at the Oklahoma Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. (more)

What's New?

Would you like to know what what I am currently creating? On the "What's New" page I will be posting my latest pieces. These are pieces that generally have not shown publicly... or new works that I am currently creating. Curious? (more)

Paul Medina THE SPACES IN BETWEEN New Exhibit Opening @6pm Thursday December 8, 2022 1515 N Lincoln Boulevard OKC, OK 73104

The Spaces In Between - December 2022

Artist's Statement

New Exhibition at 1515 Lincoln Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK

Thursday, December 8, 2022 6:00 PM thru Saturday, January 14, 2023 5:00 PM

Photography by Ann Sherman

The Spaces In Between 2022

I am an artist who works in series. Sometimes the series lasts for a few years, some for decades. I either tire of the imagery or medium and feel the need to explore, change, and do something different. Once a series ebbs, I may spend a few months or years creatively playing, slowly developing new imagery, and many times introducing new materials as well.

This collection of work in this exhibition includes both works of a new series, and some of the pieces I played with in between one series and the other. Usually, no one sees these works. I decided to show these works in this show.

All the works speak to the sense of place and the comfort and security it can bring.

Some pieces are collage paintings of paper and various liquid mediums on canvas others are amulets/mobiles and made of low fired clay, acrylic paint, steel, copper.

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting three red breasted birds gathered among blue and green vines, branches, briars, and ferns

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting 3 Blue Jays breasted birds gathered among brown and green vines, branches, briars, and ferns

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting 3 yellow hooded birds gathered among green vines, branches, briars, and ferns

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting a black bird among vines, branches, briars, and ferns of various shades of green and brown

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting six birds among vines, branches, and briars in various autumn shades of brown and red

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depicting six orange breated birds among vines, branches, and briars in various shades of green and blue

This mixed media art of Oklahoma born artist Paul Medina is painted paper and mixed media on canvas depcting a tree line with trees of various shapes and sizes in shades of blues and greens against a blue sky

Medina Receives Paseo Arts Association Lifetime Achievement Award

Paseo Arts District Lifetime Acheivement Award Winner Paul Medina Each year the Paseo Arts Association (The PAA) honors artists and art supporters who have made a strong contribution to the arts in our state at the Paseo Arts Awards Dinner. The PAA's Annual Arts Awards were created to recognize and honor those individuals who have contributed to the artistic creativity and well-being of our state.

In 2022, The PAA will honor Oklahoma born mixed-media artist Paul Medina with the Lifetime Achievement Award. This award honors a person who has spent his/her life contributing to the enhancement of the arts in Oklahoma either as an artist, supporter, arts educator or arts administrator.

Formally organized in the 1970s, the Paseo Arts Association began the revitalization of the Paseo. Today, a vibrant group of artists and other interested people are transforming the community through creative thinking and arts activities.

The Paseo was built in 1929 as the first shopping district north of downtown. The curved, two-block street has maintained its Spanish revival architecture with original stucco buildings and clay tile roofs still intact. The Paseo is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Currently, the Paseo is home to over 20 galleries and more than 80 artists, all within walking distance. Intermingled with the galleries are fabulous restaurants, a vegan donut shop, shoe and clothing boutiques, gift shops, a yoga studio, barber shops and a hair salon.