Al Souza’s extravagant “paintings” are so visually disruptive they demand to be stared at long and hard—that is, if you can manage to fix your gaze on them at all. Stand before these works, composed of thousands of layered jigsaw-puzzle pieces, loose and in semi-completed chunks, and the whole immediate environment seems in flux; the paintings appear to slide back and forth, creating a vaguely feverish sensation.
Recalling, in part, an African-American community razed by whites in the 1920s, a recent installation by Whitfield Lovell evokes in elegiac detail the rural South and the quiet, dignified lives of its inhabitants.
Exhibition Dates: April 7 – 28, 2001 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm…
David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary by Charles Dee Mitchell, ART IN AMERICA Near the center of the painted wood relief Cannas (all works 2000), there is a break…
Exhibition Dates: March 3 – March 31, 2001 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3 from 6–8 pm Artist Walk-through: Saturday, March 17 at 2 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New…
For those who relish art the name John Alexander brings to mind buttery oil paint, signature whiplash brushstrokes, and canvases that represent nature as mysterious and never entirely benign. In this exhibition we see a less familiar side of the artist’s work: not the panoramic seascapes, overgrown gardens and teeming swamps he’s painted for more than 3 decades, but a drawn world of great refinement.
I know you’re busy. You’ve got a ton of stuff to do at work, it’s your week to drive car pool, Sissy’s volleyball tournament begins tonight, you’ve got to pick up a king cake for the office party and you’re almost out of gas. But you can’t be any busier than Stephen Paul Day has been over the past two years.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent oil paintings by George Dureau. The new series of Dureau’s paintings includes a major painting “Mardi Gras ”01.” The paintings are again distinguished by the artist’s singular ability to render the beauty of the human figure in compositions inspired by allegorical scenes from great paintings and sculpture in western art.
Exhibition Dates: Decemeber 2 – December 30, 2000 Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm Contact Info: 504.522.1999; arthurrogergallery.com From December 2nd through…
The permutations of color and image in Ted Kincaid’s photogravures raise, and politely refuse to answer, some heavy questions about modernist seriality and the identity of an individual artwork I’d be tempted to say that Kincaid’s works calculate a post-Warholian logic of pluralized identities and sameness beneath their surfaces, except that it’s nearly impossible to think that there is anything behind the ink on the paper: Like shadows, the gravures live only on the surface, which is appropriate given the light-based chemistry of the photo-intaglio process.