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In the Company of Paintings

October 2025

Uncanny Art House, Norman, OK — In the Company of Paintings was an immersive exhibition by J.M. Bond staged as a Roaring Twenties after-hours atmosphere. The premise: the gallery is the room; the paintings are the “guests,” and so are you. Through narrative oil paintings and theatrical, site-specific installations, visitors stepped inside Uncanny Art House to experience the drama of painted subjects moving off the wall and through a room. Motifs of coupes and poured cocktails, cigarettes and smoke, hands in ritual, and eyes that hold the gaze brought the exhibition’s themes forward—who holds power and where, the social theater at work, and presentation set against the less-opulent underneath.

The aim of the exhibition is to use staged elements to extend the fiction off the walls and out of the corners. Conversations then seem to continue after you pass, and the story never resolves. Each viewer finishes their own perception of it, and the line between viewer and viewed blurs.