James Surls is having a busy year. A giant of Texas art even since moving to Carbondale, Colo., in 1997, Surls has a solo exhibition of recent sculpture and drawings on view through Aug. 22 at the Grace Museum in Abilene. The museum also published a generously scaled catalog of the same title as the exhibit, James Surls: From the Heartland. Read More
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“You Got a Line; I Got a Pole”, The New Orleans Art Review
Installations emerged from Pop Art means of removing art from the two dimensional space of illusion into the three dimensional space of the natural world. It had long existed in popular form as Saint Joseph altars, Mardi Gras floats, and church retablos. Traditional categories that considered two-dimensional art as painting and all else as some form of sculpture were defied in the process. Read More
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Memory As Art”, Louisiana Homes & Gardens
As an ardent film buff, one of my all-time favorite movies I have watched repeatedly since childhood is The Wizard of Oz. So it came as a refreshing surprise to discover New Orleans artist Nicole Charbonnet’s dreamy renditions of the film as mixed media on canvas. Read More
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“Painter’s Takes on Classics Challenged Color Lines”, The Washington Post
Robert Colescott, a painter whose wild brush strokes across sprawling canvases depicted the ugly ironies of race in America, died June 4 at his home in Tucson. He was 83. Read More
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“Renowned UA artist’s offbeat works skewered convention”, The Arizona Daily Star
Renowned UA artist’s offbeat works skewered convention Robert Colescott: 1925-2009 by Aaron Mackey, THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR With a cartoonist’s colorful flair and a cutting irony, Robert Colescott created a world filled with inverted stereotypes that challenged long-held conventions about race, sexuality and even art itself. In massive paintings, the Tucson resident and former University [...] Read More
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“The Death of the Poet”, ArtNet
The Death of the Poet by Charles Finch, ARTNET Robert Colescott’s painting Death of Poet depicts a handsome man with an enigmatic smile staring contentedly through his memories of a mixed-up, yet satisfying life. In its way, it recalls the celebrated poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in his 30s of acute alcoholism, the booze [...] Read More
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“Robert Colescott: 1925-2009″, Time
The American painter Robert Colescott has died. Make that great American painter. Colescott was an African-American who was best known for high-comic riffs on racial stereotypes. Read More
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“Robert Colescott, Painter Who Toyed With Race and Sex, Dies at 83″, The New York Times
Robert Colescott, an American figurative painter whose garishly powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and almost tangible glee, died Thursday at his home in Tucson. He was 83. Read More
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“Robert Colescott: 1925-2009″, The Oregonian
Robert Colescott, the gifted American artist whose often outlandish but always gorgeous paintings pondered racial stereotypes and other thorny aspects of race relations in America, passed away Thursday at his home in Tucson. Read More
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“Simon Gunning and Mitchell Gaudet”, Gambit Weekly
Simon Gunning and Mitchell Gaudet by D. Eric Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY “I paint and draw light,” says Simon Gunning, and if that sounds almost biblical, his new Avery Island landscapes conjure a place so primeval as to evoke the birth of the world. There Gunning became fascinated by the saline swamp, a place he calls [...] Read More