The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present John T. Scott: His Legacy, an exhibition of works by the late John T. Scott. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from August 5 – September 23, 2017. The gallery will host an opening on Saturday, August 5 from 6-9pm, in conjunction with White Linen Night.
Images from White Linen Night | August 2017 Exhibition Openings at Arthur Roger Gallery and Arthur Roger@434.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present R.I.P. Bruce A. Davenport, Jr. | Artwork by Dapper Bruce Lafitte. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from August 5 – September 23, 2017. The gallery will host an opening, with the artist in attendance, on Saturday, August 5 from 6-9pm, in conjunction with White Linen Night.
It’s hot. It’s humid. It’s summer; which means the time has yet again come for droves of art patrons and revelers alike to garb themselves in linens woven of white and gather in the streets to party like an artist. Julia Street to be precise. The annual art-meets-wine extravaganza known as Whitney White Linen Night is once again upon us.
You don’t need to be an art buff to appreciate the New Orleans Museum of Art’s most recent exhibition: “Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans.” Pride of Place celebrates art collector and gallery owner Arthur Roger’s personal collection that he gifted to the museum.
Video of artist Holton Rower and his team creating one of his mesmerizing Cutaway paintings. Video by Zach Fischman.
Arthur Roger has donated 80 works of art from his personal collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art. This stunning gift to the community is made even more important by the breadth of the backgrounds of the artists whose works he has shown and represented at his gallery, Arthur Roger Gallery. He was a pioneer in showing contemporary art by local artists, women artists, and African American artists when other galleries had not begun showing any of these.
Dozens of pairs of scavenged baby shoes line the shelves in Jacqueline Bishop’s New Orleans studio. Collected by the artist from the streets of cities in America and of third-world countries, each pair of shoes serves as a tiny canvas, upon which the artist has painted exquisite portraits of flora and fauna—orchids, honeyeaters—that have vanished from their native range as the tide of human civilization rolls on.
Luis Cruz Azaceta’s Caught, 1993, is among the show’s most powerful works. Azaceta has been one of the artists to most effectively interpret the immigrant´s drama. Notions of abandonment, violence, and renunciation are constants in his work.
The New Orleans Museum of Art is about to begin a John Waters film festival to celebrate a gift of photographs and a sculpture by the movie maker – part of a much larger gift from gallery owner Arthur Roger.