W. Steve Rucker: Flight School
November 1988 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
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November 1988 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
“Decadence, death take earthly shape with Ersy”, The Times-Picayune
I can’t really say that there’s a unifying theme,” says New Orleans-born sculptor Ersy about the works in her first exhibit in more than six years, now at the Arthur Roger Gallery.
“City inspires sculptor’s ‘reconstructed’ works,” The Times-Picayune
Few people confronting Edward Whiteman’s “reconstructed” paper-and-canvas sculptures for the first time would suspect that they were inspired by New Orleans.
The stony-looking relief pieces are irregularly contoured collages, combining torn sheets of creased and stained paper with fragments of rumpled canvas, also stained and in addition painted with bold hieroglyphic markings, usually in red. What connections could these venerable even archeological-locking sculptures possibly have with New Orleans?
“George Dureau: Classical Variations,” New Orleans Art Review
George Dureau began his career as a painter and draughtsman, and only later moved into photography. Today, however, it is probable that many more people know his photographs than are familiar with his paintings and drawings.
W. Steve Rucker: Stockmarket
February 1983 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery on Magazine Street
“She puts nature to work in her art,” The Times-Picayune
She puts nature to work in her art by Roger Green, The Times-Picayune New Orleans artist Ersy uses such non-traditional materials as snake skins, tree bark and wasps’ nests in her relief sculptures. “I never pass up an opportunity,” she says, “to pick up something in nature that I can make into something else.” Ersy…
