by Jessie Morgan, Tulane University Gene Koss artwork is unusual, not only because of its size (large), its weight (eight tons) or even its subject (farm machinery), but also it’s medium-glass. On Jan. 11, 1999, this Newcomb art professors innovative use of glass earned him the New Orleans Museum of Arts Delgado Society’s annual award…
The exhaustive, 186-piece retrospective of George Dureau’s photography at the Contemporary Arts Center may very well offend you. To begin with, the 69-year-old artist’s principle subject is the nude male, with no detail left unexposed.
Simon Gunning has painted natural landscapes and he has painted urban landscapes. In his “River Series” he does both, simultaneously. The images…are each a study in startling, if at times eerie, incongruity.
Ascend into the coolly seductive, eerily beautiful night sky of New Orleans artist Mary Jane Parker at the 1708 Gallery.
You may never want to come down to Earth.
Ascend into the coolly seductive, eerily beautiful night sky of New Orleans artist Mary Jane Parker at the 1708 Gallery.
You may never want to come down to Earth.
Parker painted her site-specific “Skywatching” in her New Orleans studio in oil on four flexible plywood panels. The panels were assembled to form a semicircular floor-to-ceiling cyclorama in 1708’s back gallery.
Over the last 20 years, my work has focused on evoking Midwestern farm life. Working with a mechanical engineer and a project coordinator, I have developed techniques to transform my memories of the mechanized Wisconsin farm of my youth into foundry-based glass sculpture.
War and Leaves: Sculpture by Lin Emery by D. Eric Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY It all started with a spoon. Years ago, a silver spoon poised precariously on the rim of a tea cup began dancing unexpectedly as a thin stream of water cascaded onto its smooth, sleek surfaces from the faucet above. Lin Emery was…
Douglas Bourgeois is one of the most talented and poetic artists in Louisiana, or anywhere else. Paintings like those on view at Arthur Roger Gallery through April 24-hypnotically complicated, obsessively busy oils, peopled with pop-culture icons-are the bricks from which Bourgeois’ reputation is built.
Dale Chihuly’s stunning installation of large-scale sculptural works at L.A. Louver showed how simplicity can triumph in the hands of a master. Chihuly amassed hundreds of simple hand-blown units of various organic shapes into protean configurations of breathtaking beauty, mystery and even majesty.
As a child in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly cherished a photo of the blue and yellow stained-glass windows of the Matisse Chapel in France. He also remembers being more attracted to a piece of sparkling glass on a beach than to the waves, sand, or shells.