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“Robert Polidori,” BOMB

April 26, 2007

I met Robert Polidori through a photograph he had taken of the Versailles restoration. It captivated me. Seeing so many layers of history in one image was astonishing. So was being spurred to imagine Versailles as a real dwelling defined by the remnants of its inhabitants, and all the changes in history they and it had undergone.

This was the ’90s, when many photographers making art were constructing their own subjects or creating intellectual images that involved visual sleight of hand. The straightforward voluptuousness of Robert’s photo stood in stark contrast to all this. It was this originality and this lushness that enchanted me.

Douglas Bourgeois New Orleans, Art Papers

April 20, 2007

Douglas Bourgeois may be the most successful obscure artist in America. His smallish paintings command respectable prices—for their size, by New York standards—and his most recent show of over one hundred paintings, drawings, and collages sold quickly Arthur Roger Gallery; November 4—December 12. 2006].

“Lifelines”, Gambit Weekly

April 17, 2007

As years go, 2005 was a big one for acclaimed African-American sculptor John Scott. In May of that year, a retrospective exhibition of the then 65-year-old artist”s work was held at the New Orleans Museum of Art. It was a big success by all the measures that matter.

Edward Whiteman 2007

March 22, 2007

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present a major exhibition of recent mixed media works on paper by Edward Whiteman. The exhibition, which will occupy the gallery’s three exhibition spaces, opens April 7th and continues through April 28th, 2007 at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception to meet the artist on Saturday, April 7th, from 6 to 8 pm.

Dawn DeDeaux

March 3, 2007

Exhibition Dates: March 3 – March 31, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm Contact…

“New Orleans, Lost & Found”, Art in America

March 1, 2007

In a recent exhibition and book, Robert Polidori, known for making startling images of
architecture around the world, turns his camera on post-Katrina desolation.

“Jim Richard at Oliver Kamm/5BE,” Art in America

February 20, 2007

For years, New Orleans painter Jim Richard has articulated an acidic social commentary through unpeopled interiors of the showy sort featured in domicile magazines. Many of his paintings employ an icy, synthetic palette to depict settings over-decorated with contrasting examples of historical and recent art. “These are the places,” one critic wrote, “where art goes to die.”

“NICOLE CHARBONNET at the Arthur Roger Gallery”, New Orleans Art Review

January 27, 2007

Nicole Charbonet’s current body of work, entitled, The Truth about God, deals with subjects such as the temporality of the material world and the power of nature. Charbonnet portrays these thoughts in a series of canvases, all done in mixed media and acrylic. Her works are at once alarming but offer a sense of calm in their soft, fresco like appearance, reminiscent of the colors of Pompeii, muted almost to a whisper with the patina of time.

“John Geldersma at the Arthur Roger Gallery,” New Orleans Art Review

January 26, 2007

THE ANCIENT ARCHETYPES of various European, Caribbean, Native American, and African cultures weave together this timeless exhibition of totemic carvings by John Geldersma. With simple wood and paint, the colors of which seem almost inspired by fire, he reaches into an understanding of humanity, the history of its culture, unmistakably modem because of its far reaching universality.

“Levity and Lace”, New Orleans Art Review

January 23, 2007

NOW, ASK YOURSELF, honestly, what kind of art would you imagine you would find when you read that an exhibition involving Waters and Flood was opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery this month?