Artist captures Katrina victims’ anguish By Michael Granberry, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS When it comes to social activism, artist David Bates is the first to admit: “It’s not usually my…
Radcliffe Bailey, born in 1968, belongs to the next generation of Southern artists. Yet, like many working today, he readily acknowledges John Scott’s influence and encouragement. Like Scott, Bailey’s work draws inspiration from music.
It’s like a weird dream. Soul siren Irma Thomas, dressed in a golden Jackie Kennedy pantsuit, beckons us into a lush landscape of blue irises, python-like oak limbs, and red-winged black birds that sing along to old-fashioned phonograph records
Photographer Deborah Luster doesn’t try to connect the dots. In conversation, she lays out the autobiographical steppingstones that led to the creation of “One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana,” her 2002 masterpiece now on display at the Newcomb Art Gallery. But she leaves us to fill in the psychological blanks.