“Re-Seed,” Urban Glass
Walking into Gene Koss’s studio in Belle Chasse, Louisiana—a corrugated metal industrial building a half hour’s drive across the river from central New Orleans—the first thing you see is a sculpture model.
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“Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Three Artists Offer a Respite From Minimalism,” D Magazine
At the McKinney Avenue Contemporary last night I was thinking about repetition. I had to: the three artists on display—Jacqueline Bishop, Ginger Geyer, and Kenneth Hale—either work in series of multiples, or else pay homage to earlier artists, repeating both themselves and their precursors with always interesting effect.
“Prestidigtations & Permutations,” New Orleans Art Review
Prestidigitations & Permutations By Karl F. Volkmar In one of the more curious moments in nineteenth century Europe’s fascination with spiritual phenomena and the occult, Alphonse Louis Constant, under the pen name Eliphas Levi, wrote books on the history and practice of transcendental magic in one of which he explains how to communicate with the…
“Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde,” Nka
Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde BY JULIE L. MCGEE, Nka I wonder where is all my relations / Friendship to all and every nation. David Drake The American artist Whitfield Lovell has been collecting and using vintage accoutrements—the material culture of late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century African American life, including photographs — for many years. He is best…
“Strange Alchemy,” Gambit Weekly
Strange Alchemy By Eric D. Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY The objects on view are all too familiar, though not necessarily reassuring. Wrecking balls, ladders and water, lots of water, offer no end of troubling associations — and not just for local associations. Those same images also resonate in the wake of the recent horrific flooding in…
“Gallery Walk,” New Orleans Art Review
Gallery Walk James Surls at Arthur Roger by Karl F. Volkmar, New Orleans Art Review The organic, monumental wood and steel sculptures of James Surls dominate the main gallery at Arthur Roger. Their massiveness is contrasted with weightlessness by their vertical suspension from the ceiling; even mounted on stands on the floor, they seem impossibly…
“Sculptor James Surls Puts A Magnificent Seven On The Rice Campus,” Houston Press
James Surls, the sculptor who had seven of his art pieces installed at Rice University last month, enlightened a crowd there recently about his art philosophy and the ideas behind his plant-like sculptures.
“Prestidigitations & Permutations,” The New Orleans Art Review
Gregory Scott’s Outside the Frame mixed media work is more fun than walking through one of the old fun houses at the state fair or a mystery spot along the highway leading to a popular vacation site.
“Gregory Scott,” ArtNews
Gregory Scott’s ingenious painting-photo-video amalgams use humor to help blur the lines between mediums.
“Artist Gregory Scott at Arthur Roger Gallery,” The Times-Picayune
What would surrealist René Magritte be doing if he were alive today? I bet he would be doing pretty much what Chicago-based artist Gregory Scott is doing.