Deborah Luster’s documentary photographs impart the community, culture and landscape of the South. Working with medium format cameras, she presents the rituals of daily life, the life forces in objects and the inner spirits of her subjects. As poet C.D. Wright describes, “She offers no theory, adheres to none; none stick back. She studies compulsively and applies in the particular, what works then and there.”
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Against the Tide, an exhibition of paintings and mixed media by Jacqueline Bishop. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from November 3 through December 22, 2012. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, November 3 from 6–8 pm.
“COMING out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian,” the painter Deborah Kass said on a recent morning in her Brooklyn studio.
Dill uses Morgan’s own words to great effect in the installation, varying between further themes of light (heaven) and darkness (hell) and creating an artistic swath that manages to encompass a broad spectrum of emotions and events.
By Robin Cembalest via artnews.com Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image–and influence–of Africans in Western art (excerpt) From Kongo to Tango And next year…
Home Alone, the walk-in closet-sized Franklin Street gallery whose name was inspired by the record-setting copy of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — which goes on view today at MoMA — and its likeness to Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone,” is currently host to a comic installation by the irreverent and resurgent art star Mark Flood.
Did Sister Gertrude’s life really make a real difference? God alone knows, but she has become an unlikely muse to at least a few artists in the secular world in spite of her oddness and the always unpopular message of impending doom barking at her heels. One of the most interesting is artist Lesley Dill and her magnificent installation, first at Arthur Roger Gallery and still circulating: “Hell Hell Hell Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan & Revelation” (2010). Dill is well known for her fascination with Emily Dickinson and incorporation of lettering, poetry and literature into feminist and spiritual themes.
Installation views of John Alexander: Recent Observations October 2012 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery.
