Monthly Archives: October 2013

Arthur Roger Gallery at Art Miami 2013

Arthur Roger Gallery is very pleased to be a part of Art Miami this year. At Booth C1, we are exhibiting works by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Richard Baker, David Bates, Jacqueline Bishop, Douglas Bourgeois, Stephen Paul Day, Lesley Dill, James Drake, Troy Dugas, George Dureau, Courtney Egan, Lin Emery, Deborah Luster, Francis X. Pavy, Holton Rower and John Waters. The exhibition will be on view from December 3 – December 8, 2013 at the Miami Art Pavilion located in the Miami Midtown Arts District.

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“Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” Smithsonian American Art Museum

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s pioneering collection of Latino art. It explores how Latino artists shaped the artistic movements of their day and recalibrated key themes in American art and culture.

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“Review: Edward Burtynsky’s Water,” Gambit

In south Louisiana, we know a thing or two about water. Not only are we surrounded by it, the air we breathe is often permeated with it, so our relationship with water is intimate. But intimate relationships often have elements of surprise, and while Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, which occupy two floors of gallery space at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), are often too spectacular to be truly intimate, they do pack a tsunami of surprises. His sweeping amphibious landscapes, whether all natural or shaped by human intervention, can be startlingly abstract, and if the proliferation of large-scale photographs in recent years has already shown us how painterly such images can be, many of Burtynsky’s works bear a striking resemblance to abstract canvases.

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“Lin Emery: In Motion,” New Orleans Museum of Art

For twenty-five years, Lin Emery’s Wave, 1988 has welcomed visitors to the New Orleans Museum of Art from the lily pond in front of the main entrance. The sleek, multi-faceted sculpture that sprung from the water is composed of seven interconnected arms, which seem to simultaneously move independently and collectively. Not only striking, the work is a study of mathematics and engineering. This fall, NOMA has moved Wave into the Cascade Garden Pool in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which allows Emery’s signature touch of movement to be visible from both the Pine and Oak Groves.

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John Hartman at work in the Crowsnest Pass

John Hartman paints a watercolour study of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans (included in his 2013 exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery) during his residency at the Gushul Studio in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass.

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“Lecture and Exhibition by New York Artist Lesley Dill,” LSU College of Art + Design

Acclaimed New York artist Lesley Dill will present a lecture entitled “We Are Animals of Language” as part of the LSU College of Art + Design Paula G. Manship Endowed Lecture Series. Lesley Dill is one of a series of visiting artists participating in LSU School of Art’s 2013–14: Malleable Language exhibition season, whose theme is the visual and critical exploration of the artistic tradition of intermingling text and image. Her works in sculpture, photography, and performance use a variety of media and techniques to explore themes of language, the body, and transformational experience. Dill has called herself a “matchmaker of words and images,” and she often pulls from the poems of Emily Dickinson and other poets and writers to create sculptural costumes, mannequins, and floor-to-ceiling backdrops covered in interweaving black text and images.

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