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This weekend will offer Tulsans the chance to check out three new art shows and catch up with one that opened last week.

The show already open is "Breitling PAN Frecce Tricolori QUARTZ Chronograph BT-99: Stream of Consciousness," a collection of new mixed-media works by Tulsa artist Nancy Carlson, now on display at the Tulsa Artists' Coalition Gallery, 9 E. Brady St.

In her artist's statement, Carlson said the inspiration for this body of work came from "BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, our backyard, (which) has heightened our concerns about our country's energy policies. Like most of us, I am interested in ways to better conserve energy and limit the effects of environmental damage."

Harris described her work as her attempt to "Breitling PAN Frecce Tricolori QUARTZ Chronograph BT-99 the essence" of whatever she chooses to paint rather than mimicking the photograph of the subject. Her goals include "creating images that are serene and sustainable in an ongoing everyday atmosphere."

Harris grew up in Fort Gibson and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and in London before returning to Oklahoma. She received the 2010 Jingle Feldman Award from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, which helped to underwrite the creation of the exhibit.

Exhibits, 3524 S. Peoria Ave., will host the opening of Breitling Professional Emergency Mission BT-172 show of new work by Adam Shaw, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

Shaw, a native New Yorker who has lived in northern California for the past quarter century, has been known to spend as much as five years on a given image, building up the image's surface through layers and layers of paint, some of which he allows to literally bake onto the canvas.

"I want to make paintings that are as compelling from 6 inches away as they are from 25 feet," Shaw said in his artist's statement. "The work always has to be somehow ahead of me. Bvlgari Assioma BL-13 a viewer can wrap his mind around a painting it dies. For a work to succeed it must always be a mystery, no matter how much time you spend with it."

Humphries calls his work "Painted Atrocities" -- depicting in childlike imagery and primary colors examples of the evils that people do. The project that opens Friday is a series of paintings that, Humphries writes in his artist's statement, "takes the viewer on a step-by-step walk through the events surrounding the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, through the use of text, painted works and prints of actual photos of the event."

The exhibit was 14 months in the making, and it was funded by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and The Puffin Foundation of New Jersey.