Arthur Roger@434 is pleased to present “Trinket,” an exhibition of recent glass and steel sculptures by Mitchell Gaudet. The exhibition will be on view from August 1st – September 19th, 2009 at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, August 1st, 2009 from 6 to 9 pm. The reception will be held in conjunction with “White Linen Night”.
Installations emerged from Pop Art means of removing art from the two dimensional space of illusion into the three dimensional space of the natural world. It had long existed in popular form as Saint Joseph altars, Mardi Gras floats, and church retablos. Traditional categories that considered two-dimensional art as painting and all else as some form of sculpture were defied in the process.
As an ardent film buff, one of my all-time favorite movies I have watched repeatedly since childhood is The Wizard of Oz. So it came as a refreshing surprise to discover New Orleans artist Nicole Charbonnet’s dreamy renditions of the film as mixed media on canvas.
Robert Colescott, a painter whose wild brush strokes across sprawling canvases depicted the ugly ironies of race in America, died June 4 at his home in Tucson. He was 83.
Renowned UA artist’s offbeat works skewered convention Robert Colescott: 1925-2009 by Aaron Mackey, THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR With a cartoonist’s colorful flair and a cutting irony, Robert Colescott created a…
The Death of the Poet by Charles Finch, ARTNET Robert Colescott’s painting Death of Poet depicts a handsome man with an enigmatic smile staring contentedly through his memories of a…
The American painter Robert Colescott has died. Make that great American painter. Colescott was an African-American who was best known for high-comic riffs on racial stereotypes.
