“From Podunk to the Big Time”, LaCrosse Tribune
Gene Koss sits in his glass studio in New Orleans, working on vast glass sculptures and wondering how he ever got this far from the farm.
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Arthur Roger Gallery 25th Anniversary
Robert Colescott: August 26, 1925–June 4, 2003
Renowned American figurative painter Robert Colescott died on June 4, 2009 at his home in Tuscon, Arizona at the age of 83.
“Gallery Walk – San Francisco”, Art on Paper
I appreciated Stephen Sollins’s recent works at Brian Gross Fine Art for their sense of discovering poetry in everyday sources – and the artist’s labor-intensive techniques.
“John Alexander: 35 Years of Works on Paper” —Edmund P. Pillsbury, Ph.D.
While John Alexander’s achievement as a painter continues to win accolades, his prowess as a consummate draftsmen has only recently emerged. This latent recognition should come as no surprise. Invariably, painters resort to paper to record an impression, producing works that make up in spontaneity what by intention they lack in finish.
“Louisiana Visions”, The Times-Picayune
The current exhibit at Arthur Roger Gallery is a sure crowd pleaser. Francis X. Pavy, Debbie Fleming Caffery and Elmore Morgan Jr. are all Louisiana art legends long-known for their stylish depictions of the Bayou State beyond city limits.
“Uncovering The Soul Stone: A Visit with Painter Francis Pavy”
The ancient cities of Italy and Greece were built around a center, the mundus, which was a pit covered by a great stone, called a “soul stone.” On certain days, the stone was removed, and the spirits of the dead rose from the pit which established the city’s relationship to its ancestral spirits.
“A New Place to Dwell: Seeking Douglas Bourgeois’s Magic Realism”, Estill Curtis Pennington Essay
In 1981 Douglas Bourgeois painted Blue Christmas, a work featuring Elvis Presley lying back on a bed beside a fully lit and decorated Christmas tree. Hanging in the blue-draped window just behind him is a bushy holiday wreath.
“The Earthly Delights of Bourgeois’s America”, Dan Cameron Essay
Douglas Bourgeois hails from St. Amant, Louisiana, where he has lived and worked since 1981 and where his family has resided for several generations. That would seem to make him the kind of artist who, some years ago, would have been labeled “regional.”
“Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois”, David S. Rubin Essay
Although he was raised on a small farm in the rural southern Louisiana community of St. Amant, Douglas Bourgeois grew up at a time when living in a remote area did not necessarily mean isolation from the cultural trappings of the big city.