Leonid Furmansky is one of the leading chroniclers of Texas architecture, as seen in regularly published projects and his 2024 exhibition Beautiful City—Empty City, which I curated. In a new body of work made during personal and professional trips across Oklahoma, Furmansky shot the Sooner State’s architecture with a focus on Oklahoma City and Bartlesville, the site of Frank Lloyd Wright’s troubled Price Tower and Bruce Goff’s projects. Fifty-one of his Oklahoman photographs are now on view through June 27 at the University of Tulsa’s North Gallery at 101 Archer in the solo exhibition Finding Oklahoma. With an eye toward preservation, Furmansky documented “the state’s strange, beautiful, and often overlooked structures with unusual forms, elegant shapes, and recurring dome motifs,” he told AN. The resulting portfolio is his “attempt to show another side of Oklahoma, one shaped by ambition, experimentation, and a distinct architectural identity.”
