VOL. 32, NOS. 3-4 SPRING 2015

Three Exhibitions
New Orleans, LA

DAVID BUCKINGHAM / SKYLAR FEIN
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

LIN EMERY
Arthur Roger Gallery

PAUL LEBLANC
Le Mieux Galleries

BY MARIAN S. MCLELLAN

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Lin Emery: Umbrella Tree, 2014. Brushed aluminum,117 x 127 (orbit) inches.

More interactive work is found in Lin Emery’s kinetic sculptures at Arthur Roger Gallery. Emery, a local sculptor whose work is widely known in New Orleans and beyond, continues to be inspired by the exquisite forms that Nature offers every day. Movement is soothing to the human eye. Hypnotic even. To the animal kingdom at large, movement is life. Emery harnesses Nature’s energy of form and movement in her glistening aluminum sculptures and preserves Nature’s essence to give us meditations on beauty and life. The Umbrella Tree, standing about ten feet tall and looking architecturally modernist, is actually more musical than sculptural despite having little or no sound. The stylized leaves of Umbrella Tree just as well be notes on a staff, playing to our eyes and ears. The same holds true for Cumulus, another treelike sculpture. This time the leaves are perhaps clouds, moving to the rhythm of the music created when Nature’s relentless energy and spectacle combine. Viewing Emery’s sculptures, no words are needed.