Brandon Surtain

Surtain’s series is “rooted in memory, joy, and community,” honoring pre-Katrina New Orleans, “when the city felt like one big front porch.” His vividly composed canvases—children diving for a football,...

Brandon Surtain’s vividly composed paintings evoke a profound reverence for the New Orleans of his childhood, the memory of which he seeks to maintain through his life and work as...