When you ask Willie Melvin Birch, “How did you get here?,” you want to ask him in every sense: how did he get here, as well as how did he get here. The Maryland Institute College of Art alumnus journeyed a curiously circular road to being a fall 2006 artist-in-residence at his alma mater with two showcase exhibitions. Read More
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“All Roads Lead Home: Exploring hte Artwork of Willie Birch”, Baltimore City Paper
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“Bountiful Bourgeois: Artist Douglas Bourgeois Assembles His Show of Shows”, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Working day after day in his St. Amant, La., studio near Gonzales, it usually takes Douglas Bourgeois three years to create enough of his small, hyper-detailed artwork for a show.
This time, Hurricane Katrina delayed his planned exhibition, adding another year to his intensive work schedule. Read More
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“Seeing the Light”, Gambit Weekly
It’s something the almost never happens, a once-in-a-lifetime event. Ordinarily it takes Douglas Bourgeois, the most meticulous artist in Louisiana if not the world, ages to complete a single, modestly proportioned canvas. Read More
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“Nicole Charbonnet”, Southern Accents
Nicole Charbonnet grew up playing hide-and-seek in the majestic, crumbling aboveground Lafayette cemetery in New Orleans. Today, she still lives in New Orleans, creating layered images on paper and canvas in which the present hides within the past like a child crouching between tombstones. Read More
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“Heartfelt Lifeline in the Rain Forest”, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jacqueline Bishop’s “Panorama,” which snakes on the walls of the Georgia State University art gallery, is a flotsam of baby shoes, artificial birds and toys, all bathed in black. Read More
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“James Barsness at George Adams”, Art in America
Though less collaged than his previous work, the eight paintings that made up James Barsness’s recent exhibition are still dense with obscure imagery and obsessive detail. Loaded with cryptic symbolism, they offer private narratives steeped in archetypal themes: birth, childhood and death, sex and violence. Read More
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“Photo Art Reframes Reality”, Graphic
One of the first pieces that catches visitors’ eyes is Srdjan Loncar’s “Living Room,” which uses Styrofoam, photographs and pins to reconstruct the most used space in the American home. Read More
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“Interpreting Katrina”, The Daily Advertiser
As you walk up the stairway to the upper floor of the Opelousas Museum of Art, you hear the sound of running water and chirping birds. Above that, you hear a woman singing a mournful song, her voice reflecting pain and longing. Read More
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“Art of Defiance”, The Times-Picayune
One of the brightest of these young all-stars is Croatian-born Srdjan Loncar, 35, whose large, obsessively complicated photo-coated sculptures dominated the last New Orleans Triennial group show at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2005. Read More
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“Seeing Beauty in Unexpected Places”, American Artist
Simon Gunning has an edgy way of viewing southern Louisiana’s almost mystical landscape with all its beauty and harshness. His paintings of vast, watery marshes; dark, almost impenetrable swamps; gritty city streets; and the Mississippi River coursing through the endlessly flat coastal delta are not the grand romantic illusions favored by the mid-19th century Luminists or Impressionists. Read More