{"id":719853,"date":"2026-06-22T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:50:13","slug":"texas-based-photographer-leonid-furmansky-turns-his-gaze-toward-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719853\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas-based photographer Leonid Furmansky turns his gaze toward Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonid Furmansky is one of the leading chroniclers of Texas architecture, as seen in regularly published projects and his 2024 exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/architecturehouston.org\/arch-exhibits\/beautiful-city-empty-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful City\u2014Empty City<\/a>, which I curated. In a new body of work made during personal and professional trips across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/tag\/oklahoma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a>, Furmansky shot the Sooner State\u2019s architecture with a focus on Oklahoma City and Bartlesville, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/2025\/12\/new-owners-plan-frank-lloyd-wright-price-tower-bartlesville-oklahoma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">site of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s troubled Price Tower<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/2026\/03\/new-affiliates-houses-bruce-goff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Goff\u2019<\/a>s projects. Fifty-one of his Oklahoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/tag\/photography\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photographs<\/a> are now on view through June 27 at the University of Tulsa\u2019s North Gallery at 101 Archer in the solo exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.utulsa.edu\/event\/finding-oklahoma\/2026-07-01\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finding Oklahoma<\/a>. With an eye toward preservation, Furmansky documented \u201cthe state\u2019s strange, beautiful, and often overlooked structures with unusual forms, elegant shapes, and recurring dome motifs,\u201d he told AN. The resulting portfolio is his \u201cattempt to show another side of Oklahoma, one shaped by ambition, experimentation, and a distinct architectural identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Leonid_Furmansky_Finding_Oklahoma_Web_-2.jpg\" alt=\"gold dome in oklahoma\" width=\"2048\"  \/>Gold Dome (Leonid Furmansky)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Leonid_Furmansky_Finding_Oklahoma_Web_-3.jpg\" alt=\"casino in oklahoma\" width=\"2048\"  \/>WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville (Leonid Furmansky)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Leonid_Furmansky_Finding_Oklahoma_Web_-7.jpg\" alt=\"The Lawton National Guard Armory \" width=\"2048\"  \/>The Lawton National Guard Armory (Leonid Furmansky)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Leonid_Furmansky_Finding_Oklahoma_Web_-8.jpg\" alt=\"Cityplex Towers in Tulsa \" width=\"2048\"  \/>Cityplex Towers in Tulsa (Leonid Furmansky)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Leonid_Furmansky_Finding_Oklahoma_Web_-9.jpg\" alt=\"Price Tower in Bartlesville \" width=\"2048\"  \/>Price Tower in Bartlesville (Leonid Furmansky)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leonid Furmansky is one of the leading chroniclers of Texas architecture, as seen in regularly published projects and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-719853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}