Features Oklahoma-raised, New York-based artist John Newsom at the opening celebration of his homecoming and mid-career retrospective, Nature's Course.

Filling the Eleanor Kirkpatrick Main Gallery with stunning flora and fauna, Nature’s Course is built to impress on multiple levels, as you move beyond identification and explore the power of allegory. This celebration of 31 large-scale oil paintings will include a preview of the exhibition before the public opening, complimentary drinks, hors d'oeuvres and an exclusive set from NYC DJ Gustavo Guerra.

Tickets are $20 and spots are limited: okcontemp.org/JohnNewsom.

John Newsom, Goodbye to Romance, 2002. Oil on canvas. 84 x 160 in. Private collection. © John Newsom. Photo courtesy John Newsom Studio.