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“‘Strange Fruit,’ In Pottery and Through the Lens: Art Exhibit,” Hartford Courant.com
Gourd shapes rendered in clay and still-life arrangements snapped before decay are found in “Strange Fruit,” an exhibition of sensuous works by potter Greg Kuharic and photographer David Halliday at La Motta Fine Art in Hartford.
Srdjan Loncar 2008
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculpture installations by Srdjan Loncar. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street from November 1st – 29th, 2008. Mr. Loncar will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, November 1st, from 6 to 8 pm in conjunction with the opening night of Prospect.1.
“John Pilson,” Prospect 1 Catalogue
David Bates: The Storm
ARTHUR ROGER @434 is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition “The Storm,” a series of new paintings based on the Hurricane Katrina disaster by Texas-based artist David Bates. The exhibition will be on view November 1st – 29th, 2008 at the Arthur Roger 434, located at 434 Julia Street. David Bates will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, November 1st, from 6 to 8 pm.
“On the Nature of Glass,” New Orleans Art Review
DALE CHIHULY MUST have been a bad student! He was obviously not paying attention when his general science teacher was explaining to the class that glass was an inorganic amorphous solid. “Amorphous? Inorganic? How can that be?”
“In His Element,” Oxford American
Four paintings in a series: A house lies skewed in the middle of an empty Street, its clapboards turned into undulating waves by the chaos of wind and water. A burly guy dressed in pleasure-club regalia offers a raised hand and a big smile, a second-line shout-out seeming to hang over his velvet fedora.
Dale Chihuly: Black Work
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to announce the continuation of an exhibition of new glass sculpture, installations and drawings by internationally acclaimed artist Dale Chihuly from his latest series, “Black Work.” The exhibition will be on view August 2nd through October 18th at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception Saturday, October 4th from 6-9 pm, in conjunction with “Art for Art’s Sake.”
“Two proposed public art projects fail to win favor,” Times-Picayune
The commission voted Tuesday to reject Dawn DeDeaux’s proposed “Steps Home” art installation in the Chartres Street pedestrian mall next to Jackson Square as well as a proposal by satirical conceptual artists Tony Campbell and Matt Vis to embed 10 metal medallions in the Bourbon Street sidewalk.
“Taking Flight”, Garden & Gun
It’s raining in New Orleans, and just before I set foot in Jacqueline Bishop’s studio, I’m looking at my shoes. I’m wiping them on the doormat, mostly because I don’t want to track mud inside, but because I’m wearing new suede boots and I want to see if, crossing the puddle-filled courtyard between her Garden District house and her studio, I’ve ruined them. That’s what I”m thinking about when I step over the threshold– shoes.