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“SERIOUS FUN: NEW MINIMALISM IS CHAMPIONED AT RULE”, Westword

March 27, 2004

Rule Gallery director Robin Rule has a taste for art with a less-is-more aesthetic, and she has made her place on Broadway Denver’s “minimalist central.” Over the years, she’s showcased first-generation minimalists from New York, including Carl Andre and Mary Obering, as well as local practitioners, notably Clark Richert, the dean of geometric painters in the region. Sometimesthough only rarelyRule takes a risk with an emerging local artist who is doing a contemporary take on minimalism.

“Small Packages”, The Times-Picayune

March 26, 2004

Remember when you were a kid and you used to lay on the carpet so that your eyes were even with your toy soldiers or dinosaurs or doll house. It changed your whole perspective — literally and figuratively. You were part of the scene, part of the action, and the big world around you didn’t count anymore. It’s a universally known form of little kid surrealism.

“Filmmaker John Waters brings photographic art to Soho”, The Villager

March 23, 2004

“I always feel that if you asked me what movie that is from that the work has failed,” says filmmaker John Waters about his new photography retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

“Lesley Dill at George Adams – New York”, Art in America

March 22, 2004

Language as an instrument of perfect paradox, a medium of both exposure and concealment, has been Lesley Dill’s subject for many years. This exhibition included work both more physically condensed and more ethereal than she has shown before.

“INSIDE ART”, Gambit Weekly

March 3, 2004

Hommage to Ste. Anne is Ersy Schwartz’ parade of bronze and wood miniature figures and floats, some arranged en masse to evoke the Mardi Gras marching parade that serves as its namesake. Others, variants of those designs, are presented individually atop stark white pedestals in the rear chamber. The little floats, and the figures that ride atop or alongside them, are very much in the spirit of the actual parade, yet are far more fastidious than the event itself. They are, in fact, very Ersy, an artist whose deftly precise touch recalls artists ranging from Bosch to Beardsly.

“Louisiana Blend”, Art in America

February 21, 2004

As Louisiana”s leading fantasy-based realist painter, Douglas Bourgeois deserves both a broader audience and more probing analysis. In the wake of his first retrospective, “Baby-Boom Daydreams,” he is likely to get both.

Ersy 2004

February 18, 2004

The Arthur Roger Gallery is presenting “Hommage to Ste. Anne,” an installation by New Orleans artist Ersy from March 6 through March 27, 2004. There will be an opening reception on Saturday March 6th from 6 to 8 pm.

“Cuts off the Heads, Loves the Elbows John Waters as a Legitimate (but Please, Not Respectable) Photographer”, New York Times

February 8, 2004

As a filmmaker, John Waters could always see both the trash in glamour and the glamour in trash. His earlier, underground movies, starring the plus-size drag queen Divine (who died in 1988), are as exuberant in their devotion to the outré as they were, and in some ways still are, shocking.

“A New Wave”, New Orleans Times-Picayune

January 31, 2004

John Scott has spent his life transforming metal and wood into visual stories about black culture in New Orleans.

But the artist’s biggest challenge may be his latest: turning the derelict Lincoln Beach into a premier recreation spot while preserving its rich history through art.

“Transforming Identities”, New Orleans Art Review

January 19, 2004

Provocative. Witty. Humorous. Pungent. What more can one say about the art of Willie Birch at the other Arthur Roger Gallery in the New Renaissance Hotel at the comer of Tchoupitoulas and Julia Streets?