Art Collecting leads Enid native to create own space
By Nathan Poppe, published August 4, 2009. Found at newsok.com
He was programmed to use only half of his brain — the logical left half, to
be exact.
This was when Brian Nault, owner of the newly opened downtown Nault Fine Art
Gallery, worked as an accountant for Evans Furniture Co. before it was sold to
Mathis Brothers Furniture.
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Aug 4 The Enid native talks about the newly opened Nault Fine Art Gallery.
That changed seven years ago when the Enid native started balancing art
collecting with number crunching.
This expanded Nault’s mind.
"I got a lot more enjoyment out of art dealing than I did accounting,”
Nault said. "More using, you know, both sides of my brain.”
Nault, 40, said he has been spending the past year remodeling and installing
ancient art dating to the fourth century and contemporary paintings, sculptures
and photographs in the second floor of his downtown gallery at 1114 N Walker.
The art lining the walls is impressive, but not nearly as much as his knowledge
of it.
Nault said he has filled his head with dozens of books focusing on African art
and tribal art.
The Oklahoma State University alumnus’ tightly packed book collection sits on
the gallery’s bookshelves.
On a recent morning, his large collection caused one of the shelves to tumble
down. Luckily, it didn’t knock down any of the several 19th-century African
masks surrounding the books. The wooden masks all wear interesting expressions,
the kind of faces your elders warned against because your face might get stuck
that way. Nault said each mask has a purpose and carries an interesting story.
Nault has shared stories on travel art throughout the United States. However, he
has settled down to realize something about his gallery’s location.
"I like Oklahoma City because it’s on the move,” Nault said.
Gallery
combines works from nationally known artists with tribal art
An Oklahoma City gallery that has
recently adopted regular, public hours combines works from nationally known
artists with tribal art created in Oklahoma and from cultures throughout the
world.
Nault
Fine Art, 1114 N. Walker, specializes in contemporary pieces in varying
media, like paint and photography, created by artists from all over the country,
said Brian Nault, the gallery’s owner.
Some of the exhibited works were
created by regional artists, he said, but others come from artists who have
featured pieces in well-known galleries throughout the U.S. One of them, Robert
Stivers, is a photographer known for his spooky, ethereal images.
In addition to its contemporary
work, the gallery also features African art and ancient bronze objects from
Southeast Asia, which Nault said complement the more modern pieces.
EVER-PRESENT LOVE
Nault was raised in Anaheim,
Calif., and briefly lived in Enid. He moved to Oklahoma City when he took a job
as an accountant in the ’90s, but his love of art was present even as he
worked as a businessman.
He collected art to “sort of
balance the two lobes of my brain between the static and the creative,” he
said. Eventually the creative side took over, and he opened the art gallery
about a year ago.
It wasn’t until this month,
however, that Nault Fine Art took on regular gallery hours because he said he
spent much of the past year working on other projects and traveling from
California to New York to view art collections.
The gallery is now open 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Additional hours can be set by appointment.
Nault said the remodeled gallery was designed to allow visitors to see how
potential purchases look in an urban, loft-type setting.
He has dubbed one of the rooms at
the gallery the “tribal room” because it’s filled with African and
Southeast Asian art. He said the room was designed to be comfortable, dark and
elegant. Maybe the room was too inviting, because Nault said that without
realizing it, he slowly began moving his office items into it.
“Next thing I knew, my office
was here in the tribal room,” he said.
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