LaQuincey Reed

Artist Bio

LaQuincey is a figurative sculptor who lives and works in Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in studio art and is an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society. He has been commissioned to complete works for the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in Duncan, OK, the Oklahoma State Capitol and other institutions. His work was part of South Carolina’s Brookgreen Gardens’ exhibit on Emerging Stars in American Sculpture and is an annual exhibitor at the Buffalo Bill Art Show in Cody, Wyoming. Currently, he is the artist in residence at the Skirvin Hilton hotel where he is working on life size sculpture of Clara Luper as part of the Clara Luper Sit-In Plaza Monument. This monument is dedicated to the first sit-ins in Oklahoma and will be installed on the original site of Katz Drug Store where Clara Luper and her students started the sit-ins.

Artist Work

Title: Perle Mesta
Category: Sculpture
Genre: Portrait Bust
Description: This piece was sculpted for the Skirvin Hotel as part of my residency at the hotel.

Title: Clara Luper
Category: Sculpture
Genre: Monument
Description: This piece was sculpted for the Clara Luper Sit-in Plaza Monument for downtown Oklahoma City.

Title: Puttin in the Work
Category: Sculpture
Genre: Western
Description: This is a work center on the theme of blacks in the west showing a black cowboy breaking a horse.

Location

 73170