Much has been written about Dale Chihuly’s startling accomplishments as an artist—he is widely regarded as having single-handedly paved the way for glass to be accepted as a medium for serious art—but relatively few know about the 1963 Puget Sound alum’s Tacoma roots and his continuing commitment to his hometown.
Ed Whiteman decided at age 17, that he wanted to be a painter, a decision that he describes as “very immediate.” It came to him in a flash one day when he was a commercial art student in upstate New York as he was looking through a book of paintings by the Zen- influenced Morris Graves. “It mirrored perfectly my experience with nature,” says Whiteman. “Up to that point I wasn’t aware there was such a thing as fine art or painting. When I saw Graves’ work I said ‘I can do that.’ In the next year and a half I painted more blind bird paintings than you could shake a stick at.”
The journey began when a precocious child talent was recognized by “my junior high teacher, Mrs. Maxine Daniels, who took her father’s insurance money and created an art school for talented kids at the YMCA.
From August 5th through August 26th the Arthur Roger Gallery will present a large collection of Robert Gordy paintings from his estate, which were completed prior to 1982.
Que Linda la Brisa is a sympathetic look at transvestite prostitutes in a Mexican border town with color photographs by James Drake, an impressionistic prose piece by Benjamin Alire Saenz and a long poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca.
June 2000 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
Exhibition Dates: June 3 – July 22, 2000 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 3 from 6 – 8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday – Saturday,…
Whitfield Lovell is an inveterate scavenger and collector. He seems to be a born taxonomist, a close examiner and evaluator of material culture. In this respect he has always been comfortable with the play of time, both private and historical.
Exhibition Dates: April 1 – April 29, 2000 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm…
All art critics have some Ebenezer Scrooge in them. We wouldn’t mind at all seeing struggling artists working in their chilly, dark studios on Christmas Eve. Why should they misspend their time in the bosoms of their families, when there are paintings to be painted, sculptures to be sculpted? Art knows no holidays. As for critical generosity, bah, humbug.