Are we trespassing? Jacqueline Bishop thinks we are, but not in the usual sense of the word. A well-traveled, widely exhibited artist who teaches an Art and Ecology course at Loyola, Bishop has something subtler yet more fundamental in mind — a sense that, in our race to remake the world in our own techno image, we have become ever more estranged from our origins in nature, and so, in some sense, from ourselves.
Beset by overbuilding, subsidence and erosion, the Louisiana coastline is disappearing at an alarming rate: a total of more than 900,000 acres has been lost since the 1930s, according to the Louisiana Coastal Area Final Study Report released in November 2004. It was a coincidence, but not a negligible one, that Allison Stewart’s show of new paintings was on view the same month.
The Interior of the “Object” of the home, the objects that furnish these homes, the objects that absent people once used: chairs, beds, glasses, guns, medicine bottles, tools, tubas and record players are in the foreground, while reserved, watchful figure seem to be inside the walls that envelop us as we enter someone’s long abandoned home.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present the first gallery exhibition of Athlete/Warrior, a collection of photographs by the internationally acclaimed photographic team of Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low. Athlete/Warrior will be on view from May 7th to July 16th at the Arthur Roger Gallery Project at 730 Tchoupitoulas St. The artists will be in attendance at the opening reception on Saturday, May 7th, 6–9 pm.
Jacqueline Bishop, whose new exhibit “Trespass” is on display at Arthur Roger Gallery, considers herself an ecologist and an artist. For years her jewel-like hyper-detailed paintings have dealt with the plight of rain forest beasts and birds, she’s traveled to Brazil several times to witness the loss of habitat firsthand, she teaches an art and ecology class at Loyola University, and lectures at ecology conferences across the country and around the globe.
Exhibition Dates: April 2 – 30, 2005 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2 from 6–8 pm Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm…
April 2005 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
The current collection of super-scale hyper-hued works by renowned Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy delivers the visual drama demanded by the wide-open sun-soaked interior of Arthur Roger Gallery Project in the Renaissance Arts Hotel.