Allie Jensen Memorial Art Gallery

Each month, the Equality Center gallery spotlights work by local artists. Meet the artist at our First Thursdays gallery openings, 6:00 – 9:00 pm on the first Thursday of every month. 

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2021 Art Exhibits

April 2021

Starting April 1st 2021,
​The Allie Jensen Memorial Art Gallery  will feature:
Josh New  
“Confronting the Male Nude:  A Figure Study of the Male Form."


Josh New is a commercial freelance photographer from Oklahoma specializing in portraiture and conceptual art.  He received his MFA in Photography from the University of Tulsa in 2011 focusing on a thesis critically exploring modern American masculinity, both in gay and straight cultures.  He continues to create work showcasing the male form in hopes that one-day nudity, both male and female, will cease to be feared and brutally censored.   This show is a celebration of male beauty and figure photography that is currently banned from most social media platforms because it goes against “community standards.”  The human body, even when not sexualized, continues to be censored and excluded from discussion in modern American society.  My hope is to present work that is beautiful, emotional, and thought-provoking and to show that these “community standards” are actually an archaic barrier to healthy reflection and comfort with our own bodies.  The show will feature giant prints of male nudes that I hope viewers will feel comfortable looking at, analyzing, and discussing in the hopes that confronting the fears and misconceptions of nude figure photography, particularly of the male body, can foster a change into what our community accepts. The show opens at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center located at 621 E. 4th Street Tulsa OK 74120 on Thursday,April 1st with Covid measures in place. The show continues throughout the month.  ​